Chapter Summaries

Zhang Jian took up his post as the sequence-eight Spirit Origin Emperor and received guidance from Heavenly River True Person on serving in the Heavenly Court. After settling into his residence and considering his staff and duties, he prepared to test whether ancestral worship in the Central Heavenly Realm would grant him feedback.

• Zhang Jian surveyed the Central Heavenly Realm, then followed a divine general's directions to visit Heavenly River True Person, the Water Official Emperor.
• The Heavenly Official Emperor and the Three Star Lords praised Zhang Jian's prospects and noted that he was Yu the Great's successor.
• Heavenly River True Person learned that Zhang Jian's divine authority had reached Great Perfection Taiyi and explained that further promotion required recorded merit.
• Zhang Jian collected his official robes, identity jade tablet, and stipend, then returned to his independent immortal island residence with his companions.
• Zhang Jian considered his role as the Water Official Emperor's chief secretary, planned how to fill his subordinate posts, and chose to attempt ancestral worship in an immortal city on the Central Heavenly Realm's lands.

Zhang Jian established a temporary base for the Zhang clan in a small town near Azure Yi City, appointed its leaders, and performed an ancestral sacrifice. The sacrifice brought Azure Glow Dao Lord more than ten billion portions of flawless incense fire and an innate Eight-Trigrams Cloudlight Sash, and she set out to meet Zhang Jian in the lower realm.

• Zhang Jian chose a frontier town with an innate spiritual aperture as the Zhang clan's temporary residence and appointed Zhang Nan clan head, leaving twenty-two True Immortals and four Heavenly Immortals to serve there.
• Zhang Jian performed the clan's ancestral sacrifice, offering mountains of gold and silver ingots and the Eight-Trigrams Cloudlight Sash he had made.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord, newly advanced to the Dao Lord realm, sensed the sacrifice and drew its incense fire through the Two Realms Pool.
• The sacrifice produced 105 incense-fire kingdoms and nearly ten billion five hundred million portions of flawless incense fire for Azure Glow Dao Lord.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord received an innate merit spiritual treasure, the Eight-Trigrams Cloudlight Sash, and prepared a fate-laden treasure before setting out to meet Zhang Jian in the lower realm.

Zhang Jian spent a peaceful evening in Maplebridge Town with his family before Azure Glow Dao Lord appeared, warned him about the Central Heavenly Realm, and gave him a Fate Star. He sealed the treasure for later and arrived at the Heavenly Palace to attend his first Emperor-level Grand Court Assembly.

• Zhang Jian learned that he would accompany the Water Official Emperor to the next day's Grand Court Assembly and asked Qi Yuhua and Bai Liying to oversee the Zhang clan's plans.
• Zhang Jian and the women strolled through Maplebridge Town, shared stories, and held a riverside feast that drew the clan's children and immortals.
• Zhang Yujing and Zhang Nan discussed the need for the Zhang clan to grow strong enough to stand without relying solely on Zhang Jian.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord froze the surrounding time, revealed their connection, warned Zhang Jian about the dangers of the Heavenly Realm, and gave him a Fate Star.
• Zhang Jian sealed the Fate Star in his Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, then met the Fortune Virtue Emperor and the Emperor of the Three Laws before entering the Grand Court Assembly.

Zhang Jian attended a grand court assembly where the Heavenly Court approved the destruction of the Jade Glaze World and resolved to eliminate the reincarnating Ancestral Dragon Soul. After Heavenly River True Person warned him about the danger of the Jade Glaze World mission, Zhang Jian returned to his residence and began refining the Fate Star into his Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.

• Zhang Jian accompanied the Three Origins Emperor to the court, where the gods approved the Nethermoon Ghost Emperor as a candidate for the vacant Nine Nether Emperor position.
• The gods voted to destroy the Jade Glaze World, and Western White Emperor Dao Lord proposed Zhang Jian to lead the operation before Water Official Emperor and others backed Fu Yuan instead.
• The court resolved to eliminate the Ancestral Dragon Soul, and Water Official Emperor explained its history of causing disasters and rebellion against heaven.
• Heavenly River True Person warned Zhang Jian that destroying the Jade Glaze World would be dangerous, then offered to take him to observe the operation two hundred years later.
• Zhang Jian returned to his residence, planned its facilities, and began refining the Fate Star into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State.

Zhang Jian visited the Heavenly Scripture Hall to seek a Fate-side immortal technique that could help him transcend fate and approach the Dao Lord realm. With the Water Official Emperor’s help, he met Ape Lord, met the Hall’s requirements, and chose the Infinite River Diagram.

