Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu fought six Deities at Donghai, protecting Xia Kingdom as the Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile held off the God of All Beasts. He unleashed the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal’s full power, killed the Blood God, and left the other Deities shaken as he stood guard at the nation’s gate.

• Jiang Shu broke the God of Rainstorm’s cages, pierced the Blood God, and turned the God of Thunder and Lightning’s attacks into strength while battling the three Deities.
• The Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile rejected the God of All Beasts’ offer to help it Shape Shift and charged at It, stopping the Tide of Beasts from advancing.
• The God of Dark Night and the Skeleton Bone God bargained with the other Deities over Xia Kingdom’s territory and population before joining the fight against Jiang Shu.
• The God of Dark Night plunged Donghai into darkness, and the Skeleton Bone God attacked Jiang Shu with a mountain of bones.
• Jiang Shu activated the Demonic Corpse Dismemberment Technique through the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal, broke through the darkness, and killed the Blood God with a sweeping azure ring.
• The God of Dark Night retreated while the Skeleton Bone God, the God of Thunder and Lightning, and the God of Rainstorm faced Jiang Shu at Donghai.

Jiang Shu drove off the invading Deities by threatening to destroy his artifacts and allies, though the battle left him gravely injured. As he began recovering on Mount Tai, he considered how to obtain the Divine Dao cultivation system and lead Xia Kingdom into a new era.

• Jiang Shu completed the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal and killed Blood God, then faced the God of Dark Night, Skeleton Bone God, God of Rainstorm, and God of Thunder and Lightning.
• Jiang Shu used the Profound Water Puppet, Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal, and Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile as threats of self-destruction, forcing the God of Rainstorm and God of Thunder and Lightning to flee.
• Jiang Shu's countdown drove the God of All Beasts into the Donghai and then forced the God of Dark Night and Skeleton Bone God to retreat to The West.
• Jiang Shu returned to Mount Tai with severe injuries, while the First Leader ordered the battle footage released and supplies sent to him.
• Jiang Shu began healing and considered pursuing the Divine Dao cultivation system from the God of Rainstorm, God of Thunder and Lightning, or God of All Beasts.

After recovering from his battle on Mount Tai, Jiang Shu strengthened the soldiers there and negotiated a non-interference pact with the God of All Beasts in exchange for the Divine Dao cultivation method. Studying it, he created two Divine Abilities and returned to the Xia Kingdom, while the God of All Beasts concluded that Jiang Shu must be a powerful being reincarnated.

• Jiang Shu emerged from seclusion on Mount Tai and used his spiritual power to advance nearly a thousand soldiers to the Martial Dao Fourth Realm before telling them not to return.
• Jiang Shu met the God of All Beasts over the Pacific Ocean and demanded that they avoid interfering in the battles between Martial Artists and Variant Ferocious Beasts, while also asking for the Divine Dao cultivation method.
• The God of All Beasts agreed to cooperate and gave Jiang Shu the complete Divine Dao cultivation system in exchange for Jiang Shu's favor.
• Jiang Shu studied the Divine Dao system and created Everyone is Like a Dragon Art and the Art of Governance by Non-Interference.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Xia Kingdom, and the God of All Beasts watched him leave, convinced that he was a powerful being reincarnated.

Jiang Shu returned to Jicheng and visited Jiangnan Academy to explain the ideals behind his Everyone is Like a Dragon Fist. He taught the students that martial arts depended on conviction rooted in family and nation, then began demonstrating the fist.

• Jiang Shu relaxed with Jiang Yongyi in Jicheng and told him he planned to give a secret lecture at Jiangnan Academy.
• Shou Junming bragged to his students about being Jiang Shu’s close friend before Jiang Shu appeared and greeted him.
• Jiang Shu told the students how his teacher Xie Feichen and Grandmaster Shang Sigou had shaped his understanding of conviction and martial arts.
• Jiang Shu explained that Everyone is Like a Dragon Fist required conviction for oneself, family, and nation, and that a fist needed intent.
• Jiang Shu demonstrated Everyone is Like a Dragon Fist and told the students to understand their own intent.

