Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu defeated and killed Zhao Lingpeng, then forced Han Zhiqing to guide him to the place where she had found a fragment of a Heaven Rank Treasure Artifact. After half a month of travel, Jiang Shu reached the island linked to True Person Leiyin and found a broken sword among piles of discarded ore.

• Jiang Shu overwhelmed Zhao Lingpeng despite his thirty-five Divine Abilities, then killed him with the Kun Peng Devouring Art.
• Jiang Shu told Han Zhiqing he would spare her if she guided him to the treasure fragment and served as his maid for one hundred years.
• Han Zhiqing explained that her sword fragment came from the Great Leiyin Sword Formation, which True Person Leiyin had wielded before disappearing during a war with a peak Transformation Great Demon.
• Jiang Shu recognized the fragment as part of a Heaven Rank Treasure Artifact and traveled with Han Zhiqing toward the island where she had found it.
• Jiang Shu left Han Zhiqing aboard the Treasure Ship and entered the restricted island alone.
• Jiang Shu found piles of discarded ore deeper inside the island and came upon a broken sword.

Jiang Shu discovered that the Abyss led to an ancient hall where time passed 360 times faster than outside, and he turned it into a personal cultivation ground. After fifteen years of cultivation there, he had advanced to the middle Essence Core Realm and perfected several Divine Abilities, while Han Zhiqing began cultivating on the island above.

• Jiang Shu entered the Abyss and reached a vast hall filled with skeletons and ruined treasures, including the remains of True Monarch Leiyin.
• Jiang Shu suspected the hall either severed access to heaven-and-earth Origin Qi or distorted time, and he decided to measure its time ratio before seeking an exit.
• Jiang Shu found that twelve hours in the hall corresponded to about two minutes on Xuanxing, making it a powerful cultivation ground for him because his Holy Embryos could supply Origin Qi.
• Jiang Shu cultivated for ten years in the hall, advanced to the middle Essence Core Realm, and perfected the Void Myriad Flow Bodyguard Seal.
• Han Zhiqing completed a concealed Grand Array on the island and began cultivating, while Jiang Shu continued refining materials, artifacts, pills, and Divine Abilities in the hall.
• After fifteen years in the hall, Jiang Shu perfected Myriad Treasures Horizontal and Vertical Fusion Art and prepared to return to Xuanxing to try to push it beyond its limit.

After spending centuries cultivating and comprehending the stone gate in the Asking Immortal Hall, Jiang Shu was warned by its Artifact Spirit before he could lose himself in the Great Dao. The Artifact Spirit revealed that the hall’s creator had reached the Return to Void Realm, discovered that merging with the Dao led to a dead end, and left behind a final character containing his understanding of cultivation.

• Jiang Shu spent fifteen years cultivating in the Asking Immortal Hall, then devoted himself to comprehending its stone gate while the Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile cultivated nearby.
• Over the next hundred years and beyond, Jiang Shu advanced his spiritual power toward the gate and deepened his understanding of the Great Dao.
• When Jiang Shu’s spiritual power finally touched the gate, the Artifact Spirit awakened him and warned that immersing himself in the Great Dao could make him forget time and perish.
• Jiang Shu greeted the voice and described the eight great sects and the known cultivation realms of the Vast Desolate Domain.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the hall’s creator had reached the Return to Void Realm and found that merging with the Great Dao could trap cultivators in a dead end, leaving immortality beyond reach.
• The Artifact Spirit identified itself as the Asking Immortal Hall’s Artifact Spirit, revealed the creator’s final character, “Immortal,” and offered to let Jiang Shu leave.

Jiang Shu left the Asking Immortal Hall after more than two hundred years of cultivation and rescued Han Zhiqing from three Dao One Sect disciples. He revealed that he was an Inner Sect Disciple of the True Martial Sect and prepared to take her back to the sect.

• The Asking Immortal Hall Artifact Spirit explained why it had taken an interest in Jiang Shu, then sent him out after he spent over two hundred years strengthening his Origin Power and gaining thirty-two divine abilities.
• Jiang Shu flew to find Han Zhiqing and sensed her location through their contract when she was not where he expected.
• Three Dao One Sect disciples accused Han Zhiqing of killing Zhao Lingpeng and surrounded her, while nearby Loose Cultivators watched without intervening.
• Jiang Shu killed all three Dao One Sect disciples with a giant hand, seized their Divine Ability Great Elixirs, and drove the Loose Cultivators away.
• Jiang Shu gave Han Zhiqing pills and told her that a Nirvana Realm True Lord was pursuing her, so she had to return to the sect with him.
• Jiang Shu identified himself to Han Zhiqing as an Inner Sect Disciple of the True Martial Sect.

