Chapter Summaries

After Great Jing arrived in the Great Wilderness, its people began exploring while Jiang Changsheng stayed behind to cultivate and watch over his believers. The chapter ended with him sending a clone to rescue a distant city from a Demon Saint’s Ninth Grotto-heaven subordinate.

• White Venerable ordered an investigation after hearing that the Dragon Vein Continent and East Continent had sailed north, while Li Ya ordered Dao Ancestor statues built across Shun Heaven.
• Jiang Changsheng allowed Ji Wujun, Lin Haotian, Ye Xundi, Jiang Jian, Ping'an, and the Sword God to explore the Great Wilderness, while he stayed with Mu Lingluo and the others.
• Three years later, Ji Wujun returned after finding no signs of human settlement or inheritance in the Great Wilderness, while eight dynasties had submitted to Great Jing.
• Jiang Changsheng used Incense Spirit Summoning to possess a middle-aged believer defending a city from a Three-Headed Demon Lion, but the believer could not withstand the Ninth Grotto-heaven demon’s flames.
• Jiang Changsheng sent a clone into the courtyard with the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow and aimed at the demon, stunning Mu Lingluo, Ji Wujun, Huang Tian, and Hei Tian.

Jiang Changsheng used his clone to rescue humans under attack by demons, then continued cultivating as Great Jing peacefully unified the Dragon Vein Continent and renamed it Tianjing Earth. As Great Jing celebrated its new age of prosperity, Jiang Changsheng sensed a distant force shaking the Martial Dao Spiritual Energy but could not identify it.

• Jiang Changsheng's clone fired golden arrows that destroyed the Three-Headed Demon Lion and the demon birds attacking a city, saving its defenders and citizens.
• Three years later, Great Qi and the other fortune dynasties submitted to Great Jing, whose Heavenly Gate let their fortunes strengthen the Son of Heaven's realm.
• Jiang Che renamed the unified Dragon Vein Continent and its surrounding territories Tianjing Earth, then established plans for teleportation arrays and martial academies in the vassal kingdoms.
• Jiang Che visited Jiang Changsheng with Jiang Qing and celebrated Great Jing's peaceful unification, while their companions discussed the dynasty's prospects for becoming a Saint Dynasty.
• Jiang Changsheng helped endangered incense devotees by urging them in dreams to flee north as the Demon Race spread across the Endless Ocean.
• The next morning, Jiang Changsheng sensed an immense force shaking the Martial Dao Spiritual Energy from far away, but the system could not calculate its source or strength.

After Great Jing settled in the Taihuang, Jiang Changsheng reassured Jiang Che that the rising martial families posed no immediate threat to imperial rule. Far away, Lin Haotian, Jiang Jian, and Ping'an killed a powerful Winged Black Lizard, while Jiang Changsheng sensed trouble within the Taihuang and left abruptly.

• Ji Wujun sensed a powerful aura from the Endless Ocean that had stirred humanity's fate, and suspected an expert from the Demon Race or another race had broken through.
• Jiang Che worried that martial families were growing too powerful, but Jiang Changsheng told him to let them expand and strengthen the Jiang Lineage's foundation.
• Lin Haotian, Jiang Jian, and Ping'an attacked and killed a Winged Black Lizard near a volcano, then carried its corpse away as a huge pair of eyes appeared in the clouds.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed something while refining pills and vanished, leaving Ye Xundi worried that the Demon Race had pursued them to the Taihuang.

Lin Haotian, Jiang Jian, and Ping'an were pursued by a gigantic Winged Black Lizard after killing its cub, and Jiang Changsheng intervened to defeat it. Jiang Jian then discovered the beast held great luck, while Jiang Changsheng learned it was a Luck Ferocious Species and gained the Great Ice Sealing Divine Art.

