Chapter Summaries

After recovering his memories and reaching Golden Immortal, Jiang Ming left Shushan to continue cultivating and help Long Kui develop a physical body. A year later, Long Kui had grown stronger and learned that three thousand years had passed, while Xu Changqing became entangled with the Descendant of Nuwa again.

• After sitting in meditation for three months, Jiang Ming reached Golden Immortal, regained his memories, and created a cultivation method for Long Kui.
• The five elders began training Xu Changqing to take over as Shushan’s sect leader, while Jiang Ming helped Tang Xuejian cultivate and prepared to leave Shushan.
• Jiang Ming left Shushan with Tang Xuejian and Long Kui, planning to cultivate toward Taiyi Golden Immortal; Tang Xuejian learned sword flight, and Tang Kun recovered at Tang Family Fort.
• When Jiang Ming returned to Yu Prefecture City, Long Kui emerged from the Demon Sword and reunited with him, and he answered her cultivation questions while nourishing her with his vital essence.
• Over the following year, Jiang Ming helped Long Kui strengthen her body and gave her a golden immortal skirt; Long Kui learned that three thousand years had passed, while Xu Changqing became entangled with the Descendant of Nuwa again.

Jiang Ming collected the five Spirit Beads, reached the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, and arranged for Zi Xuan to watch over the Sacred World Tree while he took Xiyao from the God Realm. Forty years later, he met Nü Yuan again in a plague-stricken town, where their first meeting stirred memories of their past lives.

• Jiang Ming collected the Earth, Water, Fire, Thunder, Saint, and Five-Poison Spirit Beads, with Huaying condensing the last one.
• Jiang Ming used the Spirit Beads to reach the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm in ten years and began condensing Dao and laws.
• Jiang Ming took Xiyao from the God Realm, had Zi Xuan replace her in guarding the Sacred World Tree, and defeated Chong Lou in a fight.
• Jiang Ming waited for Qing'er to grow up and for Ling'er and Nü Yuan to appear, then found Nü Yuan forty years later in a town afflicted by plague.
• Jiang Ming and Nü Yuan repeated the words of their first meeting, while he heard that she had fallen in love with him at first sight.

Chapter Summary: Marshal Tianpeng

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming remains in the Immortal Sword World, saving people alongside Nü Yuan. Their shared efforts lead them to reunite, fall in love, and help several of Nü Yuan’s clansmen escape.
• Although Jiang Ming saves them out of consideration for Nü Yuan, he places restrictions on the clansmen: if they return to harming others, their souls will scatter, and their vital essence will nourish the world as atonement.
• Jiang Ming continues cultivating and eventually becomes a father when Nü Yuan’s daughter, Wan’er, is born. Because of her extraordinary inherited talent, he seals ninety percent of her potential so she can experience hardship and develop a strong Dao heart.
• Jiang Ming realizes he is trapped within the Great Thousand World and cannot return to the Perfect World era by ordinary means. He therefore uses the powers of the Time and Space Ancestral Wizards to travel to another Great Thousand World.
• Upon arrival, the laws of the new world suppress his cultivation again, forcing him to begin rebuilding his strength. His identity in this world is Marshal Tianpeng—initially, literally a pig.
• The new setting is a parallel world resembling the story of Pigsy and the Journey to the West. The Nine-Lives Cat Demon, a powerful creature once suppressed by Taishang Laojun, has escaped and entered the body of Jiang Ming’s fiancée, turning victims into puppets through its bites.
• Taibai Jinxing is partly responsible for the crisis: he released the cat demon, accidentally killed a mortal, and caused a pig’s soul to enter a human body—resulting in Jiang Ming’s current situation.
• Jiang Ming recognizes that this world offers him a chance to change the fate of Little Dragon Girl, who originally sacrificed herself by becoming the Sea Spring Eye. He intends to use his own strength to prevent that tragic ending.
• To obtain a cultivation method, Jiang Ming flatters Taibai Jinxing, exploiting his vanity. Taibai gives him the Great Five Virtues Formula, a technique based on the five elements.
• Jiang Ming begins rebuilding his cultivation, focusing especially on the Dao of Water while also cultivating all five elements. His goal is to eventually master Five-Colored Radiance and gain enough power to alter the fate of the Sea Spring Eye.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming: Becomes more pragmatic and morally discerning after reincarnation. He still saves people, but no longer assumes every demon deserves mercy. He also takes on a parental role by sealing Wan’er’s power to help her develop properly. In the new world, he remains calm about losing his cultivation and treats repeated reconstruction as a way to understand different heavenly laws.
• Nü Yuan: Demonstrates genuine compassion by continuing to save her clansmen. Her sincerity restores Jiang Ming’s trust and brings the two back together.
• Wan’er: Is introduced as an exceptionally gifted child whose bloodline gives her near-Immortal potential from birth.
• Ling’er: Becomes Jiang Ming’s disciple and constantly follows him, preventing Jiang Ming from meeting the original Li Xiaoyao.
• Taibai Jinxing: Is portrayed as powerful but foolish and easily manipulated by praise. He is burdened by the disaster caused by releasing the cat demon, yet still provides Jiang Ming with a valuable cultivation technique.
• Little Dragon Girl: Though absent from the present events, her past sacrifice motivates Jiang Ming’s actions in this world. He sees his arrival as an opportunity to save her.