Jiang Shu returned to True Martial Sect after sending Han Zhiqing to protect Zhou Ming’s descendants and learned that Zhou Yan had arranged for him to enter the Mystical Power Tournament. He reassured Lu Qing Ling by revealing his late-stage Origin Core Realm cultivation and sixty-eight Divine Abilities, leaving her stunned by how powerful he had become.

• Jiang Shu and Han Zhiqing escaped Overturning Sea City, and he guided her in Origin Core Realm cultivation during their journey.
• Jiang Shu sent Han Zhiqing to True Martial Fourth City to protect Zhou Ming’s descendants, then returned to True Martial Sect.
• Jiang Shu read Lu Qing Ling’s message and learned that the sect had designated him for the Mystical Power Tournament, apparently at Zhou Yan’s instigation.
• Lu Qing Ling warned Jiang Shu that Zhou Yan might use the tournament to target him and explained how far Zhou Yan could rise within the sect.
• Jiang Shu revealed his sixty-eight Divine Abilities, more than thirty of them Earth Rank, and said he had reached the late stage of the Origin Core Realm.

Jiang Shu established a cave abode on Thunder Hell Peak and revealed his immense strength, including sixty-eight divine abilities, shocking the sect. As Thunder Hell Peak’s elders gathered to recruit him, Zhou Yan learned that Jiang Shu had become an Inner Sect Disciple and was far stronger than he had assumed.

• Lu Qing Ling urged Jiang Shu to seek a place under her aunt on Phoenix Crown Peak, but Jiang Shu chose Thunder Hell Peak to honor Zhou Ming’s request and bury his remains there.
• Jiang Shu guided Lu Qing Ling in her cultivation, gave her several Earth Rank divine abilities, and later registered as an Inner Sect Disciple.
• True Lord Gu Hai welcomed Jiang Shu to Thunder Hell Peak and offered him a place to establish his cave abode.
• Jiang Shu used Great Strength Puppets and set up three Earth Rank arrays, then displayed an Inner Core Realm Late Stage Cloud Winged Flying Crocodile and sixty-eight divine abilities before the gathered disciples.
• Zhou Fu told Zhou Yan that Jiang Shu had reached the Essence Core Realm Late Stage, possessed sixty-eight divine abilities, and attracted Thunder Hell Peak’s elders, who competed to recruit him.

Jiang Shu revealed his sixty-eight Divine Abilities on Thunder Hell Peak, drew offers from Nirvana Realm elders, and demanded an investigation into Zhou Ming’s death before challenging Zhou Yan. After effortlessly defeating a Heaven Flame Peak disciple who tried to stop him, Jiang Shu repeated his challenge, and Zhou Yan appeared on Heaven Flame Peak to accept.

• Jiang Shu displayed his Divine Abilities and received offers from Nirvana Realm elders seeking to take him as a disciple.
• Jiang Shu presented Zhou Ming’s remains, asked the Law Enforcement Hall to investigate his death, and challenged Zhou Yan.
• A Heaven Flame Peak disciple attacked Jiang Shu with the Five-Finger Mountain-Moving Seal, but Jiang Shu destroyed it with a flick and left the attacker injured.
• Jiang Shu explained that Zhou Yan had arranged for him to enter the Mystical Power Tournament and said their feud would be settled in battle.
• Zhou Yan appeared atop a pillar of flame on Heaven Flame Peak and told Jiang Shu he would grant his wish to court death.

Jiang Shu overwhelmed Zhou Yan with two powerful Great Dao divine abilities, exposing the gap between them in Origin Power and combat skill. Cornered above his cave abode, Zhou Yan activated his Heaven Rank Grand Array and summoned a Heaven Rank Treasure Artifact to turn the battle around.

• Inner sect disciples and elders gathered to watch Jiang Shu and Zhou Yan face off in a vast battlefield.
• Jiang Shu taunted Zhou Yan for avoiding challenges, then used the Five Emperors Heaven Evolution Seal to overpower Zhou Yan’s flame divine ability.
• Jiang Shu followed with the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist, driving Zhou Yan back and leaving him shaken by his opponent’s strength.
• Fearing defeat would bring ruin, Zhou Yan activated his Heaven Rank Grand Array and summoned a Heaven Rank Treasure Artifact.
• Zhou Yan seized control of the surrounding Origin Qi and challenged Jiang Shu to overcome his array and treasure.

