Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming entered Kun Di’s Immortal-Refining Pot to harvest its blood essence and treasures while Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant explored its interior. Shi Hao found the Immortal Scripture and faced powerful foes, including He Wushuang and a golden-eyed young man.

• Jiang Ming, Shi Hao, and the Skyhorned Ant entered the Ultimate Land and reached a bloody fragment of the Immortal Ancient Era.
• Jiang Ming turned into a drop of blood and entered the Immortal-Refining Pot, where he began collecting Dao resonances and prepared to steal its treasures.
• Jiang Ming discovered seas of immortal source liquid, Immortal Wine, enlightenment tea, and blood, and prepared valleys in his Inner Heaven and Earth to store them.
• Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant recognized the danger of the pot, and Shi Hao urged them to proceed because Jiang Ming was likely preparing to cause trouble.
• Shi Hao found the Immortal Scripture and fought He Wushuang while the Skyhorned Ant battled He Wushuang’s Blood Phoenix Lion.
• Shi Hao also confronted a golden-haired young man whose cross-shaped golden eyes came from Kun Di’s innate gift.

Chapter Summary: Chaos-Pacifying Art of the Longevity Wang Family

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming refuses to interfere in Shi Hao’s battle with He Wushuang, allowing the fight—and the Skyhorned Ant’s battle with the Blood Phoenix Lion—to serve as valuable tempering.
• When the four combatants reach their peak, the Immortal-Refining Pot intervenes to protect He Wushuang. Its aura awakens the terrifying killing intent of Shi Hao’s Great Luo Sword Embryo.
• Their clash summons the mysterious Heaven and Earth Chaos Hall, a phenomenon associated with supreme battles and ancient rewards.
• Taking advantage of the chaos, Jiang Ming absorbs the Wine Sea, Tea Sea, Source Sea, and Blood Sea into his Inner Heaven and Earth. He then uses a fragment of the Nine Heavens God-Slaying Spear to pierce the Immortal-Refining Pot’s inner world and escape.
• Shi Hao eventually kills both He Wushuang and the Blood Phoenix Lion. Jiang Ming obtains the Immortal Scripture he came for, though it is incomplete; he decides to seek the remaining portion later, after reaching the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• The chapter explains that the complete Immortal Scripture can allow its user to cultivate an Immortal King–level physical body and even return from death through transformation and recovered memories.
• Upon leaving the region, Jiang Ming, Shi Hao, and the Skyhorned Ant are ambushed by four members of the Longevity Wang Family. Three suffer karmic backlash and are killed, while Wang Manglong is deliberately kept alive.
• Jiang Ming plans to use Wang Manglong to lead Shi Hao and the Great Elder to the Wang Family, creating an opportunity to obtain the Chaos-Pacifying Art.
• The Great Elder manifests his supreme cultivation, tears through space, and brings Shi Hao to the Wang Family.
• Jiang Ming infiltrates the Wang Family’s core territory and obtains the Chaos-Pacifying Art from an ancient stone sword.
• A confrontation follows between the Great Elder and Wang Changsheng. The Great Elder demands compensation, defeats or suppresses several Wang Family members, and uses the Ten Realms Diagram and Iron-Blooded War Banner against Wang Changsheng’s black halberd.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming remains calculating and opportunistic. He allows others to fight, then exploits the resulting chaos to seize multiple seas, escape the Immortal-Refining Pot, acquire the Immortal Scripture, and later steal the Chaos-Pacifying Art.
• Shi Hao continues to grow through intense battles. He defeats He Wushuang and the Blood Phoenix Lion, while also showing complete trust in Jiang Ming’s schemes and instructions.
• The Skyhorned Ant receives combat experience through his battle with the Blood Phoenix Lion, although he is ultimately overshadowed by Shi Hao and Jiang Ming’s larger objectives.
• He Wushuang is revealed to be the Immortal-Refining Pot master’s disciple. Despite receiving the pot’s protection, he is ultimately killed by Shi Hao.
• The Great Elder, Meng Tianzheng, displays his full power and authority. He personally leads Shi Hao to the Wang Family and confronts Wang Changsheng using powerful Immortal King Weapons.
• Wang Changsheng is portrayed as a possessed vessel rather than his former self. His possession explains the Wang Family’s moral and political decline, though his power is limited by the need to preserve his body.
• The Wang Family is shown to have fallen from heroic defenders of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into a faction willing to remain passive, feud internally, and secretly cooperate with the Other Realm.

Significant Themes

• Exploiting chaos: Jiang Ming repeatedly waits for major conflicts to create openings, turning battles between powerful figures into opportunities for theft and advancement.
• Inheritance and transformation: The Immortal Scripture represents the cycle of life, death, resurrection, and the rebuilding of one’s body and memories.
• Corruption through possession: Wang Changsheng’s possession symbolizes the destruction of a formerly honorable family and the replacement of its ideals with survival and self-interest.
• Power and restraint: Jiang Ming deliberately hides his true strength because displaying it would expose him to greater dangers, while Wang Changsheng cannot unleash his full power without damaging his precious vessel.
• Decline of heroic legacies: The Wang Family once produced legendary Chaos-Pacifying Kings, but their descendants abandon the struggle against the Other Realm.
• Mentorship and loyalty: Shi Hao’s willingness to follow Jiang Ming’s plans demonstrates his trust and growing dependence on his master.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming deliberately lets Shi Hao and the Skyhorned Ant fight their own opponents, treating combat as training.
• Jiang Ming secretly instructs Shi Hao to preserve Wang Manglong, using him as a route into the Wang Family.
• Shi Hao reacts with admiration toward Jiang Ming, appreciating his master’s cunning and willingness to arrange opportunities for him.
• The Great Elder and Shi Hao travel together to confront the Wang Family, with Shi Hao acting as both participant and beneficiary of the conflict.
• Jiang Ming avoids directly confronting Wang Changsheng, considering him too weak to be a serious opponent and preferring to leave him for Shi Hao and the Great Elder to fight later.
• The Great Elder clashes with Wang Changsheng and reprimands the Wang Family’s younger generation, while the family’s internal decline becomes increasingly evident.

