Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuechu overwhelmed the Demon Court’s defenders, cleaving the Void Spirit Great Sage and battering it while the Demon Emperor tried to stop her. The Cloud-Treading Great Sage transformed and charged in with a saber, preparing to strike her from behind.

• Jiang Yuechu manifested her two Inner Landscapes and knocked the Cloud-Treading Great Sage away with a single halberd strike.
• Jiang Yuechu attacked the Void Spirit Great Sage, cutting it in half, but its body regenerated.
• The Demon Emperor blasted Jiang Yuechu with blue flames, but she endured them and emerged stronger.
• Jiang Yuechu uprooted the Void Spirit Great Sage and repeatedly struck it with her halberd as the Demon Emperor shouted for help.
• The Cloud-Treading Great Sage transformed into a half-human, half-horse form, summoned a crescent-bladed saber, and charged at Jiang Yuechu from behind.

Jiang Yuechu took the Crimson Crescent Blade from the Cloud-Treading Great Sage and used it to kill him, the Void Spirit Great Sage, and the Demon Emperor. After absorbing their vital essence, she advanced to the Burning Lamp Middle Realm and received two notifications about uncatalogued demons.

• The Cloud-Treading Great Sage attacked Jiang Yuechu, but she kicked the Crimson Crescent Blade out of his grasp and caught it herself.
• Jiang Yuechu subdued the blade and killed the Cloud-Treading Great Sage with a single slash.
• Jiang Yuechu killed the Void Spirit Great Sage as he tried to escape underground, then took the Demon Emperor's white jade box and killed him.
• Jiang Yuechu absorbed the three Demon Sages' vital essence and advanced to the Burning Lamp Middle Realm.
• Jiang Yuechu noticed two notifications asking whether to catalogue uncatalogued demons.

Chapter Summary: Becoming a Mechanism Monster Again

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Yuechu records the three Demon Sages she has just killed, despite the enormous cost of Dao cultivation required. Recording the Void Spirit Great Sage consumes 236,500 years of cultivation and grants her the Everlasting Evergreen talent.
• Everlasting Evergreen allows Jiang Yuechu to absorb the vitality of plants and the natural world, rapidly restoring her blood, vitality, physical wounds, and even severed limbs as long as her divine soul remains intact.
• Recording the Six-Tailed Jade Fox costs another 91,444 years of cultivation and grants her the divine ability Heavenly Flame Golden Radiance. This azure flame bypasses the physical body and directly destroys an opponent’s divine soul.
• Jiang Yuechu tests the ability by producing a dark-blue flame in her palm and recognizes its deadly, difficult-to-defend-against nature.
• Gu Wanlan arrives and is stunned by the sight of three Lamp-Lighting Demon Sages lying dead. She realizes Jiang Yuechu defeated all three without even igniting a lamp.
• Gu Wanlan understands the unprecedented significance of Jiang Yuechu’s cultivation: both her physical body and divine soul have reached the Lamp-Lighting realm, giving her immense strength in both combat and mystical arts.
• Jiang Yuechu and Gu Wanlan decide to leave before the powerful Immortal Sect connected to the dead Demon Sages investigates.
• Gu Wanlan uses an ancestral Gu Clan gourd to collect the three enormous demon corpses.
• Jiang Yuechu intends to carry Gu Wanlan back quickly. Gu Wanlan initially refuses because she is embarrassed by being carried by the collar, but Jiang Yuechu insists that Gu Wanlan is too slow on her own.
• When Gu Wanlan asks Jiang Yuechu to change the carrying position, Jiang Yuechu lifts her bridal-style instead, leaving Gu Wanlan shocked and clinging to her neck.

Character Development

• Jiang Yuechu becomes even more formidable, gaining extraordinary regenerative abilities and a soul-destroying flame. Her expanding arsenal makes her nearly impossible to defeat through attrition.
• She remains calm and matter-of-fact despite accomplishing something historically unprecedented. She dismisses Gu Wanlan’s praise by claiming it was merely “luck.”
• Jiang Yuechu also shows a practical sense of responsibility: although she wants to pursue more demons, she chooses to accompany Gu Wanlan because she does not want her to return alone while carrying valuable medicine.
• Gu Wanlan shifts from confidence in her understanding of cultivation to profound awe and even disbelief. She recognizes that Jiang Yuechu’s dual cultivation is something never before seen in history.
• Gu Wanlan’s dignified, official demeanor clashes humorously with her helplessness around Jiang Yuechu, especially when Jiang Yuechu carries her against her wishes.

