Chapter Summaries

As the dim yellow sun drained the life from the ruins, Silver Feather Demon King turned on the other Demon Kings to survive. On the fifth day, Jiang Chen broke through the dragon-transformation barrier and began enduring the heavenly lightning tribulation as his body became a True Dragon.

• The Yin Fiend Ghost King died as the dim yellow sunlight drained his life, while the other Demon Kings neared their limits.
• Silver Feather Demon King ambushed Mountain Driller Demon King and devoured his flesh to replenish his strength.
• Silver Feather and Poison Dove joined forces to kill and devour Sharp Fang, but Poison Dove fled afterward.
• On the fifth day, Jiang Chen ignited his bloodline, shattered the invisible gate to dragon transformation, and faced the lightning tribulation.
• Jiang Chen used his True Dragon Transformation divine ability to meet the lightning head-on as his body began to change.

Jiang Chen transformed the Mist Flood Dragon into a Cloud-Sea Sky-Patrolling Dragon while refining Cloudwater Azure, then began opening his Purple Mansion. He successfully located the hidden mansion and used the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit to illuminate and strengthen it.

• Jiang Chen passed the lightning tribulation, transformed into a Cloud-Sea Sky-Patrolling Dragon, and gained its inherited divine abilities.
• Xiang Long True Person recognized Jiang Chen's rare bloodline, while Illusory Dream True Person worried that he had little time to master it and advance.
• Jiang Chen fused Cloudwater Azure with his true dragon bloodline while transforming, strengthening the Mist Flood Dragon's foundation for advancing to the Purple Mansion realm.
• Jiang Chen followed his Dao foundation and divine sense to find the hidden Purple Mansion connected to his spirit and body.
• Jiang Chen poured the powers of essence, qi, and spirit into the Purple Mansion, illuminating it and forming a growing inner heaven and earth.

Jiang Chen advanced into the Purple Mansion by anchoring his Cloudwater True Intent in the new world formed by his Dao Foundation. He condensed the Mist Flood Dragon’s True Dragon Treasure Body and ended the chapter with a vast sea of clouds covering the sky.

• Jiang Chen used the True Dragon Pearl to place Cloudwater True Intent on his Cloud-Ascending Platform Dao Foundation.
• Jiang Chen guided the Dao Foundation into the Purple Mansion Star, where it became land and the Cloudwater True Intent took root as the Purple Mansion’s support.
• Jiang Chen drew insight from the completed fusion and used the Purple Mansion’s purple radiance to transform the Mist Flood Dragon’s body and soul.
• Jiang Chen condensed the Mist Flood Dragon’s True Dragon Treasure Body, causing a vast sea of clouds to spread across the sky and obscure the sun.

Jiang Chen achieved the Purple Mansion and gained new insight into the Great Dao, then prepared to help the Impermanence Sect break the ruins’ seal. When Illusory Dream True Person offered him the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl, the artifact unexpectedly responded to him and began drawing on his power.

• Jiang Chen opened his Purple Mansion, sensed the Great Dao of Water Essence, and assessed his new strength and divine abilities.
• Jiang Chen noticed Burial-Ground True Intent and another presence around the dim yellow sun, suspecting a connection to the source of the Baleful Ghosts.
• Jiang Chen told the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansion True Persons that he was ready to help break the seal, and Illusory Dream True Person offered him the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl.
• Jiang Chen grasped the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl, which glowed and actively drew in his power, surprising Illusory Dream True Person.

Jiang Chen completed his refinement of the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl and led the Purple Mansion True Persons in channeling their power into a strike that shattered Bai Cangzi’s seal. Bai Cangzi responded by summoning Baleful Ghosts from the General Command Platform.

