Chapter Summaries

After surviving the Shun Heaven Dynasty’s attack, Jiang Changsheng gained the Great Freedom Sea-lifting Technique as Great Jing rose to become a Qi Luck Dynasty. Demon calamities erupted across the seas, while Jiang Changsheng cultivated his new ability and the chapter ended with him noticing another change in the White Dragon.

• Jiang Changsheng learned that the attackers had been defeated and received eighteen Golden Scale Jade Leaves and the Great Freedom Sea-lifting Technique as survival rewards.
• Martial Emperor Island learned that demon dens had appeared across several seas and prepared to protect people beyond the Luck Dynasties.
• Great Jing faced a sea demon den near Tian Sea, while Jiang Changsheng cultivated his new divine ability through clones.
• Yang Zhou returned after the sacred lands were defeated by Universe Realm demon fiends and prepared to enter seclusion to reach the Golden Body Realm.
• Zhang Ying reported that three dynasties were besieging Shun Heaven, and Jiang Changsheng predicted that Shun Heaven would not fall quickly.
• Jiang Changsheng returned his attention to the Dao World and noticed that the White Dragon in the Dragon Transformation Pool had changed again.

Four years after the demon den emerged, the Saint Dynasty fell, plunging the world into upheaval and opening an age of war. Great Jing prepared to expand and ally with Hanging Sky Island, while Jiang Changsheng learned that the Demon Race Supreme remained beyond his reach.

• Jiang Changsheng watched the White Dragon shed its skin and develop silver scales and the beginnings of dragon horns.
• A Blue Bird appeared over the capital amid thunder, and Jiang Changsheng discovered that the Saint Dynasty’s fortune had vanished and the strongest human’s strength had surged.
• Zhang Chenggang told the Shun Tian Emperor that the Saint Dynasty had fallen and that Martial Emperor Island expected a prophesied Martial Emperor to arise from the coming wars.
• The Shun Tian Emperor accepted Hanging Sky Island’s offer to help subdue the Heavenly Sea in exchange for becoming its sole martial arts holy land, and assigned Jiang Che to negotiate the terms.
• Mu Lingluo told Jiang Changsheng that the Mu Family was sheltering refugees and wandering martial artists as demon beasts ravaged the ocean, and Jiang Changsheng asked when she would break through to the Golden Body Realm.

Jiang Changsheng watched his allies grow stronger as Great Jing conquered Tianhai and annexed its islands. After the White Dragon completed its transformation into a true dragon, he rode it across Great Jing, leaving the people to marvel at the Dao Ancestor and his dragon.

• Mu Lingluo learned that Lin Haotian had reached the Golden Body Realm and resolved to surpass him.
• Jiang Che persuaded Ye Xundi to help Great Jing unify Tianhai, and Ye Xundi defeated the united sects resisting him.
• Three years later, Great Jing annexed Tianhai, expanding its territory and Jiang Che's reputation.
• Jiang Changsheng saw that the White Dragon had transformed into a true dragon in the Dao World and brought it back to Dragon Arising Mountain.
• Jiang Changsheng rode the White Dragon over the capital and across Great Jing, while its appearance and his summoned rain spread legends of an immortal riding a dragon.

Qi Yuan continued spreading the Dao Ancestor’s teachings and developing a new Martial Dao, while Jiang Changsheng’s dragon-riding appearances sent his incense value soaring. After learning of Shun Heaven’s collapse and its new emperor’s similar ambitions, Jiang Changsheng watched Ji Wujun fight a powerful force near the Heavenly Sea.

• Qi Yuan taught his disciples that he sought to establish a unique Martial Dao, and Jiang Changsheng appeared atop the White Dragon to praise his perseverance and give him three pouches of Scattering Beans into Soldiers.
• Jiang Changsheng rode the White Dragon across Great Jing, the Heavenly Sea, and East Continent, boosting his incense value before returning to Dragon Arising Mountain.
• By the fifty-second year of Shun Heaven, Jiang Changsheng’s incense value had reached 69,494,773, and news of his dragon ride drew visitors from foreign lands to Great Jing.
• Jiang Changsheng read Lu An’s letter reporting that Shun Heaven’s Son of Heaven had died, the Crown Prince had ceded territory, and the new emperor hoped to establish a new Martial Dao.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed a battle near the Heavenly Sea and saw Ji Wujun holding the upper hand against dozens of Grotto Heaven experts, including a Sixth Grotto-heaven leader.