Significant Themes

• Redemption and conditional mercy: Jiang Ming helps Nü Yuan’s clansmen but imposes consequences if they refuse to repent, balancing compassion with justice.
• Reincarnation and accumulated identity: Jiang Ming’s different lives are portrayed as connected experiences. Each world allows him to recover lost relationships, abilities, or aspects of himself.
• Adapting to new laws: Repeatedly losing his cultivation forces Jiang Ming to rebuild from the beginning, but each setback improves his understanding of the Dao.
• Fate versus choice: Jiang Ming seeks to change tragic predetermined outcomes, especially Little Dragon Girl’s sacrifice, by relying on his own power rather than accepting established destiny.
• Parental guidance and cultivation: His decision to seal Wan’er’s talent reflects the belief that hardship and gradual growth are necessary for a stable Dao heart.
• Humor amid cosmic stakes: Jiang Ming’s transformation into a pig, Taibai’s absurd mistakes, and Jiang Ming’s manipulation through flattery contrast with the serious dangers facing the world.

Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming and Nü Yuan rebuild their relationship through their shared efforts to save her clansmen.
• Jiang Ming imposes restrictions on Nü Yuan’s rescued clansmen, showing both his respect for her wishes and his insistence on accountability.
• Jiang Ming raises Ling’er as his disciple, while her constant presence becomes a source of mild annoyance.
• Jiang Ming and Taibai Jinxing meet beside the river amid the cat-demon crisis. Jiang Ming uses exaggerated praise to persuade Taibai to teach him cultivation.
• Taibai initially mocks Jiang Ming’s identity as a pig but ultimately gives him the Great Five Virtues Formula.
• Jiang Ming studies Taibai’s escape technique, Harmonize with Light and Dust, intending to reproduce it once his cultivation returns.

Jiang Ming cultivated while searching for a way to deal with the Nine-Lives Cat Demon, and Little Dragon Girl found him and helped him adapt to the world's cultivation system. After Taibai Jinxing mistook her for the Cat Demon, Jiang Ming sent him to investigate his fiancée Miaomiao, whose behavior had changed.

• Jiang Ming cultivated by the river and discovered that the stolen Nine-Turn Golden Core was inside his reincarnated body.
• Little Dragon Girl found Jiang Ming, recognized him as the person who had saved her, and told him that Miaomiao had suddenly become fond of cats.
• Jiang Ming asked Little Dragon Girl to help him cultivate, and they studied together at an inn.
• Taibai Jinxing arrived and accused Little Dragon Girl of being the Cat Demon, but Jiang Ming redirected him toward Miaomiao.
• Jiang Ming told Taibai Jinxing that Miaomiao might be possessed by the Cat Demon, and Taibai Jinxing left to subdue it.

Jiang Ming and Little Dragon Girl continued cultivating while Taibai Jinxing, cursed into a child and stripped of his power, sought their help. The Turtle Chancellor arrived to take Little Dragon Girl home, but she refused, and she soon clashed with the cat demon in the first heaven.

