Chapter Summaries

The six Weird Ancestors used the Sacrificial Altars to break Demon-Prison Hell and release the Weapon Ancestor. Jiang Chen transformed into Candle Dragon to defend the Nine Provinces, but his grandfather Old Zhang stepped in and struck the Weapon Ancestor back.

• The six Weird Ancestors drove thirteen Sacrificial Altars into Demon-Prison Hell, weakening its formation until the Weapon Ancestor emerged.
• Jiang Chen transformed into Candle Dragon and stood between the Weapon Ancestor and the Nine Provinces.
• Old Zhang revealed himself as Jiang Chen’s grandfather and blasted the Weapon Ancestor backward with lightning orbs.
• Old Zhang faced the Weapon Ancestor and declared that it would be buried in the Nine Provinces.

Old Zhang was revealed as the immortal Daoist School Master, and the First Emperor emerged from his mausoleum to confront the Law Ancestor as Old Zhang fought the Weapon Ancestor. The Six Great Restricted Zones revived the Soul Ancestor, leaving Jiang Chen to face it while the three Ancestor-level battles began.

• Zhou Tai and the Peach Garden old woman identified Old Zhang as the Daoist School Master, who had hidden his identity to prevent an early Ancestor-level war.
• The Law Ancestor revealed itself, and the First Emperor emerged from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor to battle it, telling Tie Zhu to guard the Nine Provinces' dragon fortune for another thousand years.
• Old Zhang fought the Weapon Ancestor and drew their destructive battle away from the Nine Provinces as the First Emperor clashed with the Law Ancestor.
• Jiang Chen noticed the Sacrificial Altar fragments reassembling, and the Six Great Restricted Zones used their power to revive the Soul Ancestor.
• Jiang Chen confronted the Soul Ancestor, trapping it in darkness and beginning to reverse its body toward its shattered state, but its soul power briefly dazed him.

The seven Fierce Lands reforged the Yin God Hammer with their supreme treasures to aid Jiang Chen, who had been weakened by the Soul Ancestor’s power. Jiang Xiao Chen sacrificed himself to complete the hammer’s Immortal Dao, and the newly formed Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure flew toward the battlefield.

• The First Emperor countered the Law Ancestor’s foreign laws with his Human Dao Domain as the Fierce Lands revealed they had supported his rise.
• King Chen developed black soul spots and faltered, prompting the Peach Garden’s old woman to offer its Dao Treasure while the Dragon Palace warned that the Soul Ancestor’s Forbidden Soul Lamp made approaching the battlefield dangerous.
• Ao Lin used the Dragon Palace’s reserves to lead the seven Fierce Lands in reforging the Yin God Hammer, which gained an eternal aura and reached the level of an Immortal Artifact.
• Jiang Xiao Chen stepped forward and sacrificed himself to the Eternal Immortal Hammer, causing his blood and Immortal Dao to complete its transformation into an Immortal Dao Supreme Treasure.
• The hammer flew toward the battlefield as the myriad Daos of Law yielded before it.

Jiang Chen defeated Soul Ancestor, but Soul Ancestor sacrificed itself to help Law Ancestor trap him in Dream Country. The chapter ended with the First Emperor and Old Zhang realizing Jiang Chen had vanished into the Restricted Zone.

• Jiang Chen summoned the Eternal Immortal Hammer, resisted Soul Ancestor's Forbidden Soul Lamp, and turned the battle in his favor.
• The First Emperor struggled against Law Ancestor while Old Zhang overpowered Weapon Ancestor, which retrieved its former weapon.
• Jiang Chen mastered Candle Dragon's power and used the Eternal Immortal Hammer to defeat Soul Ancestor, exiling parts of its body across countless eras.
• Soul Ancestor sacrificed itself through the Forbidden Soul Lamp, suppressing Jiang Chen's soul and leaving him unconscious.
• Law Ancestor used spatial power to help entomb Jiang Chen in Dream Country, and the First Emperor recognized the trap as Old Zhang cried out for his grandson.

The chapter recounted the century of cultivation and uneasy peace after the Battle of Yiwei, while revealing that the coming calamity might not have been averted. It then followed Jiang Chen as he woke from nightmares in a seemingly ordinary home and warned his worried parents that nighttime was dangerous.