Significant Themes

• Unprecedented talent and power: Jiang Yuechu’s simultaneous advancement of body and divine soul challenges the established limits of cultivation.
• The cost of strength: Her new abilities require the sacrifice of vast amounts of accumulated Dao cultivation, suggesting that even great rewards come at a severe price.
• Regeneration and immortality: Everlasting Evergreen symbolizes vitality that refuses to end, making Jiang Yuechu extraordinarily difficult to kill.
• Soul versus body: The contrast between Jiang Yuechu’s physical resilience and her comparatively weaker divine soul highlights both her strengths and remaining vulnerabilities.
• Humor amid danger: The aftermath of a deadly battle becomes comedic through Gu Wanlan’s embarrassment and Jiang Yuechu’s literal interpretation of her request to “change the position.”
• Hidden relationships and trust: Jiang Yuechu’s instinct to protect and accompany Gu Wanlan reveals growing familiarity and concern between them.

Character Interactions

• Gu Wanlan praises Jiang Yuechu’s talent, calling it unparalleled across history, while Jiang Yuechu responds with detached modesty.
• Gu Wanlan warns that the battle’s disturbance may attract the Immortal Sect, and Jiang Yuechu agrees to withdraw.
• Their exchange over the demon corpse-collecting gourd reveals Jiang Yuechu’s interest in the artifact and Gu Wanlan’s immediate protectiveness toward her family treasure.
• Gu Wanlan tries to preserve her dignity by insisting she can fly home alone, but Jiang Yuechu bluntly rejects this because Gu Wanlan is too slow.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Yuechu carrying Gu Wanlan in her arms, while Gu Wanlan reacts with shock, embarrassment, and instinctive physical closeness.

After learning that Gu Yue had gone west toward the Demon Court with Gu Wanlan, the emperor feared for her safety. Before he could act, two visitors from Five Immortals Mountain arrived over Chang'an and confronted the Li Clan's High Ancestor.

• You Wujiang and Zhao Zhongliu told the emperor that Gu Yue had left Yi Province for the Demon Court with Gu Wanlan.
• The emperor realized he had little strength to send after Gu Yue, as Great Tang's forces were depleted and Bai Yulou was crippled.
• A thunderous disturbance over Chang'an made the emperor and his officials rush outside, expecting Gu Yue's return.
• The emperor and his officials saw two figures standing on blood-red clouds above the city instead of Gu Yue.
• The Li Clan's High Ancestor confronted the visitors, identified them as honored immortals from Five Immortals Mountain, and objected to their brazen entrance.
• The child on the clouds dismissed the High Ancestor's appeal to rules, claiming Five Immortals Mountain owed mortals no explanation.

A disciple of Red Toad True Person arrived in Chang'an with Wang Xuance to take Li Guyue to Five Immortals Mountain, but she was away fighting demons. When Zhao Zhongliu explained why she could not come, the disciple attacked him, leaving the court in outrage.

• The High Ancestor recognized Wang Xuance and stepped aside rather than oppose the decree of Red Toad True Person.
• The child demanded that Emperor Li Chenggan summon Li Guyue, and Wang Xuance said she had been chosen to cultivate at Five Immortals Mountain.
• Li Chenggan said Li Guyue was not in Chang'an, and Zhao Zhongliu explained that she was fighting demons from Spirit Mountain to protect the people.
• The child dismissed the suffering of the people and struck Zhao Zhongliu with a palm of red mist, badly injuring him.
• You Wujiang rushed to Zhao Zhongliu as an elderly imperial censor condemned the child's treatment of the Great Tang minister.

A Five Immortals Mountain disciple humiliated Cheng Buxiu and provoked the emperor until Great Tang prepared to fight back. Wang Xuance stopped the child from attacking, but Gu Yue suddenly returned to Chang’an, where the emperor feared she was walking into a trap.