Ji Wujun joined Great Jing after fleeing a Ninth Grotto-heaven enemy, while a mysterious Fire Bird crossed the sea near Mu Lingluo’s fleet. Jiang Changsheng watched God Antiquity Continent fall to the Demon Race and heard Mu Lingluo recount the bird’s destructive passage.

• Ji Wujun asked Jiang Changsheng to take her in, and he agreed on the condition that she keep a low profile for fifty years.
• Mu Lingluo and Mu Xuangang sensed a scorching presence approaching their fleet, then watched a colossal Fire Bird race past without attacking them.
• Jiang Changsheng saw that God Antiquity Continent had been overrun by demon beast armies and stopped watching its slaughter.
• Jiang Che proposed making Tianhai Great Jing’s largest demon-beast hunting ground, and Ye Xundi praised him as a possible future Son of Heaven.
• Jiang Changsheng entered Mu Lingluo’s dream, where she described the Fire Bird’s passage and the burns and damage it had caused.

Jiang Changsheng warned Mu Lingluo about a powerful demon beast and later guided Ji Wujun and Ye Xundi in their martial arts. As Jiang Che’s growing authority fueled calls for the Shun Tian Emperor to abdicate, Jiang Changsheng refused to interfere in the father-son dispute but insisted that Great Jing remain peaceful.

• Mu Lingluo told Jiang Changsheng that a powerful demon beast’s route overlapped with theirs, and he said Great Jing would be its final destination if it arrived.
• Ji Wujun asked Jiang Changsheng to address the imperial family’s investigations of her, then sparred with Ye Xundi and defeated him.
• Ji Wujun moved into Jiang Changsheng’s courtyard and repeatedly sought his martial guidance, while Ye Xundi intensified his cultivation.
• Jiang Jian urged Jiang Changsheng to make the Shun Tian Emperor abdicate in favor of Jiang Che, but Jiang Changsheng said the throne was a matter between father and son and forbade any bloodshed or chaos.

Jiang Changsheng counseled Jiang Jian and Jiang Che to be patient about the throne while Great Jing prospered over the next three years. When a powerful Sky Crow brought fire and drought to a distant continent, Jiang Changsheng prepared to intervene, while the reincarnated Four Seas Sage faced the creature’s attack.

• Jiang Changsheng persuaded Jiang Jian not to rush Jiang Che’s succession and urged Jiang Jian to cultivate toward the Universe Realm.
• Jiang Che visited Dragon Arising Mountain, heard Jiang Changsheng’s warning to govern with a clear conscience, and realized he was not ready to claim the throne.
• Over the following three years, Great Jing expanded its teleportation arrays, martial academies, trade, and ties with overseas powers as its prosperity grew.
• Zhang Ying reported that a vast Sky Crow was setting lands ablaze, and Ji Wujun explained the danger posed by the Sky Crow Race.
• Jiang Changsheng located the Sky Crow and discovered that its attack threatened Wang Long, the reincarnated Four Seas Sage, on a distant continent.
• Jiang Changsheng left Dragon Arising Mountain, and a sparrow flew away as Wang Long stayed behind in an inn, resigned to his apparent death.

Jiang Changsheng transformed into a colossal Mystic Bird, defeated the Sky Crow, and rescued a burning city, earning a surge of incense offerings from grateful survivors. Months later, news of the Mystic Bird spread to Great Jing, where Jiang Che reported its victory and its boost to humanity’s morale.

• Wang Long reached a city under attack by the Sky Crow and watched as a gigantic Mystic Bird seized and devoured the beast before bringing rain to extinguish the fires.
• Jiang Changsheng returned to Dragon Arising Mountain, received the Three-Legged Golden Crow Blood Soul as a survival reward, and bound it to himself with his essence blood.
• Jiang Changsheng hid his actions from Bai Qi and the others while considering which bird might be suited to become a powerful Golden Crow.
• Within five days, Jiang Changsheng noticed that believers inspired by the Mystic Bird were generating a vast amount of incense offering value.
• In the eleventh month, Jiang Che told Jiang Changsheng and the others that the Mystic Bird had killed the Sky Crow and that its appearance had strengthened humanity’s confidence against the Demon Race.