• Jiang Ming and Little Dragon Girl cultivated together, strengthening her foundation and bringing her close to the mid Heavenly Immortal stage.
• Taibai Jinxing lost to the cat demon, regressed into a ten-year-old child, and was humiliated by the Earth God and street beggars.
• Taibai Jinxing found Jiang Ming and asked him to seek medicine from the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, while Jiang Ming pretended not to recognize him and ordered him food.
• The Turtle Chancellor found Little Dragon Girl and urged her to return to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, but she refused.
• The cat demon confronted Little Dragon Girl, and they fought in Taihuang Huangceng Heaven to a stalemate.

Jiang Ming secretly helped Little Dragon Girl defeat the Nine-Lives Cat Demon, then accompanied her and the Turtle Chancellor to the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace. After advancing to mid-stage Earth Immortal, he went with Little Dragon Girl to find her parents, while the Dragon King faced the secret crisis of the drying Spring Eye.

• Jiang Ming used Five-Colored Divine Light to strip the Cat Demon's primordial spirit, allowing Little Dragon Girl to kill her once, though the Nine-Lives Cat Demon revived and escaped into the crowd.
• The Turtle Chancellor urged Little Dragon Girl to return to the Dragon Palace, and Jiang Ming agreed to go with her while telling Taibai Jinxing to find the Cat Demon.
• Jiang Ming read the Turtle Chancellor's thoughts, argued that he would become Marshal Tianpeng within ten years, and challenged the chancellor to a wager.
• Jiang Ming traveled with Little Dragon Girl and the Turtle Chancellor to the Crystal Dragon Palace, where he learned about the Dragon King's worry over the Eastern Sea's drying Spring Eye.
• After questioning Little Dragon Girl and the Turtle Chancellor about cultivation during the journey, Jiang Ming broke through to mid-stage Earth Immortal.
• Little Dragon Girl learned that her mother was at Giant Clam Bay with her father, the Dragon King, and invited Jiang Ming to go with her to see them.

Jiang Ming cultivated in the Dragon Palace with Little Dragon Girl and Ao Ying, reaching Heavenly Immortal before leaving for the Human World. There, he learned Taibai Jinxing had been bitten and poisoned by the Cat Demon, the foe Jiang Ming needed to subdue to complete his merit.

• Jiang Ming wandered into Ao Ying’s residence, discussed cultivation with her for a day and night, and broke through to late Earth Immortal.
• Jiang Ming cultivated with Little Dragon Girl for six days, reaching Heavenly Immortal while she advanced to mid Heavenly Immortal; Ao Ying also joined them.
• Ao Ying seduced Jiang Ming before he left the Dragon Palace, and the Dragon King chose not to interfere.
• Taibai Jinxing investigated the Cat Demon in Changzhou Prefecture, was beaten after complaining to the prefect, and was later bitten and poisoned by the demon.
• Jiang Ming arrived in the Human World and reflected on Taishang Laojun’s Limitless Golden Core and the world’s formidable power.

Taibai Jinxing suffered from the Cat Demon's poison while Jiang Ming cultivated by the sea and met Little Dragon Girl. Taishang Laojun refused to cure Taibai Jinxing, who tried to kill himself before Jiang Ming found him and promised to help defeat the Cat Demon.

• The Cat Demon and his servants mocked Taibai Jinxing, who had lost his magic and grown feline fangs from the poison.
• Jiang Ming called Little Dragon Girl and spent three days cultivating by the sea while Taibai Jinxing endured his punishment.
• Little Dragon Girl and the Second Dragon Princess sneaked out to meet Jiang Ming, who had said he intended to marry both princesses.
• Taishang Laojun disguised himself as a traveling performer and sold medicine, but told Taibai Jinxing his poison could not be cured and berated him.
• Taibai Jinxing went to a cliff intending to jump, but Jiang Ming found him and promised to help kill the Cat Demon.

Jiang Ming confronted Taibai Jinxing about his role in the Cat Demon’s rampage, while Taishang Laojun revealed himself and ordered them to stop the disaster. With three days until the Celestial Dog Devours the Moon, Taibai Jinxing began cultivating again, and the two prepared to face the Cat Demon.