• The child recognized Cheng Buxiu and ordered him to bark, provoking the officials and soldiers gathered before the hall.
• The emperor cursed Five Immortals Mountain, defended Cheng Buxiu, and declared that Great Tang would fight even at the cost of its destruction.
• The High Ancestor unleashed his full burning lamp realm pressure and prepared to face the child alongside the emperor.
• Wang Xuance warned the child that killing the imperial family would make Gu Yue refuse to come to the mountain, and the child withdrew his attack but demanded further punishment for Cheng Buxiu.
• A streak of golden light rushed toward Chang’an, and the emperor realized Gu Yue had returned despite the danger.

Jiang Yuechu returned to Chang'an and found Zhao Zhongliu gravely wounded by a young True Person from Five Immortals Mountain. She retaliated by beating the child into a pit and set Wang Xuance ablaze, leaving him screaming in pain.

• Jiang Yuechu arrived in Chang'an with Gu Wanlan and found You Wujiang tending to the gravely injured Zhao Zhongliu.
• The young True Person admitted he had attacked Zhao Zhongliu, while Wang Xuance dismissed it as a minor punishment and tried to lecture Jiang Yuechu.
• Jiang Yuechu seized the young True Person and repeatedly slammed him into the ground as she demanded to know which mountain he came from.
• Wang Xuance warned that Jiang Yuechu would doom the Great Tang and claimed Five Immortals Mountain would protect him.
• Jiang Yuechu engulfed Wang Xuance in emerald flames that caused him intense pain without burning his skin.

Jiang Yuechu overwhelmed Wang Xuance with azure flames and trapped him in a water prison, then learned why he had served Five Immortals Mountain. The Li Clan's High Ancestor explained that inheriting a Dao Orthodoxy was necessary to advance beyond Lamp-Lighting.

• Jiang Yuechu engulfed Wang Xuance in azure flames, and he used Lamp-Lighting to restore his soul and escape.
• Wang Xuance tried to flee, but Jiang Yuechu summoned Flood Dragons and the Celestial River to trap him in a water prison while the flames continued burning him.
• Jiang Yuechu asked the emperor what the injured child had done, and he explained that Five Immortals Mountain's disciples had attacked after Deputy Commander Zhao objected to their demands.
• The emperor told Jiang Yuechu that the disciples had come to take her to Five Immortals Mountain and that they had humiliated Elder Cheng and demanded he guard their gates.
• The Li Clan's High Ancestor explained that cultivators needed a Dao Orthodoxy to progress beyond Lamp-Lighting and gain an advantage over unaffiliated practitioners.

Jiang Yuechu faced the Red Toad True Person after he emerged from the injured child and tried to force the crowd to kneel. She struck him with a blood-draining saber, and the chapter ended with a red flame burning between his brows.

• The High Ancestor warned Jiang Yuechu that Five Immortals Mountain’s True Persons had transcended the Burning Lamp Realm and urged her to consider its inheritance.
• The injured child convulsed, released red mist, and transformed into the Red Toad True Person, who attacked Jiang Yuechu with a crimson toad phantom.
• Red Toad True Person demanded that everyone kneel, and his oppressive aura forced most of the crowd and the High Ancestor toward the ground.
• Jiang Yuechu resisted the aura and summoned a crimson saber, replenishing the blood and vital energy it drained with Everlasting Evergreen.
• Jiang Yuechu swung the saber and cleaved through much of Red Toad True Person’s mist, blasting apart a section of the Imperial City wall.
• Jiang Yuechu faced the child as a blood-red flame appeared between his brows.

Jiang Yuechu rejected Red Toad True Person’s offer to join the Red Immortal Lineage and protect Great Tang, then killed the Burning Lamp Realm creature inhabiting the child’s body. Great Tang celebrated her defiance, while the Li Clan’s High Ancestor feared Five Immortals Mountain’s retaliation and resolved to protect the younger generation.