After the Mystic Bird’s legend spread across the continent, Jiang Changsheng’s incense value soared and he sought an avian demon to empower. He found the Little Swallow Demon, whose devotion and wish to protect the vulnerable led it to accept his offer of service.

• Jiang Changsheng concealed his role in the Mystic Bird’s deeds while Ji Wujun came to believe he was the powerful Martial Emperor foretold by prophecy.
• In the sixty-first year of Shun Heaven, the Mystic Bird’s legend spread through Great Jing, and Jiang Changsheng’s incense value surpassed one hundred million.
• The Shun Heaven Son of Heaven heard about the Mystic Bird, asked after the Sword Master and Sword Court, and considered traveling west to pursue what he lacked.
• By the sixty-second year of Shun Heaven, Jiang Changsheng’s incense value exceeded two hundred million, and he searched among his demon believers for an avian demon to choose.
• The Little Swallow Demon prayed at a Mystic Bird pavilion and secretly staged manifestations to comfort worshippers and draw more people to the shrine.
• Jiang Changsheng spoke to the Little Swallow Demon, offered to grant its wish to become a benevolent divine beast, and received its vow to serve him.

Jiang Changsheng took in Little Swallow Demon and secretly brought it to the Dao World to absorb a Three-Legged Golden Crow Blood Soul, beginning its transformation. Meanwhile, the Shun Tian Emperor prepared Great Jing to expand into the West Sea, and Bai Qi pleaded for a chance to improve its own aptitude.

• Jiang Changsheng revealed his Mystic Bird form to Little Swallow Demon, brought it to Dragon Arising Mountain, and introduced it to the others as a demon he had rescued.
• The Shun Tian Emperor visited for the New Year, discussed Great Jing’s expansion and upcoming martial arts gathering, and later announced plans to move into the West Sea.
• Tens of thousands of ships departed from Great Jing’s southern ports and the Heavenly Sea islands toward the West Sea.
• Jiang Changsheng brought Little Swallow Demon into the Dao World and had it absorb a Three-Legged Golden Crow Blood Soul, after which it formed a blood-red egg.
• Bai Qi complained that Little Swallow Demon might become powerful and asked Jiang Changsheng when he would improve its aptitude; Jiang Changsheng told it to wait.

Jiang Changsheng learned that Little Penglai Island guarded an ancient underground palace that might contain a revived Ancient Martial Emperor, and Ji Wujun warned that opening it would be dangerous. Her description of the Ancient Giant Race led Ye Xundi to speculate that Jiang Changsheng was its descendant.

• Daoist He Hong returned to Dragon Arising Temple after waiting thirty-two years and revealed that Little Penglai Island guarded a sealed Underground Palace said to concern humanity's rise and fall.
• Jiang Changsheng found that the system could not detect the Underground Palace and became wary of going there.
• Ji Wujun identified the figures on the gate as signs of an Ancient Martial Emperor and warned that revived emperors could lose their memories and threaten humanity.
• Jiang Changsheng learned that the Saint Dynasty had encountered a revived Ancient Martial Emperor five hundred years earlier, while the emperor beneath Little Penglai Island might be an even stronger member of the Ancient Giant Race.
• Ji Wujun described the Giant Race's immense size and strength, and Ye Xundi concluded that Jiang Changsheng might be its descendant.

Jiang Changsheng refused to investigate Little Penglai Island, while Great Jing won its first sea battle against three fortune dynasties. The Shun Tian Emperor learned that he was nearing death despite Great Jing’s imperial status, and a procession carrying enormous snake eggs arrived near Dragon Arising Temple.

• Jiang Changsheng declined to challenge the Ancient Martial Emperor, and Ji Wujun explained that Martial Emperors appeared in separate eras and wielded abundant qi luck.
• Daoist He Hong reported the revelations to Daoist He Yuan, and they decided to remain in Great Jing and rebuild Little Penglai Island’s Daoist community.
• Great Jing defeated the forces of three fortune dynasties in a sea battle west of the Dragon Vein Continent.
• The Shun Tian Emperor discovered that his body was failing, and Chen Li confirmed that his remaining lifespan was short.
• Jiang Changsheng examined the Shun Tian Emperor, gave him pills, and told him that eternal life was impossible in heaven and earth.
• A white-haired old man brought a procession of enormous snake eggs to the capital and said they were going to transform into dragons.

