Chapter Summaries

After heaven and earth returned to the age of Daochang, three Great Powers emerged, but the Fengdu Forbidden Domain plunged everyone across the Nine Provinces into a deadly sleep. Xiaohai identified the Nightmare Judge’s rule-based power and explained that surviving its bizarre dreams was the only way to resist it, prompting Jiang Chen to ask how to enter the nightmare.

• The Spiritual Qi surged, Great Powers appeared around the world, and the Nine Provinces learned that the King of Reincarnation had also broken through overseas.
• Ghost Gate Pass opened, and the King of Equality found an entire city asleep until Xiaohai stopped him from succumbing to the same sleep.
• Jiang Chen learned that everyone in the Nine Provinces had fallen asleep, while the people in the Underground City remained awake.
• Xiaohai revealed that the Nightmare Judge trapped sleepers in deadly dreams, where repeated deaths could permanently destroy their consciousness.
• Xiaohai explained that sleepers had to survive the bizarre dreams like ordinary people, and Jiang Chen asked how he could enter the nightmare.

Jiang Chen entered the nightmare to confront the Nightmare Judge and began clearing its eerie scenarios, while powerful beings emerged from several Restricted Zones. The chapter left the Ancient Blood Demon heading for the Nine Provinces and the Holy War Corpse learning that King Chen had taken the Blazing Sun Heavenly Disc.

• Jiang Chen entrusted Zhou Hei with the Yin Sha Hammer and army, then entered the nightmare despite the others' protests.
• Jiang Chen survived the first two nightmare scenarios through repeated attempts and ruthless schemes, then continued into the remaining dreams.
• A Four-Winged Spectral Angel appeared above Restricted Zone Six, Heaven, while an Ancient Blood Demon emerged from Restricted Zone Four, the Gods' Mausoleum.
• The Ancient Blood Demon learned that King Chen had wounded it and headed east toward the Nine Provinces as Er Leng relayed the news.
• A Holy War Corpse emerged from Restricted Zone Three, the Sage Domain, and killed nearby powerful figures while searching for the Blazing Sun Heavenly Disc.
• A man controlled by a sacred artifact told the Holy War Corpse that King Chen had taken the Blazing Sun Heavenly Disc.

As Jiang Chen remained trapped in a nightmare, False Gods and ancient Great Powers from the Fierce Lands and other hidden forces emerged and announced that they would hunt him down. The chapter ended with Heartless Sword Li Moqiu appearing as another threat to the Nine Provinces.

• The Calamity God emerged in the White Elephant Nation and discovered that his clan had been killed, then set his gaze on the Nine Provinces.
• People across the Unusual Person World mocked Jiang Chen’s danger, while Tie Zhu defended his father and argued with anonymous critics online.
• An ancient Great Power emerged from Penglai Immortal Island and declared that he had been ordered to kill King Chen.
• The Earth God emerged from the Land Temple, and Li Xuanzhen announced that the temple would execute King Chen and sought to turn Jiang Chen into a clay servant.
• Heartless Sword Li Moqiu emerged from Penglai Immortal Mountain, joining the growing forces threatening Jiang Chen and the Nine Provinces.

Invincible beings from the Restricted Zones and Fierce Lands prepared to attack the Nine Provinces while Jiang Chen remained asleep, leaving the Underground City in despair. As the world celebrated his impending downfall, the King of Equality suspected Jiang Chen was hiding a plan, but received no response.

• Old Antiques and powerful figures mocked Jiang Chen’s coming death on the Unusual Person Network, while Xiao Ji and Lin Xiao expressed regret and Zhao Gujin wished to face him himself.
• Tie Zhu traded insults online as the Underground City’s residents learned that four False Gods and three veteran Great Powers were targeting the Nine Provinces.
• The Martial Sect Leader called for a fight, but Jiang Lao chastised him, while Zhou Tai, Tang Yi, and the Old Celestial Master feared the Nine Provinces had no chance.
• The King of Equality tried to get Jiang Chen to reveal whether he was pretending to sleep, then loudly mourned him when Jiang Chen did not answer.
• The Underground City’s residents prepared for death, and new recruits—including children—faced the threat of seven ancient powers overwhelming the Nine Provinces.