After three years of secluded cultivation, Jiang Shu emerged with twenty-eight Divine Abilities and greatly increased strength, then traveled to Shengjing to learn how Xuanxing had changed. He learned that Xia Kingdom was thriving and preparing for cosmic expansion, but an unidentified powerhouse who had entered through the Star Gate remained unaccounted for.

• Jiang Shu learned that Nether Lightning True Person was Zhou Ming, found out about his hidden descendants, and identified Zhou Yan as a possible rival connected to Zhou Ming’s past.
• Jiang Shu spent three years in seclusion, refining twelve Divine Abilities and raising the Five Thunders Great Handprint, Kun Peng Devouring Art, and Heaven's Will True Self Body to the Limit-Breaking Level.
• Jiang Shu concluded that his cultivation had reached its limit for the Furnace Fire Realm and planned to visit Overturning Sea City after arranging Zhou Ming’s descendants’ future.
• Jiang Shu traveled across Xuanxing, absorbed Faith Power, and witnessed the growth of martial arts, technology, and everyday life before reaching Shengjing.
• Wang Yan told Jiang Shu that Xia Kingdom had suppressed cults, advanced on the ocean battlefield, repaired a Cosmic Warship, and prepared to colonize habitable planets.
• Wang Yan revealed that three powerhouses had entered Xuanxing through the Star Gate, but one remained entirely untraceable.

Jiang Shu warned Wang Yan and the First Leader that Xuanxing’s hidden history might involve a Sitting and Forgetting Realm powerhouse who reshaped the planet, prompting Xia Kingdom to investigate its ancient records. After searching through many classics, Jiang Shu discovered a faint trace of mental power in a Jade Slip and read a sentence defining Sitting and Forgetting.

• Jiang Shu reassured Wang Yan that the unknown powerhouse was likely seeking cultivation resources rather than targeting Xia Kingdom, and explained how its awareness body might operate.
• The First Leader joined Jiang Shu and Wang Yan, and Jiang Shu explained that Xuanxing’s Heaven and Earth Secret Realms might once have been concealed parts of the planet, altered by a Sitting and Forgetting Realm powerhouse.
• The First Leader ordered nationwide investigations into ancient philosophical classics and archaeological sites, while Jiang Shu stayed in Shengjing to cultivate, advise Wang Yan, and cleanse provincial leaders’ bodies.
• After reading through many ancient records without finding anything remarkable, Jiang Shu discovered faint mental power inside a Jade Slip.
• The Jade Slip revealed the words: “Dismemberment of Limbs, Exclusion of Intelligence; depart from form and cast away knowledge, become one with the Great Thoroughfare—this is called Sitting and Forgetting.”

Jiang Shu gained a clue about the Sitting and Forgetting Realm, then traveled toward the Highest Peak, where he expected to encounter the mysterious powerhouse. On the train, he overheard Chen Yihan and Zeng Yue discussing Martial God Jiang, and Zeng Yue mistook Jiang Shu for one of his imitators.

• Jiang Shu read a line about Sitting and Forgetting on a Jade Slip and explained its significance to Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan reported that a cosmic powerhouse had secretly taken resources from mineral veins across several countries, and Jiang Shu suspected the powerhouse might be at the Highest Peak.
• Jiang Shu decided to travel to the Highest Peak and rode the Sky Suspension Train, reflecting on how technology and citizens’ living conditions mattered alongside Martial Dao.
• Chen Yihan and Zeng Yue discussed their plans to climb the Highest Peak and praised Martial God Jiang’s influence and philosophy.
• Zeng Yue approached Jiang Shu, assuming he was a long-haired imitator of Martial God Jiang, and found his appearance plain and ordinary.

Chen Yihan climbed the highest peak to temper her Martial Dao will, while Jiang Shu quietly ascended past the other martial artists and waited at the summit. As Chen Yihan descended with Zeng Yue, Jiang Shu sensed a faint thread of spiritual power and announced that he was awaiting its source.

• Zeng Yue accompanied Chen Yihan to the highest peak, then stopped partway up while Chen Yihan continued alone.
• Jiang Shu passed Zeng Yue and later met Chen Yihan on the slope, advising her to rest and regulate her breathing.
• Chen Yihan followed Jiang Shu upward until he told her to stop, then spent half a day cultivating before descending to rejoin Zeng Yue.
• Jiang Shu reached the summit, tempered his Origin Power, and waited while Chen Yihan and Zeng Yue descended and made plans to visit Jiangnan Academy.
• Jiang Shu sensed a faint thread of spiritual power merging with the surrounding Origin Qi and said, “I am Jiang Shu, awaiting you here.”