• Jiang Chen finished refining the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl with Illusory Dream True Person’s support.
• Jiang Chen activated the Formless Revolving Wheel, gathering power from the Purple Mansion True Persons until most of them could no longer endure and withdrew.
• Jiang Chen used primordial qi to restore his damaged body and poured his accumulated power into the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl.
• Jiang Chen’s strike revealed the dusky yellow sun as a yin domain and destroyed its chains and ghostly prisoners, breaking Bai Cangzi’s seal.
• Bai Cangzi abandoned his attempt to preserve the seal and used the General Command Platform to summon Baleful Ghosts.

After the seal broke, Jiang Chen discovered that Baleful Ghosts were gathering outside the ruins under someone’s control. Poison Dove Demon King and Silver Feather Demon King were caught in the swarm, and the Impermanence Sect’s cultivators prepared to break through as the Sand Sea closed in.

• The Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl shattered the seal, and Poison Dove Demon King and Silver Feather Demon King immediately fled the ruins.
• Jiang Chen sensed that Baleful Ghosts were encircling the ruins and traced their source, deciding not to rush into the trap.
• Poison Dove Demon King and Silver Feather Demon King were attacked by endless Baleful Ghosts and struggled to escape.
• The Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansion cultivators saw the Sand Sea closing in and turned to Illusory Dream True Person for guidance.
• Illusory Dream True Person asked Jiang Chen what he thought, and he said their group might break through by joining forces around the Grand Void Origin-Splitting Awl.

Jiang Chen led the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansion cultivators through the Baleful Ghosts’ defenses toward Bai Cangzi and the General Command Platform. Bai Cangzi empowered several Baleful Ghosts to stop them, and the two sides began battling near the platform.

• Jiang Chen inferred that the Baleful Ghosts were concentrating around the mastermind after the Poison Dove Demon King fell, and he led the Purple Mansion cultivators in a rapid assault.
• The Impermanence Sect’s cultivators pierced the defenders’ line before reinforcements arrived, reaching the General Command Platform where Bai Cangzi was hiding.
• Bai Cangzi used talismans to raise one third-order Baleful Ghost’s power and turn three second-order peak Baleful Ghosts into pseudo-third-order opponents.
• The cultivators recognized that the General Command Platform might be an incomplete Dao artifact and suspected Bai Cangzi wanted to sacrifice them to it.
• Illusory Dream True Person ordered the group to fight through the attacking Baleful Ghosts, and Xiang Long True Person blasted apart a pseudo-third-order Baleful Ghost.

Jiang Chen studied Bai Cangzi and the damaged General Command Platform while the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansion cultivators attacked. Bai Cangzi unleashed the platform’s Vengeful Souls Claiming Lives, leaving three cultivators dead and four injured as the survivors faced a devastating setback.

• Xiang Long True Person led the Impermanence Sect’s Purple Mansion cultivators through the Baleful Ghosts while Jiang Chen and Illusory Dream True Person covered their rear.
• Jiang Chen recognized Bai Cangzi and studied the General Command Platform, deciding he would need to strike the Ghost King in a single blow.
• Bai Cangzi judged that the Impermanence Sect’s forces had overwhelmed his enhanced Baleful Ghosts and chose to use the platform’s accumulated power.
• Bai Cangzi sacrificed the reassembled Baleful Ghosts and part of his own soul to unleash Vengeful Souls Claiming Lives.
• Jiang Chen used the Soul-Calming Hall to protect himself, Illusory Dream True Person, and Fengyu True Person, while the attack shattered three Purple Mansion cultivators’ souls, grievously injured Xiang Long True Person, and injured three others.

Jiang Chen broke free of Bai Cangzi’s Sand Sea and shattered his defenses with the Cloud-Mountain Overturning-Sea Seal, forcing him to flee. Bai Cangzi sacrificed the Silver Feather Demon King to awaken the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace’s core, but Jiang Chen tracked him down and struck his soul with the Moonshade Annihilating Soul Ray.