Meng Tianzheng forced the Wang Family to concede after Jiang Ming looted its treasury and medicinal garden, and Wang Changsheng announced the clan would stop targeting Shi Hao. A month later, a breach at the frontier brought news of an Other Realm assault, while Jiang Ming completed major breakthroughs and prepared to respond.

• Meng Tianzheng killed a Wang Family supreme elder who insulted the Iron-Blooded War Banner, while Jiang Ming emptied the clan’s treasury and medicinal garden.
• Wang Changsheng signed an agreement to hand over Purple Palace Grass, and Wang Da died from karmic backlash after cursing Jiang Ming.
• Wang Changsheng issued a decree sealing the Wang Family for ten years and ending its efforts to target Shi Hao.
• The Wang Family arranged Wang Xi’s marriage to a prodigy of the Jin Family, a Teng Snake Lineage clan.
• Jiang Ming reached the peak of the True Immortal realm, cultivated an Immortal King Colossus-level physique, and formed a Peak Immortal King-level Primordial Spirit sword embryo.
• Ancient war drums announced that the Other Realm had broken through the frontier seal in Great Scarlet Heaven, prompting Jiang Ming to prepare to act.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming arrives at Celestial God Academy and immediately agrees to advance ahead of the others to rescue endangered beings.
• Using karma, spacetime, and destiny laws, he tracks Other Realm invaders across Great Scarlet Heaven.
• He destroys the invading Supremes by transforming them into suns, allowing their vital essence to nourish nearby worlds. He also restores damaged celestial bodies, including a star’s sun and three moons.
• Jiang Ming reaches a ruined city pass where most of the population has been slaughtered. He heals the surviving inhabitants and returns the dead souls to the great Dao.
• He captures an Other Realm True Immortal who had been tormenting the survivors through an abyssal rift. The invader’s Five-Colored Palm Fan is seized, and the True Immortal is destroyed by Jiang Ming and the backlash of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Jiang Ming evacuates the surviving beings and the ruined city pass one hundred thousand light-years away through a spacetime teleportation gate.
• When a Quasi-Undying King reaches through the abyss to attack, Jiang Ming forcibly drags him into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, where the world’s Dao flames punish and burn him. Jiang Ming extracts and purifies his vital essence.
• He Wushuang, an ordinary Undying King and former prodigy of the Other Realm, appears through the abyss. His history is revealed: a previous spacetime-related disaster nearly killed him, damaged the Immortal-Refining Pot, erased parts of his memory, and disappointed his master, Kun Di.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming demonstrates overwhelming power, mastery of multiple supreme laws, and remarkable control over karma, destiny, spacetime, and Source Arts. Despite his immense strength, he acts calmly and compassionately, prioritizing the rescue of ordinary survivors.
• His methods become increasingly ruthless toward the Other Realm invaders. He mocks them for crossing over, turns their arrogance against them, and uses their vital essence to save the people they harmed.
• Meng Tianzheng responds immediately to Jiang Ming’s request, showing trust in Jiang Ming’s judgment and urgency.
• He Wushuang is introduced as a powerful but damaged figure. Once a promising future Peak Immortal King, he has been weakened and mentally scarred by an unexplained spacetime catastrophe.
• Kun Di, though not physically present, is characterized as a strict and disappointed master who sends He Wushuang to deal with the crisis while treating his past failure as a serious flaw.

Significant Themes

• Compassion paired with overwhelming power: Jiang Ming uses the same energy that sustains enemy Supremes to heal and strengthen innocent people.
• Justice and retribution: Invaders who exploit and torture the people of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are forced to experience the consequences of entering hostile territory.
• Life, death, and restoration: Jiang Ming heals the living, returns dead souls to the Dao, and transforms enemy remains into nourishment for survivors.
• The resilience of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths: Its great Dao remembers the Other Realm’s ancient crimes and automatically retaliates against their presence.
• Hidden conspiracies and ancient conflicts: He Wushuang’s damaged memories, the surviving remnants of the Primordial Ancient Realm, and the Other Realm’s possible larger plan hint at deeper secrets tied to the ancient wars.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming briefly coordinates with Meng Tianzheng before departing ahead of the academy’s forces.
• He protects and relocates the survivors of the ruined city pass while confronting the True Immortal responsible for their suffering.
• Jiang Ming taunts both the True Immortal and the Quasi-Undying King, treating their attempted invasions as invitations to face him directly.
• He Wushuang addresses Jiang Ming with cautious recognition and acknowledges that remnants of the Primordial Ancient Realm have survived, setting up a confrontation between the two sides.

Jiang Ming arranged a series of life-or-death battles between cultivators of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and the Other Realm, secretly protecting his side and helping wounded fighters break through. After half a month, the Jade Dragon Horn summoned reinforcements, while memories of the Primordial Imperial City and the Borderland Seven Kings resurfaced.