Jiang Shu learned the cosmic Mind Cultivation realms and received the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities method from the Lord of Cangwu. After gathering the faith and spiritual will of the Xia Kingdom, he condensed three Holy Embryos and returned to the Primal Chaos Breathing Realm.

• The Lord of Cangwu warned Jiang Shu that Xuanxing faced powerful enemies and explained the Star Ruins Realm and the Mind Cultivation realms.
• Jiang Shu refused to abandon Xuanxing, and the Lord of Cangwu taught him about the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities method.
• Jiang Shu comprehended the method and traveled in spirit through the Xia Kingdom, gathering the faith of its people and Martial Dao practitioners.
• After ten days, Jiang Shu returned to the highest peak and condensed a second Holy Embryo, briefly falling to the Spirit Breathing Realm.
• Jiang Shu drew on the spiritual will of Martial Dao practitioners, formed his third Holy Embryo, and returned to the Primal Chaos Breathing Realm.

Jiang Shu completed his ten-day journey through Xia Kingdom and agreed with Lord of Cangwu to cooperate, then planned to eliminate the Western Deities. At the highest peak, he secretly saved Chen Yihan and promised to arrange greater Martial Dao Foundation support for her, while Zeng Yue suspected he was a fraud.

• Jiang Shu explained his method of turning Faith Power into mental power, and Lord of Cangwu recognized his extraordinary talent and agreed to oversee Xia Kingdom.
• Jiang Shu said he would flatten The West and kill its Deities before entering seclusion, and Lord of Cangwu agreed to protect Xia Kingdom in exchange for future cooperation.
• Zeng Yue and Chen Yihan left the highest peak, where cult believers attacked martial artists; Chen Yihan prepared to fight despite being in the Second Realm of Martial Dao.
• Jiang Shu killed the cult believers with blades of wind, praised Chen Yihan's resolve, and promised to arrange a higher Martial Dao Foundation subsidy for her.
• Chen Yihan recognized Jiang Shu as the likely rescuer and thanked him, but he left without explaining himself; Zeng Yue vowed to check his claims with the Martial Dao Foundation in three days.

Jiang Shu crossed the Pacific and invaded the God of Thunder and Lightning’s territory, where he defeated and devoured the Deity despite the God’s Faith Power. He declared the land Xia Kingdom territory, and survivors spread news of his victory as he cleared the clouds and restored sunlight.

• Jiang Shu set out to attack the God of Thunder and Lightning, choosing to begin his campaign against the Western Deities there.
• The God of Thunder and Lightning summoned Faith Power from worshippers across the country and threatened to sacrifice them, but Jiang Shu cut down the Deity’s statue and fought Him in the sky.
• Jiang Shu overpowered the God of Thunder and Lightning, severed His consciousness body, and devoured His spiritual power.
• Jiang Shu declared himself Martial God Jiang, claimed the country for the Xia Kingdom, and killed fanatical believers who attacked him while removing the Deity’s influence from several survivors.
• Jiang Shu blasted holes through the dark clouds, restoring sunlight, and the survivors sent word that he had slain the God of Thunder and Lightning.

Chen Yihan realized that the young man she and Zeng Yue had met was Jiang Shu, just as news spread that he was killing Deities across the West. After slaying the God of Rainstorm, Jiang Shu headed for America with the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal to confront the remaining Deities.

• Passengers on the Sky Suspension Train celebrated reports that Jiang Shu had killed the God of Thunder and Lightning, and Chen Yihan recognized him in a news image.
• Chen Yihan told Zeng Yue that the man they had met might have been Jiang Shu.
• News spread that Jiang Shu had slain the God of Poison Swamp, while the God of Rainstorm fled toward America.
• Jiang Shu defeated the God of Rainstorm, absorbed His spiritual power, and further strengthened his Primal Chaos Breathing realm.
• Jiang Shu took the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal and charged toward America to face the God of Dark Night, Skeleton Bone God, and possibly the God of Calamity.