• Zhang Jian left seclusion and met Immortal Lord Tianding and Yun Shuixin, who had been assigned to serve as adjudicators under his command.
• The Water Official Emperor told Zhang Jian that the Heavenly Scripture Hall might hold the Fate-side technique he needed and escorted him there.
• Ape Lord explained that purchasing a Dao Lord-level technique required high sequence, sufficient external merit, and fortune contribution; the Water Official Emperor arranged to cover the fortune marks through the Three Origins Spirit Official Hall’s allocation.
• Ape Lord showed Zhang Jian a catalog of seven Fate-aligned Dao Lord-level methods, and Zhang Jian chose the Infinite River Diagram.

Zhang Jian cultivated the Infinite River Diagram, arranged the Three Origins Spirit Official Hall’s affairs, and traveled with the Three Origins Emperors and Fortune Virtue Emperor to the Jade Glaze World. He arrived amid a battle between heavenly forces and Outer Realm Demon Gods, where Azure Glow Dao Lord called him to visit.

• Zhang Jian collected the Infinite River Diagram and entered seclusion while Heavenly Cauldron Immortal Lord selected heavenly soldiers and the appointed Immortal officials took up their posts.
• After a hundred years, Zhang Jian had cultivated the Infinite River Diagram to the fourth-rank Immortal Art realm and used a Taixu Spirit Body to manage his duties at the Three Origins Spirit Official Hall.
• The Water Official Emperor noticed Zhang Jian’s progress in the Dao of Fate, and the Three Origins Emperors led him and the Fortune Virtue Emperor toward the Heavenly River.
• The Water Official Emperor paid the fee for all five to pass through a Heavenly Gate, and Zhang Jian sensed the Heavenly Court’s formidable detection and defensive formations during their descent.
• The five arrived near the Jade Glaze World amid a battle between the Southern Dipper Star Lord’s heavenly army and numerous Outer Realm Demon Gods.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord contacted Zhang Jian and told him to find an opportunity to visit her.

Zhang Jian received three tasks from Azure Glow Dao Lord and entered the corrupted Jade Glaze World to find Lotus Fairy, destroy the demon realm anchors, and retrieve the Lotus King’s stone lotus. He could not locate Lotus Fairy with her Seven-Leaf Azure Lotus, so he used the Primordial River Diagram Divine Light to trace her through the river of destiny, revealing his power to the world.

• The Southern Dipper Star Lord summoned the Big Dipper Seven Star Lords and the Emperor of the Nine Suns to reinforce the Heavenly Court’s battle against the Black Abyss Demon Realm.
• Zhang Jian left the Water Official Emperor’s group and met Azure Glow Dao Lord, who tasked him with rescuing Lotus Fairy, destroying the demon realm anchors, and retrieving a stone lotus from the Lotus King Ruins.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord warned Zhang Jian that the Jade Glaze World was heavily corrupted and might contain a Devil Master’s Primordial Spirit, then gave him Lotus Fairy’s true body to guide his search.
• Zhang Jian entered the Jade Glaze World and saw that its heavenly dao defenses had weakened while its spiritual vitality had been corrupted by a powerful expert’s Dao qi.
• Zhang Jian activated the Seven-Leaf Azure Lotus but could not sense Lotus Fairy, so he traced her through the river of destiny with the Primordial River Diagram Divine Light.

Zhang Jian defeated Carefree Heavenly Venerable and exposed the demon’s influence over the Jade Glaze World, then rescued Lotus Fairy and several surviving immortals. As they prepared to evacuate the world, Azure Glow Dao Lord confronted Violet Tranquil Devil Lord outside it.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerable attacked Zhang Jian, but Zhang Jian shattered his blade light and overwhelmed him with the Taiyin Body-Refining Divine Light.
• Spirit Origin Emperor declared Carefree Heavenly Venerable corrupted, and Zhang Jian cut him off from the Jade Glaze World with combined space-time immortal arts that erased many Heavenly Sect followers.
• Zhang Jian exposed Rainbow Fairy as an outworld heavenly demon, captured her and Carefree Heavenly Venerable, and took a divine diagram linked to the Jade Glaze World's heavenly origin.
• Zhang Jian broke through Heavenly Lotus Peak's restrictions and freed Lotus Fairy, Tian Ningzi, Jiuhai, and Tiankui, then ordered the surviving immortals to gather disciples and mortals for evacuation.
• Lotus Fairy regained her azure lotus Dao Fruit, while Zhang Jian explained that demons had anchored the Jade Glaze World and that the Heavenly Court could not save it.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord intercepted Violet Tranquil Devil Lord outside the Jade Glaze World and faced her with the Heavens Samsara Diagram.