• Meng Tianzheng arrived in Great Scarlet Heaven with reinforcements, and He Wushuang proposed that young cultivators fight one-on-one.
• Jiang Ming accepted the challenge and recognized that the red thread connected him to Ghost Immortal King Taisu, who had died fighting an Immortal King Colossus.
• The Other Realm sent cultivators across to fight, while Jiang Ming secretly caused them to make mistakes that helped protect fighters from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Wang Changsheng, Meng Tianzheng, and other cultivators fought successive life-or-death bouts, and Jiang Ming used the fallen enemies' vital essence to help his side's wounded fighters renew themselves.
• After half a month of battles, the Jade Dragon Horn sounded at the Imperial City to summon reinforcements, and people recalled the Primordial Imperial City and the Borderland Seven Kings.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Other Realm completes a plan to summon former heroic spirits using a golden altar and the repaired Immortal-Refining Pot. Eight powerful heroic spirits—apparently former True Immortals—surround a particularly mysterious spirit.
• The Luomo Ancient Race places a shattered eyeball on the altar and summons their ancestor, Supreme Ancient Ancestor Luo Mo, an Immortal King who died during a disastrous invasion of Great Scarlet Heaven in the Immortal Antiquity era.
• Luo Mo’s forces had originally included seventeen True Immortals, along with two Peak Immortal Kings and five Ordinary Immortal Kings. None returned, and only eight heroic spirits survived in any form. The Luomo clan seeks to learn what destroyed them and to prepare for another invasion.
• Luo Mo reveals that his forces and their opponents were both annihilated. He identifies the enemies as Immortal Weapons from the Immortal Domain and explains that a sealed, perfected Primordial-Beginning Ancient Realm was destroyed during the battle.
• Pressured by his descendants, Luo Mo agrees to make one final contribution. He uses the last of his power to open a passage to the mysterious ancient realm where he died. His eyeball then explodes, leaving him on the verge of complete dissipation.
• The Other Realm’s Supremes begin entering the passage under the protection of the Immortal-Refining Pot. Jiang Ming attempts to follow, but He Wushuang warns that he will attack if Jiang Ming enters.
• Rather than expose his full strength in a confrontation, Jiang Ming remains outside. He falls asleep and reaches out to the Ghost Immortal King, offering to help her reconstruct a living body.

Character Developments

• Luo Mo is shown as a reluctant but dutiful ancestor. He understands that his descendants revived him only to exploit his remaining power, yet he still acts to protect them because they are under Immortal King Yu Tuo’s protection.
• The Luomo descendants display intense loyalty and fanaticism. Their desperation to recover their clan’s former power drives them to awaken even a dead ancestor and demand that he serve the Other Realm once more.
• He Wushuang has grown into an Ordinary Immortal King after cultivating for over a hundred million years. He demonstrates increased confidence and authority by directly threatening Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming remains calm and calculating. He avoids He Wushuang’s provocation, choosing not to reveal his strength or engage in an unnecessary battle. His confidence comes from knowing that the Other Realm’s expedition is doomed because the Ghost Immortal King now exists.
• The Ghost Immortal King is presented as a powerful but tragic existence. Though she has survived in a ghostly form, she remains only a skeleton spirit, making Jiang Ming’s offer to restore her body immensely tempting.

Significant Themes

• Exploitation of the dead: The Other Realm treats even Immortal King remnants as tools, forcing Luo Mo to work after death and draining the last of his existence.
• Decline and legacy: The Luomo Ancient Race has fallen from imperial prominence, and its descendants desperately seek answers and power from a long-dead ancestor.
• The cost of resurrection: Reviving Luo Mo only prolongs his suffering, while the Ghost Immortal King’s potential restoration raises questions about whether returning to life is salvation or another transformation.
• Strategic restraint: Jiang Ming’s refusal to fight He Wushuang reflects his preference for patience and indirect control rather than impulsive confrontation.
• Inevitable reversal of power: The Other Realm believes it is recovering an advantage, but Jiang Ming knows the expedition will fail because of the newly born Ghost Immortal King.

Character Interactions

• The Luomo descendants repeatedly kneel before and question Luo Mo, demanding both historical information and military assistance.
• Luo Mo responds with blunt honesty, revealing the destruction of his army and the involvement of Immortal Domain forces, but his descendants continue pressing him to act.
• He Wushuang confronts Jiang Ming at the passage entrance, preventing him from entering and threatening to kill the accompanying forces if Jiang Ming refuses.
• Jiang Ming chooses not to answer the threat with violence. Instead, he uses sleep to contact the Ghost Immortal King and offers her the chance to regain a physical body, setting up a major shift in the conflict.

The Other Realm’s expedition into the ancient realm was destroyed by its lingering Immortal Blood and the Phoenix-Wutong Immortal Qin, while Shi Hao’s plea to “Mistress” secured everyone’s release. Jiang Ming received a finger-bone token from the Ghost Immortal King and entered the ancient realm, hoping to advance further.

• The Other Realm’s cultivators suffered heavy losses from Immortal Blood, vicious spirits, and the pure-blooded Phoenix as they explored the ancient battlefield.
• A Supreme ordered the group to capture the Phoenix and later excavate the tombs of the fallen True Immortals, while Dugu Yun explained that his ancestor had died there fighting beside the Five-Colored Phoenix Empress.
• The Phoenix-Wutong Immortal Qin killed the Other Realm cultivators, and the Immortal-Refining Pot could not protect them.
• Shi Hao told everyone to shout “Mistress, have mercy,” and the Ghost Immortal King gave him a finger-bone token and expelled the survivors, including the Immortal-Refining Pot.
• Shi Hao handed the token to Jiang Ming, and the Grand Elder took the younger generation to explore Great Scarlet Heaven as the ancient realm blocked the rift.
• Jiang Ming entered the ancient realm with the token, believing the place might help him advance.