• Jiang Ming pressed Taibai Jinxing to admit that he had caused the disaster and condemned him for trying to kill himself instead of taking responsibility.
• The wandering physician revealed himself as Taishang Laojun, who scolded Taibai Jinxing and told him and Jiang Ming that they shared responsibility for the crisis.
• Taishang Laojun showed Jiang Ming and Taibai Jinxing the devastated streets of Changzhou Prefecture and warned them to resolve the crisis or face punishment.
• Taishang Laojun explained that the Cat Demon would be weakest during the Celestial Dog Devours the Moon in three days and left the two to plan how to defeat her.
• Taibai Jinxing resumed cultivating, connected with his Divine Office, and quickly recovered his Earth Immortal cultivation while Jiang Ming also trained for the coming fight.

Jiang Ming and Taibai Jinxing defeated the Nine-Lives Cat Demon, and Taishang Laojun turned her into healing rain that saved Changzhou Prefecture. After parting from the immortals, Jiang Ming set out to strengthen his cultivation and encountered Er Niu, the reincarnation of Hou Yi.

• Jiang Ming trapped the weakened Nine-Lives Cat Demon with the Five-Element Divine Dragon Formation, and Taibai Jinxing wounded her primordial spirit with Samadhi True Fire.
• Taishang Laojun captured the Cat Demon's spirit, gave Jiang Ming the Limitless Golden Core, and explained that Miaomiao would be reborn with her suffering and the events in Changzhou Prefecture erased.
• Taibai Jinxing used his power to remove Miaomiao's corpse, then Taishang Laojun refined the Cat Demon into spirit rain that ended Changzhou Prefecture's suffering and restored Taibai Jinxing's appearance and power.
• Taibai Jinxing and Taishang Laojun returned to heaven after warning Jiang Ming to cultivate and avoid harming innocents.
• Jiang Ming set out to become a Golden Immortal and encountered Er Niu, who was the reincarnation of Hou Yi.

Chapter Summary: “Two Suns”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Ming encounters Er Niu, a humble and honest military cook in a Red Turban Army camp. He enjoys Er Niu’s pancakes and jokingly claims to be an Immortal.
• Jiang Ming reveals that he can remain invisible to ordinary people and decides to help Er Niu, who is actually Hou Yi in this lifetime.
• To persuade Er Niu to cultivate, Jiang Ming presents the Great Sun True Yang Scripture as a technique that will help him have more sons to assist with pancake-making. He transmits the method along with his own cultivation insights.
• Jiang Ming promises Hou Yi that he will help him escape his tragic fate and create a new ending in this life.
• When the enemy attacks the camp, Jiang Ming uses a simple wind technique to scatter the attackers and declares that warfare brings suffering to all living beings. He then removes Er Niu from the camp, causing everyone there to forget Er Niu ever existed.
• Jiang Ming takes Er Niu home to the prefectural city. Soon afterward, a second sun appears in the sky.
• Jiang Ming recognizes the new “sun” as a Three-Legged Golden Crow, likely possessing Taiyi Golden Immortal or even Daluo Golden Immortal-level power. He realizes this threat is more serious than the earlier Nine-Lives Cat Demon incident.
• The appearance of the second sun alarms both the mortal world and the Heavenly Court. The Heavenly Drum is sounded, summoning the Jade Emperor and the major Immortals.
• The Heavenly Court—depicted as relatively weak and makeshift compared with the grand court of Journey to the West—gathers to discuss the crisis.
• The Jade Emperor identifies the Golden Crow as the one that escaped after Hou Yi shot down the other nine suns. Taishang Laojun dismisses the threat somewhat casually, suggesting that the Golden Crow simply be shot down again.

Character Developments

• Jiang Ming acts compassionately and proactively. He recognizes Er Niu’s true identity as Hou Yi and seeks to save him from his original tragic destiny rather than exploit or manipulate him.
• Er Niu/Hou Yi is portrayed as honest, dutiful, and somewhat gullible. Although initially skeptical of Jiang Ming’s identity, he readily accepts the cultivation method when it is described as a way to have more sons.
• Jiang Ming and Hou Yi’s relationship begins as a friendly, almost brotherly bond. Jiang Ming sincerely regards him as someone he is destined to help and promises to change his future.
• The Heavenly Court’s officials display differing degrees of confidence and vanity. Virupaksha boasts about his vision, while Taibai Jinxing counters by emphasizing his own abilities. Their exchanges reveal a court that is not especially imposing or united.
• Taishang Laojun appears calm and dismissive, treating the returning Golden Crow as a manageable problem despite the danger it represents.

