Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen faced two transcendents and a stone sun disc that threatened to erase the city, but Tie Zhu endured its attacks and contained it. After Jiang Chen destroyed the transcendents’ Sacred Artifacts, Jiang Xiao Chen learned to control the disc, and Jiang Chen offered him immortal qi to help him break through.

• The stone sun disc appeared above the city and began sending out waves that erased people and buildings from existence.
• Tie Zhu transformed into a giant dragon, shielded the city from most of the disc’s destructive waves, and coiled around it to contain its power.
• Jiang Xiao Chen attacked the two stunned transcendents, who fled but were overwhelmed and defeated by Soul Mist and further attacks.
• Jiang Chen smashed the captured Sacred Artifacts with the Yin God Hammer and fed them to the Immortal Jade Prototype, restoring the sky and ending the disc’s threat.
• Tie Zhu brought Jiang Chen the now-inactive disc, and Jiang Xiao Chen studied it until he could control its destructive waves.
• Jiang Chen gave Jiang Xiao Chen a wisp of immortal qi and told him to use it to attempt a breakthrough.

Jiang Chen learned that Er Leng had been badly wounded by a Great Power Corpse after an eerie Buddha escaped Great Luotian and was killed by a group of cultivators. Er Leng survived with help from the King of Reincarnation, but the corpse from Penglai Immortal Island was hunting everyone involved.

• Jiang Xiao Chen broke through to the fourth tier of Supreme Powerhouse, and Jiang Chen said Immortal Qi might eventually transform all his Daos of Law.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu took Jiang Xiao Chen back toward the Nine Provinces, but Er Leng sent a distress message from a nearby strait.
• Jiang Chen found Er Leng injured by Corpse Qi and used the Immortal Jade Prototype to heal him.
• Er Leng explained that an eerie Buddha had escaped SS-07 Great Luotian with treasures from Penglai Fierce Land, and cultivators led by Xiao Ji ambushed and killed it.
• Er Leng revealed that a Great Power Corpse from Penglai Immortal Island was now hunting everyone who had taken part in the eerie Buddha's death.

Jiang Chen’s group encountered the Great Power-level corpse and escaped after Jiang Xiao Chen was badly wounded. After learning how the corpse had driven powerful figures into hiding, Jiang Chen announced that he could deal with it, leaving everyone to wonder what price he would demand.

• Er Leng told Jiang Chen how the corpse had attacked him and how the King of Reincarnation had helped him escape.
• Jiang Chen’s group encountered the corpse, and Jiang Xiao Chen’s attack barely made it flinch before it struck him through the chest.
• Tie Zhu carried Jiang Chen and the wounded Jiang Xiao Chen away, while the corpse stayed behind and turned toward another target.
• Jiang Chen returned to the Nine Provinces and learned that the corpse had scattered or wounded the Reincarnators, Old Antiques, and other figures, while the Ginseng Doll had escaped its pursuit.
• Jiang Chen posted on the Global Unusual Person Exchange Network that he could deal with the corpse, prompting people to question his claim and the price he would demand.

Jiang Chen negotiated a share of the treasures from the Weird Buddha with the Old Antiques and brought them to the Nine Provinces to witness his plan. At the East Sea Coast, Tie Zhu lured a Great Power’s corpse into the Nine Provinces, leaving the gathered observers astonished by the young True Dragon at Jiang Chen’s side.

• Jiang Chen demanded a thirty-seventy split of the spoils from the Weird Buddha, and the Old Antiques agreed after Old Liao mistakenly thought Jiang Chen had lowered his price.
• Jiang Chen left the Underground City with Tie Zhu, while Old Antiques, Reincarnators, and Weird Objects gathered in the Nine Provinces carrying treasures.
• Zhou Tai received the visitors as they discussed whether Jiang Chen could handle the Great Power’s corpse.
• At the East Sea Coast, Tie Zhu repeatedly drew the Great Power’s corpse after him by enduring its blows and taunting it.
• The Great Power’s corpse pursued Tie Zhu into the Nine Provinces, and the onlookers realized Tie Zhu was a young True Dragon and speculated about Jiang Chen’s origins.