• Red Toad True Person offered Jiang Yuechu a place in the Red Immortal Lineage, the child’s life, and a Tower-Climbing Martial Immortal to guard Chang’an for five hundred years.
• Jiang Yuechu refused, declaring that she did not trust immortals and that Great Tang needed no outsiders to defend it.
• Jiang Yuechu stomped the child’s head apart and stabbed the body with her blade, killing the Burning Lamp Realm creature and gaining Dao Cultivation.
• Wang Xuance gave up hope as the red toad apparition vanished, while the people of Great Tang cheered Jiang Yuechu and celebrated their defiance.
• The Li Clan’s High Ancestor worried that Five Immortals Mountain would retaliate and silently resolved to shield the younger generation if danger came.

Jiang Yuechu learned the Black Heaven Body-Forging Scripture, which let her refine slain demons’ souls to temper her body, and tested it by absorbing the Silverbone Demon Venerable. She sealed the demon’s power in an aperture in her right arm, where a silver rabbit marking appeared.

• Jiang Yuechu saw that the Black Heaven Body-Forging Scripture had been deduced from several martial arts and learned it could use demon souls and Baleful Power to strengthen her body.
• Jiang Yuechu wondered whether she could place demons recorded by her system directly into her bodily apertures instead of manifesting them as Spirit Imprints.
• Jiang Yuechu summoned the Silverbone Demon Venerable beside her bath and used the scripture to absorb her into her right arm.
• Jiang Yuechu endured the demon soul’s power tempering her aperture, leaving a silver rabbit marking on her forearm that opened its eyes when she clenched her fist.

Jiang Yuechu refined several demons into her apertures and learned that the world’s paths to immortality comprised twenty-five Dao Orthodoxies. At Five Immortals Mountain, Red Toad True Person was summoned to meet the other four lineages after news of the disturbance in Great Tang spread.

• Jiang Yuechu found she could no longer summon demons after confining their souls within her apertures, then refined the Cosmic Demon King and White Ape Lord to strengthen herself.
• Jiang Yuechu spent Dao Cultivation to raise Great Sage Huiyue, gaining the Poisonous Torrent Evil Mist ability and learning that five luminaries and five manifestations formed twenty-five Dao Orthodoxies.
• Jiang Yuechu raised Great Sage Huiyue further, summoned him, and refined the Demon Sage into an aperture in her left leg, enduring intense pain as her body grew stronger.
• Jiang Yuechu thought of visiting Wei Qing the next day after realizing she had not seen her in a long time.
• A nominal disciple told Red Toad True Person that the other four lineages had gathered at the Central Palace and requested his presence.
• Red Toad True Person inferred that the commotion in Great Tang had drawn the other lineages’ attention, then snapped a thousand-year-old pine with a laugh.

Jiang Yuechu visited Wei Qing without warning and spent the day eating her way around Chang'an with her. She ended the outing by taking a horrified Wei Qing to Red Sleeve House, where she demanded the finest private room and the most popular courtesans so she could critique them.

• Jiang Yuechu slipped into the Wei Residence and woke Wei Qing by pinching her nose.
• Jiang Yuechu persuaded Wei Qing to take her around Chang'an to eat, and they spent the day visiting the East Market and West Market.
• Jiang Yuechu and Wei Qing stopped to hear a storyteller recount the battle before the Imperial City.
• Jiang Yuechu led Wei Qing to Pingkang Ward, where Wei Qing realized they were entering a brothel and tried to stop her.
• Jiang Yuechu tossed the madam a gold ingot and requested Red Sleeve House's finest private room and most popular girls for a thorough critique.