Jiang Shu defeated Zhou Yan despite Zhou Yan's Heaven Rank Grand Array and Heaven Rank treasure umbrella, establishing himself as the Inner Sect's strongest in Origin Power and Divine Abilities. After the elders disputed who should keep the umbrella, the Thunder Hell Peak Lord summoned Jiang Shu.

• Zhou Yan activated his Heaven Rank Grand Array, but Jiang Shu used the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal to break its weak point and devoured the disrupted Origin Qi.
• Jiang Shu countered Zhou Yan's Heaven Rank treasure umbrella with his Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist and struck him with a tenth punch that shattered his defenses.
• Jiang Shu seized Zhou Yan's umbrella and battered him until Zhou Yan fell unconscious before his cave abode.
• Inner Sect Disciples hailed Jiang Shu as the Inner Sect's strongest in Origin Power and Divine Abilities, while a Heaven Flame Peak elder demanded the Flame Pearl Phoenix Feather Umbrella back.
• True Monarch Zi Xiao defended Jiang Shu's claim to the umbrella, but the Thunder Hell Peak Lord ordered the dispute to end and summoned Jiang Shu.

After Jiang Shu defeated Zhou Yan, Zi Ji Dao Lord explained the True Disciple Tower and demonstrated Divine Abilities to help him prepare for the Eight Great Sects' Mystical Power Tournament. Jiang Shu advanced the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist to an eleventh punch, while Inner Sect Disciples sought favor with his old friend Luo Yu.

• Jiang Shu erased Zhou Yan's mark from the Flame Pearl Phoenix Feather Umbrella, then visited Zi Ji Dao Lord at Thunder Hell Peak.
• Zi Ji Dao Lord explained that new Nirvana Realm cultivators could challenge the replicated combat strength of the Top Ten True Transmissions in the True Disciple Tower.
• Zi Ji Dao Lord demonstrated Divine Abilities for Jiang Shu, including techniques from other sects, as Jiang Shu studied their methods and refined his own.
• Jiang Shu repeatedly sparred through his demonstrations and developed an eleventh punch of the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist.
• Inner Sect Disciples visited Luo Yu with gifts, hoping to build a connection to Jiang Shu through his former friend.

Jiang Shu received guidance from Zi Ji Dao Lord, who taught him the Five Elements Chaos Tribulation Dragon Transformation Art and sent him to seek instruction from the Heavenly Puppet Sect. As the prospect of war with the Demon Race loomed, Zhou Yan entered Heaven Flame Peak’s palace and was granted a strange fire.

• Inner Sect Disciples flocked to Luo Yu and Xue Xuan, while Ye Jiankong and Ye Huang learned that Jiang Shu had become the Inner Sect’s number one.
• Jiang Shu improved his Divine Abilities under Zi Ji Dao Lord’s guidance and came close to opening the path from Embryonic Breathing to the Sitting and Forgetting Realm.
• Zi Ji Dao Lord gave Jiang Shu a Talisman Book for Myriad Puppets Dao Lord, warned him that a Demon Race invasion might coincide with the Mystical Power Tournament, and taught him the embryonic Five Elements Chaos Tribulation Dragon Transformation Art.
• Jiang Shu planned to help Lu Qing Ling, Xue Xuan, and Luo Yu advance toward the Origin Core Realm, then flew toward the outer sect with resources to share.
• Ming Yan True Lord urged Zhou Yan not to despair over his defeat and brought him to Heaven Flame Peak’s palace to meet the Peak Lord.
• A lamp cup bearing a phoenix-like strange fire descended before Zhou Yan, and a voice announced that the fire was being granted to him.

Jiang Shu traveled to the Heavenly Puppet Sect to visit Myriad Puppets Dao Lord and learn from its cultivation methods. After arriving, he challenged Yun Lan to see whether Yun Lan’s puppet or Jiang Shu could cross the sect’s Nirvana Wind Dao Array first.

• Jiang Shu advised Xue Xuan and Luo Yu on surviving the war and cultivating toward the Origin Core before leaving the True Martial Sect.
• Jiang Shu crossed the Pill Talisman Sect and the Creation Sect, then reached the Heavenly Puppet Sect after two months of travel.
• Deacon Wang met Jiang Shu and agreed to escort him toward the inner sect, explaining that its Dao Array was filled with deadly Nirvana Wind.
• Yun Lan confronted Deacon Wang and challenged Jiang Shu, hoping to display his newly refined Heaven Rank Puppet and strengthen his standing.
• Jiang Shu asked whether Yun Lan could cross the Dao Array without an identity Jade Plaque, then proposed a race through the Nirvana Wind.