Shun Tian Emperor revealed the Jiang family’s secret connection to the Dao Ancestor and prepared Jiang Che to inherit the throne. Later, Dragon Transformation Manor’s Zhu Tianzhi pledged allegiance if he could see the true dragon, and Jiang Changsheng arranged to reveal the White Dragon above the capital.

• Shun Tian Emperor told Jiang Che that the Dao Ancestor was their ancestor and entrusted him with the secret, then urged him to continue Great Jing’s ambition after ascending the throne.
• Ji Wujun explained the Saint Dynasty’s inheritance and history to Jiang Jian and Bai Qi while Jiang Changsheng listened.
• Qing Er informed Jiang Changsheng that Zhu Tianzhi, the Manor Lord of Dragon Transformation Manor, had come to visit, and Jiang Changsheng agreed to meet him.
• Zhu Tianzhi asked to see the true dragon and offered Dragon Transformation Manor’s allegiance; Jiang Changsheng promised to reveal it above the capital the next day.
• Jiang Changsheng released the White Dragon from the Jade Bone Green Bamboo Forest, and it flew above the capital with a roar.

Jiang Changsheng welcomed Dragon Transformation Manor beneath Great Jing’s command as Shun Tian Emperor abdicated and Jiang Che began the Taihe era. After Great Jing conquered the West Sea in Shun Tian Emperor’s name, the dying emperor asked Jiang Changsheng whether Great Jing would become a sacred dynasty and unify the world.

• Zhu Tianzhi and Dragon Transformation Manor’s disciples worshipped Jiang Changsheng’s White Dragon, and Zhu Tianzhi later offered the manor’s service beneath Jiang Changsheng’s command.
• Jiang Changsheng accepted Dragon Transformation Manor’s submission and secretly took the White Dragon into the Dao World to cultivate.
• Shun Tian Emperor agreed to Dragon Transformation Manor joining Great Jing, then announced his abdication in favor of Crown Prince Jiang Che.
• Jiang Che ascended the throne in the first year of Taihe, while Shun Tian Emperor moved to Dragon Arising Mountain to spend his final days with Jiang Changsheng.
• Jiang Che sent Dragon Transformation Manor experts to help Great Jing conquer the West Sea, and the imperial decree credited the victory to Shun Tian Emperor.
• After Jiang Changsheng restored Shun Tian Emperor’s senses, the emperor smiled at the news of the conquest and asked whether Great Jing would become a sacred dynasty and unify the world.

After Shun Tian Emperor’s death, Jiang Changsheng continued guiding Great Jing and keeping watch over Mu Lingluo’s family as they traveled toward him. Weak earthquakes struck every dynasty with dragon veins, and Jiang Changsheng discovered that Sword God had vanished and was being held captive on a distant island.

• Jiang Changsheng discussed Shun Tian Emperor’s death and Great Jing’s future with those around him, then visited Mu Lingluo in a dream and told her about Great Jing and Dragon Transformation Manor.
• A weak earthquake struck Great Jing, and Jiang Changsheng found no damage in the dragon vein caverns but chose not to spend incense points investigating its cause.
• Jiang Che reported that Sword God had disappeared, and Jiang Changsheng located him with the Heaven and Earth Boundless Eye.
• Jiang Changsheng saw Sword God chained among other martial artists on a distant sea island, watched over by a Black-Clothed Man whose strength was only Three Grotto-heavens.

Jiang Changsheng rescued the Sword God by defeating the Sword Master, who warned that Great Jing’s expansion had provoked a coalition determined to kill the Dao Ancestor. The chapter ended with the Sword Master revealing that five imperial dynasties and dozens of ocean sects had summoned the Saint Dynasty War God.

• Jiang Changsheng watched the Sword God’s capture and told Ye Xundi he would deal with the Black-Clothed Man when the time came.
• Three months later, the Sword Master activated a sword formation on Sea Island to seize the gathered swordsmen’s sword intent.
• Jiang Changsheng sent his Dao Heart Deity to confront the Sword Master, who recognized the Dao Ancestor and attacked with powerful lightning sword techniques.
• The Dao Heart Deity pierced the Sword Master, then brought the defeated man and the Sword God back to Jiang Changsheng’s courtyard.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Illusory God Eyes to make the Sword Master reveal that five imperial dynasties and dozens of ocean sects had invited the Saint Dynasty War God to kill him.