• Bai Cangzi swept Jiang Chen, Illusory Dream True Person, Fengyu True Person, and Xiang Long True Person into a tide of yellow sand.
• Jiang Chen broke free with Illusory Dream True Person’s help and struck Bai Cangzi with the Cloud-Mountain Overturning-Sea Seal, destroying his defense and the General Command Platform.
• Bai Cangzi escaped through the yellow-sand formation after the Nine-Twist Returning Cage failed to trap him.
• Bai Cangzi sacrificed the suppressed Silver Feather Demon King and sensed the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace’s core awakening.
• Jiang Chen tracked Bai Cangzi and used the Lunar Godslayer Lamp’s Moonshade Annihilating Soul Ray to freeze his soul.

Jiang Chen defeated Bai Cangzi, gained preliminary control of the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace, and concealed it as a grain of sand before leaving. Illusory Dream True Person and Fengyu True Person tended their injuries, unaware that Jiang Chen had quietly returned.

• Jiang Chen found Bai Cangzi frozen in ice as the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace fully manifested.
• Jiang Chen discovered that Bai Cangzi’s blood sacrifice had nearly let him refine the Dao Artifact, and placed his own mark on its core restriction without resistance.
• Jiang Chen collapsed the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace into a grain of sand and put away Bai Cangzi’s soul before departing.
• Illusory Dream True Person and Fengyu True Person treated their soul injuries and mourned the losses, including Xiang Long True Person’s death.
• Jiang Chen quietly returned while Illusory Dream True Person and Fengyu True Person failed to notice him.

After the Cloud-Turning Bird Ruins battle, Jiang Chen secluded himself in Cloud-Grasping City to refine the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and search Bai Cangzi’s soul. He learned of the Dao Artifact’s Netherworld origins and the Ninefold Passage to the Netherworld Ascension Scripture, then absorbed Bai Cangzi’s true-intent inheritances.

• The Cloud-Turning Bird Ruins battle ended with the Demon Race and ghostly creatures wiped out and the Impermanence Sect suffering enormous losses.
• Jiang Chen sealed himself inside Cloud Palace and used Soul Suppression Immortal Light to refine Bai Cangzi’s soul and uncover his memories.
• Jiang Chen learned that the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace was a war Dao Artifact from the destroyed Yellow Heaven Sect of the Netherworld Realm.
• Jiang Chen discovered that the Ninefold Passage to the Netherworld Art was an abridged version of an immortal scripture that could connect cultivators to the Yin Prison.
• Jiang Chen considered using the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace to travel to the Netherworld Realm and identified Bai Cangzi’s Treasure-Bewitching Curse and Five Ghosts Transporting Art.
• Jiang Chen swallowed both clusters of true-intent radiance and fell into silent concentration.

After the Impermanence Sect learned of its losses in the Western Region, Daoist Yuangang secured the Primordial Unity Pearl for Jiang Chen and agreed to investigate the damaged Dao artifact. Xuan Qiong True Lord warned that the Thunder Roc Clan’s lingering power made the region dangerous for Celestial Phenomenon True Lords.

• Xuan Qiong True Lord praised Jiang Chen’s cultivation of the Heavenly Dipper True Form and recognized his potential to become a pillar of the Impermanence Sect.
• Daoist Yuangang said he hoped Jiang Chen would surpass him, while Xuan Qiong True Lord noted that the Heavenly Dipper True Form could make advancing to Celestial Phenomenon especially difficult.
• Xuan Qiong True Lord promised to give Jiang Chen the last Primordial Unity Pearl from Primordial Unity Hall as a compatible earth treasure for his breakthrough.
• Xuan Qiong True Lord asked Daoist Yuangang to go to the Western Region and investigate the damaged Dao artifact, since the Thunder Roc Clan’s lingering power threatened Celestial Phenomenon True Lords who entered.
• Daoist Yuangang accepted the task and departed after finishing the game of Go, while Xuan Qiong True Lord reflected on Yuangang’s stalled cultivation.

Jiang Chen completed the initial refinement of the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and considered its Dao arts and the difficulty of restoring its lost spirituality. Illusory Dream True Person’s cultivation troubles worsened, so she sought Jiang Chen’s help in Cloud-Grasping City.

