Chapter Summaries

Qi Nanke killed Dugu Jing and warned the Cang Capital clans that True Martial Mountain would avenge the slaughter of its branch disciples, then accepted an invitation from King Yan to discuss an opportunity for Ji Xiu. At Crimson Origin Hall, Li Qianyuan completed the Heavenly Medicine [Spring Before Illness], but a Bodhisattva’s chants disrupted the pill patterns just as he prepared to finish it.

• Qi Nanke killed Dugu Jing in the Dugu Clan Ancestral Hall and declared that he would kill those responsible for slaughtering True Martial Mountain’s branch disciples.
• Qi Nanke and Zhao Baijing discussed protecting Ji Xiu and agreed to meet King Yan after reading his talisman edict, which offered to designate Ji Xiu the foremost Mystic Official and grant him a Grand Court Examination quota.
• For seven days and nights, Ji Xiu, Xu Longxiang, and Xiao Pingnan watched Li Qianyuan refine [Spring Before Illness] at Crimson Origin Hall.
• Li Qianyuan summoned heavenly wind and rain to give the completed Heavenly Medicine two pill patterns and exceptional quality.
• As Li Qianyuan prepared to blow away the medicine’s final traces of mortal air, Sanskrit chants and a Bodhisattva’s manifestation destabilized its pill patterns, prompting him to accuse Great Vehicle Boundless Temple.

The Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva disrupted Li Qianyuan’s attempt to refine the [Spring Before Illness] Heavenly Medicine, but Ji Xiu invoked the Heavenly Master’s Edict and deprived the Bodhisattva of his authority. The Bodhisattva fled, the medicine succeeded, and Ji Xiu’s cultivation advanced greatly.

• The Great Vehicle Boundless Temple’s Bodhisattva disrupted Li Qianyuan’s pill refinement with Sanskrit chanting, and Li Qianyuan rebuked the temple for harvesting divine thoughts through its balm.
• Li Qianyuan summoned the first-rank [Fire Element] Dao Talisman, but the Bodhisattva suppressed its power and threatened to ruin the Heavenly Medicine.
• Ji Xiu invoked the Heavenly Master’s Edict, causing its sacred admonitions to deprive the Bodhisattva of his incense offerings and Buddhist radiance.
• The Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva panicked at the Edict and fled eight hundred li, leaving Guanhai Arhat and Cang Capital’s onlookers baffled.
• Li Qianyuan completed the high-grade [Spring Before Illness] Heavenly Medicine, while Ji Xiu’s Origin Spirit Out of Body cultivation surged forward.

Ji Xiu completed his fifth realm of Daoist Merit after using the Heavenly Master's Deprivation authority to drive off the Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva and help refine the Heavenly Medicine. The Bodhisattva recognized the authority and planned to petition Spirit Mountain for a ruling, while Guanhai Arhat began plotting to capture Ji Xiu when he left Cang Capital.

• Ji Xiu realized that the Deprivation authority had helped him reach flawless completion in Origin Spirit Out of Body and had transformed the Primordial Dao Talisman.
• Li Qianyuan gave Ji Xiu the completed Heavenly Medicine [Spring Before Illness], warned him to conceal his Heavenly Master's authority, and urged him to visit the Heavenly Master's legacy at Water Lord's Manor.
• Guanhai Arhat recognized the Heavenly Master's Edict as the power that had once defeated the Buddha Path forces and understood why the Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva had fled.
• The Great Vehicle Boundless Bodhisattva returned, concluded that a newly appointed Heavenly Master had wielded part of the Edict's authority, and decided to petition Spirit Mountain while ordering Guanhai to handle the Physical Body Hut matter.
• Guanhai Arhat resolved to wait until Ji Xiu left Cang Capital, then invite him into Buddhism and make him a Physical Body Hut.

Qi Nanke negotiated protection and compensation for the Dragon Elephant Sect from the Cang Capital clans at Prince Yan's Residence, while King Yan Jiang Shentong proposed a marriage connection between his daughter and Ji Xiu. After the clans delivered rare treasures, Ji Xiu completed his sixth transformation and reached the Fifth Great Threshold.