Jiang Shu broke through America’s military defenses and confronted the God of Dark Night, the Skeleton Bone God, and the God of Calamity. He resisted their combined attacks and prepared to unleash his divine abilities as the battle against the three Deities began in earnest.

• America’s three Deities prepared their military forces and Cosmic Warship to intercept Jiang Shu, while Xia Kingdom watched the battle and readied support.
• Jiang Shu destroyed America’s Fighter Jets and Mechas, then used the Void Myriad Flow Bodyguard Seal to pass unharmed through the Laser Railguns’ attacks.
• Jiang Shu crossed America’s defenses and struck at the three Deities with the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal, which the Skeleton Bone God blocked with a mountain of bones made from believers.
• The God of Dark Night enveloped America in darkness and the God of Calamity cursed Jiang Shu, but Jiang Shu countered their attacks and shattered the Skeleton Bone God’s bony hand with his fists.
• Jiang Shu challenged all three Deities to fight and invoked the Heaven’s Will True Self Body, the Five Thunders Great Handprint, and the Kun Peng Devouring Art.

Jiang Shu overwhelmed the God of Dark Night, Skeleton Bone God, and God of Calamity, but the Deities detonated every nuclear weapon stored in America to destroy him. The world watched the nuclear blasts engulf America, leaving Jiang Shu’s fate uncertain.

• Jiang Shu used One Qi Transforms into Three Purities and his strengthened Divine Abilities to gain the upper hand against the three Deities.
• The God of All Beasts watched from the Pacific and felt relieved that it had cooperated with Jiang Shu.
• Wang Yan told viewers that Jiang Shu was winning as the battle devastated America and the Deities sacrificed their followers to strengthen themselves.
• The Deities unleashed their strongest attacks, but Jiang Shu shattered the Skeleton Bone God’s Bone Hand, burned the God of Calamity, and drove back the God of Dark Night.
• The God of Dark Night revealed that Jiang Shu’s body was vulnerable and declared that he could not escape.
• Every nuclear weapon stored in America detonated, and mushroom clouds engulfed the country before the world’s eyes.

Jiang Shu used a Great Shift Talisman to escape the center of the nuclear assault, endured the blast, and defeated the three remaining Western Deities with help from the God of All Beasts. He left the Xia Kingdom hailed as Xuanxing’s sole power, with the nation preparing to welcome his return.

• Jiang Shu teleported away from the nuclear blast’s center with a Great Shift Talisman and survived the explosions by flying above the mushroom cloud.
• Jiang Shu attacked the exhausted God of Calamity, God of Dark Night, and Skeleton Bone God, killing the God of Calamity and annihilating the God of Dark Night.
• Skeleton Bone God fled toward the Star Gate, but Jiang Shu ordered the God of All Beasts to intercept it and then pierced it with the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal.
• The people of the Xia Kingdom celebrated Jiang Shu’s victory, and his parents wept with relief when they saw him alive.
• Officials and soldiers mobilized to welcome Jiang Shu as people across the nation sang the national anthem.

After helping Xuanxing recover, Jiang Shu learned about the Star Ruins Realm’s secret lands and decided to build his strength before venturing there. He left for the Endless Sea Domain to form an Origin Core, while Lu Qing Ling gave him talismans and asked him to return safely.

• Jiang Shu advised Jiang Yan Yue and Ye Zhenzhen on cultivation and learned from Lord of Cangwu about the Star Ruins Realm, its Planet Origins, and the Eternal Tower, Deep Space Sea, and Immortal Stairway.
• Jiang Shu traveled across Xuanxing to absorb warriors’ Faith Power, then set up Grand Arrays on Ji Mountain and resolved to advance before facing the Star Ruins Realm’s dangers.
• Jiang Shu met Xue Yong and Luo Yu at the True Martial Sect, then headed to Lu Qing Ling’s residence before leaving for the Endless Sea Domain.
• Lu Qing Ling gave Jiang Shu her unused Divine Abilities and the Space Breaking Talisman and Great Shift Talisman, then told him to be careful and said she would wait for his return.