Chapter Summary: “Visitors from Gaoluo Kingdom”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After days of discussion about the crisis at Five Immortals Mountain, the imperial court reaches no clear resolution.
• Two middle-aged envoys from the tributary state of Gaoluo arrive at Chang’an and go directly to the Demon Suppression Headquarters.
• They kneel and plead for assistance, explaining that Gaoluo has been devastated by demons and that their ruler and many citizens have been killed.
• The gate guards hesitate because foreign affairs normally must pass through the Court of State Ceremonies and the Secretariat. The envoys argue that following the usual procedures would take too long, possibly resulting in Gaoluo’s destruction.
• Jiang Yuechu arrives and asks what happened. The envoys immediately beg her for help.
• They reveal that two powerful demons emerged from the Eastern Sea half a month earlier. One is an enormous turtle calling itself the Pengxuan Great Sage, whose strength overwhelmed Gaoluo’s Mountain-Viewing Realm Martial Venerables.
• Jiang Yuechu realizes that the turtle is likely a Lamp-Lighting Realm demon, and instead of requesting troops or waiting for imperial approval, she decides to go personally.
• When a guard warns her to inform the Emperor before crossing the sea to fight a Demon Sage, Jiang Yuechu dismisses the concern, saying she intends to kill demons rather than wage war.
• She takes both envoys by their collars and flies toward Gaoluo at tremendous speed, leaving instructions for the palace to be told that she will not return for dinner.

Character Developments

• Jiang Yuechu is portrayed as extremely confident, decisive, and powerful. Rather than being intimidated by the threat of a Demon Sage, she views the crisis as an unexpected opportunity and immediately volunteers to handle it alone.
• Her casual attitude toward the danger—especially her remark about not needing troops—emphasizes her overwhelming strength and battle confidence.
• The Gaoluo envoys shift from desperate petitioners to deeply grateful and awestruck witnesses of Jiang Yuechu’s character. They are astonished to learn that she is the Eldest Princess and interpret her immediate intervention as proof of Great Tang’s benevolence and majesty.
• The Demon-Suppression Guard demonstrates caution and procedural responsibility. He understands Jiang Yuechu’s strength but worries that she is taking an unnecessary risk by acting without imperial authorization.

Significant Themes

• Duty versus bureaucracy: The envoys’ emergency illustrates the conflict between rigid diplomatic procedures and the need to act swiftly during a catastrophe.
• Great Tang’s power and benevolence: Jiang Yuechu’s willingness to aid a distant tributary state reinforces the image of Great Tang as a powerful and generous suzerain.
• Individual strength over military mobilization: Jiang Yuechu believes her own abilities are sufficient to resolve a crisis that might otherwise require an army.
• Foreshadowing and escalating danger: The appearance of a self-styled Demon Sage from the Eastern Sea suggests a major supernatural threat and expands the story’s conflict beyond Great Tang’s borders.

Character Interactions

• The Gaoluo envoys plead with the gate guards, who attempt to direct them through official channels.
• Jiang Yuechu intervenes, questioning the envoys directly and quickly taking control of the situation.
• The envoys express profound gratitude after learning her identity, while Jiang Yuechu remains impatient with formal praise and urges them to leave immediately.
• The guard tries to restrain her decision by invoking her status as the Eldest Princess and advising her to consult the Emperor, but Jiang Yuechu ignores the objection and departs.

Jiang Yuechu arrived in Gaoluo and struck down Black Flood Dragon, who was plotting to use the Dragon-Ascending Platform to become a true dragon. The chapter ended with her recognizing the platform from Black Flood Dragon’s memories as a deadly contest among the Flood Dragon clans.

• Jiang Yuechu flew across the sea with the Gaoluo envoys, reaching Gaoluo in less than half a day and astonishing them with her speed.
• Black Flood Dragon prepared to kill the old king of Gaoluo, dismissing the king’s threat that Great Tang would send reinforcements.
• Jiang Yuechu burst into the palace and drove her saber through Black Flood Dragon, sending him crashing through the buildings and pinning him to a wall.
• Black Flood Dragon mistook Jiang Yuechu for a member of the Flood Dragon Clan and challenged her to fight on the Dragon-Ascending Platform.
• Jiang Yuechu recalled from Black Flood Dragon’s memories that the Dragon-Ascending Platform was a five-thousand-year contest where the last surviving demon could transform into a true dragon.

Jiang Yuechu killed the Black Flood Dragon after learning that the Dragon-Ascending Platform would form at the Dragon-Washing Pool, while the True Persons of Five Immortals Mountain confronted Red Toad True Person over his descent into the mortal world. Yellow Centipede True Person warned that multiple Dao Orthodoxies were moving against Great Tang, leaving the others to suspect a coordinated threat.

