Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan taught Jiang Shu the Crystal Meditation Method and invited him to join the Xia Kingdom’s research into higher Mind Cultivation. Jiang Shu refused to preserve his freedom, then studied the original method and learned that the conference arrangements would need to change.

• Wang Yan transmitted the Crystal Meditation Method to Jiang Shu, who entered Samadhi and rapidly improved his proficiency.
• Wang Yan explained the Xia Kingdom’s Mind Cultivation research and invited Jiang Shu to join him in pursuing the Fetal Breathing Realm.
• Jiang Shu refused the invitation because he valued his freedom and his ability to travel between worlds.
• Jiang Shu examined the crystal fragments and compared the Xia Kingdom’s Mind Cultivation with the Martial Dao of the Great Jing Dynasty.
• Jiang Shu touched the complete Crystal Meditation Method crystal and absorbed its original information as his proficiency increased.
• Wang Yan told Minister Xiao that Jiang Shu had refused, prompting Xiao to reconsider the conference’s planned order and arrangements.

Jiang Shu continued cultivating in Shengjing, hypnotized Ye Zhenzhen into Deep Sleep, and meditated beside her through the night. After explaining his cultivation restrictions and urging her to strengthen her mind, he found his Crystal Meditation Method proficiency rising while they were intimate, as preparations for the Xia Kingdom Congress entered their final thirty days.

• Jiang Shu visited the Cosmic Battleship at the Research Institute and reflected on Xia Kingdom’s growing national strength and the widening divide between rich and poor.
• Jiang Shu hypnotized his family into Deep Sleep and recognized that Jiang Yan Yue had talent for Mind Cultivation.
• Jiang Shu watched Ye Zhenzhen’s guidance-technique video, then went to her hotel room after she sent him its location.
• Jiang Shu hypnotized Ye Zhenzhen, helped her sleep through the night, and entered Samadhi beside her.
• After waking, Ye Zhenzhen heard Jiang Shu explain his restrictions and encouraged her to pursue martial arts and Deep Sleep; Jiang Shu noticed his Crystal Meditation Method proficiency increasing during their intimacy.
• Xia Kingdom’s departments continued preparing for the Congress, which was thirty days away.

Jiang Shu continued cultivating and preparing for the Xia Kingdom’s centennial conference, where he agreed to represent the nation after Minister Xiao revealed a Heaven and Earth Secret Realm crisis. During the military parade, Jiang Shu appeared as Martial Saint Jiang, stunning his family, former school, and viewers across the nation.

• Jiang Shu advanced his Mind Cultivation to Great Samadhi, opened two hundred Apertures, and perfected Stealth Step while training Earthly Fiend Tiger's Roar Art.
• Jiang Shu took his family and Ye Zhenzhen to Shengjing, where Minister Xiao told him that the conference would reveal Heaven and Earth Secret Realms and asked him to help with a Grade B realm crisis.
• Jiang Shu agreed to assist after Wang Yan, King Martial Saint, departed for the troubled country, and Minister Xiao arranged for him to stand at the center of the Great Martial Dao Era formation during the parade.
• Two days later, Jiang Shu's grandfather and relatives watched the parade livestream from Jicheng as the announcer introduced him as Martial Saint Jiang.
• The broadcast focused on Jiang Shu for several minutes, and viewers across the nation learned of his achievements while Jiang Yongren stared in shock.

After the military parade made Jiang Shu famous across Xia Kingdom, he departed for the Grade B Heaven and Earth Secret Realm in Siam Kingdom. He arrived to find the region devastated by war and descended into battle, leaving the soldiers and refugees stunned by his power.

• Jiang Shu's military parade appearance and past victories in Fusang sparked nationwide attention, while Jiang Yongren regretted failing to mend their relationship.
• Minister Xiao and several generals saw Jiang Shu off and warned him about America's Genetic Warriors before he flew toward Siam Kingdom.
• Jiang Shu studied the limits of Gene Evolution and cultivated during the flight, then saw Variant Ferocious Beasts ravaging Siam Kingdom amid political conflict and widespread destruction.
• Jiang Shu ordered the aircraft to stop near the battle zone and leaped down, using the Earthly Fiend Tiger's Roar Art to kill or incapacitate the surrounding Variant Ferocious Beasts.
• Jiang Shu descended through the sky on Treasure Blades and struck down the Fourth Order Blood Feather Demon Eagle as the soldiers, martial artists, Genetic Warriors, and refugees watched in shock.

