Chapter Summaries

Zhang Jian used the Jade Pool banquet’s dangerous trial to strengthen his Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit by absorbing Dao mysteries and devouring weakened fish. As the Dao sounds intensified and stronger contestants entered the struggle, he continued hunting while the Jade Pool’s observers discussed his connection to Azure Glow Dao Lord.

• Zhang Jian absorbed the Dao sounds to evolve his immortal arts and strengthen his Primordial Spirit, while weaker immortals began to succumb to the pressure.
• Black Dragon God Dragon Lord Lingze told Zhang Jian that the fish were simulated manifestations whose essence could be safely devoured, and Zhang Jian swallowed one to gain soul essence and earth-element Dao knowledge.
• At the Jade Pool, the Dao Lords discussed Zhang Jian’s connection to Azure Glow Dao Lord, who explained that his Zhang clan had entered her ancestral hall through a karmic bond formed in the Mount Zhou Realm.
• Zhang Jian used the Golden Lotus Concealment Technique and River Diagram divination to find and defeat a large golden fish, then devoured it and grew stronger.
• The Dao sounds and pressure intensified, incapacitating some contestants, but Zhang Jian and other resilient immortals continued competing as the two Heavenly Venerables watched.

During the Jade Pool Grand Gathering, Zhang Jian absorbed the violent Dao resonances and awakened the creation inheritance within his third-grade innate Creation Azure Lotus. He refined a new chaos-genesis art and emerged with a stronger Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit, while the gathering’s observers expected him to reach the top ten.

• Immortal lights and Buddha-light intertwined above Jade Pool, unleashing powerful Dao messages that transformed fish and forced Zhang Jian to hide with the Golden Lotus Concealment Technique.
• Zhang Jian recognized traces of three sacred beings within the evolving immortal light and used the Primordial Five Tai Rotation Art to form a chaotic giant egg around himself.
• Jinhua Fairy wondered whether Zhang Jian had comprehended the Nine-Turn Profound Technique, and Azure Glow Dao Lord judged that he had grasped its chaos-genesis mysteries instead.
• The third-grade innate Creation Azure Lotus resonated with Zhang Jian’s Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit and revealed three Dao diagrams, which he studied to understand Pangu’s Nine-Turn chaos refinement.
• A thirty-sixth-grade Chaos Azure Lotus appeared beneath Zhang Jian’s cocoon, devoured Jade Pool’s essence, and drove away attacking giant fish as Dao Lords and the Supreme Ones watched.
• Zhang Jian tempered his Earth Sovereign Primordial Spirit and named his new innate divine ability the Nine-Turn Primordial Azure Lotus Genesis Art.

While Zhang Jian stayed hidden in the Jade Pool, the Dao Lords’ contest escalated into combat, giving him a chance to defeat powerful opponents and become one of the final ten survivors. Jade Pool Holy Mother promised the ten rewards and one small condition each, and the chapter ended as the banquet began with nine-thousand-year Purple-Pattern Flat Peaches served to the upper seats.

• Zhang Jian waited inside the giant chaotic egg until clashes among the Dao Lords created a chance to move through the Jade Pool’s slow currents.
• Zhang Jian ambushed and devoured a silver fish, then fought through a group of big fish and drove Wind Mother into a desperate retreat.
• Zhang Jian and nine other powerful immortals and gods remained when Jade Pool Holy Mother ended the trial and named them the final ten.
• Jade Pool Holy Mother promised the ten generous rewards and one small condition each, leaving Zhang Jian hopeful but wary of the price.
• Zhang Jian took a lowest seat in the Hall of Light as the banquet began, and he saw nine-thousand-year Purple-Pattern Flat Peaches served to the upper seats.

At the Jade Pool gathering, Zhang Jian advanced his cultivation, made new acquaintances, and followed Azure Glow Dao Lord’s advice to trade his expected treasure for a transfer of immortal office. The Jade Pool Holy Mother approved his request to spread Earth Sovereign Ancestral Qi and asked what office he wanted, leaving the other immortals surprised by her generosity.

