Chapter Summaries

Ji Xiu learned that the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art could help him form the Jiazi Demon Subduing Qi Sea and the True Martial Primordial Embryo, but he chose to prioritize breaking through the Three Great Thresholds. He then discovered that Jiang Li had left him valuable gifts and a letter revealing her connection to the Black Market and hinting at her extraordinary identity, before inviting him to meet her there.

• Ji Xiu resisted advancing the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art until he broke through the Three Great Thresholds, and learned it required him to subdue demons and other external paths.
• Xu Longxiang explained that the art could form the Jiazi Demon Subduing Qi Sea and qualify Ji Xiu to develop the True Martial Primordial Embryo.
• Ji Xiu headed to seek Xie Fuyun for the complete Ascended Immortal Garment, but a Northern Cang Marquis Residence attendant told him that Jiang Li had sent him a generous gift.
• Ji Xiu reconsidered Jiang Li's claim to be a hundred-year-old remnant soul and concluded that she must have been an existence above the Titled rank.
• Ji Xiu went to the Northern Cang Marquis Residence and found Jiang Li's letter, three hundred taels of red gold, expert-grade spirit armor named Furnace, and the Cold Plum Dragon Branch.
• Jiang Li's letter revealed that she had confiscated the gifts from the Purple Haze Hall, Medicine Trade, and Fishery Trade, and directed Ji Xiu to wear the Black Market Mask and follow it to the Jiangyin Black Market.

Ji Xiu entered the Jiangyin Black Market and learned that Jiang Li was the former ninth Emperor Lord of Great Xuan and its last recognized Human King. After he pledged to help her once he grew strong enough, Jiang Li taught him the first half of the Aligned Immortal Chapter to open his Purple Mansion and advance to High Daoist Achievement; the chapter ended with Xiao Pingnan planning to visit his daughter Xiao Mingli.

• Ji Xiu used Jiang Li’s Black Market Mask to enter the Gold Consumption Den, where Black Market Master Shi Yi guided him to meet her.
• A mysterious attendant revealed that Jiang Li had been Great Xuan’s ninth Emperor Lord and last Human King, and Jiang Li explained that rival powers had divided the realm and suppressed her for a century.
• Ji Xiu said he would stand by Jiang Li after gaining the strength to help, and she urged him to keep advancing until he surpassed his lineage’s First Ancestor.
• Jiang Li passed Ji Xiu the first half of the Aligned Immortal Chapter, a foundational text for opening the Purple Mansion and attaining High Daoist Achievement.
• At Chen Xuanque’s residence in Cang Capital, Xiao Pingnan learned that the State Lord had gone to the prefecture city to meet an important person, then resolved to visit his daughter Xiao Mingli.

Ji Xiu visited Xie Fuyun in Jiangyin Prefecture, where she gave him the final volume of the Ascended Immortal Garment. With the Cold Plum Dragon Branch already in his possession, he realized he could use it to break the Three Limits and begin the next stage of his cultivation.

• Tian Chuan recognized Ji Xiu at the Xie Residence and led him inside, where Xie Zhinan apologized for her earlier presumption about the Ascended Immortal Garment.
• Xie Zhinan told Xie Fuyun that a descendant of the Qishan Jiang Family had requested an audience, and Xie Fuyun agreed that she should meet him on her behalf.
• Xie Fuyun noticed Ji Xiu's strengthened Divine Soul Thought and questioned him about his cultivation and grandmaster, Wang Xuanyang.
• Xie Fuyun warned Ji Xiu that Wang Xuanyang's return from the Disbandment Grave could draw powerful enemies, then said Ji Xiu need not accompany her to Cang Capital.
• Xie Fuyun gave Ji Xiu the fourth volume of the Ascended Immortal Garment, the Xuanji Scroll, which revealed that cold-aspect treasures could help him break the Three Limits.
• Ji Xiu recognized that Jiang Li's Cold Plum Dragon Branch could serve as the needed treasure and resolved to return to the Northern Cang Marquis Residence to begin cultivating.