Jiang Shu entered the Grade B Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, adapting to its tenfold gravity as he fought through its beasts and gathered treasures. At a ruin in the inner region, Wang Yan retreated with his Grandmasters rather than risk a battle with America's Gene War Gods, until Jiang Shu arrived and confronted Kane.

• Jiang Shu killed the Variant Ferocious Beasts near the passage, entered the secret realm, and discovered that its tenfold gravity limited his ability to fight airborne enemies.
• Jiang Shu advanced into the inner region, collecting Fourth Order beast materials and Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine while the gravity tempered his body.
• Wang Yan and six Dan Jin Grandmasters found a ruin containing an unfamiliar fighter jet, but Dorfman and Kane demanded that Xia Kingdom surrender it.
• Wang Yan chose to retreat with his Grandmasters despite Kane's insults, restraining one of his men to prevent a fight.
• Jiang Shu's flying blade struck near Kane, and Jiang Shu emerged from the jungle to challenge him.

Jiang Shu confronted two Fifth Order Gene War Gods who had insulted the Xia Kingdom and defeated them alone in the Grade B Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. After killing Kane and Dorfman, he left the four Gene War Generals to the Dan Jin Grandmasters and turned his attention to the fighter jet.

• Jiang Shu challenged Kane over his insult to Xia Kingdom people while Wang Yan identified Kane and Dorfman as two Fifth Order Gene War Gods.
• Jiang Shu refused to fight alongside Wang Yan, and Wang Yan left to intercept an approaching Fifth Order Variant Ferocious Beast while the Dan Jin Grandmasters stayed behind.
• Dorfman and Kane attacked Jiang Shu inside Dorfman's black mist, but Jiang Shu sensed their movements and defended himself.
• Jiang Shu snapped Kane's arm with a punch and killed him with a Treasure Blade, then pierced Dorfman's heart with another blade.
• Jiang Shu emerged holding Kane's head and standing over Dorfman's corpse, then assigned the four Gene War Generals to the Dan Jin Grandmasters and examined the fighter jet.

Jiang Shu defeated the Gene War Gods in Siam Kingdom’s Grade B Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, then stayed behind to cultivate and seek battles that could advance his Martial Dao. After 108 days he opened all 300 apertures and emerged, determined to obtain Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings before pursuing his next breakthrough.

• Jiang Shu defeated two Fifth Order Gene War Gods, allowing the Dan Jin Grandmasters to kill the terrified Fourth Order Gene War Generals.
• Wang Yan promised to share the ruins’ discoveries, and Jiang Shu asked him to arrange a chance to fight Tier 6 Variant Ferocious Beasts in a future Tier A Secret Realm.
• Jiang Shu stayed in Siam Kingdom’s Secret Realm to cultivate, fought a Fifth Order Variant Ferocious Beast, and entered a cave for secluded cultivation.
• As Origin Qi drained away and the Secret Realm emptied, Jiang Shu completed the Crimson Palace Thunder Method Aperture Training Chapter and opened all 300 apertures in 108 days.
• Jiang Shu left the Secret Realm on January 18, 2030, one step from Shattering the Void and Seeing the Divine and Indestructible, and set out to obtain Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings.

Jiang Shu entered the Tier A Heaven and Earth Secret Realm to obtain Thunder Roc Essence Blood and confronted an injured Sixth Order Giant Roc. After watching it defeat two peak Fifth Order beasts, he launched his attack, ending the chapter as he fired an Armor-Piercing Missile.

• Xia Kingdom's missile strike destroyed a Fifth Order beast and drove a Tier 6 beast back into the Secret Realm, while Wang Yan estimated Jiang Shu had only a ten percent chance against a Tier 6 beast with a Rocket Launcher.
• Jiang Shu entered the Yunan Province Secret Realm, evaded Fifth Order beasts, and searched for the Sixth Order Thunder Roc to obtain its Essence Blood.
• Jiang Shu watched the Giant Roc strike down the Mountain-Shaking Giant Ape and Great Sun Flame Tiger with lightning, then devour the tiger.
• Jiang Shu activated the Little Five Elements Sword Formation, but the Giant Roc's weakening lightning shattered its phantom blades.
• Jiang Shu rose toward the Giant Roc on the Formation Disk, revealed his loaded Rocket Launcher, and fired the Armor-Piercing Missile.