• Zhang Jian stored his nine-thousand-year Flat Peach for Qi Yuhua and Bai Liying and gained cultivation benefits from the Jade Pool banquet’s fine wine and fruits.
• Zhang Jian met several powerful immortals and gods, while Heavenly Lord Chongshan, Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Lord, and Immortal Lord Minhua treated him coldly.
• Daoist Qinghua asked Zhang Jian about his body-tempering technique, and Zhang Jian said he had gained insights through another opportunity without revealing its details.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord advised Zhang Jian to forgo the treasure the Jade Pool Holy Mother would offer and seek an office transfer, promising the plan could advance his Dao Lord accumulation.
• The Jade Pool Holy Mother heard the ten guests’ requests and bestowed treasures or permissions, then approved Zhang Jian’s request to spread Earth Sovereign Ancestral Qi through the Heavenly Court’s Ten Directions realms.
• Zhang Jian offered to exchange his treasure for a transfer of immortal office, and the Jade Pool Holy Mother agreed and asked what office he wanted.

Zhang Jian accepted the post of garrison Heavenly Lord at the Eternal Ice Fortress, learned of its dangers, and made arrangements for his clan as he prepared to leave. Two thousand years later, he completed the spread of Earth Sovereign Ancestral Qi across the Heavenly Court’s domains, while Heavenly Lord Chongshan and a star god plotted against him; Heavenly River True Person returned through reincarnation, and Zhang Jian prepared an ancestral rite before stepping down.

• Jade Pool Holy Mother approved Zhang Jian’s transfer to the Eternal Ice Fortress, while Yin Eclipse Nether Emperor and Divine Firmament Emperor received their requested rewards.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord departed to help expand into unknown dimensions, and Hundred Flowers Fairy warned Zhang Jian about the fortress’s deadly cold, dangerous prisoners, and possible rescue attempts.
• Zhang Jian gave Qi Yuhua a nine-thousand-year Purple-Pattern Flat Peach, allowing her to survive the heavenly immortal tribulation, then arranged cultivation paths and posts for members of the Zhang clan.
• Heavenly Lord Chongshan and a star god decided to make trouble for Zhang Jian at the Eternal Ice Fortress out of resentment.
• Two thousand years later, Zhang Jian spread Earth Sovereign Ancestral Qi throughout the Heavenly Court’s governed dimensions, perfecting his Dao Fruit’s immortal light, as Heavenly River True Person returned through reincarnation and Zhang Jian prepared an ancestral rite.

Zhang Jian held ancestral rites in Maple Bridge Town and offered a vast amount of incense and his newly forged Primordial Five Tai Banner to Azure Glow Dao Lord. After she bestowed the Three Lives Stone on him, Zhang Jian prepared to enter the Eternal Ice Fortress with a powerful aid for his cultivation.

• Zhang Jian welcomed the Zhang clan descendants to Maple Bridge Town, performed the rites for Heaven and his ancestors, and taught Zhang Nan and the gathered immortals.
• Zhang Jian burned an enormous offering and sacrificed his fourth-rank immortal treasure, the Primordial Five Tai Banner.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord received 41.2 billion units of flawless incense and the Primordial Five Tai Banner, which she recognized as a powerful offensive merit treasure.
• Zhang Jian worried that the returning Taiyin Immortal Lord might target him after he entered the Heavenly Court's political turmoil.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord's incense incarnation visited Zhang Jian and bestowed the Three Lives Stone, which could aid him in severing fate and advancing his cultivation.

Zhang Jian took up his new post as Garrison Heavenly Lord of the Eternal Ice Fortress and inspected its defenses before formally assuming command. After a smooth handover and welcome banquet, he began reviewing the prisoners in the Eternal Ice Prison.

• The Heavenly Court promoted Zhang Jian to Sequence Nine and transferred him to the Eternal Ice Fortress in the northernmost region of the ninth lower realm.
• Zhang Jian traveled through North Pool Prefecture into the Eternal Divine Domain, where he examined its extreme cold and bypassed the fortress's restrictions using the Lotus King Treasure Mirror.
• Immortal Lord Wu Chun, Yuan Jiang, and the fortress's other officers greeted Zhang Jian, who asked them to support his command.
• Wu Chun handed Zhang Jian the residence token, the Celestial Soldiers' tiger tally, and the keys to the Eternal Ice Crystal Divine Hall; Zhang Jian inspected its three treasures and completed the handover.
• At a welcome banquet, Zhang Jian questioned Wu Chun about his Celestial Human origins and reflected on the commander's apparent sincerity.
• Zhang Jian summoned the prison-guarding gods and began examining the Eternal Ice Prison's roster.