Jiang Shu crossed the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s deadly Nirvana Wind without a Treasure Artifact, stunning the watching disciples and defeating Yun Lan’s challenge. Deacon Wang guided Jiang Shu through the inner sect to Senior Wan Kui’s secluded site, where Jiang Shu announced that he had come to pay respects to Myriad Puppets Dao Lord by order of Zi Ji Dao Lord.

• Yun Lan challenged Jiang Shu to cross the Nirvana Wind, while Deacon Wang tried to prevent the confrontation.
• Jiang Shu entered the Nirvana Wind with only his physical body and Divine Abilities, leaving the Outer Sect Disciples and Yun Lan astonished.
• Jiang Shu crossed the outer area with ease, while Yun Lan fell behind inside his Heaven Rank Puppet.
• Yun Lan admitted defeat and apologized to Jiang Shu, who accepted without holding a grudge.
• Deacon Wang escorted Jiang Shu through the inner sect to Senior Wan Kui’s secluded cultivation site.
• Jiang Shu activated the Talisman Book and announced that he had come by Zi Ji Dao Lord’s order to pay respects to Senior Myriad Puppets.

Jiang Shu met Myriad Puppets Dao Lord Wan Kui, received one Earth Rank Divine Ability, and agreed to challenge the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s True Disciple Seed Ranking for the remaining abilities. As the sect gathered to watch, Yun Lan revealed that Jiang Shu had already surpassed him with ease, leaving the other disciples stunned.

• Myriad Puppets Dao Lord Wan Kui welcomed Jiang Shu, offered him ten Divine Abilities to examine, and explained the Heaven Rank Heavenly Vertical-Horizontal Dao-Deriving Puppet Fusion Art.
• Wan Kui let Jiang Shu choose one Earth Rank Divine Ability and challenged him to win the other nine by defeating the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s ranked geniuses.
• Jiang Shu accepted the wager, and news of the challenge spread throughout the sect as disciples and spectators gathered.
• Yun Lan’s junior brothers urged him to enter the challenge, believing he could win a Divine Ability with his newly refined Heaven Rank Puppet.
• Yun Lan told them he had already encountered Jiang Shu and watched him pass through the Nirvana Wind using only his body, Origin Power, and Divine Abilities.
• Yun Lan’s account left the disciples silent and gasping in shock.

Jiang Shu fought the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s ranked Inner Sect geniuses, defeating nine in succession while helping them improve through battle. As the contests ended, Wenren Ping, the sect’s number one Inner Sect Disciple, stepped forward and faced Jiang Shu.

• Myriad Puppets Dao Lord offered Jiang Shu a choice of how to conduct the wager, and Jiang Shu accepted the challenges in the plaza.
• Zhong Haifeng attacked Jiang Shu with Earth Rank and Heaven Rank Puppets, but Jiang Shu overwhelmed him and gave him guidance during their half-hour battle.
• Si Hongbin and the geniuses ranked ninth, sixth, fifth, fourth, third, and second challenged Jiang Shu in turn and were defeated, each gaining combat experience.
• Jiang Shu completed nine consecutive victories, and Wenren Ping stepped onto the plaza and asked him to fight.

Jiang Shu accepted nine divine ability inheritances from the Heavenly Puppet Sect and faced Wenren Ping in a battle neither intended to hold back from. Wenren Ping’s Great Dao Prototype and self-created palm drove Jiang Shu to reveal his Heaven Rank treasure, and Jiang Shu ended by preparing to use his newly created Forget-Self Fist.

• Wenren Ping challenged Jiang Shu to a full-strength battle, seeking to find an opportunity to advance into the Nirvana Realm and become a True Transmission disciple.
• Jiang Shu accepted the nine divine ability inheritances, bringing his total to seventy-nine, then returned to face Wenren Ping.
• Wenren Ping controlled his hundred-year-refined Heaven Rank Puppet and attacked Jiang Shu with his self-created divine ability, Mountain-River Overturning, Myriad Stars Falling Sky Palm.
• Jiang Shu blocked the attack with the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal, but Wenren Ping’s palm cracked the seal and shattered its Origin Power reinforcement.
• Jiang Shu summoned the Flame Pearl Phoenix Feather Umbrella and used its Nirvana Fire to counter Wenren Ping’s Puppet, though the umbrella began to lose ground.
• Jiang Shu told Wenren Ping about his Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist and introduced its eleventh punch, the Forget-Self Fist.