Jiang Shu defeated a Tier 6 Giant Roc with missiles, sword formations, and Treasure Blades, then refined its essence blood and mastered the Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings. He continued cultivating and fighting in the Secret Realm, eventually opening all 365 Apertures.

• Jiang Shu struck the Giant Roc with an Armor-Piercing Missile, then attacked it with the Little Five Elements Sword Formation and Treasure Blades until they crashed into the ground.
• After recovering from his injuries, Jiang Shu killed the crippled Giant Roc by driving his final Treasure Blade through its skull.
• Jiang Shu refined the Giant Roc’s essence blood, reached Constant Samadhi, and learned that the Roc was a taboo divine-beast bloodline.
• Jiang Shu activated the Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings, flew at tremendous speed, and found that the technique consumed Origin Power too quickly for routine combat.
• Jiang Shu resumed secluded cultivation and hunted in the Secret Realm; after the Little Five Elements Sword Formation broke, he opened his 361st Aperture and later his 365th.

After opening all 365 Apertures, Jiang Shu returned to Cloud State and challenged Liang Yuewu, the Liang Family Ancestor who had hunted him for half a year. Jiang Shu proved he could contend with the Rebirth Realm expert before escaping into the night with his Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings.

• Jiang Shu completed the opening of all 365 Apertures, healed his injuries, and decided he was ready to return to the Great Jing Dynasty and confront Liang Yuewu.
• Liang Yuewu sensed Jiang Shu near the river, attacked him, and demanded the Treasure Artifact and Storage Bag.
• Jiang Shu met Liang Yuewu's claw strike head-on, then resisted his Soul-Swaying Hammer and fought him in close combat.
• Jiang Shu and Liang Yuewu traded fierce blows until both were injured, and Jiang Shu was knocked onto the Liang Family's ship.
• Jiang Shu revealed his Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings and flew into the clouds before Liang Yuewu could seize him.

Jiang Shu reached Hidden Abyss City to seek martial arts and Treasure Artifacts before investigating the Tomb Estate of the Nether Lightning Old Man. At the Black Alliance auction, he witnessed the city’s brutality and waited as the first finale treasure was revealed.

• Jiang Shu escaped Liang Yuewu, assessed his combat strength, and decided to visit Hidden Abyss City before heading to the Tomb Estate of the Nether Lightning Old Man.
• After half a month of travel, Jiang Shu arrived at Hidden Abyss City, disguised himself, and learned that the Black Alliance would hold an auction in three days.
• Jiang Shu attended the auction, where Manager Mu offered a captured Great Qing genius for sale, and the woman was bought for sixty-three bottles of Essence Great Elixirs.
• Jiang Shu watched the auction’s bidders and considered how he might obtain a Treasure Artifact, while many attendees left with their purchases.
• Manager Mu introduced the first finale treasure as the Quasi-Supreme Martial Art Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand.

The Black Alliance Auction offered the Quasi-Supreme Martial Art Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand and the Golden Ape Futon, a Treasure Artifact that aided cultivation. Jiang Shu left to pursue the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, while Tu Ling followed the Golden Ape Futon’s buyer, unaware that Jiang Shu had slipped after him.

• Manager Mu introduced the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, and Tu Ling won it for eighteen thousand Essence Great Elixirs after outbidding Elder Yan.
• Bidding for the Golden Ape Futon surged past thirty thousand Essence Great Elixirs, and a black-robed martial artist won it for thirty-five thousand.
• Tu Ling collected the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand and hurried after the Golden Ape Futon’s buyer.
• Jiang Shu left the auction to pursue the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, which he hoped to improve with the Panel.
• Tu Ling tracked the black-robed buyer while Jiang Shu used Limit-Breaking Level Stealth Step to follow him unseen.

Jiang Shu followed the pursuit of the Golden Ape Futon and watched Luo Yu, the eighth-ranked Dragon-Tiger Rankings genius, turn the forest into a battleground with his Dragon-Eagle Falling Feather Bow. Tu Ling and the Black Robe Old Man joined forces against Luo Yu, who was running low on Origin Power, when Jiang Shu secretly contacted him with an offer.