Chapter Summary: The Ghost Immortal King Grew a Brain

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming enters the ancient realm where the Ghost Immortal King resides to cultivate in seclusion. The area is saturated with Dao laws left behind by countless fallen True Immortals and Immortal Kings.
• Rather than merely absorbing these laws, Jiang Ming copies and refines them into his own Great Dao, rapidly improving his cultivation.
• Within one Yue, his Great Freedom Dao Scripture advances from the fifth turn to the sixth. He then quickly masters the sixth-turn Heaven-Earth Turn and reaches the seventh-turn Time-Space Turn after refining his Inner Heaven and Earth and its many World Seeds.
• After three more Yues of cultivation, Jiang Ming’s Immortal Antiquity Method reaches the perfected True Immortal Realm, allowing him to begin approaching the Quasi-Immortal King Realm. His Current Era Method also advances, and his physical body and Primordial Spirit move toward the Immortal King Colossus level.
• Half a Yue later, Jiang Ming successfully reaches the Immortal King Colossus level in his normal physical state. He concludes that he should soon search for the remaining portion of the Immortal Scripture.
• Jiang Ming then turns his attention to helping the Ghost Immortal King complete her transformation.
• Using a drop of golden Fortune Lotus Essence, he restores and creates a complete human body for her. Her new body develops step by step: meridians, heart, blood vessels, flesh, organs, skin, and finally a brain.
• The Blood Phoenix accompanying them also receives a portion of the Fortune Lotus Essence. She transforms into an Eight-Colored Immortal Phoenix and breaks through to the Supreme Realm by cultivating the Current Era Method.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming: His strength rises dramatically. He perfects the True Immortal stage of the Immortal Antiquity Method, advances the Current Era Method, and achieves an Immortal King Colossus-level body without relying on special transformations. His confidence and control over Dao laws also increase.
• The Ghost Immortal King: She is revealed to be a new existence formed from the former Immortal King Taisu, the blood energy of fallen Immortal Kings, and fused heroic spirits. Though outwardly beautiful, she remains divided between a crystalline skeleton and a woman’s skin, lacking genuine life and human emotion. After Jiang Ming’s intervention, she develops a complete human body and brain, potentially allowing her emotions and humanity to return.
• The Blood Phoenix: Initially a vulnerable One with the Dao Realm descendant of the Immortal Phoenix King, she risks being corrupted by the deadly environment. Through Jiang Ming’s Fortune Lotus Essence, she transforms into an Eight-Colored Immortal Phoenix, reaches the Supreme Realm, and preserves the possibility of retaining her original heart.

Significant Themes

• Rebirth and humanity: The Ghost Immortal King’s transformation suggests that possessing a complete body—especially a heart and brain—may restore emotions, desires, and human identity.
• Power through synthesis: Jiang Ming’s cultivation grows by copying, integrating, and refining countless Dao laws rather than simply absorbing them.
• Life, death, and identity: The Ghost Immortal King exists between life and death, being both Immortal King Taisu and a completely new being. Her condition raises questions about whether identity survives death and transformation.
• The body’s influence on the soul: The chapter emphasizes that a Primordial Spirit alone can become detached and emotionless, while a living body helps generate human feeling and desire.
• Transformation through external fortune: The Fortune Lotus Essence can restore even Immortal King-level damage and guide beings toward their original potential.