• King Yan Jiang Shentong blamed the Qin, Yuwen, and Dugu clans for their past attack on the Sun Moon Pavilion as their heads begged him to stop Qi Nanke's killings.
• Qi Nanke arrived with his Guardian, and King Yan revealed that he had invited him to mediate with the clans.
• Qi Nanke demanded compensation, and King Yan arranged for the clans to surrender thirty percent of their foundations, appoint Ji Xiu as North Cang's number one Mystic Official, and grant him the Heavenly Saber Prefecture governorship.
• Qi Nanke added that the clans must provide rare treasures and exotic blood for Ji Xiu's cultivation, and the clan heads accepted the terms.
• King Yan told Qi Nanke that his daughter planned a Flower Banquet and had taken a liking to Ji Xiu.
• Half a month later, Ji Xiu consumed the delivered spiritual essences, completed his sixth transformation, and reached the Fifth Great Threshold with a Flawless body.

Ji Xiu attended Prince Yan’s Flower Banquet, confronted Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi over the Saber Court relic, and defeated them with his newly achieved strength. As Jiang Changle considered offering him a flower crown, an urgent report revealed that rebels from Hundun Water Marsh had invaded Jiangyin Prefecture.

• Ji Xiu received an invitation to Prince Yan’s Flower Banquet and learned he had been named the year’s number one Mystic Official, qualifying him for the Grand Court Examination.
• Jiang Changle and Jiang Changzhi discussed her marriage prospects, and Jiang Changzhi identified Ji Xiu as their father’s preferred match for her.
• Ji Xiu confronted Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi at the banquet over the Saber Court relic and challenged them to claim it if they could.
• Wei Fengchun and Wang Quan Qi attacked Ji Xiu, but he overwhelmed them and sent them sprawling, revealing his strength at the Fifth Great Threshold.
• Jiang Changle considered presenting Ji Xiu with a flower crown, but Black Armor soldiers arrived with news that rebels had advanced into Jiangyin Prefecture with eighty thousand divine armor and Dao soldiers.

After learning that the Hundun Faction had invaded Jiangyin Prefecture with divine-armored Daoist soldiers, Ji Xiu tried to secure King Yan’s aid but resolved to return even if Prince Yan’s Residence would not help. Xu Longxiang rallied the Dragon Elephant Sect to go with him, and a senior brother arrived offering to join them.

• News spread that eighty thousand divine-armored Daoist soldiers led by the Hundun Faction had swept across Jiangyin Prefecture, and Ji Xiu suspected Central Yellow Heaven and the Mystic Talisman Sect were backing them.
• Ji Xiu demanded that King Yan send troops, threatened Wei Fengchun when he objected, and told Jiang Changzhi that his sect, family, and fiancée Xiao Mingli were in danger.
• Ji Xiu revealed that he had obtained Heavenly Medicine for Xiao Mingli and left Prince Yan’s Residence to hurry to Jiangyin, while Jiang Changle learned he was Xiao Mingli’s betrothed.
• At the Dragon Elephant Sect, Ji Xiu met Xu Longxiang, who said Xiao Pingnan was requesting military aid and declared that the sect would return to resolve the crisis.
• A senior brother arrived in a golden carriage and offered to accompany Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang.

Ji Xiu accepted Qi Nanke’s help and hurried toward Jiangyin to protect his homeland from the Hundun Faction. In Wang Quan Manor, Jiang Lingyi learned that the Wang Quan Saber had resurfaced and vowed to destroy the Saber Court’s revival by drawing Jiangnan Sword Mountain and the Divine Weapon Altar into the conflict.

• Qi Nanke offered to help Ji Xiu, and Xu Longxiang gave his approval despite their old grievances.
• Ji Xiu thanked Qi Nanke, then summoned Lord Cangming and raced toward Jiangyin while Xiao Pingnan was to contact the marquises.
• Wang Quan Qi lamented that he could not reclaim the Wang Quan Saber, and a clan elder advised him to let the acting family head decide what to do.
• Jiang Lingyi read the report from North Cang and became furious that Wang Quan Wumu’s legacy had gained a successor protected by Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Lingyi vowed to prevent the Saber Court from rising again and planned to provoke Jiangnan Sword Mountain and the Divine Weapon Altar into opposing Ji Xiu.