Azure Glow Dao Lord trapped Violet Tranquil Devil Lord with the Heavens Samsara Diagram while Zhang Jian purged demonic anchors from the dying Jade Glaze World. After Lotus Fairy revealed how to locate the Lotus King Ruins, Zhang Jian refined the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram and discovered it was an acquired spirit treasure.

• Azure Glow Dao Lord activated the Heavens Samsara Diagram, sealing Violet Tranquil Devil Lord within rings of spacetime and making her recognize the diagram as an innate spirit treasure.
• Zhang Jian gathered local gods and spirits, used their knowledge to locate demonic gateways, and destroyed a Heavenly Demon altar and its Heavenly Immortal inhabitant.
• Zhang Jian removed most of the Black Abyss Demon Realm’s anchors, earning the Jade Glaze World’s favor, but sensed that the world was too depleted to survive the approaching Void Calamity.
• Zhang Jian summoned Lotus Fairy and asked her about the Lotus King Ruins; she explained that the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram could reveal their location and required a specific incantation to refine.
• Zhang Jian refined the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram and perceived its power of creation, while the Sheji King Cauldron identified it as an acquired spirit treasure.

Zhang Jian and Lotus Fairy entered the Azure Lotus Clan’s ancestral land, where they discovered its ruined sacred grounds and a hidden watcher. Zhang Jian seized the stone lotus and other treasures, while the watcher—a green toad—was exposed and subdued.

• Zhang Jian used the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram to break through the Five-Colored Divine Peaks and the Primordial Chaos Immortal Aperture Formation with Lotus Fairy.
• Lotus Fairy explained the Azure Lotus Clan’s lineage as they reached Lotus King Ancestor’s grotto-heaven and found its sacred grounds and immortal roots withered.
• Zhang Jian recognized the Heaven and Earth Origin Pool’s connection to the Jade Glaze World and sent the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell into it rather than refining it.
• Zhang Jian found an Ancestor Lotus Seed and a jade lotus palace lantern among the looted halls, then sensed someone secretly watching them.
• Zhang Jian seized the immortal mirror and its green-robed watcher, revealed the watcher as a large emerald-skinned toad, and pulled the three-petaled stone lotus from its body.

Zhang Jian evacuated people and treasures from the Jade Glaze World as the Void Calamity began, then escaped its destruction. The Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper forces dismantled and purified the collapsing world, and the surviving immortals began gathering its scattered treasures.

• Zhang Jian shared two immortal artifacts with Lotus Fairy, collected the green toad, and moved the Nine-Eyed Chaos Creation Divine Spring into his possession.
• Zhang Jian and the immortal sect lineages evacuated cultivators and common people from the Jade Glaze World, while he also sent wandering souls to the Netherworld Underworld.
• Bloody rain announced the arrival of the Void Calamity, and collapsing Dao networks sent stars and meteors crashing into the world.
• Zhang Jian gathered the vessels and escaping people into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, fled beyond the heavens, and received a treasure infused with the Jade Glaze World's realm-origin.
• The Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper forces used divine weapons to dismantle and purify the Jade Glaze World, suppress its demons, and send surviving souls to the Netherworld Underworld.
• After the world fell, immortals and gods rushed to claim its scattered spirit veins, artifacts, and fragments of Dao qi and ancestral qi.

Zhang Jian gathered treasures from the ruined Jade Glaze Realm, then accepted a mission from Azure Glow Dao Lord to help Hundred Flowers Fairy survive a death tribulation. After arranging for the Jade Glaze survivors to be settled, he set off for the Mount Zhou Realm, planning to travel onward to the Eastern Splendor Grand Realm.

• Zhang Jian seized fragments of Ancestral Qi and other treasures, driving off immortals from the Northern Yuan Star Alliance who tried to challenge him.
• The Heavenly Court's Stellar Banner broke open the Lotus King Ruins, revealing them to be empty, while Violet Tranquil Devil Lord escaped after sacrificing much of her Dao Fruit.
• Zhang Jian presented Azure Glow Dao Lord with the third-rank stone lotus and offered her the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram and other treasures, but she let him keep them.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord asked Zhang Jian to rescue her friend Hundred Flowers Fairy from a coming death tribulation in the Eastern Splendor Grand Realm.
• Zhang Jian handed Carefree Heavenly Venerable and Lotus Fairy to Azure Glow Dao Lord, informed the Water Official Emperor of his temporary mission, and flew toward the Mount Zhou Realm to settle the Jade Glaze survivors.