Character Interactions

• The Ghost Immortal King quietly observes Jiang Ming’s cultivation and comments on his mysterious existence, noting that he seems absent from time and space.
• Jiang Ming examines the Blood Phoenix’s condition and learns from the Ghost Immortal King that she may become bloodthirsty unless she reaches the Supreme Realm and preserves her original heart.
• Jiang Ming offers to transform both the Ghost Immortal King and the Blood Phoenix, treating the process as an act of assistance rather than a transaction.
• The Ghost Immortal King provocatively offers to become Jiang Ming’s woman if he can restore her as he did in a dream, but Jiang Ming rejects the idea of treating the matter as an exchange, stating that he wants both her heart and her person.
• The Ghost Immortal King submits to the transformation, while the Blood Phoenix watches cautiously and benefits from the same power.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Phoenix Maiden successfully evolves into the first Eight-Colored Immortal Phoenix, surpassing even the former Seven-Colored Immortal Phoenix King. Boundless Heaven’s tribulation descends, and she must endure the Supreme Tribulation herself.
• The Ghost Immortal King completes her transformation and revives into a powerful human form. Her beauty skin becomes an Immortal King Colossus-grade white robe, while Jiang Ming repairs her damaged Immortal Phoenix Zither into a complete Immortal King Weapon using two pieces of Immortal Metal.
• The Ghost Immortal King regains peak combat strength and becomes roughly thirty percent stronger than before. Her memories are also beginning to return.
• Before fully recovering her memories, she openly accepts Jiang Ming and consummates their relationship. Their battle of wills lasts two months, with Jiang Ming ultimately prevailing.
• Jiang Ming remains with the group for several more months, exchanging cultivation insights and combat experience with the others.
• The Phoenix Maiden survives her tribulation and enters the Supreme realm. She takes on a human form with striking blood-red hair and a sacred, regal presence.
• Jiang Ming leaves with the Phoenix Maiden so she can gain experience on the way to the Border Wasteland. The Ghost Immortal King remains in seclusion to continue recovering and guard the frontier.
• Shi Hao and the other young cultivators also leave Celestial God Academy for the Border Wasteland, seeking battlefield experience and opportunities for growth.
• Jiang Ming and the Phoenix Maiden visit a Life Forbidden Zone containing the Immortal Scripture. Jiang Ming obtains its inheritance, including the mysterious Quasi-Immortal Emperor chapter.
• The Immortal Scripture can eventually allow an Immortal King to cultivate a Quasi-Immortal Emperor body, becoming an Emperor-Light Immortal King—stronger than an Immortal King Colossus but still below a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
• Jiang Ming intimidates the forbidden zone’s Immortal King-level inhabitants with his aura and leaves without fighting them, intending to leave the area’s “monsters” for Shi Hao to face later.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming grows more confident in his relationship with the Ghost Immortal King and fully accepts her transformed appearance. He also continues acting as a mentor and protector toward the Phoenix Maiden.
• The Ghost Immortal King becomes physically complete, regains immense strength, and begins recovering her memories. Although her past may create complications, she commits herself to Jiang Ming in the present.
• The Phoenix Maiden reaches the Supreme realm after becoming an Eight-Colored Immortal Phoenix. Despite her terrifying Blood Phoenix potential, she retains a pure and somewhat naïve personality. She begins seriously cultivating the Immortal Scripture.
• Shi Hao and the younger generation advance toward the Border Wasteland, preparing to gain practical experience and pursue breakthroughs.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and rebirth: The Ghost Immortal King’s revival and the Phoenix Maiden’s evolution represent major breakthroughs beyond their previous limits.
• Memory versus present identity: The Ghost Immortal King’s future memories may change her understanding of Jiang Ming, but he chooses to value their current bond rather than dwell on her past.
• Power and cultivation: The chapter emphasizes successive levels of strength, from Supreme beings to Immortal Kings, Immortal King Colossi, and the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Trust and emotional commitment: Jiang Ming relies on his own bond with the Ghost Immortal King instead of worrying about her former connections, particularly her rumored association with Ao Sheng.
• Mentorship and growth: Jiang Ming guides the Phoenix Maiden’s cultivation while preparing her—and later Shi Hao and others—for the dangers and opportunities of the Border Wasteland.

Character Interactions

• The Ghost Immortal King pulls Jiang Ming to her side with a white ribbon and directly declares her willingness to become his woman before her memories fully return.
• Jiang Ming and the Ghost Immortal King engage in a prolonged intimate contest, ending with Jiang Ming claiming victory.
• The Ghost Immortal King previously helped the Phoenix Maiden control her violent Blood Phoenix instincts through zither music, balancing her growth with the preservation of her sanity.
• The Phoenix Maiden complains that Jiang Ming bullies her by riding her phoenix form, while Jiang Ming humorously points out that he also carries her himself.
• Jiang Ming alternates between riding the Eight-Colored Immortal Phoenix and carrying the Phoenix Maiden on his back, revealing their playful and increasingly familiar relationship.
• At the end, Jiang Ming checks the Phoenix Maiden’s progress in cultivating the Immortal Scripture and teases her about her physical weakness, while she proudly insists that she is taking her cultivation seriously.

Jiang Ming followed a new red-thread connection into the Darkness Prison and rescued the Ancient Female Double Pupils’ Primordial Spirit. He took her back to her body but left her in the prison, promising to free her after he confronted the darkness at the end of the Boundary Sea.

• Jiang Ming arrived in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and sensed a new person connected to him by a red thread.
• Jiang Ming found the Ancient Female Double Pupils’ body in the Three Thousand Dao Flower and carried her into the Darkness Prison to find her Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Ming used the God-Slaying Spearhead to break the Ancient Female Double Pupils’ prison and reunited her Primordial Spirit with her body.
• The Ancient Female Double Pupils recognized Jiang Ming from her dreams and clung to him as he explained that he could not free her yet.
• Jiang Ming promised to return for the Ancient Female Double Pupils after he trampled through the darkness at the end of the Boundary Sea.

Jiang Ming uncovered the truth behind the Borderland Seven Kings, purified the weapons and heads sealed at the breach, and used the Stone King’s body to seal the passage to the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. He left the breach protected by purifying flames, took the Immortal King Warship, and gave Ancient Female Double Pupils an Immortal King weapon.

• Jiang Ming brought Ancient Female Double Pupils and Phoenix Maiden to the gateway, where he identified the dead figure as the Stone King, one of the Borderland Seven Kings.
• Jiang Ming purified the Stone King’s body and weapons, then told the women how the Borderland Seven Kings had been falsely blamed after others released the imprisoned primordial spirits.
• Jiang Ming purified the heads inside the World Stone cauldron despite their attempts to beguile him, then used them and the Stone King’s body to form the Thirteen Immortal-Sealing Bans.
• Jiang Ming sealed the breach with immortal light and white lotus purifying flame, which he expected to burn for millions of years.
• Jiang Ming took the Immortal King Warship and gave Ancient Female Double Pupils the Heaven Net Umbrella.

Jiang Ming prepared to visit the Lower Realm Prison with the Phoenix Maiden and the Ancient Female Double Pupils, after helping her advance her cultivation and giving the cleansed Chaos-Pacifying Sword to the Phoenix Maiden. The Ancient Female Double Pupils recounted how she had fought the reborn Pu Demon King, survived the Transverse World battlefield, and slept for tens of thousands of years to recover.