• Lin Haotian, Jiang Jian, and Ping'an fled from the Winged Black Lizard, and Lin Haotian was badly injured trying to hold it back.
• Jiang Changsheng's Dao Heart Deity used Jiang Jian's Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade to wound the beast, then Jiang Changsheng subdued it and took half its soul before killing it.
• Jiang Jian examined the Winged Black Lizard's eye and sensed immense Great Luck within it.
• Jiang Changsheng received the Great Ice Sealing Divine Art as a survival reward for intervening in the hunt for a Luck Ferocious Species.
• Ji Wujun explained that Luck Ferocious Species command aspects of heaven and earth and release their unique luck after death.

Jiang Changsheng’s Lin Jiao Marrow Cleansing Pills strengthened Great Jing, while the empire prospered in the Great Wilderness and he accumulated 3.6 billion incense points. As Jiang Jian broke through to the One Cave Heaven realm, a mysterious beast stirred beneath a distant fissure.

• Jiang Jian absorbed the Great Wilderness Lin Jiao’s luck and began gaining control over earthfire, while Lin Haotian and Ping'an planned to grow stronger alongside him.
• Jiang Changsheng refined Lin Jiao Marrow Cleansing Pills, and Bai Qi endured one to confirm its powerful body-tempering effects before Jiang Changsheng distributed pills to his companions and Great Jing.
• Over five years, martial academies and teleportation formations spread across Great Jing, Jiang Che reported the pills had strengthened the imperial family, and Jiang Changsheng found his incense points had reached 3,643,327,701.
• Zhu Tianzhi and three Grotto Heaven Realm martial artists arrived at Heavenly Sea after a long journey and prepared to return to Dragon Transformation Manor.
• Jiang Jian broke through to the One Cave Heaven realm as Lin Haotian and Ping'an watched, while a huge fissure opened far away and a mysterious beast reached out from below.

White Venerable discussed the Demon Race’s rising power and Great Jing’s hidden location while waiting for a powerful figure to confront the Seven Great Demon Saints. In Great Jing, Guan Tongyou’s Heavenly Evolution Martial Method spread widely, earning him the title of Saint Guan and karma merit, while Ji Wujun advanced to the Seventh Grotto Heaven.

• White Venerable explained that the Demon Race Supreme was wounded and warned that he would expose a powerful figure if that person failed to act against the Seven Great Demon Saints within five years.
• Jiang Changsheng told the courtyard that Jiang Jian and Lin Haotian had entered the Grotto Heaven Realm, and Ji Wujun described Guan Tongyou’s method of gaining Ferocious Beast talents.
• Mu Lingluo, Ji Wujun, Bai Qi, and the others visited Guan Tongyou and obtained a copy of his Heavenly Evolution Martial Method.
• Ji Wujun broke through to the Seventh Grotto Heaven, while the Son of Heaven honored Guan Tongyou as Saint Guan and his method spread throughout Great Jing.
• Jiang Changsheng explained that Guan Tongyou’s growing luck and comprehension were karma merit, and Guan Tongyou became Jiang Changsheng’s ultimate incense follower.

After tempering Ji Wujun and the demons with the Great Wilderness Lin Jiao’s power, Jiang Changsheng sensed an opportunity to break through. When Jiang Jian, Lin Haotian, and Ping'an encountered a mysterious being that had lived in the Great Wilderness for five thousand years, Jiang Changsheng sent the Dao Heart Deity to protect them, and the being attacked it.

• Jiang Changsheng used the Great Wilderness Lin Jiao’s power to temper Ji Wujun and Bai Qi, Huang Tian, and Hei Tian, while they gained strength from the Heavenly Evolution Martial Method.
• Three years later, Jiang Changsheng sensed that his spiritual power was saturated and that he was nearing another breakthrough.
• Jiang Jian, Lin Haotian, and Ping'an encountered a black, humanoid shadow beside a river, and it demanded to know their race and ancestral land.
• The shadow said it had lived alone for five thousand years and wanted to create a race modeled after them, then threatened to eat them and learn their memories.
• Jiang Changsheng sent the Dao Heart Deity to intervene, but the shadow attacked it with an extending claw.