Significant Themes

• Changing fate and creating a new destiny: Jiang Ming intends to rescue Hou Yi from the tragedy associated with his legendary story.
• Compassion amid human suffering: Jiang Ming condemns war and intervenes to protect ordinary people, presenting his actions as a punishment for the violence that keeps humanity in misery.
• The contrast between mortal simplicity and cosmic danger: The chapter moves from pancakes and camp life to the emergence of a powerful Golden Crow capable of threatening heaven and earth.
• Hidden identities and reincarnation: Er Niu’s ordinary appearance conceals his identity as Hou Yi, while the second sun reveals the return of an ancient celestial enemy.
• The limits of authority: The Heavenly Court is shown as weak, disorganized, and less majestic than expected, suggesting that Jiang Ming may need to confront threats beyond the Court’s ability to control.
• Humor alongside epic danger: Jiang Ming’s playful excuses, Er Niu’s literal-mindedness, and the Immortals’ petty boasting contrast with the serious threat posed by the second sun.

Important Character Interactions

• Jiang Ming praises Er Niu’s cooking, claims to be an Immortal, and earns his trust.
• Jiang Ming teaches Er Niu the Great Sun True Yang Scripture while privately acknowledging him as Hou Yi.
• Jiang Ming vows to help Hou Yi obtain a different ending in this life.
• During the attack, Jiang Ming protects Er Niu and removes him from the battlefield.
• The Heavenly Immortals argue over who possesses the best vision, with Virupaksha, Erlang God, and Taibai Jinxing comparing their abilities.
• The Jade Emperor presides over the emergency meeting, while Taishang Laojun proposes simply repeating Hou Yi’s legendary feat and shooting down the returning Golden Crow.

The Heavenly Court searched for someone able to draw the Heaven-Shaking Divine Bow and Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow, learning that reincarnated Hou Yi was their only hope. Er Niu failed after drinking the Water of Forgetting Love, and Taishang Laojun said Chang'e could restore his divine strength.

• The Jade Emperor held a contest at the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, where Virupaksha and another Heavenly King failed to lift the bow, while Yang Jian lifted it but could not draw it.
• Taishang Laojun revealed that only Hou Yi could draw the bow, then explained that Hou Yi had reincarnated; Taibai Jinxing found him as Er Niu.
• Jiang Ming and Er Niu were summoned to the Heavenly Court, where Jiang Ming introduced Taishang Laojun and Taibai Jinxing as his brothers and encouraged Er Niu to try the bow.
• Er Niu could not shoot down the sun because he had drunk the Water of Forgetting Love, so Taishang Laojun named Chang'e as someone who could restore his divine strength.
• Jiang Ming and Er Niu returned to the Human World, and Jiang Ming urged Er Niu to cultivate so he could shoot down the sun one day.

Taibai Jinxing brought Fairy Chang'e to the mortal world to awaken Er Niu’s memories and have him shoot down the suns, while Jiang Ming dealt with Wu Gang and kept his distance from Chang'e’s mission. Chang'e led Er Niu to Oxhead Mountain, where the divine bow and arrows awaited, as Jiang Ming watched without intervening.

• Jiang Ming teased Little Dragon Girl about Chang'e until she cried, bringing rain to the parched Human World, then took Little Dragon Girl and Ao Ying with him.
• Taibai Jinxing arranged Chang'e’s descent, while Wu Gang disguised himself as the Jade Rabbit and followed them; Jiang Ming secretly cut off Wu Gang’s perceptions and began eroding his Primordial Spirit.
• Chang'e met Er Niu while he was cooking flatbreads, but he denied being Hou Yi and said they had never met.
• Chang'e told Er Niu that he owed her and asked him to come with her, then led him to Oxhead Mountain to shoot down the sun.
• Ao Ying and Little Dragon Girl listened as Chang'e spoke with Er Niu, while Jiang Ming said he would not interfere in their affairs.