The King of Reincarnation and the Big Dipper intercepted two enemies targeting King Chen, while Luo Li confronted the Calamity God at the Nine Provinces’ border. The Calamity God recognized Luo Li, who prepared to fight with his Ghost Generals.

• The King of Reincarnation blocked the ancient Great Power from Penglai Immortal Island and shattered his Immortal's Finger with Heaven-Opening.
• The King of Reincarnation dismissed the Great Power’s claim that he resembled an old acquaintance and attacked with Roaming Dragon Sword Qi, prompting the Great Power to summon a water mirror.
• The Big Dipper, led by Po Jun, used an ancient battle formation to stop the Four-Winged Spectral Angel from reaching the Nine Provinces.
• Old Antiques and resentful powerful figures headed toward the Nine Provinces, expecting the approaching Calamity God to kill King Chen.
• Luo Li faced the Calamity God beyond Northern Ridge, summoned his Ghost Generals, and warned the False God that it would not escape.

Jiang Xiao Chen used his nine strands of the Immortal Dao to hold off the Holy War Corpse, while Tie Zhu and the Nine Provinces’ forces joined together to stop Heartless Sword from reaching King Chen. The chapter ended with Heartless Sword wounded and the ancient formation still holding her back.

• Jiang Xiao Chen challenged the Holy War Corpse and used the Sun Disc and his Immortal Dao powers to drive it toward the East Sea Coast, keeping it from attacking the Nine Provinces.
• Heartless Sword attacked King Chen while Zhou Hei remained composed and did not intervene.
• Tie Zhu asked Zhou Tai whether the formation was ready, and Zhou Tai and Xiaohai activated it using the Incense Power of three lineages.
• The Nine Provinces’ mountains and rivers formed an ancient Mountain God Grand Formation, with the supreme powerhouses standing across its peaks.
• Tie Zhu stole Heartless Sword’s sword and blocked her strike, while Xiaohai’s dream powers obscured the stone palm’s path and allowed it to hit her.

Zhou Hei appeared to protect the sleeping King Chen and fought the land god and the Ancient Blood Demon's Battle Servant alone. He shattered their attacks and unleashed the Yin Sha Army, turning the battle in the Nine Provinces' favor.

• The land god and the Ancient Blood Demon advanced on King Chen, who remained asleep and unprotected.
• Zhou Hei appeared, blocked the land god's strike, and destroyed his massive earthen palm with one finger.
• Zhou Hei used Heaven-Stepping Dao-Seeking Steps to raise his power to the seventh tier and attacked the land god with the Golden Great Hand.
• The land god summoned an ancient mountain and a Clay Buddha while the Ancient Blood Demon sent blood-red flames toward the Underground City.
• Zhou Hei ordered the Yin Sha Army to form ranks, and its Battle Formation extinguished the flames and attacked the Ancient Blood Demon.
• Zhou Hei shattered the Clay Buddha and stood in the void, declaring that mighty Huaxia would not tolerate invasion by foreign enemies.

Zhou Hei and the Nine Provinces held back the invading forces, convincing many spectators to abandon plans against King Chen and claim ties to him. Then Mount Sumeru Temple manifested above the Underground City, and Venerable Putuo appeared to settle a karmic debt with Jiang.

• Zhou Hei commanded the Yin Sha Legion to hold back Ancient-Blood Demon Setuolei while the Nine Provinces resisted the other invaders.
• Some cultivators tried to incite an attack on King Chen, but others rebuked them, and an old man struck down one of the instigators.
• Spectators changed their tune and claimed friendships with King Chen, wary of the Nine Provinces' hidden strength.
• Mount Sumeru Temple manifested above the Underground City, and its Buddhist light and chanting stunned the gathered cultivators.
• Putuo emerged from the temple and said he had come to settle the karmic debt Jiang had formed with it.
• Putuo's words drove more than a dozen powerful cultivators to seek Buddhist discipleship, and the spectators recognized him as Venerable Putuo, a famed Buddhist elder.