Jiang Changsheng killed an Abyssal Demon that threatened Jiang Jian, Lin Haotian, and Ping'an, earning the Nine Seals Yuan Phoenix Crown and learning of a mysterious powerful figure in the Great Wilderness. Meanwhile, Fengtian’s court debated which dynasty to seek protection from as the Ten Thousand Demons Saintly Court advanced, with Li Ya focusing on the suggestion to rely on Great Jing.

• The Dao Heart Deity wounded the Abyssal Demon, and Jiang Changsheng froze it, extracted its soul, learned its memories, and killed it.
• Jiang Changsheng received the Nine Seals Yuan Phoenix Crown as a survival reward, refined it, and put it on after three days and nights.
• Jiang Changsheng learned that the Abyssal Demon had once encountered a towering, white-lit figure whose strength could not be calculated.
• In Fengtian’s imperial hall, ministers urged Li Ya to seek protection from another dynasty because Fengtian could not resist the Ten Thousand Demons Saintly Court alone.
• The ministers proposed several dynasties, including Great Jing, and Li Ya fixed his gaze on the official who recommended it.

Li Ya rejected his ministers’ opposition and opened Shun Heaven Territory to powerful martial artists, while Jiang Changsheng prepared to undergo a long-awaited heavenly tribulation. His tribulation spread terrifying thunderclouds across Tianjing Earth and shifted from purple lightning to a colossal golden dragon of lightning.

• Lu An proposed that Shun Heaven seek refuge with Great Jing, but Li Ya dismissed the court’s objections and decreed that martial artists above the Spirit Sense Realm could enter Shun Heaven Territory.
• After two years of preparation, Jiang Changsheng told Jiang Che to announce his coming tribulation, drawing crowds to the capital and bringing Mu Lingluo back to Dragon Arising Mountain.
• Jiang Changsheng flew high above the ground and began his tribulation as thunderclouds covered Tianjing Earth and spread into neighboring lands.
• Jiang Changsheng used his Incense Shield to withstand the purple lightning, while the people and rulers across the region watched in awe and fear.
• After half an hour and the loss of 1.5 billion incense points, the purple lightning gave way to golden lightning, which formed a gigantic Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and descended from the clouds.

Jiang Changsheng passed the True Dragon Nine Extremes Heavenly Tribulation, broke through to the ninth layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, and killed the Red Scale Giant Python that attacked him afterward. A month later, he mastered dharma power and reviewed the survival rewards and choices triggered by his breakthrough.

• Jiang Changsheng endured the three-hour heavenly tribulation, spending most of his Incense points on his Incense Shield before the lightning weakened and the tribulation ended.
• The Red Scale Giant Python attacked Jiang Changsheng after the tribulation, and he killed it with a single strike, frightening away other approaching Ferocious Beasts.
• Jiang Changsheng's breakthrough transformed his spiritual energy into dharma power and caused the Dao World to expand, while the Yuan Phoenix appeared before people in Si Province.
• After a month of consolidation, Jiang Changsheng comprehended the ninth layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill and learned that he needed to temper his soul to become a true immortal.
• Jiang Changsheng reviewed notifications granting him the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends and the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, along with a choice after passing his fifth tribulation.

Jiang Changsheng activated Incense Empowerment and discovered that his strength surpassed the Demon Race Supreme’s only slightly, while the Great Wilderness held other formidable figures. After celebrating his tribulation with his companions, he cultivated the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends, and the chapter ended with him sensing someone watching him from a nearby forest.