• Jiang Chen gained partial command over the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace and examined its Spirit Binding and General Commanding Art and Yellow Heaven Army-Slaying Dao.
• Jiang Chen considered nurturing new spirituality in the Yellow Heaven Dao Palace but decided his soul cultivation was not advanced enough.
• Illusory Dream True Person struggled with the combined effects of a flaw in her cultivation and Bai Cangzi’s soul attack.
• Illusory Dream True Person decided to ask Jiang Chen for help and traveled through the Grand Void to Cloud-Grasping City.
• Jiang Chen sensed Illusory Dream True Person’s unstable power as she entered the city and asked him to lend her a hand.

Jiang Chen lent Illusory Dream True Person the Soul-Calming Hall to stabilize her shaken soul and received the Form-Entrusting Secret Art in return. He then discovered that the Mist Flood Dragon’s new Purple Mansion presence was creating a treasured land and producing a spirit item he named Misty Cloud Essence.

• Illusory Dream True Person asked Jiang Chen to lend her the Soul-Calming Hall and offered him the Form-Entrusting Secret Art in exchange.
• Jiang Chen severed most of his connection to the Soul-Calming Hall, then received the secret art as Illusory Dream True Person began refining the treasure.
• The Soul-Calming Hall’s Soul Suppression Immortal Light calmed Illusory Dream True Person, though Jiang Chen judged that it could not repair the deeper damage to her foundation.
• Jiang Chen left Illusory Dream True Person to cultivate in seclusion and went to Buried-Sand Lake to inspect the changes caused by the Mist Flood Dragon’s ascension.
• Jiang Chen gathered the pure, nimble cloud essence forming around the Mist Flood Dragon and named it Misty Cloud Essence.

Jiang Chen studied the Form-Hosting Method and found that his hair could only serve as a fragile vessel for low-level power. After Daoist Yuangang visited Cloud-Grasping City, he explained the Primordial Unity Hall’s ancient role in exploring worlds beyond the heavens.

• Jiang Chen studied the Form-Hosting Method and used a strand of hair as a vessel, but it burned up when he tried to channel more power through it.
• Jiang Chen sensed Daoist Yuangang’s arrival, merged with the Mist Flood Dragon, and went to welcome his teacher.
• Daoist Yuangang praised Jiang Chen’s development of Cloud-Grasping City and accepted his offer to tour the city.
• Daoist Yuangang explained that the Primordial Unity Hall explored the Void Sea and sought treasures, cultivation arts, and new paths for the Impermanence Sect.
• Daoist Yuangang recounted how the Primordial Unity Hall lost its influence after its first master disappeared and heaven and earth changed.

Jiang Chen discussed his cultivation and imminent advancement to the Purple Mansion with Daoist Yuangang, who had arranged a Primordial Unity Pearl for him and helped cover up the Xin Yi affair. After Jiang Chen confidently claimed a ten-tenths chance of success, Daoist Yuangang recognized his progress on the path of combining all techniques and hoped he could surpass him.

• Daoist Yuangang told Jiang Chen that his true disciple status was finalized and arranged a Primordial Unity Pearl for his Purple Mansion breakthrough.
• Daoist Yuangang warned Jiang Chen that traces of his actions against Xin Yi remained, but said he had covered them up as much as possible.
• Jiang Chen promised to advance to the Purple Mansion soon and declared that his chance of success was ten tenths.
• Daoist Yuangang invited Jiang Chen to ask him cultivation questions, then answered a wide range of questions until he grew tired.
• After Jiang Chen left, Daoist Yuangang reflected that Jiang Chen was following the difficult path of melting all techniques into a single furnace and might achieve great things.

As the Impermanence Sect expanded into the Western Region, Jiang Chen’s Cloud-Grasping City seized territory and helped cultivators establish families. Jiang Chen then ambushed the fleeing Twin-Tailed Scorpion Clan and claimed its treasures before leaving the Sand Sea’s depths unexplored.