Jiang Chen lured a Great Power’s corpse into Formless City’s Pseudo-Restricted Zone and made the gathered experts pay him extra for handling it. He returned to the Underground City and fed their treasures to the Immortal Jade, which produced three strands of immortal qi.

• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu entered Formless City, and Tie Zhu baited the Great Power’s corpse into the Pseudo-Restricted Zone by stripping off its immortal robe.
• Jiang Chen persuaded the Yin God to confront the corpse, threatening to smash the Buddha statues when it refused to help.
• Jiang Chen told the waiting experts that handling the corpse had cost him dearly, then Tie Zhu delivered bills and collected more treasures from them.
• Zhao Gujin declared that he would fight Jiang Chen after reaching the True Dao, so Jiang Chen attacked him with Jiang Xiao Chen and three Yin Sha Commanders, forcing him to flee with a void talisman.
• Jiang Chen returned to the Underground City and let the Immortal Jade absorb the treasures, producing three strands of immortal qi with one-fifth of the fourth still to go.

After Penglai Immortal Island’s ancient being threatened King Chen, a mysterious sword-bearing man from the Heavenly Dao Society intervened and fought the ancient being’s phantom. The man was eventually hurled away by a bronze spear, and an Old Antique wondered whether he was Seize the Moon.

• Jiang Xiao Chen absorbed two strands of Immortal Qi and advanced further into Supreme Powerhouse Fourth Tier, while Xiaohai reached Ninth Stage Peak.
• News arrived that an ancient being on Penglai Immortal Island had erupted in anger over the death of a Great Power’s corpse and threatened King Chen and the Nine Provinces.
• A hidden figure named King Chen, and a sword-bearing man shattered the ancient being’s curse-like declaration before killing the informant who had spoken the name.
• The ancient being challenged the Heavenly Dao Society, whose hidden figures allowed him three breaths to fight the sword-bearing man.
• The sword-bearing man blocked the ancient being’s finger and split his palm, but a phantom bronze war spear struck him into the distance.
• An Old Antique watched the battle and wondered whether the sword-bearing man was Seize the Moon.

Jiang Chen learned that the King of Reincarnation was close to becoming a Great Power and joked that Tie Zhu could take his position, prompting Tie Zhu to recruit support by promising his own meat. Jiang Chen then confronted Jiang Dijiao, an envoy from the Weapon Ancestor, about what it had taken from the Fierce Land of Yingzhou.

• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu he could become the King of Reincarnation if Reincarnation did not return within ten days.
• Tie Zhu promised the King of Equality and other Nine Provinces powerhouses portions of his meat in exchange for their support.
• Jiang Chen checked Ghost Gate Pass, then headed toward Yingzhou after learning a Sub-Restricted Zone envoy had visited the Fierce Land.
• Jiang Chen intercepted Jiang Dijiao at sea and learned that only twelve soldiers remained under the Weapon Ancestor.
• Jiang Chen asked to keep Jiang Dijiao's saber and the item it had brought from Yingzhou, and Jiang Dijiao drew its saber to defend its mission.

Jiang Chen had Tie Zhu and Jiang Xiao Chen pursue Jiang Dijiao after Tie Zhu blocked his powerful slash, and Jiang Dijiao fled toward the SS-Class-13 Demon-Prison Hell. As the chase continued, he warned them about the imprisoned Weapon Ancestor and the Ancestral Artifact sealed in Soldier Demon City.

• Jiang Dijiao revealed that Hundred Slashes had been refined from a Yin God, then turned to leave after Jiang Chen coolly challenged his claims.
• Jiang Chen sent Tie Zhu to test the blade, and Tie Zhu blocked Jiang Dijiao’s full-strength slash with only a shallow mark on his back.
• Jiang Chen demanded Jiang Dijiao leave behind his treasures, but Jiang Dijiao activated an eye on the blade and fled over the horizon.
• Tie Zhu carried Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen after Jiang Dijiao, while Tie Zhu intercepted him and Jiang Xiao Chen attacked as he retreated.
• Jiang Dijiao fled toward the Demon-Prison Hell and warned that the Weapon Ancestor imprisoned there could reclaim the Ancestral Artifact sealed in Soldier Demon City.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen pursued the Weapon Demon Jiang Dijiao toward the Demon-Prison Hell, with Jiang Xiao Chen copying its saber Dao and forcing it to flee. At the Restricted Zone portal, Jiang Dijiao sent the treasures ahead, turned to face its pursuers, and challenged Jiang Chen as a peak False God nearing Yin God strength.