• Jiang Ming obtained the secret arts, divine abilities, and Great Dao law fragments of the intruders and the First-Generation Stone King through the Witch Race Divine Form.
• Jiang Ming gave the cleansed Chaos-Pacifying Sword to the Phoenix Maiden and explained that Wang Changsheng's branch had been corrupted, though pure descendants might remain elsewhere in the Wang Family.
• After two months of cultivation, the Ancient Female Double Pupils improved her Current Era Method and agreed to accompany Jiang Ming to the Lower Realm Prison.
• Jiang Ming asked the Ancient Female Double Pupils about her battle with the Pu Demon King's reborn body, and she described how she countered him with her Double Pupils before a powerful expert transported the battlefield into the Transverse World.
• The Ancient Female Double Pupils revealed that she alone survived the battle, gravely wounded, and slept for tens of thousands of years in the Heaven-Mending Pavilion's Ancient Sacred Academy to recover.
• Jiang Ming reassured Yiren that she had done enough after facing an opponent who had once been an Immortal King Colossus.

Jiang Ming took Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Female Double Pupils to the Lower Realm to search for the Pu Demon King, but found that he had escaped. Jiang Ming then sought out the True Dragon King and offered to save him and his child.

• Jiang Ming taught Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Female Double Pupils a footwork technique that brought them into the Lower Realm.
• Jiang Ming found the Hundred Broken Mountains destroyed, its Immortal Spring Eye dry, and the Pu Demon King gone.
• Jiang Ming explained that the Pu Demon King had fled to the Other Realm and planned for Ancient Female Double Pupils to kill him if they met again.
• Jiang Ming led the two women to the True Dragon King's resting place, where they found his skeletal remains and a living dragon egg.
• Jiang Ming offered to save the True Dragon King and his child, then presented the Fortune Lotus Essence and told him to enter his skeletal skull.

Jiang Ming advanced his Great Freedom Dao Scripture and cultivated at Stone Village Ancestral Land, drawing on Willow God’s legacy and turning Stone Village into a sacred land. His seclusion ended after two years, leaving the villagers greatly strengthened and their descendants’ extraordinary potential awakened.

• Jiang Ming entered seclusion, and one year later he advanced the Great Freedom Dao Scripture to its eighth, Cause-and-Effect Turn.
• Jiang Ming went to Stone Village Ancestral Land and cultivated where Willow God had once taken root, using her laws and legacy to deepen his understanding.
• Jiang Ming moved Little Red Dragon’s Dragon Vein land to Stone Village and gathered Dragon Veins from across the world, transforming the village into a sacred land.
• Jiang Ming cultivated for two years, and the Dao sounds around him cleansed and strengthened the villagers.
• Ten Divine Flame Realm cultivators and thirty Venerable Realm cultivators emerged in Stone Village, while the villagers’ bloodlines and potential improved.

Chapter Summary: “Reuniting with Willow God”

Key Plot Points and Events

• During his seclusion in Stone Village, Jiang Ming undergoes a major transformation. His physical body reaches the level of the strongest Heavenly King Colossi, while his Inner Heaven and Earth and Current Era Method also advance.
• His Primordial Spirit Sword Embryo evolves further, gaining the ability to transform into several forms, including an eyeball. This breakthrough allows Jiang Ming’s Double Pupils to align more fully with the Great Dao and switch between normal and battle forms.
• Although Jiang Ming does not become an Immortal King, his Primordial Spirit reaches an aura comparable to that of a Peak Immortal King.
• His breakthrough releases vast amounts of immortal energy and Undying Substance, transforming Stone Village into an Immortal Village filled with sweet springs, Golden Lotuses, mist, and powerful cultivation fortune.
• The Ancient Female Double Pupils benefits from Jiang Ming’s influence and breaks through to the Supreme Realm. She fuses her heavenly passages, cultivation realms, Divine Flame, and immortal energy into her eyes, whose combined power manifests as a double-yolk-egg Great World capable of crushing opponents.
• Jiang Ming, the Phoenix Maiden, and the Ancient Female Double Pupils leave Stone Village after Jiang Ming instructs the True Dragon King to protect it. They travel to the Border Wasteland Imperial City in only three days.
• At the Imperial City, Jiang Ming discovers the enormous, withered remains of the Willow God, the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit. He confirms that she is still alive but deeply weakened and asleep.
• The Ancient Female Double Pupils explains that the Willow God once cultivated both the Spirit Sacrifice Method and the Immortal Antiquity Method, becoming an Immortal King Colossus through each. She also identifies the lingering Undying Thunder as the work of another terrifying Immortal King Colossus from the Other Realm.
• Jiang Ming touches and withstands the Undying Thunder, then begins examining the Willow God’s injuries. His purpose in coming to the Border Wasteland is to use this encounter and its insights to break through into the Quasi-Immortal King Realm.
• His presence near the Willow God alerts the Imperial City’s guards, who urgently summon the Supremes. The chapter closes with them recognizing the extraordinary danger and significance of the visitors.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming: Gains major improvements in body, Primordial Spirit, eyes, and Dao comprehension. His strength approaches the Peak Immortal King level despite remaining below the Immortal King Realm. He becomes increasingly confident and begins actively preparing for a breakthrough to the Quasi-Immortal King Realm.
• Ancient Female Double Pupils: Achieves a powerful breakthrough into the Supreme Realm. Her Double Pupils become the core of her entire cultivation system and grant her an overwhelming offensive ability against opponents of the same realm.
• Phoenix Maiden: Continues cultivating under Jiang Ming’s support and wears her mother’s damaged Immortal Weapon armor, emphasizing her inherited connection to the Female Phoenix.
• Willow God: Is revealed to be alive, though reduced to a severely injured, dormant state. Her past as a dual-method Immortal King Colossus is clarified.
• True Dragon King: Is entrusted with guarding Stone Village while Jiang Ming and the two women depart.