Xie Fuyun asked Duan Chenzhou to leave Jiangyin with her, but he chose to pursue a dangerous path tied to a deceased Great Divine Power User. Ji Xiu consumed the Cold Plum Dragon Branch and broke through the three limits of the fleshly body, drawing the attention of Shi Popo and Xiao Mingli.

• Xie Fuyun revealed how Duan Chenzhou had once saved her and asked him again to come with her to the Jade Universe Ancestral Land.
• Duan Chenzhou declined and said he would gather the deceased Great Divine Power User's remaining will and return from Ancient History in his stead.
• Ji Xiu encountered Jiang Nian of the Qishan Jiang Family, who asked Xie Zhinan about Xie Fuyun's plans and the family's Spirit Medicine.
• Ji Xiu returned to the Northern Cang Marquis Residence and swallowed the Cold Plum Dragon Branch, greatly advancing his cultivation.
• The next day, the Northern Cang Marquis Residence's spiritual aura surged toward Ji Xiu's pavilion as Shi Popo and Xiao Mingli noticed his breakthrough through the three limits and attainment of the Purple Ribbon.

Ji Xiu broke through the Three Great Thresholds and gained the Purple Ribbon Immortal Garment trait Four Seasons Impermanence, then advanced the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art as he prepared for the Prefecture Examination. At Flying Immortal Temple, Crimson Scenery Daoist discovered that Wei Changkong had offended Ji Xiu and decided to take him to apologize.

• Ji Xiu completed the Purple Ribbon Immortal Garment and used Four Seasons Impermanence to extinguish his Divine Talisman Flame.
• Ji Xiu resolved to pursue Qi Refining Expert and the Prefecture Official position, then advanced the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art with the Primordial Dao Talisman.
• Ji Xiu planned to cultivate the Divine Talisman Fire, seek Xu Longxiang's help in finding a Realm Gate, and gradually comprehend the Aligned Immortal Chapter before the Prefecture Examination.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist brought the injured Wei Changkong to Flying Immortal Temple and told him to protect a gifted young cultivator from their lineage.
• Crimson Scenery Daoist learned that Ji Xiu was the gifted young cultivator Wei Changkong had offended, immobilized Wei Changkong with lightning arts, and decided to take him to apologize.

Ji Wei learned that Ji Xiu had been disgraced by the Daoist who rescued Wei Changkong, and Crimson Scenery used Six Yao Numerology to discover the connection before crippling Wei Changkong and preparing to escort her to Dipper Pivot True Mansion. At Jiangyin Prefecture Academy, Xu Longxiang discovered that Ji Xiu had comprehended the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art in just one day and one night.

• Ji Wei heard that Xu Longxiang had suppressed Wei Changkong but that an unknown Daoist had rescued him, and she vowed to investigate and avenge Ji Xiu.
• Crimson Scenery arrived to receive Ji Wei, used Six Yao Numerology, and found that the clues led back to himself.
• After Fan Nansong recounted the events, Crimson Scenery claimed he had deliberately helped Ji Xiu and went to cripple Wei Changkong.
• Crimson Scenery returned with Wei Changkong and prepared to take Ji Wei to meet Ji Xiu before departing for Dipper Pivot True Mansion.
• Ji Xiu visited Xu Longxiang and revealed that he had comprehended the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art.
• Xu Longxiang recognized Ji Xiu's new art and was stunned that he had comprehended a Heavenly Pillar-grade Qi Path True Achievement in one day and one night.

Ji Xiu impressed Xu Longxiang by comprehending the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art in a day, and Xu Longxiang planned to take him to the Dragon Elephant True Sect after helping recover Ye Wenjiang’s remains. At the Prefecture Academy, Ji Xiu entered a Divine Soul Cultivation Room and used his Dream Entry aptitude to cultivate the Divine Talisman Fire in a Yellow Millet Dream.