Ji clan learned that Zhang Jian had appeared beyond the realms, prompting the Great Xia immortals to gather and travel to meet him. In the Azure Mountain Realm, Zhang Jian settled survivors from the Jade Glaze Realm and used its Heavenly Dao Origin Pearl to strengthen their new home; as familiar figures arrived, the reunion began.

• Ji clan received a message that Zhang Jian had appeared beyond the realms and flew to the imperial palace.
• Zhang Yi learned Zhang Jian had arrived, left the Demon-Slaying Grand Hall, and urged the immortals to meet him.
• Zhang Zhao summoned the immortals and agreed to travel with them to the Azure Mountain Realm.
• Zhang Jian settled Jade Glaze Realm survivors on a newly shaped continent in the Azure Mountain Realm.
• Zhang Jian merged the Jade Glaze Realm's Heavenly Dao Origin Pearl into the Azure Mountain Realm, and the grateful survivors swore allegiance to him.
• Zhang Jian noticed a teleportation formation arrive outside the realm, bringing more than ten familiar figures.

Zhang Jian returned briefly to the Mount Zhou Realm, where he rewarded his family, disciples, and fellow Immortals before setting out for the Donghua Great Realm. He located Hundred Flowers Fairy in Azure Rain City and found that, although she was not in danger, her condition was poor.

• Zhang Jian reunited with the Immortals of the Mount Zhou Realm and urged Zhang Zhao to watch the Azure Mountain Realm’s possible advancement.
• Zhang Jian distributed Dao qi, immortal treasures, and other valuable resources among the Ji clan, the Zhang brothers, Si Lier, his master, Ironheart Daoist, and Shi Rui.
• Zhang Jian left the Mount Zhou Realm with Tian Ningzi, Nine-Seas Daoist, Celestial Chief Daoist, and Huang Yuan Daoist, then traveled toward the Donghua Great Realm.
• Zhang Jian entered the Northern Region of the Donghua Realm and learned about its major powers while searching for Hundred Flowers Fairy.
• Zhang Jian arrived in Azure Rain City and sensed that Hundred Flowers Fairy was there, alive but in poor condition.

Zhang Jian settled in Azure Rain City to watch over the recovering Hundred Flowers Fairy, who lived as Wang Qiaoyun with an elderly couple. After he quietly drove off the True Immortal hunting her, he and Wang Qiaoyun married, leaving their new life together just beginning.

• Zhang Jian found Hundred Flowers Fairy unconscious in the Wang family's home and strengthened her Primordial Spirit with power drawn from her past life.
• Zhang Jian bought a nearby courtyard, befriended the Wangs, and began earning money by selling calligraphy and paintings.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy awakened, took the name Wang Qiaoyun, and spent two years helping her adoptive parents while refusing marriage proposals.
• A True Immortal came to Azure Rain City searching for Wang Qiaoyun, but Zhang Jian confused him and sent him away without a fight.
• The Wang couple suggested Zhang Jian as Wang Qiaoyun's husband, and the two families quickly arranged the marriage.
• Zhang Jian and Wang Qiaoyun held a grand wedding, with the county magistrate and their neighbors in attendance.

Zhang Jian guided Wang Qiaoyun through a mortal lifetime, helping her experience love, family, and loss until Hundred Flowers Fairy awakened and overcame her trial of love. As Hundred Flowers Fairy ascended to face her Heavenly Immortal tribulation, Zhang Jian sensed a deadly threat and set out to confront it.

• Zhang Jian and Wang Qiaoyun lived as a married couple, and Wang Qiaoyun secretly drew on his aura to nurture a bloodline.
• Wang Qiaoyun gave birth to a daughter and a son, while the Wang brothers returned from the front lines and built families of their own.
• Wang Qiaoyun used magic to save Old Man Wang, drawing the attention of the Heavenly Terrace Sect, whose Daoist Shanlei later arrived at Azure Rain City and was inexplicably thrown into prison.
• Old Man Wang and Old Madam Wang died, and Wang Qiaoyun watched Zhang Jian grow old and pass away despite her efforts to extend his life.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy awakened, overcame her trial of love, and flew into the void to undergo her Heavenly Immortal tribulation.
• Zhang Jian sensed a terrifying killing intent targeting Hundred Flowers Fairy and decided to confront its source.

Zhang Jian stopped Daoist Hun Yuan and Daoist Shanlei from interfering with Hundred Flowers Fairy’s tribulation, then helped her reclaim her immortal position after she recovered her past life. After retrieving her old belongings in White Emperor City, Hundred Flowers Fairy revealed that they were connected to the Donghua Realm’s advancement.