After the Sword Master died, Jiang Changsheng learned the Soul Thought Divine Sword and investigated earthquakes beneath the dragon veins, where Ji Wujun explained that seals suppressed the Seven Great Demon Saints. The seals began to stir, and mysterious pits erupted with seawater across the world, leaving Great Jing’s destiny fortune in chaos.

• The Sword Master died after revealing what he knew, and Jiang Changsheng burned his body before receiving the Soul Thought Divine Sword survival reward.
• The Sword God described Jiang Changsheng’s one-sided battle with the Sword Master, then chose to remain on Dragon Arising Mountain and cultivate.
• Jiang Changsheng investigated beneath a dragon vein and heard rushing water, while Ji Wujun explained that the dragon vein seals suppressed powerful demons whose remains could transform other demon creatures.
• A white-robed man learned that the seals restraining the Seven Great Demon Saints were stirring and ordered his masked attendant to prepare a reincarnated person for action.
• Seawater burst from giant pits across the world, and Jiang Changsheng saw a huge water column erupt beyond Si Province as Great Jing’s destiny fortune fell into chaos.

Jiang Changsheng discovered that nine enormous demon Jiaolong Heads were driving seawater from a vast underground ocean toward the surface, threatening to collapse Dragon Vein Continent. He sent the World-Destroying Tree to support the land and drew the rising waters away, while the Jiaolong Heads emerged across the world.

• Jiang Changsheng shattered the failing Dragon Vein Stele and found an underground ocean with nine giant Jiaolong Heads manipulating the seawater with Demon Power.
• Jiang Changsheng sent the World-Destroying Tree to hold up the earth, and Ji Wujun helped shield it from the corrosive seawater.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Great Freedom Sea-lifting Technique to draw water pillars from across the continent toward the sky.
• The nine Jiaolong Heads emerged across the world and devoured Martial Dao Spiritual Energy, terrifying the people, while Ye Xundi charged at one of them.
• Jiang Che watched Jiang Changsheng draw the heavenly rivers and concluded that his ancestor was an immortal god.

Jiang Changsheng gathered the corrosive seawater erupting from across the world into an enormous sphere, saving the Dragon Vein Continent from the Dragon Vein calamity. After the waters converged, he carried them south toward the demon-infested lands while the assembled Jiaolong creature continued to form above the West Sea.

• Jiang Changsheng used the Great Freedom Sea-lifting Technique to gather seventy-three surging water pillars while Ye Xundi failed to damage a Jiaolong Head and returned to the capital.
• Ji Wujun helped the World-Destroying Tree hold up the continent as it resisted the underground seawater, and the water eventually drained away.
• Jiang Che learned that the Dao Ancestor was saving the entire world and prepared an Imperial Decree to spread the news.
• White-Clothed Guards announced across Great Jing that Jiang Changsheng had gathered the Sea of Demon Power to protect the continent and its people.
• Jiang Changsheng watched the Jiaolong Heads and other demon bodies assemble into a colossal nine-headed jiao above the West Sea, then carried the completed water sphere south to attack the demons.
• Jiang Qing asked Jiang Che to take him to Jiang Changsheng so he could ask the Dao Ancestor to become his master.

Jiang Changsheng carried a vast sphere of seawater to a demon-infested archipelago and unleashed it, ending the calamity of the Demon Sea. After recovering, he gained the divine power Universe in the Palm and learned that the Nine Absolutes Serpent Saint could revive within ten years, while other Demon Saints might also return.

• Jiang Che told Jiang Qing that learning from Jiang Changsheng would depend on whether the Dao Ancestor took a liking to him.
• Jiang Changsheng carried seawater across the Heavenly Sea and crushed a demon-infested archipelago, unleashing a flood that drowned its demon beasts.
• Jiang Changsheng returned to the Dragon Vein Continent and allowed the World-Destroying Tree to draw on the continent's fortune without harming human cultivation.
• Jiang Changsheng received the divine power Universe in the Palm as a survival reward and later inherited its spatial abilities.
• Ji Wujun explained that the Nine Absolutes Serpent Saint could revive after ten years and that the other Demon Saints had also been sealed by dragon veins.