Zhang Jian inspected the Eternal Ice Prison and uncovered signs of corruption, unsafe imprisonment, and the Icefield God Lord’s suspected demonic cultivation. At a gathering of the fortress officials, Zhang Jian accused the Icefield God Lord and invoked the Three Lives Stone to expose him, while Immortal Lord Wuchun moved to intervene.

• Zhang Jian entered the Eternal Ice Prison and rebuked the Icefield God Lord for keeping the powerful Yu Yangzi on an improperly low level.
• Zhang Jian inspected the prison levels and noticed loosened restrictions, an unrecorded prisoner’s death, and signs that Daoist Chang Hai had been exposed to both resentment and demonic qi.
• Zhang Jian used the Three Lives Stone to glimpse hidden evidence, then spent several days collecting testimonies from prisoners and jailers.
• Zhang Jian summoned the fortress officials and accused the Icefield God Lord of taking bribes and treating the prison as private property.
• Zhang Jian accused the Icefield God Lord of using death-row prisoners’ essence, qi, and spirit to cultivate demonic arts, and the Icefield God Lord denied the charge.
• Zhang Jian unleashed the Three Lives Stone’s power toward the Icefield God Lord, but Immortal Lord Wuchun raised his immortal radiance to block it.

Zhang Jian exposed Icefield God Lord’s crimes, crushed his attempt to flee, and used the case to secure control over the Eternal Ice Fortress. He then cultivated in the Eternal Ice Crystal Divine Hall for thirty years, completing the first two steps toward the Dao Lord realm and gaining the foundation to attempt the third.

• Zhang Jian exposed Icefield God Lord’s use of the Blood Infant Divine Banner and suppressed him after he attacked and tried to escape.
• Immortal Officer Lingwu recommended the ultimate punishment, and Immortal Lord Wuchun sided with Zhang Jian; Zhang Jian stripped Icefield God Lord of his office and cast him into the seventh level of the Eternal Ice Hell.
• Zhang Jian revised the Eternal Ice Fortress’s rules, restricting unauthorized visitors while allowing regulated special consideration for prisoners and requiring his approval for cultivation visits.
• Zhang Jian entered the Eternal Ice Crystal Divine Hall, took control of the three divine-path treasures, and focused on cultivation despite sensing inaccessible regions within the Eternal Forbidden Zone.
• After thirty years, Zhang Jian perfected his Ancestral Qi Dao Fruit and foundation, crossed the first two steps of Great Unity Perfection, and gained the foundation to attempt the third.

Zhang Jian used the Eternal Ice Fortress’s three divine treasures to advance his Dao heart toward a Dao Lord’s perspective while Wu Chun and the Heavenly Beam Star Lord discussed Xuanming’s rumored secret treasury. A sudden outbreak of devil poison in the Eternal Ice Prison drew Zhang Jian from seclusion, where he found a powerful dragon god whose unusual status made the crisis difficult to resolve.

• Zhang Jian transformed the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State with Earth Sovereign Ancestral Qi and contemplated the steps needed to sublimate his Dao heart.
• A hundred years later, Wu Chun met the Heavenly Beam Star Lord, who told him that Xuanming’s divine throne and secret treasury might lie within the Eternal Ice Forbidden Zone.
• Wu Chun concealed his interest in Xuanming’s legacy, while the Heavenly Beam Star Lord said they were close to deducing the path and weaknesses of the person who had spread his Ancestral Qi throughout the heavens.
• Zhang Jian used the Heaven-Pervading Darkworld Divine Banner, Xuanming Divine Seal, and Darkworld Divine Staff to temper his Dao heart, approaching a Dao Lord’s perspective without yet mastering the state.
• When devil poison erupted on the seventh level of the Eternal Ice Prison, Zhang Jian left seclusion and went there with Spirit Martial Immortal Official Yuan Jiang and Daoist Gu Ning.
• Zhang Jian found that the corrupted prisoner was a powerful dragon god from the Four Seas Dragon Clan, whose exceptional status made execution a serious matter.