Jiang Chen awakened in a terrifying dragon transformation and destroyed Putuo’s attack with one punch. As he trapped Putuo in a dark ocean, he made clear that the monk would not escape.

• Putuo spread a Buddhist avenue across the Nine Provinces and trapped Tie Zhu with a conversion barrier as he tried to carry the unconscious Jiang Chen to safety.
• Tie Zhu stood between Jiang Chen and Putuo’s descending golden palm, but daylight returned to the Nine Provinces and Jiang Chen awakened in an atavistic True Dragon state.
• Jiang Chen caught Putuo’s enormous palm and smashed it apart with a single punch, revealing overwhelming strength.
• Putuo tried to retreat to Mount Sumeru Temple, but Jiang Chen plunged him into a pitch-black ocean and challenged him to return.

Jiang Chen trapped Putuo beneath a manifested black sea and killed the eminent monk despite his Buddhist arts and artifacts. The other anomalous fighters retreated, while Jiang Chen remained above the Nine Provinces amid blood rain and renewed killing intent.

• Jiang Chen disrupted Putuo’s attempt to purge his inner demon, crushed his body, and forced him to escape with Golden Cicada Escapes Its Shell.
• Putuo transformed into a great Buddha and used Indestructible Vajra to block Jiang Chen’s punch, but Jiang Chen summoned a material black sea above the Nine Provinces.
• Putuo tried to flee using a rotten wooden fish and a damaged Lotus Lamp as the Ancient Blood Demon, the Heartless Sword, and the Earth God withdrew from their battles.
• Jiang Chen pressed the sea down on Putuo, who begged for his life and tried more Buddhist artifacts and scriptures to resist.
• The black sea sealed Putuo’s arts, ground away his body, and killed him, triggering blood rain and the mourning of the Great Dao.

Jiang Chen fought the four enemy Great Powers while the Nine Provinces’ other forces lay incapacitated. After killing Li Xuanzhen, he faced the Heartless Sword, the Ancient Blood Demon, and the Holy War Corpse, whose combined attacks left him in a difficult position.

• The Land God pointed out that Jiang Chen’s allies were exhausted, while Jiang Xiao Chen could barely fight and the little girl was still battling the Calamity God.
• Jiang Chen attacked Li Xuanzhen, but the Land God rescued him by fleeing underground; Jiang Chen pursued through the moisture in the air and crushed Li Xuanzhen.
• The Heartless Sword, Ancient Blood Demon, and Holy War Corpse launched their killing moves against Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen blocked the Heartless Sword’s strike with the black ocean and traded blows with the Holy War Corpse, but the Ancient Blood Demon’s flames began consuming him.
• The Heartless Sword and Holy War Corpse struck at Jiang Chen again, putting him in a dangerous position.

Jiang Chen used the complete Thunder Method to defeat three powerful attackers, killing Heartless Sword and the Holy War Corpse while Ancient Blood Demon Setuolei escaped. He displayed their remains as warnings and left the Nine Provinces’ enemies reeling at the scale of his power.

• Heartless Sword, the Holy War Corpse, and Setuolei attacked Jiang Chen with their strongest techniques as he completed the Thunder Method’s Pardon Edict.
• Jiang Chen summoned a colossal lightning sphere that overwhelmed the three attackers and pursued them even as they fled through space.
• Jiang Chen emerged unharmed after replenishing his spiritual power, then returned carrying Heartless Sword’s charred corpse.
• Jiang Chen ordered Heartless Sword’s corpse hung for nine days and left Setuolei’s severed leg on a mountain as a public attraction.
• Jiang Chen confined the dead Holy War Corpse in the Underground City, and the watching experts realized he had killed one of the strongest invaders.

After driving Mount Sumeru Temple away, Jiang Chen joined the King of Reincarnation’s fight with an ancient Great Power and pursued the fleeing enemy toward Penglai Immortal Island. A powerhouse emerged from Penglai and challenged Jiang Chen as he reached the island.