• Humanity entered the Star Era after the Battle of Yiwei, and the Nine Provinces established laws that brought the population into an age of cultivation.
• Over the next century, new powers arose across the world as exceptional talents learned that the disaster might still be approaching.
• Jiang Chen woke from a nightmare as his mother comforted him and his father questioned whether he was pretending to be ill.
• Jiang Chen warned his parents not to go out at night, while they discussed his treatment and his mother's strained job and finances.
• Jiang Chen recognized that ghosts were behind recent murders, including the killings of a university teacher and her husband reported on television.

Jiang Chen realized his dead parents had returned as ghosts and tried to use the supernatural reflection in his bathroom mirror against them. When the reflection failed to appear, he fought back with a prop hammer and discovered it could hurt his ghostly father.

• Jiang Chen recognized his parents in a murder report and realized they had died the previous night, though he had just seen them at home.
• After Aunt Zhang called out that his parents were still away, Jiang Chen found the house empty and became terrified by a presence near his bed.
• Jiang Chen rushed into the bathroom to escape his parents and tried to summon the supernatural version of himself in the mirror.
• His dead parents broke through the bathroom door and advanced on Jiang Chen, but the mirror reflection did not appear.
• Jiang Chen swung his prop hammer at his father, shattered the ghost's skull, and laughed as the ghost screamed.

Jiang Chen survived an attack by his ghostly parents with help from a little girl who emerged from his sledgehammer, then investigated a haunted underground garage for clues about their deaths. After finding evidence of a mysterious organization, he went with two students into the university’s Back Mountain, where the little girl began emerging from the hammer again.

• Jiang Chen watched the little girl from his sledgehammer devour Ghost Dad and Ghost Mom, then realized she seemed afraid of him while he held the hammer.
• Jiang Chen decided the hammer could absorb ghosts and that he needed to use ghosts to fight ghosts, so he carried it to Luoshan University to investigate his parents’ deaths.
• Jiang Chen entered the underground parking garage at dusk, found a hidden path to a dug-up grave and a corpse, and discovered an identification emblem linked to a mysterious organization.
• The little girl helped Jiang Chen escape the underground garage, but he left with only a vague lead connecting his parents’ deaths to the organization.
• Jiang Chen encountered a couple on campus after one in the morning and followed them to the secluded Back Mountain, where a pale hand reached out from his hammer.

Over several months, Jiang Chen grew into the strongest Ghost Master in the city, fighting paranormal threats and the Sinful Immortals while turning ghosts into his family. He reached the Sinful Immortals' headquarters and discovered that the mastermind behind the ghostly resurgence looked exactly like him and claimed to have once been his shadow.

• Jiang Chen built his strength by devouring ghosts with the Ghost God Hammer, becoming notorious among Ghost Masters and investigating why the ghosts felt like family to him.
• Jiang Chen learned that the Sinful Immortals had murdered his parents and begun probing the source of the ghostly resurgence, so he resolved to stop them.
• After recovering from a hunt by ten Sinful Immortals Ghost Masters, Jiang Chen destroyed one of their branches in a blazing attack at a chemical plant.
• Jiang Chen survived a Ghost King's pursuit, gathered more ghosts, and led the King across five cities to another Sinful Immortals branch.
• Jiang Chen reached the Sinful Immortals' headquarters with an army of ghosts and confronted the mastermind behind the catastrophe.
• The mastermind revealed that he looked like Jiang Chen and said he had been Jiang Chen's shadow from the beginning.

Jiang Chen recovered his lost memories and learned that Dream Country had once been the source of the Restricted Zones’ evil will. Realizing the ownerless Dream Country was a fortune left for him by the five supreme Immortal Lords, he began plundering it.

• Jiang Chen endured a flood of memories and finally broke free of Dream Country’s repeating lives.
• Jiang Xiao Chen explained that Jiang Chen had lived sixteen lifetimes and that his memories had to awaken him from within.
• Jiang Xiao Chen revealed that Dream Country’s visions showed how the Restricted Zones had spread and how the five supreme Immortal Lords defeated their evil source.
• Jiang Chen recalled that Dream Country was a fortune intended for him and caused the Restricted Zone to shake.
• Jiang Chen’s Ten-Star Card grew stronger as he began plundering all of Dream Country.

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen escaped Dream Country and returned to a transformed Blue Star, where Jiang Chen discovered that his power could threaten the dying Heavenly Dao. They reached Shengzai City, where Jiang Chen dealt with people falsely claiming to be his distant disciples and attracted the attention of powerful law enforcers.