• Jiang Dijiao fought while retreating toward the Restricted Zone, while distant observers watched Jiang Chen let Jiang Xiao Chen and Tie Zhu battle it.
• The Dharma-Breaking Commander broke Jiang Dijiao’s black screen, and Tie Zhu seized its saber, weakening it.
• Jiang Xiao Chen manifested a black Dao of Law, took Jiang Dijiao’s saber, and copied its saber Dao in a clash that left him wounded and Jiang Dijiao shaken.
• Jiang Dijiao pierced its brow to unleash Great Power strength, then fled toward the Demon-Prison Hell instead of attacking.
• Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu chased Jiang Dijiao; at the portal, Jiang Dijiao hurled a compressed world carrying the treasures through and turned to challenge Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen escaped Jiang Dijiao by having Tie Zhu steal the compressed world while he kept his opponent distracted, leaving Jiang Dijiao to kill fleeing spectators before the tribulation weakened it. In a tropical rainforest, Jiang Chen rewarded Tie Zhu, then opened the stolen world and began absorbing its rare spirit herbs with the Immortal Jade Prototype.

• Jiang Chen taunted Jiang Dijiao and tried to sell the spectators life-saving information while Jiang Dijiao prepared its strongest slash.
• Tie Zhu vanished and swallowed Jiang Dijiao's compressed world, then whisked Jiang Chen and itself away as Jiang Dijiao pursued them.
• Jiang Dijiao failed to find its opponents, turned its blade on the fleeing spectators, and was gravely weakened by the tribulation thunder before retreating into the Restricted Zone's portal.
• Tie Zhu claimed credit for its escape and asked Jiang Chen to record its achievement in the family genealogy, and Jiang Chen promised it more immortal qi.
• Jiang Chen had Jiang Xiao Chen open the compressed world, found it filled with rare spirit herbs, and used the Immortal Jade Prototype to absorb them.

Jiang Chen and his companions received Immortal Qi, but visitors from the Heavenly Dao Society arrived seeking his treasures and grew greedy when they saw Immortal Jade. The Society's three Half-Step Great Powers attacked Jiang Xiao Chen, who fought them off as the confrontation began.

• Jiang Chen gave four strands of Immortal Qi to Tie Zhu and let Jiang Xiao Chen refine two strands.
• Tie Zhu swallowed the Immortal Qi, then ran in circles and argued with the Immortal Qi inside his belly.
• Nan Zhensu offered Jiang Chen the sealed Taotie Jar in exchange for the spiritual treasures in his compressed world.
• A woman from the Heavenly Dao Society recognized Jiang Xiao Chen's Immortal Jade, and Nan Zhensu ordered his companions to seize it.
• Three Heavenly Dao Society members unleashed their sealed strength and attacked Jiang Xiao Chen, who broke their attacks and fought all three at once.

Jiang Xiao Chen fought three living fossils in the tropical rainforest, overcoming their combined techniques and revealing his growing Dao power. He killed the swordsman and the curse-wielding woman, while Nan Zhensu remained the last opponent.

• The living fossils used an Ancient Talisman formation and a curse doll to suppress Jiang Xiao Chen, but he broke free with Yin God Tunxiang and struck back.
• The swordsman, the curse-wielding woman, and the talisman expert unleashed their strongest attacks, including Sword Opens the Ghost Gate, but Jiang Xiao Chen revealed three new paths of the Dao of Law and countered them.
• Jiang Xiao Chen empowered the Sun Disc with two hundred paths of the Dao of Law, blasting the middle-aged swordsman into blood mist before pinning and killing him with a Sword Light.
• The curse-wielding woman recognized Hundred Slashes as a weapon that countered her and tried to flee, but Jiang Xiao Chen caught her and killed her with a saber strike.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen fought the Heavenly Dao Society’s steward and his living fossils, while Tie Zhu protected them from the steward’s rain attack. After the steward escaped, Tie Zhu discovered a pitch-black heart inside the ancient jar and heard it offer him power and attention.