• Jiang Chen failed to locate the Calamity God or the Land Temple, and Mount Sumeru Temple vanished before he could attack it.
• Jiang Chen declared that Penglai Immortal Island could come after him, then left the sea as the King of Reincarnation fought an ancient Great Power.
• Jiang Chen appeared during the battle, and the ancient Great Power fled when he recognized King Chen.
• Jiang Chen struck the fleeing Great Power with a massive hand of seawater, crushing his Ten Directions Fist and badly injuring him.
• Jiang Chen pursued the Great Power toward Penglai Immortal Island, where a phantom broke through his seawater barriers and an aged voice threatened him.

Jiang Chen confronted the blood-colored top great power guarding Penglai Immortal Island, while the King of Reincarnation and Tie Zhu stayed by his side despite his attempts to send them away. The enemy trapped them in a nearly unbreakable cage, and the King of Reincarnation prepared to strike.

• A blood-colored figure emerged over Penglai Immortal Island, and the ancient great power urged Jiang Chen to retreat while taunting him about his damaged lifespan.
• Jiang Chen mocked the ancient great power and faced the blood-colored figure, which challenged him to fight and revealed an aura powerful enough to alarm the surrounding powerhouses.
• The King of Reincarnation warned Jiang Chen about the enemy’s strength and tried to leave with him, but Jiang Chen urged him to protect the Nine Provinces.
• The King of Reincarnation refused to leave, and Tie Zhu joined them after joking about abandoning him to escape with Jiang Chen.
• The blood-colored figure enclosed the group in a pitch-black cage, and Jiang Chen shattered only five of its hundreds of layers before the King of Reincarnation stepped forward with his swords.

The King of Reincarnation broke through the Penglai Immortal Slave’s cage, then challenged Jiang Chen to face the enemy. Jiang Chen transformed Tie Zhu into a mature True Dragon, which destroyed the Immortal Slave’s first formation and forced him to unleash another powerful killing formation.

• The King of Reincarnation used his Sword Dao to break through the cage and confronted the Penglai Immortal Slave, who revealed that he was Lu Sheng.
• The Penglai Immortal Slave formed the Yin Demon Devouring Heaven Formation, and the King of Reincarnation told Jiang Chen to take the next turn.
• Jiang Chen activated the Ancestral Dragon Reverse Blood Formation on Tie Zhu, transforming it into a mature True Dragon.
• Tie Zhu destroyed the formation’s giant face and Spell Formation, then attacked the Penglai Immortal Slave.
• The Penglai Immortal Slave used the Heaven-Covering Seal against Tie Zhu, but its dark-gold patterns left it barely affected.
• The Penglai Immortal Slave used a crimson Formation Disc to assemble an ancient killing formation around Tie Zhu.

Jiang Chen awakened Tie Zhu’s bloodline, allowing him to withstand the imitation Four-Element Heaven-Opening Formation and overpower the Penglai Immortal Slave. As Tie Zhu pursued his opponent, the Heavenly Dao Society arrived and demanded that the battle end.

• Formation Dao experts admired the imitation Four-Element Heaven-Opening Formation while Zhao Gujin dismissed it and warned them about the Restricted Zones.
• Tie Zhu withstood the formation’s wind, lightning, and divine mountain attacks before charging the Penglai Immortal Slave.
• The Penglai Immortal Slave unleashed Primordial Heavenly Fire, which burned Tie Zhu until Jiang Chen doused the flames with a pitch-black ocean.
• Tie Zhu recovered, bit off one of the Penglai Immortal Slave’s legs, and chased him after the formation master’s advantage disappeared.
• The Heavenly Dao Society approached, and an old man demanded that Jiang Chen and the Penglai Immortal Slave stop fighting.

The Heavenly Dao Society arrived with a black coffin carrying a weakened old Dao Master to stop Jiang Chen and the Penglai Immortal Slave from fighting. Jiang Chen refused to yield and completely demonized into the West Sea Dragon King, forcing the old Dao Master to emerge and order his people to retreat.