• Dream Country collapsed, and Jiang Chen recovered at least half his power before realizing that his full aura nearly shattered the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Chen sealed away his power and explained to Jiang Xiao Chen that they needed to familiarize themselves with the Mortal World again.
• After walking for seven days, Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen reached Shengzai City in the Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom and marveled at its blend of cultivation and technology.
• Jiang Xiao Chen pointed out people wearing signs that called them King Chen's distant disciples, and Jiang Chen ordered two Supreme Powerhouse-level Weird Objects to beat them and confiscate the signs.
• Jiang Xiao Chen returned and reported that the city's law enforcers had noticed them, including a squad of Supreme Powerhouses led by a Great Power.

The Shengzai City Reincarnation Branch Bureau discovered Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen and summoned the Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom’s Old Ancestors to investigate. When the Old Ancestors recognized King Chen, they quietly accompanied him on his train journey, and a law enforcer’s attempt to impress him nearly caused disaster.

• The branch captain sensed Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen’s strength and called for the director, who went to the Reincarnation Sanctuary for guidance.
• After questioning the director about the men, the Old Ancestors recognized King Chen and hurried to meet him.
• The Old Ancestors found Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen aboard a train and followed them discreetly, while the director struggled to understand their reverence for the travelers.
• A thief tried to rob Jiang Chen, but a Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom law enforcer attacked him and threw him off the train.
• The Old Ancestors breathed a sigh of relief as the law enforcer’s outburst ended without provoking Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen traveled through the Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom, the Dark Curtain Royal Court, and the Pure Land, urging former fence-sitters to choose a side before the final battle. The Old Antiques pledged to fight alongside him, but before he could reach the Nine Provinces, enormous portals opened and the final battle began.

• Jiang Chen crossed the Reincarnation Heavenly Kingdom and warned its Old Ancestors that they would have to choose a side when disaster came.
• Jiang Chen traveled through the Dark Curtain Royal Court, where the Netherworld Throne and the other King Venerables fled after learning of his arrival.
• The hidden King Venerables received Jiang Chen's message that they would face a reckoning after the battle unless they helped in it.
• The Old Antiques welcomed Jiang Chen and declared that they would stake their lives on fighting in the final battle.
• Jiang Chen set out on foot toward the Nine Provinces, but the sky darkened and enormous portals opened before he arrived.

The Great Tribulation began as the Restricted Zones opened and Forbidden beings poured into the sky above the Nine Provinces. Tie Zhu, the Nine Provinces’ forces, the Old Antiques, the former Reincarnators, and King You turned the battle in humanity’s favor, but five Weird Ancestors then emerged from the Five Restricted Zones.

• Tie Zhu and the leaders of the Nine Provinces gathered as Restricted Zones appeared in the sky, and Po Jun warned that the catastrophe might exceed their expectations.
• The Restricted Zones’ gates were blasted open, releasing Forbidden beings, and Tie Zhu killed one as the Earth Immortals and Dao Masters joined the fight.
• Xiao Ji and Lin Xiao led the Old Antiques into battle, while the former Reincarnators arrived from the north and fought alongside the Nine Provinces.
• King You revealed himself as the Netherworld Throne, an Ancestor, and helped turn the fighting into a hunt for the Forbidden beings.
• The Five Restricted Zones grew more solid, and five Weird Ancestors stepped out.

Jiang Chen returned at the height of the battle, destroyed the Restricted Zones, and killed the Weird Ancestors, ending the calamity. He restored the Heavenly Dao and used its power to resurrect those who had died fighting the Restricted Zones, then reunited with his old friends.

• Tie Zhu led the Nine Provinces’ fighters against the Weird Ancestors, but five more emerged from the Restricted Zones and overwhelmed them.
• As thirty Dao Masters began sacrificing themselves, Jiang Chen appeared and obliterated the five newcomers with a sweep of his hand.
• Jiang Chen crushed the Restricted Zones, revealed himself as the lord of the Demon Court, and slaughtered the Weird Ancestors and the beings beyond them.
• Jiang Chen repaired the Heavenly Dao instead of taking control of it, restoring vitality to heaven and earth.
• Jiang Chen used the revived Heavenly Dao to resurrect the people who had died fighting the Restricted Zones, including Jiang Xiao Chen, and reunited with his old friends.