• Jiang Xiao Chen ignored Nan Zhensu’s warnings and killed the Talisman Dao living fossil, crushing his life-saving trump card.
• Nan Zhensu struck Jiang Xiao Chen with a rain giant, but Tie Zhu shielded him and mocked the steward until Nan Zhensu abandoned his attempt to seize the Immortal Jade and fled.
• Jiang Chen turned to the earthenware jar Nan Zhensu had left behind, and Jiang Xiao Chen warned that its damaged seals might not hold much longer.
• Tie Zhu used his enhanced perception to see a pitch-black heart inside the jar and heard a voice offering him power and everyone’s attention.

Jiang Chen freed a black heart from its sealed jar, and it claimed to be the ancient expert Zhou Heavenly Dao, offering to make him its disciple. When Jiang Chen instead invited it to join his team, the heart tried to possess him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Jiang Chen used the Yin God Hammer to break the seals around the jar, releasing the black heart.
• The heart introduced itself as Zhou Heavenly Dao and offered to take Jiang Chen as its disciple, promising to help him rise to the pinnacle.
• Jiang Chen recognized the name from a fabricated story he had once told and suspected the heart was inventing its history and promises.
• After the heart described its betrayal and supreme demonic art, Jiang Chen invited it to join his team.
• The black heart threatened to seize Jiang Chen's body and sent its evil power surging toward him.

Jiang Chen and his companions destroyed the jar imprisoning the black heart, captured it after it escaped, and absorbed it into the Yin God Hammer. When the heart retained its consciousness and resisted Jiang Chen’s control, he brought it into the hammer’s inner realm and set the Netherworld Soldiers against it.

• The black heart tried to possess Jiang Chen, but his terrifying inner vision drove it out and left it badly damaged.
• Tie Zhu taunted the heart while Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen smashed its jar, allowing it to escape before Tie Zhu caught it in his mouth.
• Jiang Xiao Chen imprisoned the black heart, and Jiang Chen struck it with the Yin God Hammer until it shattered and was absorbed.
• Jiang Chen summoned the heart from the hammer and discovered that it had retained its consciousness and could not be controlled or examined.
• Jiang Chen brought the heart into the hammer’s inner realm, sealed its powers, and sent the Netherworld Soldiers to attack it.

Jiang Chen forced the black heart to submit, named it Zhou Hei, and learned it could greatly enhance the combat ability of a Yin Sha. He arranged a fight to test its claims, leaving Jiang Xiao Chen facing Zhou Hei in an Eighth Tier Yin Sha that had risen to Great Cultivator strength.

• Jiang Chen and the Netherworld Soldiers tortured the black heart until it agreed to join him, then called it Zhou Hei.
• Zhou Hei claimed he could use his immortal-level combat experience to let a weaker Yin Sha defeat opponents above its realm, so Jiang Chen made him commander of the Yin Sha Army.
• Jiang Chen introduced Zhou Hei to Jiang Xiao Chen and Tie Zhu, who tried to claim the title of Young Master before Jiang Chen kicked it aside.
• Jiang Chen summoned an Eighth Tier Yin Sha Spearman for Zhou Hei to possess, and the Yin Sha transformed and rose to Great Cultivator-level strength.
• Zhou Hei challenged Jiang Xiao Chen, who sensed a threat greater than the one he had faced from Jiang Dijiao despite Zhou Hei's lower aura.

Jiang Chen joined the trade between the Sub-Restricted Zones and Fierce Lands, secretly intercepting their envoys with Zhou Hei and Jiang Xiao Chen. After they killed a powerful envoy, Jiang Chen discovered that the traded goods were Dao Corpses that could strengthen the Yin God.