The Hundun Faction attacked Jiangyin Prefecture as Central Yellow Heaven maneuvered to capture the reincarnated Black Emperor. Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint received temporary Heavenly Venerable authority and set out for Great Xuan, while Ji Xiu arrived at Jiangyin Prefecture.

• The Red Beard Heavenly King led the Hundun Faction’s attack on Jiangyin Prefecture, and Garrison General Luo Daocheng discovered that Chen Jing’s Fishery Trade had helped the invaders from within.
• Wang Xuanyang confronted the forces of Central Yellow Heaven and the Mystic Talisman Sect, then sent Chen Sanjiu to defend Jiangyin Prefecture and protect the Northern Cang Marquis Residence.
• Chen Sanjiu broke through the fighting to reach Luo Daocheng, learned the location of the Jiangyin Marquisate, and led the troops toward it.
• The Red Beard Heavenly King revealed that the attack was meant to unseal the Heavenly Saber Prefecture and welcome Central Yellow Heaven’s divine army.
• Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint reported finding the Black Emperor to Your Majesty Taiyi, who appointed him to temporarily wield Heavenly Venerable authority and ordered him to capture the Black Emperor in Great Xuan.
• Heavenly Venerable Hong warned Vast Law Astral Thunder Holy Saint about the danger of pursuing the Black Emperor, while Ji Xiu arrived at Jiangyin Prefecture on a flood dragon.

Ji Xiu returned to Jiangyin Prefecture and fought through the Hundun Faction as North Cang’s forces joined the battle. At the besieged Marquis Residence, he confronted Red Beard Heavenly King, whose aura revealed that Ji Xiu was fated with the [Black Emperor] and connected to the [Book of Life and Death].

• Ji Xiu stormed the Jiangyin wharf, smashed through the Hundun Faction, and carved a bloody path into the prefecture.
• Qi Nanke and Xu Longxiang recognized that a force from Central Yellow Heaven was trying to turn Jiangyin into a bridgehead for the Divine Path, while North Cang’s soldiers and Dragon Elephant Sect disciples attacked the Divine Armor Dao Soldiers.
• Red Beard Heavenly King offered the besieged trades and sects a chance to submit, and many left the Marquis Residence while Xiao Mingli and others chose to resist.
• Xiao Mingli calmed Chen Sanjiu and warned those departing that surrender would leave them at the mercy of the invaders; Zhao Jiu denounced the defectors and predicted North Cang’s arrival.
• Ji Xiu appeared at the Marquis Residence and challenged Red Beard Heavenly King, who recognized him as the one fated with the [Black Emperor]; Ji Xiu’s Primordial Dao Talisman then detected traces of the [Book of Life and Death].

Ji Xiu absorbed the life-and-death spiritual opportunity tied to the [Book of Life and Death], broke through seven transformations, and learned nothing of the heavenly powers mobilizing over his sudden connection to the [Black Emperor]. After Xu Longxiang destroyed Red Beard Heavenly King's divine thought, Ji Xiu presented the Heavenly Medicine to the woman in the wheelchair.

• Ji Xiu activated the Primordial Dao Talisman to extract the [Book of Life and Death] opportunity from Red Beard Heavenly King, and a [Black Emperor] treasure form appeared behind him before its light entered his body.
• Red Beard Heavenly King reported Ji Xiu's discovery to the Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable, who informed the Divine Court; Heavenly Venerable Hong then told gathered Divine Path powers that Ji Xiu's phantom resembled the [Black Emperor].
• The Divine Path powers recalled the [Black Emperor]'s rebellion against the Ancient Dao Court and decided that Kunlun should investigate the appearance.
• The life-and-death qi opened Ji Xiu's bottleneck, advanced his Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Prison-Suppressing Profound Art to 747/900, and carried him beyond seven transformations.
• Ji Xiu assured Xu Longxiang and Qi Nanke that he was unharmed, then asked Xu Longxiang to destroy Red Beard Heavenly King's divine thought; Xu Longxiang crushed it before it could finish threatening them.
• Ji Xiu knelt beside the woman in the wheelchair, opened a jade box containing the Heavenly Medicine, and told her he had not failed her trust.