Jiang Ming helped Er Niu cultivate while investigating the secrets of Hou Yi’s reincarnation, and he broke through to Golden Immortal. The story left him planning to erase Wu Gang’s memories and use the power of Wu Gang’s Primordial Spirit to help Little Dragon Girl advance.

• Jiang Ming gave Little Dragon Girl the Sweet Dew Technique and continued cultivating with her and Ao Ying while Er Niu trained with Chang'e.
• Taibai Jinxing returned and asked Jiang Ming to help restore Er Niu’s memories and carry out the plan to shoot down the suns.
• Ao Ying learned the story of how Chang'e secretly took the Elixir of Immortality and was banished to the Moon Palace, while Jiang Ming suspected Hou Yi was secretly conscious within Er Niu.
• After another nine days, Jiang Ming survived the Golden Immortal tribulation and mastered this world’s Golden Immortal Grand Dao.
• Er Niu reached Earth Immortal cultivation and strengthened his body to the level of a Heavenly Immortal, leading Jiang Ming to suspect Hou Yi had sealed his body rather than reincarnated.
• Jiang Ming planned to erase Wu Gang’s memories and draw out the power of his Primordial Spirit to help Little Dragon Girl break through to Golden Immortal.

After helping Little Dragon Girl cultivate and bringing rain to the drought-stricken land, Jiang Ming prepared for Hou Yi to shoot down the Golden Crow and earn merit. When Chang'e's hair turned white, Jiang Ming urged her and Er Niu to cultivate and revealed that opposing forces in heaven were trying to control her fate; the chapter ended with Er Niu agreeing that shooting down the sun was necessary.

• Jiang Ming brought rain across a vast area, and Little Dragon Girl and Second Dragon Girl helped prolong it, earning merit power.
• Jiang Ming refined Wu Gang's Primordial Spirit power to help Little Dragon Girl cultivate, while Er Niu and Chang'e became a couple and Er Niu's cultivation rose rapidly.
• Jiang Ming discovered that the Heaven-Shaking Divine Bow and Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow were Ancestral Witch treasures bound to Hou Yi, and concluded that Hou Yi had to shoot down the Golden Crow.
• Chang'e's hair turned white, and Jiang Ming told her that someone was trying to force her back to the Heavenly Court and urged her and Er Niu to cultivate.
• Er Niu told Jiang Ming that Hou Yi wanted to stay with Chang'e, and Jiang Ming said shooting down the sun would help resolve their situation.
• Er Niu agreed to shoot down the sun, and the frightened Golden Crow hid in the sky.

Jiang Ming helped Hou Yi survive the Sun-Shooting and uncovered interference from the west, while Hou Yi’s merit restored Chang'e’s youth and raised her cultivation. When the Supreme Yin Star called Chang'e to the moon, Jiang Ming sent a duplicate in her place so she could remain with Hou Yi.

• Jiang Ming dreamed of Taibai Jinxing, who said the Heavenly Court supported Er Niu’s success and hinted that one powerful figure was behind any scheme.
• Jiang Ming stayed on Oxhead Mountain with Little Dragon Girl and Ao Ying, then watched Er Niu and Hou Yi merge and prepare to shoot the Three-Legged Golden Crow.
• A Daluo Golden Immortal interfered from the west and deflected the arrow, but Jiang Ming’s black lotus corrected its course, and Taishang Laojun also intervened as the Three-Legged Golden Crow was wounded and rescued.
• Immeasurable merit descended; Hou Yi used it to raise Chang'e from an Earth Immortal to a Golden Immortal, while Jiang Ming kept his share to try to repair the Spring Eye of the Eastern Sea.
• When the Supreme Yin Star called Chang'e, Jiang Ming made an identical immortal maiden from her hair and sent the duplicate to the moon, allowing Chang'e to stay with Hou Yi.

Jiang Ming visited the East Sea Dragon Palace before reaching Medicine King Valley, where he sought out Son Goku to discuss cultivation and the Dao. A month of exchanges strengthened their friendship and advanced Jiang Ming’s and Second Dragon Girl’s cultivation.