Zhang Jian rescued Ao Gen from demonic corruption and used him to provoke the Western Sea Dragon Clan into challenging his conduct at the Eternal Ice Fortress. After a thousand years of Dao-heart progress, Zhang Jian waited for the hidden enemy to act, and a powerful rain-and-snow deity arrived in North Pool Prefecture with hostile intent.

• Zhang Jian found Ao Gen gravely corrupted in the seventh level of the Eternal Ice Prison, suppressed him, and declared that he would execute him despite Gu Ning's demand for an investigation.
• Zhang Jian secretly purified and restored Ao Gen, learned that Ao Gen remembered only bells and a nightmare, and instructed him to write to his elder brother, Ao Shen.
• The Western Sea Dragon Lord challenged Zhang Jian's handling of Ao Gen's supposed death before the Jade Emperor, but the dispute came to nothing and the dragon clan resented Zhang Jian.
• A thousand years later, Zhang Jian strengthened his Dao heart and decided to keep waiting for the hidden enemy while giving them a reason to act.
• A powerful deity arrived in North Pool Prefecture amid torrential rain and a chilling aura, signaling hostile intent.

Zhang Jian and Ao Mo staged a battle to conceal their alliance while investigating the attack on Ao Gen, and Zhang Jian entered five centuries of seclusion to draw out their hidden enemy. He captured an extraterrestrial heart demon in the Eternal Ice Prison, while Immortal Lord Wu Chun decided to make one final move.

• Ao Mo challenged Zhang Jian over Ao Gen, and they fought for several days without a clear victor while observers believed the conflict was real.
• Ao Mo met Zhang Jian and Ao Gen in the Eternal Ice Crystal Hall, thanked Zhang Jian for saving his nephew, and agreed to help uncover the plotter.
• Zhang Jian announced five hundred years of secluded cultivation, arranged defenses around the Eternal Ice Fortress, and used his Taixu spirit body to handle outside affairs.
• After five hundred years, Zhang Jian's trap caught a purple-clad extraterrestrial heart demon who tried to attack the prisoners on the eighth level of the Eternal Ice Prison.
• Zhang Jian froze and captured the demoness, identifying her as the likely culprit behind the attack on Ao Gen, while Immortal Lord Wu Chun resolved to act personally.

Zhang Jian exposed and suppressed Immortal Lord Wu Chun for colluding with an Outer Heaven devil and plotting to sabotage the Eternal Ice Fortress. After Wu Chun confessed, he offered information about the hidden treasury of the ancient Winter God Xuanming in exchange for his life, but Zhang Jian imprisoned him and went to investigate the fortress’s Xuanming artifacts.

• Zhang Jian blocked Immortal Lord Wu Chun’s messages, confronted him, and defeated him with the Three Lives Stone after Wu Chun resisted arrest.
• Zhang Jian uncovered Wu Chun’s dealings with an Outer Realm Heart Devil, his plot against Taihu Dragon God Ao Gen, and his agents’ plans to sabotage key defenses of the Eternal Ice Fortress.
• Zhang Jian held a public trial, where the restored Ao Gen confirmed the scheme and Wu Chun confessed before the assembled immortals.
• Wu Chun warned Zhang Jian that powerful Immortal Gods in the Jade Pool opposed him, then privately revealed that Xuanming’s hidden divine throne treasury lay within the Eternal Forbidden Zone.
• Zhang Jian refused to spare Wu Chun without first judging the value of his information, drew Wu Chun’s Primordial Spirit into his palm, and went to study the three Xuanming artifacts in the Eternal Ice Crystal Divine Hall.

Zhang Jian investigated the Darkworld divine artifacts and learned that the Dark Nether Divine Position might be hidden within the Eternal Ice Prison. After Immortal Lord Wuchun was taken away, Zhang Jian’s rivals tried to spread rumors about Xuanming’s hidden treasury, only to find false reports already circulating across the Heavenly Realm.