Ji Xiu learned that the Heavenly Saber lineage was besieged on Golden Turtle Island and hurried there, leaving Xiao Mingli to recover her cultivation with the medicine he had brought. As the siege lifted, a Central Yellow Heavenly Venerable opened a stable gateway into Great Xuan and announced his descent to negotiate for Ji Xiu.

• Xiao Mingli told Ji Xiu that the Boundary Gate to Central Yellow Heaven had strengthened, Jiangyin Prefecture was under threat, and Wang Xuanyang remained surrounded on Golden Turtle Island.
• Ji Xiu gave Xiao Mingli the Heavenly Medicine [Spring Before Illness], which she swallowed before he set out with Dragon Elephant Grandmaster and Qi Nanke to aid the Heavenly Saber True Sect.
• The Godly Monarch of Controlling Thunder and Wielding Axe and Qinian discussed waiting for the Mystic Talisman Sect's target, while the Red Beard Heavenly King reported that Ji Xiu had been found and Northern Cang forces were routing his faction.
• The Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable ordered the Central Yellow forces to withdraw to the Earth Dragon Cave and prepare for his descent, declaring that Great Xuan would be joined to his Divine Domain.
• Wang Xuanyang saw the besiegers retreat and prepared to open the Saber Dao Ancestral Temple at Great Snow Mountain, but the sky changed as the Heavenly Venerable's gateway began affecting Jiangyin Prefecture.
• Dragon Tooth Warships bearing the Dragon Elephant Orthodox and Northern Cang Marquis banners reached Golden Turtle Island as the Heavenly Venerable announced his descent to negotiate with White Mountain Black Water and Great Xuan's Vassal Kings.

After Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable entered White Mountain Black Water and threatened King Yan, Ji Xiu learned of a hidden Saber Dao inheritance that could help him contend for a title. When the Heavenly Venerable attacked Golden Turtle Island under Taiyi’s edict to capture the Black Emperor’s remnants, Jiang Li’s Sun and Moon Pearl answered with a warning.

• Ji Xiu and Xu Longxiang heard that Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable had entered Great Xuan and feared the Divine Path’s ambitions for White Mountain Black Water.
• Wang Xuanyang told Ji Xiu that Zhou Chongyang had left a powerful inheritance in the Great Snow Mountain, and Ji Xiu resolved to seek it despite the danger.
• Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable confronted King Yan Jiang Shentong across the Eastern Cang Sea and warned him not to oppose the Divine Court.
• Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable invoked Taiyi’s edict to capture the Black Emperor’s remnants and struck toward Golden Turtle Island, where Ji Xiu was standing.
• Jiang Li’s Sun and Moon Pearl rose into the sky and declared that Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable was not worthy to make things difficult for her.

Ji Xiu reclaimed the legacies of his four lives and five worlds, united their fate through the Primordial Dao Talisman, and revealed himself as the Black Emperor returned. As the realms bowed to his authority, he declared the ten-thousand-year age of chaos over and began a new era.

• Jiang Li appeared as the restored Profound Monarch, stopped the Vast Dharma, Mighty Thunder Heavenly Venerable, and summoned Ji Xiu to recover the legacy he had buried beneath Great Snow Mountain.
• As Ji Xiu crossed the Qi Luck Rainbow Bridge, his memories and artifacts awakened, while a being from Central Yellow Heaven tried to seize him and Jiang Li blocked the attack.
• Ji Xiu reached the ancestral temple and recovered the memories of Wang Quan Wumu, Jiang Jing, and Zhang Xuanye from the murals along its corridor.
• At the corridor’s end, Ji Xiu sat upon the Black Emperor’s throne, took full command of the Primordial Dao Talisman, and reclaimed the powers of his past lives.
• Ji Xiu’s authority spread across all the realm heavens, whose laws and order bowed before him, and he declared the chaotic age finished and a new era begun.