• The Impermanence Sect issued an Expansion Decree to draw cultivators and minor factions into its Western Region campaign.
• Nian Hua gave Fang Ping a dharma contract granting Three-Spring Isle to his family, and Fang Ping began establishing it.
• The Twin-Tailed Scorpion Clan retreated deeper into the Sand Sea after losing its ancestor and becoming a target for treasure hunters.
• Jiang Chen used pressure and deception to drive the Twin-Tailed Scorpion Clan from its territory, then attacked its sandboat and took its treasures.
• Jiang Chen examined the clan’s exotic insect eggs and acquired the Earth Treasure Woman's Heart with help from Rat Prodigy.
• Jiang Chen left the Sand Sea after sensing something unpleasant in its depths.

Jiang Chen reviewed Cloud-Grasping City’s gains, halted its expansion, and entrusted Nian Hua with managing the city while promising to help the Nian Clan overcome a flaw in its cultivation method. In the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, the Spirit Lord awakened and opened an Incense Divine Domain that fused with the secret realm, triggering further changes.

• Nian Hua reported Cloud-Grasping City’s acquired spiritual lands and mines, and Jiang Chen ordered the city to stop expanding and focus on governing its territory.
• Jiang Chen announced that he would return to the Impermanence Sect and left Cloud-Grasping City in Nian Hua’s care.
• Jiang Chen told Nian Hua that he had found a way to resolve the flaw in the Nian Clan’s cultivation method and that Nian Hua could reach the Purple Mansion Realm.
• The Clear-Sighted Monkey tribes offered sacrifices to the Azure Yang Nurturing God as the Spirit Lord awakened and opened his Incense Divine Domain.
• Jiang Chen learned that the Incense Divine Domain had fused with the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, whose entire realm began to tremble.

Jiang Chen guided the Spirit Lord through an unusual divine advancement, joining the Incense Divine Domain with the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm and raising Green Mountain to support it. The Spirit Lord became a third-rank god, while a distant consciousness noticed the new star and suspected Qingyang’s authority had returned in Yuhuan Continent.

• The Clear-Sighted Monkey clan’s incense fueled the Spirit Lord’s advancement, and the Incense Divine Domain began merging with the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm.
• Jiang Chen used the Taihua Heaven-Supporting Secret Register to raise Green Mountain as a support for the unstable divine domain.
• The divine domain solidified, the Spirit Lord’s divine register transformed, and the Spirit Lord became a third-rank god.
• Jiang Chen’s authority of creation formed the Mother-and-Child River, whose water could help living beings conceive and bear offspring.
• Mysterious yellow qi gathered around Green Mountain as the secret realm grew more three-dimensional and the Taihua Heaven-Supporting Secret Register advanced.
• A distant consciousness noticed the newly lit star, recognized the authority of creation, and considered sending someone to contact it in Yuhuan Continent.

Jiang Chen observed the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm’s transformation and discovered that Green Mountain had formed Xuanhuang True Intent, giving the Spirit Lord strength comparable to a Purple Mansion cultivator. He concluded that the secret realm could become a Blessed Land if Green Mountain continued to grow, and wondered what Great Splendor Mountain supported.

• Jiang Chen saw the expanded Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm form a network of spirit veins that gathered the energies of Heaven and Earth.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the Spirit Lord’s birth and the Incense Divine Domain’s arrival had allowed the secret realm to break through its original limits.
• Jiang Chen recognized the wondrous stone atop Green Mountain as the source of naturally formed Xuanhuang True Intent.
• Jiang Chen assessed the Spirit Lord’s combat strength and considered whether the Impermanence Sect’s inheritance could provide suitable divine abilities.
• Jiang Chen judged that the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm had potential to become a Blessed Land if Green Mountain continued to grow.
• Jiang Chen compared Green Mountain to Great Splendor Mountain and wondered what the mountain supported.