• Zhang Jian traced the three Darkworld divine artifacts with the Infinite River Diagram and confirmed that the Dark Nether Divine Position existed, possibly within the Eternal Forbidden Zone.
• Zhang Jian refused to swear an oath to Immortal Lord Wuchun, then won his cooperation by offering to lessen his charges; Wuchun claimed part of Xuanming’s hidden trove lay in the Eternal Ice Prison and might be tied to the prison’s ninth level.
• A Heavenly Court envoy took Wuchun away, while Zhang Jian kept his promise by omitting some of Wuchun’s offenses from the submitted materials.
• Heavenly Lord Chongshan and the Heavenly Beam Star Lord discussed spreading news of Xuanming’s hidden trove, then received conflicting reports placing it in North Pool Prefecture and the Ninth Heaven.

Zhang Jian searched the ninth level of the Eternal Ice Prison for the Xuanming Divine Throne and discovered it powered the prison’s restrictions. After encountering the imprisoned Nine Phoenix, he learned that she wanted to trade her freedom for his help and revealed that the Xuanming Divine Throne Treasury held a token of Earth Sovereign Empress Houtu that could help Zhang Jian overcome a trial.

• Zhang Jian used the Xuanming divine artifacts to search the ninth level and sensed that the Xuanming Divine Throne sustained the Eternal Immortal Prison.
• Nine Phoenix lured Zhang Jian to her prison beneath a giant Xuanming tree, where her Dao resonance nearly contaminated him, and he turned away.
• Zhang Jian found a snow-covered black Divine Mountain bearing a purple edict talisman and suspected it was Dao Lord Black Tooth, suppressed to death by a power from the Jade Void Palace.
• Nine Phoenix offered Zhang Jian the Xuanming inheritance in exchange for freeing her, but Zhang Jian questioned the risk and refused to agree without learning more.
• Nine Phoenix warned Zhang Jian that his Nine Netherworlds authority could face backlash and said the Xuanming Divine Throne Treasury contained Earth Sovereign Empress Houtu’s token, which could help him pass a trial and lessen a calamity.

Zhang Jian sought Yu King's advice about the Xuanming divine throne and the dangers of his Nine Nether authority, then decided he would eventually probe Earth Sovereign Empress Houtu's attitude. As rumors drew more immortals to the Eternal Ice Fortress, he received a visit from Miaoling and other cultivators from the Earthly Immortal Realm.

• Zhang Jian left Nine Phoenix after she revealed that the Xuanming divine throne's treasury held immense power and fortune.
• Zhang Jian told Yu King about Nine Phoenix and the Xuanming throne, and Yu King explained the risks of inheriting the divine name and recounted Nine Phoenix's role in a marriage alliance betrayed by Emperor Zhuanxu.
• Zhang Jian asked about backlash from his Nine Nether authority, and Yu King advised him to seek consent from underworld deities, visit the Eastern Aurora Azure Flower Emperor, and use treasures to suppress the backlash.
• Yu King recognized that Zhang Jian had completed his Dao heart's sublimation, warned him to remain cautious, and promised the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Realm would help with the rumors.
• Zhang Jian decided to wait before returning to the ninth level and probing Lady Houtu, while monitoring the growing number of visitors drawn by rumors about the Eternal Ice Fortress.
• Miaoling and other immortals from Penglai Dao Palace arrived at the Eternal Heavenly Lord Hall, and Zhang Jian greeted her as an old acquaintance.

Immortal Lord Cangnan and Immortal Lord Miaoling investigated the Xuanming divine position at Eternal Ice Fortress, then left to search elsewhere while Zhang Jian tightened security against intruders. As outside immortals continued probing the forbidden zone, Zhang Jian went to the ninth level of Eternal Immortal Prison and approached the source of Xuanming’s Winter God power.