• Jiang Yuechu forced the Black Flood Dragon to explain that the Dragon-Ascending Platform appeared at the Dragon-Washing Pool every five thousand years and offered a chance to become a true dragon.
• The Black Flood Dragon offered to surrender the remaining people of Gaoluo as blood food, but Jiang Yuechu killed him with the Crimson Crescent Blade and gained 159,800 years of Dao Cultivation.
• Red Toad True Person arrived at the Central Palace of Five Immortals Mountain, where Yellow Centipede True Person challenged him for breaking the sect's rule of seclusion.
• Red Toad True Person defended his actions, claiming a once-in-ten-thousand-years prodigy could bring about the rise of his Red Immortal Lineage.
• Yellow Centipede True Person warned that forces from Drinking-Horse Reach, Spirit Mountain, and Immortal-Burying Pass were gathering against Great Tang, prompting Black Spider True Person to suspect a larger plot.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The True Persons of Five Immortals Mountain realize that the various great Dao orthodoxies would not have crossed realms merely for ordinary blood food or mortal resources. Their real target is likely the Central Yellow Dao foundation, once nearly restored by Li Tianyuan, the Tang Grand Ancestor.
• Yellow Centipede True Person explains the structure of the twenty-five orthodox Dao lineages: the Five Luminaries and their five corresponding positions. Of these, the Imperial Position represents rulership, suppression, and order.
• The Central Yellow Imperial lineage had been destroyed after the ancient calamity, but eight hundred years earlier Li Tianyuan gathered the Dragon Qi of the Nine Provinces and nearly reclaimed its Imperial Dao Fruit. The other orthodoxies united to suppress and kill him before he could fully succeed.
• Recent disturbances in Great Tang suggest that Li Tianyuan may have reincarnated or left behind a hidden contingency. The surrounding orthodoxies are moving to seize the Central Yellow inheritance before it can mature.
• The possible reincarnation could be anyone in the imperial clan, including the emperor, a prince, or the famous eldest princess.
• Red Toad True Person’s Dharma body may already have brought the potential reincarnate back to Five Immortals Mountain. This creates a dangerous dilemma: killing the person could sever the Central Yellow lineage and provoke the wrath of every major orthodoxy, while protecting him could allow the inheritance to escape their control.
• Five Immortals Mountain hopes to obtain the Imperial Dao Fruit for itself. Doing so might allow its minor, non-orthodox inheritance to rise into a new recognized lineage, effectively expanding the established system from the “Five Luminaries and Five Manifestations” to a sixth manifestation.
• Yellow Centipede proposes a method to expose the reincarnation: since Li Tianyuan once merged with Great Tang’s national fortune, his reincarnated spirit should remain connected to the empire. If the country falls into chaos, demons overrun the land, and the people suffer, his inherited wisdom will be forced to awaken.
• The True Persons agree to deliberately worsen Great Tang’s condition so that the reincarnated Tang Grand Ancestor will reveal himself.

Character Developments

• Yellow Centipede True Person emerges as the strategic leader. He understands the political and cosmic stakes and is willing to create widespread suffering to force Li Tianyuan’s reincarnation into the open.
• Red Toad True Person shifts from confidence to fear after realizing that either protecting or killing the suspected reincarnation could destroy him and Five Immortals Mountain.
• Black Spider True Person voices the sect’s frustration and ambition. She resents that Five Immortals Mountain has repeatedly been reduced to watching stronger orthodoxies claim the greatest opportunities.
• Azure Snake True Person remains cautious and inquisitive, asking how Li Tianyuan’s inherited wisdom can be awakened.
• Li Tianyuan/Tang Grand Ancestor does not appear directly, but his past achievements and possible reincarnation become the central mystery and source of conflict.

Significant Themes

• Power hierarchy and orthodoxy: The chapter emphasizes the vast gulf between recognized Dao orthodoxies and minor paths such as Five Immortals Mountain.
• Ambition versus survival: Five Immortals Mountain wants to seize the Imperial Dao Fruit, but acting incorrectly could bring annihilation from the established orthodoxies.
• Political power as spiritual cultivation: The Imperial Position derives strength from rulership, national fortune, and the fate of an entire realm.
• Manipulation through catastrophe: The orthodoxies intend to plunge Great Tang into disaster not for conquest alone, but to force a hidden reincarnated power to reveal itself.
• Fate, reincarnation, and inheritance: Li Tianyuan’s possible return raises questions about whether identity, Dao wisdom, and destiny survive death.
• Moral corruption for greater power: The True Persons calmly consider destroying a nation and its people to obtain a Dao Fruit, highlighting the ruthless logic of the cultivation world.