• Xu Longxiang realized Ji Xiu had grasped the essence of the True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art in a day and invited him to the Dragon Elephant True Sect.
• Ji Xiu asked to recover Ye Wenjiang’s remains before pursuing Qi Refining, and Xu Longxiang approved of his choice.
• Xu Longxiang summoned Pei Daoran, who brought Ji Xiu to a Divine Soul Cultivation Room and let him use a room that had already been reserved.
• Ji Xiu entered the room to cultivate the fire-attributed Divine Talisman Fire Dao Technique, then chose to try the Yellow Millet Dream.
• Ji Xiu used Dream Entry to fall into a dream, where the Divine Talisman True Fire around his body intensified and a fiery mark formed between his brows.

Ji Xiu entered a Yellow Millet Dream as Zhang Xuanye in True Dharma Heaven and perfected Divine Talisman Fire, condensing a Dao Law Seed before returning to Great Xuan. He learned that Hundun Water Marsh’s Red Beard Heavenly King planned to await a realm gate and attain ghost-immortal power, while Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang reached Jiangyin Wharf, where familiar faces awaited.

• Ji Xiu awakened in Li Fire Cave as Zhang Xuanye, a disciple of Crimson Origin Hall, and learned from Zhang Chunyang that mastering Divine Talisman Fire could qualify him to pursue Southern Bright Mountain’s true transmission.
• Ji Xiu endured the cave’s forty-eight varieties of true fire and mystical flame, advanced Divine Talisman Fire to perfection, and branded its Dao Law Seed above the Mud Pill Palace.
• Ji Xiu’s Yellow Millet Dream ended as he glimpsed Crimson Origin Hall and heard Zhang Chunyang congratulate him, raising the dream’s refinement progress to ten percent.
• Red Beard Heavenly King silenced Hundun Water Marsh’s bandits and revealed that Guardian God Generals would soon pass through a realm gate, while he intended to attain the great Dao of ghost immortals.
• Xu Longxiang explained the heavenly domains and True Dharma Heaven to Ji Xiu as they traveled to Jiangyin Wharf, where Qi Zhao and other familiar faces waited.

Ji Xiu returned to Anning County with his mentor Xu Longxiang, riding Lord Cangming and receiving a triumphant welcome from the townspeople and local powers. As the celebrations continued at Ji Residence, Xu Longxiang sensed a mysterious illusory door forming near Earth Dragon Cave.

• Ji Xiu invited his fellow county youths to travel with him and Xu Longxiang, then explained that Lord Cangming would carry them back to Anning County.
• Xu Longxiang praised Lord Cangming as a potential source of valuable materials before Ji Xiu clarified that the flood dragon was his friend and mount.
• Ji Xiu asked Qi Zhao whether his accomplishments made him worthy of their earlier promise, and Qi Zhao acknowledged that he was.
• Ji Xiu returned to Anning County, where townspeople recognized him and welcomed him home with admiration.
• Ji Xiu invited Xu Longxiang to Ji Residence and recounted his humble past as they passed familiar places in the county.
• Local halls, businesses, and old acquaintances gathered at Ji Residence to congratulate Ji Xiu, while Xu Longxiang sensed a forming illusory door near Earth Dragon Cave.

A realm gate began opening in Earth Dragon Cave, drawing the attention of Jiangyin’s authorities and a Divine Lord’s forces. Xu Longxiang saw the conflict as a chance for Ji Xiu to advance, but after learning that the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord’s servants had infiltrated the area and Ye Wenjiang’s remains were there, he prepared to confront them.

• The Guardian Map alerted Hu Mao and Yan Song that a realm gate was forming in Earth Dragon Cave, and they planned to mobilize Jiangyin’s forces.
• Xu Longxiang told Ji Xiu that fighting beings from beyond the gate could help him reach Qi Refining, and promised to protect him from powerful invaders.
• Old Yao reported that white mist and armed figures had appeared in Earth Dragon Cave, that locals were being lured by their benefits, and that hunter Liang Cheng had vanished there.
• Old Yao named the outsiders’ faith as the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord, and Xu Longxiang recognized that a Divine Lord’s servants might have infiltrated the nearby mountain towns and hunting manors.
• Ji Xiu warned that Ye Wenjiang’s remains lay in Earth Dragon Cave, and Xu Longxiang vowed to show the Divine Lord’s forces how martial men slaughter gods.

The Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord sent the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General and three hundred Grass Head Gods through the realm gate to seize Anning County. Ji Xiu killed the Black Mountain Mountain Count and began confronting the corruption in the mountain towns, while Xu Longxiang charged toward the realm gate in fury over his disciple’s corpse.

• The Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord ordered the Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General to lead three hundred Grass Head Gods across the realm gate and conquer the lands around it.
• Ji Xiu arrived at Black Mountain Town and found its villagers worshipping the pig demon enfeoffed as the Black Mountain Mountain Count, while Song Chai’s son served him and the demon fed on infants.
• Ji Xiu burned the Mountain Count to charcoal with Divine Talisman Fire, earning the villagers’ gratitude and advancing his True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art.
• Ji Xiu demanded to know where Song Chai was and whether other mountain-town manors had submitted to wild gods.
• Xu Longxiang learned that a Central Yellow god had taken his disciple’s corpse into its divine-armored forces and charged toward the realm gate, vowing to destroy the god’s Dharma body.

Ji Xiu learned that the Earth Dragon Cave’s Realm Gate had empowered an invading Divine Lord Temple and its wild gods, so he destroyed shrines across the eighteen mountain towns while Xu Longxiang confronted the arriving Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General. The chapter ended with Xu Longxiang facing the suppressed heterodox God beside the Realm Gate.

• Xu Longxiang charged the Realm Gate after learning that Ye Wenjiang’s remains had been stolen to make Unorthodox Divine Armor, while Ji Xiu told the mountain folk that the Martial Saint was his mentor.
• Song Chai was freed from Black Mountain Mountain Count’s prison, killed his treacherous son, and described how the mist and invading gods had taken control of the mountain towns.
• After Xu Longxiang warned him not to enter the Earth Dragon Cave, Ji Xiu set out to destroy the wild gods’ shrines and altars throughout the eighteen towns and Hunting Manors.
• Ji Xiu slew demons and unorthodox gods along the way, gaining Jiazi Demon Subduing fortune and advancing his True Martial World Suppression Demon Subduing Profound Art to Minor Accomplishment.
• Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General entered the Earth Dragon Cave, where heaven and earth suppressed his strength and his fate talismans shattered as Xu Longxiang confronted him beside the Realm Gate.

Xu Longxiang stopped the invading Divine Path forces at Earth Dragon Cave, pursued Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General through the world gate, and entered Central Yellow Heaven to demand an accounting from the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord Temple. Ji Xiu arrived afterward, cleared the wild Gods around the cave, and received word that someone from Jiangyin Prefecture had arrived.

• Xu Longxiang attacked Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General and crushed the divine armor of the three hundred Crude Gods at the Earth Dragon Cave gateway.
• Spirit Summoning Manifest Saint General escaped into Central Yellow Heaven with a crushed hand, then fled to warn the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord.
• Xu Longxiang crossed the world gate carrying his disciple’s coffin and announced that he had come to demand an accounting from the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord Temple.
• Ji Xiu cleared the edict-bestowed wild Gods from the eighteen linked mountain towns, reached Earth Dragon Cave, and chose not to follow Xu Longxiang through the gateway.
• Ji Xiu received a message that someone from Jiangyin Prefecture had arrived.

Luo Daocheng and Zhang Qing discussed why Great Xuan could not invade foreign realms, while a Jiangyin force arrived in Anning County expecting a dangerous world-gate crisis. They discovered that Ji Xiu had already killed the wild gods and brought hundreds of armored Crude Gods to the county office.

• Luo Daocheng explained that ancient Human Immortal-level beings guarded foreign realms, making it dangerous for Great Xuan's martial men to enter them.
• Luo Daocheng and Pei Daoran led Jiangyin's soldiers, officials, and Prefecture Academy students to Anning County, where Chen Zhi, Zhou Tong, Li Yuan, and Gao Ye discussed Ji Xiu and the coming crisis.
• Pei Daoran and Luo Daocheng questioned Anning County's leaders, who revealed that Ji Xiu had crossed the mountain strongholds and killed every wild god and mountain god from Earth Dragon Cave.
• Luo Daocheng wondered whether the realm gate's threat had truly been limited to a first wave of wild gods, when hunters arrived carrying several hundred armored Crude Gods.
• Ji Xiu entered the county office and told the Jiangyin party that he and his Mentor had arrived first.