Significant Themes

• Transformation through cultivation: Jiang Ming’s body, spirit, eyes, and cultivation methods all evolve together, showing that true advancement requires the strengthening of every aspect of existence.
• Inherited power and self-development: The Ancient Female Double Pupils draws inspiration from Jiang Ming but transforms her own inherited gift into a unique and overwhelming path.
• The creation of sacred lands: Jiang Ming’s cultivation unintentionally turns Stone Village into an Immortal Village, illustrating how powerful cultivators can reshape their surroundings.
• The persistence of ancient heroes: The Willow God’s survival, despite devastating injuries, reflects the endurance of ancient guardians and the lingering consequences of past wars.
• Conflict between realms: The Undying Thunder and references to the Other Realm’s Immortal King Colossus reinforce the continuing threat of the Exotic Domain.
• Preparation for a greater breakthrough: Jiang Ming’s visit is not merely an encounter with an old ally; it is part of his deliberate search for the insight needed to enter the Quasi-Immortal King Realm.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming supports both the Phoenix Maiden and the Ancient Female Double Pupils by providing cultivation resources and secret arts.
• He leaves the care of Stone Village to the True Dragon King before departing.
• The Phoenix Maiden recognizes the Willow God from her inherited memories, while the Ancient Female Double Pupils provides deeper historical and cultivation-related insight into the Willow God’s origins and injuries.
• Jiang Ming confirms to both women that he has personally encountered the Willow God before and then approaches her despite the dangerous Undying Thunder.
• The Imperial City guards react with alarm to Jiang Ming’s group, remembering earlier disturbances involving Granny Golden Snake, Meng Tianzheng, and the four famous geniuses who recently defeated four Other Realm Supremes.

Jiang Ming cultivated beside Willow God while Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er defeated successive groups of Other Realm prodigies. The chapter ended with Immortal King Yu Tuo using a drop of his blood to send a huge hand across the boundary into the Ancient Burial Domain, where Shi Hao sought the Rotten Wooden Box.

• Jiang Ming absorbed the Great Dao laws entangling Willow God and entered seclusion as Ancient Female Double Pupils and Phoenix Maiden guarded him.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er killed Other Realm prodigies, repelled their attackers, and broke through to the Self-Slaying Enlightenment Realm.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er entered the Divine Medicine Mountain Range and killed the Other Realm's young experts there.
• The Other Realm sent a thousand prodigies into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths while Jiang Ming remained cocooned in seclusion beside the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit.
• Shi Hao entered the Ancient Burial Domain and sought the Rotten Wooden Box as Emperor Clan prodigies carried out Immortal King Yu Tuo's plan.
• Immortal King Yu Tuo used a drop of his blood essence as an anchor, and a huge hand reached through a rift into the Ancient Burial Domain.

Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er witnessed a mysterious attacker sever Yu Tuo’s and An Lan’s arms during their attempt to seize the Rotten Wooden Box. Shi Hao suspected Jiang Ming was responsible, while An Lan sensed the First-Generation Borderland Stone King’s aura and feared his weapon had struck.

• Shi Hao tried to summon Jiang Ming as Yu Tuo reached for the Rotten Wooden Box, and Huo Ling'er warned him not to disturb his master’s cultivation.
• A Burial King attacked Yu Tuo, and An Lan used his spear to pin the Burial King’s arm while the Other Realm’s prodigies celebrated.
• A hidden figure cut off Yu Tuo’s and An Lan’s arms and took them away in a cauldron, while the Burial King tore apart An Lan’s spear and destroyed the altar.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er charged after the fleeing Other Realm forces, and Shi Hao privately concluded that Jiang Ming had made the surprise attack.
• An Lan and Yu Tuo discussed who had struck them, and An Lan sensed the First-Generation Borderland Stone King’s aura near the Heavenly Abyss.