• Daoist Hun Yuan and Daoist Shanlei planned to attack Hundred Flowers Fairy, but Zhang Jian trapped them in the Infinite River Diagram and threatened to strip away their cultivation if they failed to progress.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy passed her Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation, recovered her memories and former cultivation, and received a Jade Pool Talisman Decree restoring her position.
• Zhang Jian handed the captured Daoist Hun Yuan and Daoist Shanlei to Hundred Flowers Fairy, who accepted them without concern.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy led Zhang Jian north to White Emperor City and retrieved her stored belongings from Penglai Pavilion.
• Hundred Flowers Fairy told Zhang Jian that the object in her possession was connected to the Donghua Realm’s advancement, and Zhang Jian realized the opportunity could bring great merit and fortune.

Hundred Flowers Fairy gave Zhang Jian the Innate Five-Element Source Stone, asking him to involve her in investigating the Donghua Realm's dimensional ascension. As Zhang Jian waited for the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm to respond and explored White Emperor City with her, the Infinite River Diagram stirred and he decided to take her to watch an unfolding commotion.

• Hundred Flowers Fairy recounted finding the Innate Five-Element Source Stone and handed it to Zhang Jian in repayment for his kindness, asking him to bring her into the investigation of the Donghua Realm's ascension.
• Zhang Jian stored the source stone in the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, then learned that Pure Yang Dao Lord had sought such treasures to support the ascension plan.
• Zhang Jian contacted the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage, and King Yu agreed to discuss joining the undertaking with Heavenly Sovereign Fuxi after learning that Zhang Jian had obtained the source stone.
• Extermination Ancestor informed Zhang Jian that Pure Yang Dao Lord's plan was advanced and backed by the powerful Taiqing Heavenly Realm lineage, while Azure Glow Dao Lord approved delaying Zhang Jian's return to the Heavenly Court.
• Zhang Jian and Hundred Flowers Fairy toured White Emperor City, and the Infinite River Diagram stirred, prompting Zhang Jian to invite her to watch some excitement.

Zhang Jian rescued Qing Yao from a Star Baleful Giant and held off on visiting the Pure Yang Immortal Sect until he learned more about its position. In the Central Heavenly Realm, Yu the Great persuaded Pure Yang Dao Lord to accept two additional entrants into the Donghua Realm by offering to borrow a Heavenly Realm supreme treasure.

• A stellar devil god ambushed Qing Yao and her companions, but Qing Yao used a Heaven-Escaping Sword Talisman to destroy his true body.
• The devil god attacked again with the All-Heaven Star Radiance Extinction Divine Needle, but Zhang Jian reversed time, subdued him, and rescued Qing Yao.
• Qing Yao recognized Zhang Jian as the Spirit Origin Emperor and invited him to the Pure Yang Immortal Sect; he declined for now and said he would wait for accurate news from the Heavenly Realm.
• Yu the Great asked Pure Yang Dao Lord to arrange places for two people in the Donghua Realm, but Pure Yang Dao Lord initially refused because of limited slots and political opposition.
• Yu the Great offered to borrow a Heavenly Realm supreme treasure, persuading Pure Yang Dao Lord to agree to add two entrants.

Zhang Jian and Hundred Flowers Fairy visited the Pure Yang Immortal Sect, where Zhang Jian learned the rules for trials that would determine the duties he could take in the Donghua Realm’s dimensional ascension. As Water Virtue Star Lord and Water Official Emperor entered the trials too, Zhang Jian chose the earth-attributed Luan Sheng Kun Yue Dao Realm.

• Zhang Jian received word that Pure Yang Dao Lord had granted three Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage slots, conditional on the candidates passing trials at the Pure Yang Immortal Sect.
• Zhang Jian and Hundred Flowers Fairy arrived at the sect, where Primordial Yang Daoist welcomed them and led them to the three ancestral qi Dao realms.
• Primordial Yang Daoist explained the seven trial paths, their nine stages, and the duties awarded to those who passed, then gave Zhang Jian a jade slip with limited trial information.
• Zhang Jian entered the Dao realm trials, and Water Virtue Star Lord and Water Official Emperor later arrived and followed him inside.
• Pure Yang Dao Lord hosted Yu the Great and other Taiqing Heaven Dao Lords, who expected the three candidates to pass at least five stages.
• Zhang Jian chose the Luan Sheng Kun Yue Dao Realm for its earth-attributed ancestral qi and trials suited to his Earth Emperor authority.