Jiang Shu disguised himself as Hun Yuan True Person, an Origin Core Realm Loose Cultivator, and joined a trading gathering in Overturning Sea City while concealing his true strength. Multitreasures True Person and his accomplices targeted him for Profound Water True Person’s inheritance and began luring him with cultivation resources.

• Jiang Shu gave the Inner Core to the Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile and explained that he wanted to use his Origin Core Realm identity to draw out lawbreakers.
• Multitreasures True Person invited Jiang Shu to a gathering, where Jiang Shu claimed he had obtained part of Profound Water True Person’s inheritance.
• After Jiang Shu left, Multitreasures True Person, Ning Guang True Person, and Wan Jian True Person discussed robbing him and suspected he knew where the rest of the inheritance was.
• At a later gathering, Jiang Shu traded Divine Ability cultivation methods for an Earth Rank Precious Medicine from Ning Guang True Person.
• The three conspirators decided Jiang Shu needed resources and planned to lure him out of Overturning Sea City with another Precious Medicine.

Jiang Shu lured Multitreasures True Person and his two allies into an ambush, then revealed his Furnace Fire Realm and defeated all three despite a Spatial Storm. A year later, he began condensing an Origin Core from thirty-six carefully chosen Divine Abilities.

• Jiang Shu traded away his ten Divine Abilities for Earth Rank Precious Medicines while Multitreasures True Person probed him about Profound Water True Person's inheritance and lured him to an island.
• Jiang Shu fought the Spirit Light Jade Flood Dragon as Multitreasures True Person, Ning Guang True Person, and Wan Jian True Person sprang their ambush.
• Jiang Shu revealed his Furnace Fire Realm, summoned the Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile and Profound Water Puppet, and overwhelmed the three Essence Core Realm cultivators with his twenty-eight Divine Abilities and Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal.
• Jiang Shu killed Multitreasures True Person and Wan Jian True Person, then pursued Ning Guang True Person through a Spatial Storm and escaped with a Space Breaking Talisman after devouring his soul.
• A year later, Jiang Shu completed his selection of thirty-six Divine Abilities and began condensing them into an Origin Core.

Jiang Shu completed his breakthrough, condensing Thirty-Six Mystical Powers into an Origin Core. When Han Zhiqing fled to his island and asked for protection from a Dao One Sect disciple, Jiang Shu defeated and captured her pursuer, then demanded her promised treasure.

• Jiang Shu drew in immense Origin Qi with the Three Sacred Embryos and used his will and the Panel to unite his Thirty-Six Mystical Powers.
• Jiang Shu’s Virtual Core solidified into an Origin Core, greatly increasing his strength.
• Han Zhiqing fled toward Jiang Shu’s island while a Dao One Sect disciple pursued her, accusing her of killing his junior brother.
• Jiang Shu emerged from seclusion and stopped the disciple’s mountain-shaped Treasure Artifact with one hand.
• Jiang Shu struck the Dao One Sect disciple into the sea, seized him, and told Han Zhiqing to offer up her treasure.

Jiang Shu captured Han Zhiqing and prepared to test his Essence Core Realm strength against Dao One Sect disciple Zhao Lingpeng, who proposed they join forces to seek a Nirvana Realm inheritance. Meanwhile, Zhou Yan learned Jiang Shu was connected to Lu Qing Ling and arranged for him to enter the dangerous Mystical Power Tournament in three years.

• Han Zhiqing offered Jiang Shu a Nirvana Realm opportunity in exchange for killing Zhao Lingpeng, but Jiang Shu seized her soul and demanded she reveal where it was.
• Zhao Lingpeng proposed that he, Jiang Shu, and Han Zhiqing cooperate to reach the opportunity, while warning Jiang Shu about Dao One Sect's retaliation and his own hidden trump cards.
• Jiang Shu handed Han Zhiqing to the Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile and challenged Zhao Lingpeng to reveal how powerful he was.
• Zhou Fu reported to Zhou Yan that Jiang Shu had grown close to Lu Qing Ling, obtained the Kun Peng Devouring Art, and rapidly risen in the Mystical Power Ranking.
• Zhou Yan ordered Zhou Fu to arrange Jiang Shu a place in the Mystical Power Tournament, intending for the Outer Sect disciple to face danger in its life-and-death contests.