Chapter Summary: An Lan the Braggart Begins Questioning His Life

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming completely defeats An Lan and Yu Tuo by severing the flesh-and-blood connection between them and their arms. Using his three sacred flames, he purifies the limbs, cuts off their karmic links, and refines their essence and Dao laws into power for himself.
• The absorbed laws—especially Yu Tuo’s Samsara laws—greatly strengthen Jiang Ming’s Dao Fruit and help him approach the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• An Lan’s former confidence is undermined. His famous boasts about invincibility and destroying the Nine Heavens now contrast sharply with the loss of his weapon, dignity, and physical limbs.
• Shi Hao continues battling the Other Realm’s forces. Their repeated attempts to surround and kill him fail, and the increasingly powerful enemies serve as useful training for his Self-Slaying Enlightenment Realm.
• Huo Ling’er, now Jiang Ming’s disciple, advances rapidly after obtaining the Five-Element Heavenly Seed and Great Dao Treasure Vase Heaven Seed. Her combat power rises enough to accompany Shi Hao in his dangerous activities.
• After more than a year of cultivation, Shi Hao gains numerous inheritances and discovers a Blood Bodhi Tree. He uses it to trap and kill several One with the Dao Realm experts sent after him.
• Jiang Ming ends his seclusion after reaching the verge of a breakthrough. He has not yet entered the Quasi-Immortal King realm, but only a final push is missing.
• Jiang Ming heals the Willow God incarnation, removing the injuries inflicted by Immortal Kings. The willow begins sprouting new buds, suggesting that the Willow God may eventually revive through Nirvana and Samsara.
• He protects the Willow God by placing a powerful killing formation around her, capable of delivering an Ordinary Immortal King-level strike against anyone with murderous intent.
• Jiang Ming then prepares to take the Phoenix Maiden and the Ancient Double-Pupil Woman to the Ancient Monk Lineage’s Samsara Pool, hoping its Nirvana properties will help them improve their cultivation.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming: Grows stronger by absorbing the essence and Dao laws of An Lan and Yu Tuo. His body becomes a Great Dao Furnace, and he moves ever closer to the Quasi-Immortal King realm. Despite his overwhelming progress, he remains patient and recognizes that his final breakthrough requires perfection rather than force.
• An Lan: Suffers a humiliating defeat that directly contradicts his former image of invincibility. The loss of his arms and possible loss of his Red Edge Golden Spear force him to confront the fragility of his pride.
• Yu Tuo: Loses both physical power and the Samsara-related Dao laws that Jiang Ming absorbs. His research into his origins is implied to have been connected to a possible breakthrough into the Immortal King Colossus realm.
• Shi Hao: Becomes increasingly powerful and confident. He treats the Other Realm’s assassins as combat experience, acquires important inheritances, and finds hope for the future of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Huo Ling’er: Makes rapid progress under Jiang Ming’s guidance and becomes capable of matching Shi Hao’s increasingly dangerous exploits.
• Willow God: Begins recovering from her injuries and shows signs of returning through Nirvana. Her survival methods and connection to Samsara emphasize her extraordinary resilience.
• Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Double-Pupil Woman: Continue cultivating near Jiang Ming and are delighted by the opportunity to benefit from the Samsara Pool.

Significant Themes

• The collapse of arrogance: An Lan’s grand declarations of invincibility are mocked by his defeat, showing how pride can be shattered by superior power.
• Cultivation through absorption and refinement: Jiang Ming’s progress comes from transforming the power and Dao laws of powerful enemies into his own foundation.
• Hope amid despair: Although the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths appear doomed, Shi Hao’s growth, Jiang Ming’s arrival, and the possible revival of the Willow God offer reasons to resist.
• Nirvana, Samsara, and survival: The Willow God’s potential resurrection and the Samsara Pool highlight the possibility of rebirth even after death or destruction.
• Patience and gradual advancement: Jiang Ming refuses to force his breakthrough, recognizing that genuine transformation requires a complete foundation.
• Protection and legacy: Jiang Ming not only pursues personal strength but also safeguards allies, strengthens future generations, and preserves sources of hope.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming’s defeat of An Lan and Yu Tuo is both a physical and ideological confrontation, stripping away the confidence behind An Lan’s boasts.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling’er cooperate in their battles and adventures, with Huo Ling’er’s rapid growth allowing her to keep pace with him.
• Jiang Ming’s companions—including the Phoenix Maiden, Ancient Double-Pupil Woman, and several senior cultivators—remain near his seclusion to protect him while he cultivates.
• Jiang Ming treats the Willow God as someone worth actively protecting, healing her and surrounding her with a lethal formation.
• The Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Double-Pupil Woman eagerly accept Jiang Ming’s plan to seek the Samsara Pool, reinforcing their trust in him and their shared cultivation journey.

Jiang Ming purified the corrupted Bodhi Tree and began preparing it for rebirth as a treasure of his Inner Heaven and Earth. When An Lan demanded the Rotten Wooden Box and Shi Hao as a hostage, Jiang Ming repelled his decree, leaving An Lan wary of a possible living Immortal King.

• Jiang Ming brought Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Female Double Pupils to the Blood Bodhi Tree in the Heavenly Beast Mountains.
• Jiang Ming drew the tree into his Inner Heaven and Earth and used his flames to purify its demonic power and the corpses hanging from it, while the two women cultivated from the Ancient Monk Lineage's imprints.
• Jiang Ming completed the Bodhi Tree's purification and planned to restore it with Samsara Pool water, using its rebirth to help him break through to the Quasi-Immortal King realm.
• Shi Hao discarded the Rotten Wooden Box in an abandoned grave in the Ancient Burial Zone while Jiang Ming avoided touching it.
• An Lan sent a decree demanding the Rotten Wooden Box and Shi Hao as a hostage, but Jiang Ming seized and absorbed it, then sent a warning to the Other Realm.
• An Lan fell silent, suspecting that a living Immortal King might be protecting the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Jiang Ming reached the Quasi-Immortal King realm, while Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Female Double Pupils advanced to Extreme Dao Supremes. He then took Shi Hao, Huo Ling'er, and the two women into the Other Realm in disguise, where Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er entered the local systems for young cultivators to compete for opportunities.

• Yu Tuo challenged Jiang Ming to fight, but Jiang Ming told him to scram and refused to hand over the Rotten Wooden Box.
• Jiang Ming broke through to Quasi-Immortal King and cultivated one strand of Quasi-Immortal Emperor Light, while the Bodhi Tree completed its Nirvana.
• Phoenix Maiden and Ancient Female Double Pupils became Extreme Dao Supremes, and Jiang Ming later cultivated a second strand of Quasi-Immortal Emperor Light.
• Jiang Ming took Shi Hao, Huo Ling'er, Phoenix Maiden, and Ancient Female Double Pupils to the Other Realm and taught them his Seventy-Two Transformations and local secret arts.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er entered a city disguised as siblings from a fallen Emperor Clan, while Jiang Ming and the two women posed as reclusive Undying Ones and Dao companions.
• Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er joined the Other Realm's advancement and talent-selection systems to compete for opportunities.