• Jiang Ming sent Little Dragon Girl back to the East Sea with merit power and a message for the East Sea Dragon King, explaining that it might help the Spring Eye.
• The East Sea Dragon King applied the merit power to the Spring Eye and saw its black karmic power dissolve as its water flow increased.
• Jiang Ming and Second Dragon Girl reached the blessed land near Medicine King Valley and began cultivating there while discussing the Dao.
• Son Goku woke to their conversation and began discussing the Dao with Jiang Ming, recognizing his insight and learning.
• Over the next month, Jiang Ming and Son Goku became friends, while Jiang Ming advanced to the late Golden Immortal stage and Second Dragon Girl reached the middle Golden Immortal stage. Little Dragon Girl reached perfected Heavenly Immortal stage and strengthened her foundation.

Jiang Ming sealed Monkey to delay the schemes against him, then helped the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace restore its Spring Eye and prepared a gift for Monkey. After Monkey was freed and got entangled in a Netherworld crisis, Jiang Ming sought Taishang Laojun’s advice, whose suggestion of suppressing Monkey for five hundred years left him wondering whether Laojun knew what was coming.

• Jiang Ming broke through to Taiyi Golden Immortal and sealed Monkey with the Fourteen Immortal-Banning Seals, promising him a gift if he waited.
• Jiang Ming used merit power and Red Lotus Karmic Fire to restore the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace’s Spring Eye, then received Monkey’s armor, boots, and crown from the East Sea Dragon King.
• Jiang Ming spent eight months cultivating with the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace’s old dragons and reached perfected Taiyi Golden Immortal.
• A Daluo Golden Immortal broke Jiang Ming’s seal, and Son Goku went to the Netherworld after someone hooked his primordial spirit.
• Jiang Ming and Hou Yi asked Meng Po for help, but she said she could not help Son Goku, so they went with him to Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Jiang Ming, Hou Yi, and Son Goku visited Taishang Laojun, who proposed suppressing Son Goku for five hundred years to curb his temperament.

Jiang Ming demonstrated that his Five-Finger Mountain could easily suppress Son Goku, then learned from Taishang Laojun that a hidden Saint-level threat was manipulating events. After the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace’s Spring Eye disappeared, Jiang Ming protected Little Dragon Girl and Ao Ying and prepared to break through to Daluo Golden Immortal.

• Son Goku challenged Jiang Ming’s claim that he could suppress him, and Jiang Ming trapped him beneath a Five-Finger Mountain before releasing him.
• Taishang Laojun warned Jiang Ming that even Quasi-Saint strength would not be enough to escape the larger scheme, and said Jiang Ming needed to reach Quasi-Saint within five hundred years with Saint-level combat strength.
• The Eastern Sea Dragon Palace’s Spring Eye disappeared, so Jiang Ming created a Water Spirit Bead to replace it temporarily and suspected the plot against him had begun.
• Jiang Ming sent Little Dragon Girl and Ao Ying into his Inner Heaven and Earth, then dispatched clones to seek cultivation advice from Daluo Golden Immortals and Meng Po.
• Jiang Ming studied Dao traces and gained memory fragments about the Twelve Ancestral Witches, while Son Goku kept a lower profile as fresh traps targeted him and his monkey descendants.

After a century of cultivation, Jiang Ming awakened as a Daluo Golden Immortal and found that his Inner Heaven and Earth had grown into a Great Thousand World. On his way to visit Monkey, he encountered two of the Jade Emperor’s daughters hiding to watch Erlang God fight, and saw former inhabitants of his world among the Heavenly troops.

• Jiang Ming completed his hundred-year breakthrough, recalled fragments of Rahu’s past, and found that his body and Inner Heaven and Earth had transformed.
• He discovered that the people inside his world had advanced in cultivation and sent more than a thousand newly immortal elites to the Heavenly Court’s immortal district.
• Jiang Ming reunited Little Dragon Girl and Ao Ying with the Dragon King, then learned that Hou Yi and Chang'e had settled in the Moon Palace after raising their son.
• On his way to the Heavenly Court, Jiang Ming recognized Princess Iron Fan and Old Seven sneaking down to watch their cousin Erlang God subdue demons.
• Princess Iron Fan and Old Seven hid on the stone statue Jiang Ming had left behind, while Heavenly Soldiers and Generals arrived for the battle.
• Jiang Ming spotted two peak Earth Immortal youths from his Inner Heaven and Earth among the troops and suspected they had been sent as cannon fodder.