Character Interactions

• Yellow Centipede guides the discussion, explaining the history of the Imperial Position and warning Red Toad of the consequences of his actions.
• Red Toad reacts with growing alarm when he realizes that the person his Dharma body may have captured could be Li Tianyuan’s reincarnation.
• Black Spider challenges the group’s passive position and expresses their collective resentment at being unable to compete with the major orthodoxies.
• Azure Snake prompts Yellow Centipede to explain the plan for awakening the reincarnation.
• The conversation ends with the group united around a sinister strategy: destabilize Great Tang until the Tang Grand Ancestor is forced to emerge.

Jiang Yuechu absorbed the souls and vital essence of two Lamp-Lighting Demon Sages, then left Gaoluo after arranging for their bodies to be sent to the Great Tang. She headed north, while the grateful king vowed to honor her throughout the kingdom.

• Jiang Yuechu crushed the Black Flood Dragon's soul into black light and absorbed it into her body.
• Jiang Yuechu absorbed Great Sage Pengxuan's soul, increasing her bodily strength by a third, and devoured the vital essence of both demons.
• Jiang Yuechu considered seeking the Dragon-Ascending Platform to gather the remaining Flood Dragon lineages and strengthen herself, while deciding she would help protect the Great Tang if she could.
• Jiang Yuechu ordered the king of Gaoluo to preserve the demon corpses and send them with a letter to the Great Tang, then flew north.
• The king of Gaoluo vowed to erect statues of Jiang Yuechu throughout the kingdom and make offerings to her.

Jiang Yuechu ambushed the Red Sun Demon Venerable and learned that the Dragon-Washing Pool would open in two days, drawing more than a dozen Burning Lamp Realm Demon Sages. After he explained his fear of the rival Northern Sea Green Flood Dragon Lineage, he mistook Jiang Yuechu for a Flood Dragon from a lost bloodline.

• Jiang Yuechu intercepted the Red Sun Demon Venerable as he secretly traveled toward the Dragon-Washing Pool and subdued him with a single punch.
• Jiang Yuechu forced the Red Sun Demon Venerable to reveal that the Dragon-Washing Pool would open in two days and that more than a dozen Burning Lamp Realm Demon Sages were expected.
• The Red Sun Demon Venerable explained that he sought a chance to extend his life because he was nearing the end of his lifespan.
• The Red Sun Demon Venerable said he was sneaking around because the Northern Sea Green Flood Dragon Lineage, his enemy, had sent two Burning Lamp Realm Demon Sages and powerful young fighters.
• The Red Sun Demon Venerable wondered whether Jiang Yuechu was a wandering Flood Dragon and asked if she belonged to a bloodline lost beyond the clan.

Jiang Yuechu agreed to serve as a guest elder of the Southern Abyss Red Flood Dragon Lineage so Red Sun Demon Venerable could bring her into the Dragon-Washing Pool. At the pool, the arrival of a powerful yellow flood dragon ancestor and an unfamiliar young man left Red Sun fearing trouble.

• Red Sun Demon Venerable explained that only descendants of great flood dragon tribes could enter the Dragon-Washing Pool and offered Jiang Yuechu a place as a guest elder in exchange for her protection.
• Jiang Yuechu accepted Red Sun Demon Venerable’s offer and told him to lead the way.
• Red Sun Demon Venerable brought Jiang Yuechu to the eight-story Dragon-Washing Pool, where flood dragons had gathered for the event held once every five thousand years.
• A yellow-robed ancestor of the Golden Scale Tribe arrived with a young man, and the ancestor’s Burning Lamp Demon Sage aura silenced the crowd.
• Red Sun Demon Venerable warned Jiang Yuechu that the ancestor was immensely powerful and admitted he did not know who the young man was.