• Tu Ling attacked the fleeing man for the Golden Ape Futon, but the Black Robe Old Man intervened and the man escaped into a forest.
• Tu Ling ordered his five Aperture Opening Realm retainers to follow him, while Jiang Shu used Stealth Step to trail the pursuit.
• The fleeing man revealed himself as Luo Yu and killed or wounded numerous pursuers with the Dragon-Eagle Falling Feather Bow, prompting many to retreat.
• The Black Robe Old Man and Tu Ling agreed to cooperate, with Tu Ling claiming the Golden Ape Futon and the old man seeking Luo Yu's bow.
• The encircled Luo Yu struggled against the combined forces, used an Evil Mist Bomb to escape briefly, and began running low on Origin Power.
• While Tu Ling and the Black Robe Old Man searched for Luo Yu, Jiang Shu secretly contacted him and proposed a deal.

Jiang Shu joined forces with Luo Yu to break the encirclement, giving Luo Yu time to activate the Dragon-Eagle Falling Feather Bow and kill Tu Ling. Jiang Shu seized Tu Ling’s Storage Bag and the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, then faced the Black Robe Old Man as the two allies turned against the remaining enemies.

• Jiang Shu proposed working with Luo Yu and attacked Tu Ling’s group to draw their attention while Luo Yu activated the Treasure Pattern.
• Jiang Shu used Stealth Step and the Earthly Fiend Tiger’s Roar Art to disrupt the attackers and escape their encirclement.
• Luo Yu activated the Dragon-Eagle Falling Feather Bow’s Treasure Pattern and fired an Origin Power Dragon Eagle that pierced Tu Ling’s chest.
• Jiang Shu took Tu Ling’s Storage Bag, claimed the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, and shattered the Black Robe Old Man’s attack with the Great Stele Breaking Hand.
• Jiang Shu and Luo Yu prepared to attack the five remaining enemies as Luo Yu fired five Origin Power Feather Arrows.

Jiang Shu and Luo Yu defeated the Black Robe Old Man and the remaining Aperture Opening Realm fighters, then divided the spoils before going their separate ways. After Tu Yuan set out to avenge Tu Ling, Jiang Shu reached the Nether Lightning Old Man's Tomb Estate and mastered the basics of the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, gaining a new way to wield his mental force.

• The Black Robe Old Man urged four allies to attack Jiang Shu and Luo Yu, but Jiang Shu killed one attacker and sent the others fleeing.
• Jiang Shu defeated and killed the Black Robe Old Man, took his Storage Bag, and shared the spoils with Luo Yu.
• Luo Yu gave Jiang Shu a Jade Plaque for the Luo Family and left Hidden Abyss City, while Jiang Shu headed toward the Nether Lightning Old Man's Tomb Estate.
• Tu Yuan learned of Tu Ling's death, killed the messenger, and left Hidden Abyss City to pursue revenge.
• After three days of stealthy travel, Jiang Shu reached the mountain range and practiced the Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, uprooting and crushing a distant tree with his mental force.

Jiang Shu discovered Nether Lightning True Person’s Tomb Estate and accepted its inheritance, gaining vast cultivation resources and obligations that included killing Zhou Yan. He chose to conceal his identity and grow stronger before entering the True Martial Sect, then began cultivating to break through.

• Jiang Shu entered the Tomb Estate and used his mental power to decipher the restriction on its stone tablet.
• Nether Lightning True Person’s message revealed three inheritances and required Jiang Shu to swear a blood oath to return his remains, kill Zhou Yan, and protect his descendants.
• Jiang Shu formed the blood oath, opened the stone tablet, and found Nether Lightning True Person’s corpse and Storage Bag.
• Jiang Shu discovered three thousand bottles of Pure Essence Pills, a sect identity Jade Plaque, and the promise of Divine Abilities and the Spirit Rank Polar Underworld Lightning Tablet.
• Jiang Shu decided not to reveal his identity at the True Martial Sect until he had grown strong enough to face Zhou Yan, and began cultivating toward a breakthrough.