• Immortal Lord Miaoling and Immortal Lord Cangnan visited Zhang Jian with Penglai Dao Palace’s immortals, but their tracing arts and bloodline treasure failed to locate the Xuanming divine position.
• Immortal Lord Cangnan and Immortal Lord Miaoling departed to search the Eternal Forbidden Zone for traces of Xuanming Ancestral Qi, while Zhang Jian ordered stronger patrols and activated Eternal Ice Fortress’s forbidden laws against intruders.
• Outside immortals trespassed near the Eternal Ancestral Aperture and Eternal Ancestral Vein, clashed with the fortress’s forces, and injured heavenly soldiers, so Zhang Jian ordered offenders arrested and sent into Eternal Ice Prison.
• Zhang Jian decided to seek Nine Phoenix, then followed a path on the ninth level of Eternal Immortal Prison past a frozen courtyard bearing an inscription about Great Emperor Haotian.
• Zhang Jian continued through a freezing passage, used the Nine-Turn Primordial Azure Lotus Genesis Art to withstand the cold, and sensed that he was nearing Xuanming’s divine throne.

Zhang Jian entered the Xuanming ice-and-snow abyss to find the source of the Celestial Xuanming Ancestral Qi, fighting off the beings that guarded it. He killed the ice-and-snow deity who ruled the abyss and claimed the Xuanming Divine Artifact, gaining its divine authority.

• Zhang Jian used his three Xuanming Divine Artifacts to enter the Ancestral Qi storm and descended into the abyss protected by the Nine Heavens Azure Lotus Diagram.
• Zhang Jian fought through waves of ice-and-snow deities, Devil Gods, and heavenly demons with the Primordial Azure Lotus Radiance.
• Zhang Jian confronted the ice-and-snow deity seated on a ceremonial carriage, who demanded his divine soul imprint in exchange for sparing him.
• Zhang Jian used the Third-Grade Innate Creation Azure Lotus to purify and kill the ice-and-snow deity.
• Zhang Jian seized the divine banner that tried to flee and recognized it as the Xuanming Divine Artifact containing the Celestial Xuanming Ancestral Qi.

Zhang Jian obtained the Dark Abyss Divine Banner and recovered ancient relics and treasures from the Ice and Snow Abyss, intending the divine position for Bai Liying. After returning to the Eternal Ice Fortress, he learned that an Immortal Inspector Envoy was coming and told Yu the Great about his find; Yu the Great decided to visit the fortress and help him.

• Zhang Jian studied the Dark Abyss Divine Banner and planned to give it to Bai Liying, then descended into the Ice and Snow Abyss to seek the God of Dark Abyss's relics.
• Zhang Jian entered the Ice Emperor's nest, gathered its treasures, and found a stone comb, a stone key, and a fragment of a white-bone divine staff.
• Zhang Jian warned the ice-and-snow divine monsters to serve Bai Liying, then confronted Nine Phoenix, who told him to leave.
• Zhang Jian returned to the Eternal Ice Fortress and learned from Yu the Great that the Heavenly Court was sending an Immortal Inspector Envoy to investigate Immortal Lord Wu Chun.
• Yu the Great announced that he would travel to the Eternal Ice Fortress to meet Nine Phoenix, and Zhang Jian revealed that he had found the Dark Abyss divine position.
• Yu the Great rejoiced that the Xuanming divine position had come into the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage's hands, while the Qingqiu Goddess asked what had pleased him.

Zhang Jian studied the Celestial Xuanming Ancestral Qi while King Patriarch Yu arrived at Eternal Ice Fortress and settled the danger posed by Nine Phoenix. The chapter ended with King Patriarch Yu offering to help Zhang Jian separate the Celestial Xuanming Ancestral Qi as Zhang Jian prepared to advance his Dao path.

• King Patriarch Yu and Qingqiu Goddess discussed Zhang Jian's inheritance of Xuanming's divine position and planned to invite his wife to the Qingqiu Assembly.
• Zhang Jian refined his Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method and completed the authority of the Emperor Taiyin while studying the Celestial Xuanming Ancestral Qi.
• Immortal Lord Miaoling and Immortal Lord Cangnan led Penglai Dao Palace immortals into the Frozen Abyss to seek a fragment of Xuanming Ancestral Qi, while Zhang Jian's officials speculated that the Xuanming divine position might be there.
• King Patriarch Yu descended upon Eternal Ice Fortress, intimidating the watching immortals and deities with his Sacred Emperor might.
• King Patriarch Yu negotiated Nine Phoenix's restraint for one evolution era instead of killing her, easing the threat to Zhang Jian and the human race.
• King Patriarch Yu offered to help Zhang Jian separate the Celestial Xuanming Ancestral Qi.