• Zhou Hei defeated Jiang Xiao Chen and realized that his nearly two hundred Daos were real, while Jiang Xiao Chen worried that Jiang Chen had arranged another test.
• Tie Zhu tried to stir up conflict over the family inheritance, but Jiang Chen instead worried that Tie Zhu might be embracing dangerous ideals.
• Jiang Chen began inspecting trades between the Sub-Restricted Zones and Fierce Lands, alarming Zhou Hei with his willingness to provoke both powers.
• Jiang Chen had Zhou Hei and Jiang Xiao Chen help ambush and kill envoys from the Restricted Zones after they left their trades.
• Jiang Chen opened a bloodstained iron box and found a Dao Corpse, which Zhou Hei explained could increase the Yin God's power.

Jiang Chen sent Zhou Hei to trade with the Fierce Land, where Zhou Hei successfully exchanged a fake box of Dao corpse material for a compressed world rich in life Spiritual Qi. After Jiang Chen refined it into Immortal Qi and rewarded Zhou Hei and Tie Zhu, Zhou Hei returned with earth-shattering news to share.

• Jiang Chen ordered Zhou Hei to impersonate the slain Restricted Zone envoy and trade with the Fierce Land, giving him an empty iron box that Zhou Hei disguised as containing Dao corpse material.
• Zhou Hei entered the Fierce Land, deceived a young Great Power envoy, and returned safely with a compressed expanse of heaven and earth filled with life Spiritual Qi.
• Jiang Chen refined the Immortal Jade Prototype and obtained five strands of Immortal Qi, giving two to Zhou Hei and three to Tie Zhu.
• Zhou Hei marveled at the Immortal Jade Prototype and wondered about Jiang Chen's origins after Tie Zhu hinted at his father's extraordinary background.
• Jiang Chen asked about Zhou Hei's information gathering, and Zhou Hei announced that he had uncovered earth-shattering news.

Jiang Chen learned that several Fierce Lands were preparing to transform into Yin Gods rather than resist the Restricted Zones, and Zhou Hei explained their origins and the ancient war behind them. Jiang Chen returned to the Nine Provinces, rallied the Unusual Persons, and strengthened Soul Ancestor Yin Sha ahead of the second turmoil.

• Jiang Chen learned from Zhou Hei that four Fierce Lands had traded Dao corpses with the Restricted Zones, while nearly half of the eleven Fierce Lands had prepared an alternative path.
• Zhou Hei described how the Fierce Lands arose from the remnants of their side after an ancient war, and how divisions among them weakened their resistance to the six Restricted Zones.
• Jiang Chen returned to the Nine Provinces as the spiritual qi continued to grow denser and the Yamas and Dao Alliance Sect Masters awaited him.
• The Unusual Persons in the Underground City roared to welcome Jiang Chen, while Tie Zhu joked about becoming his successor.
• Jiang Chen arranged affairs with the King of Equality and the others, then used seized Dao corpses and treasures to raise Soul Ancestor Yin Sha to the threshold of the great power level.

Jiang Chen reviewed reports about powerful factions and individuals entering Sub-Restricted Zones and growing stronger. The chapter ended with Zhao Gujin repeatedly challenging Heavenly Tribulation to refine his Martial Arts, while King Tang remained missing.

• The Old Antiques returned from a Sub-Restricted Zone with many new half-step Great Powers, while the Reincarnators emerged with Heavenly Sacrifice Items and an Ancient Bronze Warship and began plundering dangerous sites.
• Ba, Yue Chi, and Shiqiu returned from the Blood-Colored City with unfathomable auras as Evil Sha inside the Restricted Zone rebelled with support from a top-tier Yin God.
• Zhao Gujin emerged from Demon-Prison Hell crippled, then realized that imperfection could form the strongest path and broke into the True Dao.
• Zhao Gujin repeatedly endured Heavenly Tribulation, using its lightning to test and perfect his Martial Arts as he tried to enter the True Dao again.
• Big Dipper returned from a Sub-Restricted Zone near Heaven with strengths Er Leng could not discern, while King Tang remained missing after entering a Sub-Restricted Zone alone.