Jiang Shu advanced his Crystal Meditation Method into Embryonic Breathing, then trained his combat art and returned to Hidden Abyss City to collect his stored elixirs. Tu Yuan confronted a Black Alliance steward and demanded information about the Luo Family in the Great Jing Dynasty’s Royal City.

• Jiang Shu reached Embryonic Breathing through his perfected Crystal Meditation Method and sensed a new path beyond the Xia Kingdom’s physical Martial Dao limit.
• Jiang Shu rapidly improved his Heavenly Star Dragon Seizing Hand, refined his Storage Bag, and flew to Hidden Abyss City.
• Jiang Shu learned that Tu Yuan had returned after failing to find Luo Yu and the middle-aged man Jiang Shu had impersonated, and that Tu Yuan had placed a bounty on them.
• Jiang Shu withdrew more than five thousand seven hundred bottles of Essence Great Elixirs from the Black Alliance and vanished when its steward tried to recruit him.
• Tu Yuan forced the steward to his knees, warned him to speak carefully, and demanded information about the Luo Family in the Great Jing Dynasty’s Royal City within a quarter of an hour.

Jiang Shu returned to Yongning Prefecture, rewarded Zhang Ruo and others, then flew to Cloud State Capital to settle his grudge with the Liang Family. After warning the family to evacuate, he fired a missile at Liang Yuewu’s place of seclusion and withdrew.

• Jiang Shu sensed that Tu Yuan was heading to assassinate Luo Yu and decided to warn the Luo Family before continuing to the Royal City.
• Jiang Shu returned to Yongning Prefecture, left Essence Great Elixir for Old Man Chou and Qi Yuan, and gave Zhang Ruo two bottles to share with Manager Zhang.
• Jiang Shu traveled to Cloud State Capital and ordered everyone in the Liang Family to leave before he attacked.
• Liang Tingwen and Liang Tingtao tried to manage the commotion while Liang Yuewu remained in seclusion, and the family’s disciples and servants stayed behind.
• Jiang Shu located Liang Yuewu’s retreat and fired a missile from his Rocket Launcher before flying away.

Jiang Shu destroyed the Liang Family with a missile, then flew to the Royal City to seek a Top-Grade Cultivation Method and prepare for the Hundred Dynasty War. He reached the Luo Family and asked its gate guards to notify Luo Yu that an old acquaintance from Hidden Abyss City had arrived.

• Jiang Shu launched a missile that killed Liang Yuewu and devastated the Liang Family, leaving Liang Tingwen and Liang Tingtao shocked by the attack.
• Jiang Shu escaped Cloud State Capital with his Thunder Roc Nether Qi Wings and considered the difference between Furnace Fire cultivation and Mind Cultivation.
• After flying for several days, Jiang Shu reached the Royal City, registered at its gate, and entered the city under its protective barrier.
• Jiang Shu paid a local guide an Essence Great Elixir to explain the Royal City and lead him to the Luo Family, while learning that Luo Yu had recently reached the Rebirth Realm.
• At the Luo Family gates, Jiang Shu gave a guard his Jade Plaque and asked him to tell Luo Yu that an old acquaintance from Hidden Abyss City had arrived.

Jiang Shu reunited with Luo Yu at the Luo Family and proposed joining forces to kill Tu Yuan, while asking to borrow cultivation methods and learn about the Hundred Dynasty War. Luo Yu explained the sect’s hierarchy and the war’s scarce path to becoming an Outer Sect Disciple, leaving Jiang Shu with more to learn about the trials.

• Jiang Shu arrived at the Luo Family, where Luo Yu recognized him as the expert who had saved him in Hidden Abyss City and welcomed him inside.
• Jiang Shu warned Luo Yu that Tu Yuan might come to the Royal City to kill him, then proposed intercepting Tu Yuan together and splitting his possessions.
• Jiang Shu asked to borrow the Luo Family’s Top-Grade Cultivation Methods and Top-Grade Martial Arts and to learn about the Hundred Dynasty War, and Luo Yu agreed.
• Luo Yu explained that sects valued Spirit Rank Pills and Treasure Items and described the immense difficulty of advancing from the Rebirth Realm to the Origin Core Realm.
• Luo Yu said the Hundred Dynasty War offered only a few chances to be selected as an Outer Sect Disciple, while even successful trial participants usually received only Servant Disciple status.