Jiang Shu revealed the Great Dao Prototype behind his Forget-Self Fist and fought Wenren Ping at full strength. Pressured by their clash, Wenren Ping shattered his Mystical Power Great Elixir and began the Nirvana Wind Tribulation.

• Wenren Ping overwhelmed Jiang Shu’s Flame Pearl Phoenix Feather Umbrella with a palm from his Heaven Rank Puppet, leading the elders to expect his victory.
• Jiang Shu used the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist and entered the Forget Self Realm, unleashing a punch that revealed his Great Dao Prototype.
• The elders recognized Jiang Shu’s extraordinary comprehension and realized his true strength had surpassed their earlier estimates.
• Jiang Shu and Wenren Ping exchanged their strongest attacks as Wenren Ping fused his Divine Abilities with the Heaven Rank Puppet and urged the battle onward.
• Under Jiang Shu’s pressure, Wenren Ping’s Mystical Power Great Elixir cracked and shattered, and the Nirvana Wind Tribulation descended.

Wenren Ping used his duel with Jiang Shu to break through into the Nirvana Realm, while Jiang Shu entered the Forget Self Realm without shattering his Mystical Power Great Elixir. Their battle resumed, and Jiang Shu’s first punch forced the newly advanced Wenren Ping back, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Wenren Ping swallowed his Origin Core and endured the Nirvana Wind, advancing into the Nirvana Realm as the Inner Sect Disciples watched.
• Jiang Shu remained in a state of forgetfulness, his body merging with heaven and earth as he observed Wenren Ping’s transformation and reached a physical state comparable to the Nirvana Realm.
• Myriad Puppets Dao Lord noticed Jiang Shu’s extraordinary transformation and decided that the rivals’ future standing among their sects’ True Transmissions mattered more than the duel’s outcome.
• Wenren Ping invited Jiang Shu to end the battle, believing his new Nirvana Realm strength made him invincible against an Origin Core Realm opponent.
• Jiang Shu stepped forward and struck Wenren Ping with Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms, making Wenren Ping stagger back three steps and shocking the elders and disciples.

Jiang Shu battled Wenren Ping after entering the Forget Self Realm, demonstrated overwhelming command of his Divine Abilities, and earned fame across the Vast Desolate Domain. After gaining three more Divine Abilities and deciding to return to True Martial Sect to prepare for Nirvana and the coming war, he learned that Yi Mengdao had challenged him to a true battle at the Mystical Power Tournament.

• Jiang Shu and Wenren Ping fought with their Divine Abilities and Heaven Rank Puppet, and Jiang Shu used the battle to master his seventy-nine Divine Abilities.
• Wenren Ping ended the fight by conceding defeat by one move, and Jiang Shu offered Heavenly Puppet Sect’s disciples ten Divine Abilities to study.
• Jiang Shu stayed at Heavenly Puppet Sect for three months, gained three Divine Abilities from Wenren Ping, and saw Wenren become its fourth True Transmission Disciple.
• Jiang Shu decided to leave Heavenly Puppet Sect and return to True Martial Sect to seek the seventeen Divine Abilities needed for his Ninety-Nine Mystical Powers.
• Wenren Ping told Jiang Shu that Yi Mengdao had suppressed his realm and challenged him to a true battle at the Mystical Power Tournament.

Jiang Shu left the Heavenly Puppet Sect after discussing Yi Mengdao and the approaching war with Wenren Ping, then traveled to Tianfu City to study Talisman crafting and monitor the sects’ preparations. He entered the Tianfu Auction, where he joined the other cultivators awaiting the sale of powerful Talismans.

• Wenren Ping explained Yi Mengdao’s formidable cultivation and said he believed Jiang Shu would defeat him in the Mystical Power Tournament.
• Jiang Shu asked Wenren Ping to have the Heavenly Puppet Sect refine the Azure Sky Blue Sea Seal by exposing it to the Nirvana Wind in its Dao Array.
• Wenren Ping agreed to return the seal when the True Martial Sect delegation passed through the Heavenly Puppet Sect on its way to the tournament.
• Jiang Shu traveled to Tianfu City, hoping to study Talismans, profit from rising resource prices, and infer how soon the great war would begin.
• Jiang Shu entered the Tianfu Auction and noted that its private rooms used Dao Lord Tianfu’s spatial methods.