• Four Heavenly Dao Society executors carried a black coffin into the sky, and Zhao Gujin identified its occupant as an old Dao Master whose strength had declined.
• The old Dao Master demanded that Jiang Chen stop fighting, but Jiang Chen rejected his offer to forgive the deaths of Heavenly Dao Society members and insisted he would kill the Penglai Immortal Slave.
• The old Dao Master threatened to strike Jiang Chen down, then reached from the coffin as a formation concealed the coffin from the heavenly tribulation.
• Jiang Chen laughed, transformed into a gigantic black true dragon, and unleashed the full power of the West Sea Dragon King as he moved to swallow the coffin.
• The old Dao Master sensed the danger, ordered the executors to retreat, and rose from the open coffin in his decayed body.

Jiang Chen killed the Penglai Immortal Slave after the Heavenly Dao Society’s old Dao Master mistook his transformed form for a surviving True Dragon and withdrew. As a terrifying being awakened on Penglai and froze the world, an unknown elder called him Lushou and ordered him to back down, revealing that the elder was Jiang Chen’s grandfather.

• The old Dao Master struck Jiang Chen, recognized his True Dragon bloodline, apologized with a Heavenly Secret Formation, and retreated with the Heavenly Dao Society deacons.
• Jiang Chen killed the Penglai Immortal Slave by swallowing him whole, while Tie Zhu celebrated and claimed Jiang Chen was an Ancestral Dragon.
• Jiang Chen’s Demon Transformation ended, leaving him drained as blood-red anomalies spread across the world and powerhouses fled from Penglai.
• A terrifying figure awakened above Penglai Immortal Island, froze the world, and turned his attention toward Jiang Chen.
• An unknown elder broke the stagnation and ordered Lushou to get back, shocking the onlookers with Jiang Chen’s powerful family connection.

Jiang Chen recovered in the Underground City after Old Zhang drove away the powerful figure from Penglai, then spent three billion ghost qi on cards to strengthen himself for the dangers ahead. He left the chapter wary that Old Zhang might have raised him as part of a scheme and determined to gain the power to resist if necessary.

• The powerful figure from Penglai left after Old Zhang rebuked him, and Jiang Chen departed after warning the hidden old man not to use him as a pawn.
• Jiang Chen recuperated in the Underground City while Tie Zhu ate the medicines and treasures sent by the Nine Provinces’ powerful figures and Reincarnators.
• Jiang Chen sent Zhou Hei and Jiang Xiao Chen to take Tie Zhu to the mountains for combat training after the dragon repeatedly joked about his injuries and inheritance.
• Jiang Chen spent three billion ghost qi on card draws and gained the Eight-Star Ancestral Dragon, Ancestral Qilin, and Nuwa cards.
• Jiang Chen reflected on Old Zhang’s immense power and worried that adopting him might have been part of a larger scheme, resolving to resist if the truth proved sinister.

Tie Zhu took command of the Nine Provinces and rapidly reorganized its forces as the third upheaval approached. The Reincarnators chose neutrality, while other factions prepared for the Yin Gods’ arrival and the Nine Provinces gained allies willing to confront the Restricted Zones.

• Tie Zhu became King Zhu and established the Mountain and River Iron Guards, expanded combat training, and pushed through sweeping reforms across the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Chen investigated Tunxiang in Formless City but decided not to attack, fearing he might unleash a greater catastrophe before the third upheaval.
• The Old Antiques created Pure Land, and several hundred gifted Mortal World powerhouses entered it; Jiang Chen let those from the Nine Provinces leave.
• Shenji became a Yin God and announced that the Reincarnators would withdraw from the world and remain neutral for a hundred years.
• Several Fierce Lands became Yin Gods, while the River of Forgetfulness Blood River attacked Restricted Zones and Wuzhuang Temple killed an incomplete Yin God at the SSS-Class-3 Sage Domain.
• Zhao Gujin became a Top Great Power, and the Big Dipper reached Upper Great Power together; Po Jun promised that the Nine Provinces would not need to fear the Heaven Restricted Zone.