Ji Xiu told the Jiangyin Prefecture officials that Xu Longxiang had crossed the Boundary Gate to retrieve Ye Wenjiang’s remains, then entered seclusion to study the Aligned Immortal Chapter. Xu Longxiang attacked the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord in Central Yellow Heaven and set his sights on bringing the Divine Manor under his disciple’s control, while Ji Xiu began comprehending the method for forging a Great Dao Purple Palace.

• Ji Xiu reassured Pei Daoran and Luo Daocheng that Xu Longxiang knew the risks of crossing the Boundary Gate and invited them to wait at the West Street Ji Residence for news.
• Xu Longxiang reached the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord Temple, confronted the Divine Lord over Ye Wenjiang’s remains, and smashed the temple after the Divine Lord proposed dividing the lands around Earth Dragon Cave.
• Xu Longxiang declared that he would seize the Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion and make it a foundation for his student’s future.
• As Anning County attracted clans and sects seeking land, Ji Xiu instructed Old Yao, Lin Zhenhai, his daughter, and the other stewards not to disturb his cultivation.
• Ji Xiu entered a great dream of yellow millet to study the Aligned Immortal Chapter and began comprehending its method for forging a Great Dao Purple Palace.

Ji Xiu dreamed himself into Jiang Jing, the hated son of the Demon Dao Titan Jiang Shenji, and arrived at Sumeru Cave seeking its teachings. While most visiting disciples balked at years of labor without cultivation, Ji Xiu embraced the trial, which the Primordial Dao Talisman revealed would advance him toward High Daoist Achievement.

• Ji Xiu awoke in Sumeru Cave as Jiang Jing and learned that his father, Jiang Shenji, had made enemies across the great sects by stealing their scriptures and true-transmission fruits.
• A Shao Shang Sword Sect cultivator raised his sword against Jiang Jing, but Sumeru Ancestor opened the gates and stopped the blade before it reached his neck.
• Sumeru Ancestor allowed the visitors to stay, but required anyone seeking his transmission to forgo cultivation and chop spiritwood for three years.
• After three years, Sumeru Ancestor told the remaining disciples to carry heavy Weakwater for another three years, prompting more than half to abandon the trial and resume cultivating.
• Ji Xiu recognized the labor as a method for opening a Spirit Mountain and tempering the Purple Mansion, saw the Primordial Dao Talisman's progress toward High Daoist Achievement, and set out to carry water.

Within the Yellow Millet Dream, Ji Xiu endured nine years of labor at Sumeru Cave and formed the Great Dao Purple Palace without realizing it. After returning to the real world, he awakened with Purple Palace High Achievement and prepared to advance toward Qi Refining Expert.

• Ji Xiu rebuked the disciples who complained about the trial, and Lu Qingchan and Gu Chuan chose to continue alongside him.
• After six years of chopping firewood and carrying water, the Sumeru Ancestor ordered the remaining disciples to sweep Spirit Mountain's steps for another three years.
• When the trial ended, the Sumeru Ancestor offered Lu Qingchan a Divine Ability, Gu Chuan a Sword Dao true formula, and the other disciples a chance to study a transformation talisman.
• The Sumeru Ancestor praised Ji Xiu's spiritual insight and offered him cultivation methods, but Ji Xiu refused them and asked to learn Sumeru Cave's secret transmission.
• The Sumeru Ancestor revealed that Ji Xiu had formed the Great Dao Purple Palace through the trial, then sent the other disciples away and watched as the Yellow Millet Dream collapsed.
• Ji Xiu returned to the real world with a fully formed Great Dao Purple Palace and achieved the fourth realm, Purple Palace High Achievement.

Ji Xiu awakened from the Yellow Millet Dream with a Great Dao Purple Palace and learned that its foundation could lead him toward becoming a Divine Ability True Person. Meanwhile, Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord claimed he had destroyed the martial artist who attacked his shrine, while the wounded fighter remained trapped at the Heaven Worship Platform; Northern Cang Marquis Xiao Pingnan arrived at his daughter’s residence.

• Ji Xiu discovered his Purple Mansion Origin Spirit and learned that his Dao Chapter-grade Great Dao Purple Palace gave him a foundation pointing toward becoming a Divine Ability True Person.
• Ji Xiu realized that the years he spent chopping wood, carrying water, and sweeping at Sumeru Cave had built and purified his Purple Palace, then resolved to investigate Jiang Jing and Crimson Firmament.
• The surviving attendants at Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Mansion recalled how the martial artist had battered their Divine Lord and wondered whether the Heaven Worship Platform could save him.
• Three Five Demon Slaying Divine Lord told two neighboring Divine Lords that he had lured the martial artist to the Heaven Worship Platform and used the Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint’s power to suppress him, concealing that the fighter had survived.
• Xiao Mingli welcomed her father, Northern Cang Marquis Xiao Pingnan, to the marquis residence and asked whether the Boundary Gate matter had brought him to Jiangyin Prefecture.

Xiao Pingnan considered Ji Xiu as a possible son-in-law while searching for a Heavenly Material to restore Xiao Mingli’s cultivation. After Ji Xiu emerged from seclusion and learned Xu Longxiang remained missing beyond the Boundary Gate, he went to confront the officials handling the crisis as a Dragon Elephant warship arrived at Anning Wharf.

• Xiao Pingnan learned of Ji Xiu’s talent and decided he would make an excellent son-in-law who could eventually inherit the Northern Cang Marquis’s title.
• Xiao Pingnan proposed Ji Xiu as a match to Xiao Mingli, and Li Xuanyi encouraged the idea while Xiao Mingli considered it.
• Wang Xuanyang learned that Xu Longxiang had taken Ji Xiu away and set out to retrieve his disciple-grandson and teach him the Great Five Decays Sky Saber and Reincarnation Heavenly Art.
• Ji Xiu emerged from seclusion and learned that Xu Longxiang had not returned from the Boundary Gate, Earth Dragon Cave’s white mist was spreading, and officials were struggling to contain it.
• Ji Xiu headed to the county yamen to meet the officials, while a Dragon Elephant warship arrived at Anning Wharf.

Ji Xiu challenged the Martial Saints who were preparing to claim control of Anning County and seal its Boundary Gate without recognizing the Dragon Elephant Martial Saint’s contribution. Tuoba Yue and the other Dragon Elephant True Sect chiefs arrived to defend Ji Xiu and assert their lineage’s right to decide the Boundary Gate’s fate.

• Tuoba Yue, Zheng Luo, and Shen Gang arrived at Anning Wharf aboard the Dragon Elephant warship, believing their Old Ancestor was still alive and intending to meet Ji Xiu before considering a search through the Boundary Gate.
• Gao Zheng, Ning Buyu, and Qin Shuhuo met with Pei Daoran and Luo Daocheng in the county office, where Gao Zheng proposed sealing the Boundary Gate and distributing rewards without mentioning the Dragon Elephant Martial Saint.
• Ji Xiu entered the hall and demanded that the Martial Saints account for his Mentor’s role in protecting Anning County, prompting Qin Shuhuo to identify Ji Xiu’s Flawless Purple Mansion and pressure him with warnings about the danger of entering Central Yellow Heaven.
• Qin Shuhuo pressed Ji Xiu with his Martial Saint’s authority, but a giant hammer smashed the hall’s plaque and Tuoba Yue entered with Zheng Luo and Shen Gang behind him.
• Tuoba Yue declared Ji Xiu the Dragon Elephant Dao Child and said the Dragon Elephant True Sect would decide whether to establish a Grand Ban, asserting that Anning County had been protected by their Patriarch, Xu Longxiang.