• Jiang Changsheng chose to continue cultivating immortality, activated Incense Empowerment, and learned that his incense value could unlock Immortal God Fate inheritances for faithful Incense Divine Envoys.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Survival System to compare the strength of the Demon Race Supreme, the Seven Great Demon Saints, and powerful figures in the Great Wilderness, finding that the Demon Race Supreme was the strongest within the system’s known range.
• Jiang Changsheng returned to Dragon Arising Mountain, reassured Mu Lingluo, Ji Wujun, Bai Qi, and the others, and showed them that the phoenix spirit had been concealed inside the Nine Seals Yuan Phoenix Crown.
• Jiang Changsheng celebrated with visitors for half a month, then left a clone behind and traveled into the Great Wilderness to cultivate the Seventy-Two Transformations of Earthly Fiends and master the ninth level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill.
• Jiang Jian used Nine Nether Wind against Lin Haotian and said his third eye had grown stronger as he absorbed and used luck more freely.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed his golden Dao Fruit’s power beside a great river and called out to a hidden watcher in the forest.

Jiang Changsheng named the powerful, curious Ferocious Beast Heavenly Connection and began expanding his Dharma treasures while Great Jing prospered. Elsewhere, Overturning Heaven set out to face a demon army, and Jiang Changsheng’s journey ended at the sight of a gigantic egg.

• Heavenly Connection asked Jiang Changsheng for a name and permission to enter Tianjing Earth, and Jiang Changsheng named it and let it go after it promised not to harm humans.
• Jiang Changsheng began refining the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror and planned to use it with the Classic of Mountains and Seas to explore the Great Wilderness.
• At court, Chen Li reported the birth of a greatly gifted person, and Jiang Che ordered an investigation; he also sent Grotto Heaven Realm martial artists to help Great Qi explore an Underground Palace.
• Old Man Tianji told the Purple-Clad Man that defeating a Demon Venerable would prove his worth, and the man named himself Overturning Heaven before flying to confront the demon army.
• Jiang Changsheng captured a two-headed lizard’s soul for the Classic of Mountains and Seas, brought the lizard into the Dao World, and continued reflecting the world with his mirror.
• Jiang Changsheng stopped when he saw a fluorescent white egg more than a hundred feet tall between the mountains.

Jiang Changsheng returned to Dragon Arising Mountain and prepared to use the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow against the Seven Great Demon Saints. As Overturning Heaven faced two Demon Venerables and a desperate human force prayed for Pangu, a vast opening in the demon clouds filled the battlefield with descending white light.

• Jiang Changsheng marked a powerful giant egg in the Great Wilderness and continued hunting Ferocious Beasts before returning to Dragon Arising Mountain in the thirty-seventh year of Taihe.
• Jiang Changsheng told Bai Qi, Ji Wujun, Huang Tian, and Hei Tian that he would act against the Seven Great Demon Saints, and he began taking aim with the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow.
• Overturning Heaven battled the Four-Eyed Tiger Demon, whose strength and resilient body resisted his attacks.
• A second Demon Venerable struck Overturning Heaven aside while wounded martial artists nearby prayed for Pangu to save them.
• Overturning Heaven prepared to face both Demon Venerables, but an enormous hole opened in the demon clouds and two massive white lights descended over the battlefield.

Jiang Changsheng saved the battlefield by using white beams to destroy the demon forces, then chose Li Yi of the Shun Heaven Dynasty as his divine envoy and granted him the Five Directions Thunder fate. Li Yi began mastering his new power and vowed to protect humanity, while Jiang Changsheng hoped he would live up to the investment.

• Jiang Changsheng's white beams killed the Demon Venerables and pursued the demon beasts without harming the human martial artists, ending the calamity.
• Jiang Changsheng decided to grant a devotee in Shun Heaven divine fate and selected Li Yi, a young genius close to Li Ya.
• Jiang Changsheng appeared to Li Yi in a dream, appointed him his divine envoy, and granted him the eighth-tier Immortal God Fate, Five Directions Thunder.
• A bolt of lightning struck Li Yi after he awoke, and a month later he demonstrated that he could command thunder without being harmed.
• Li Yi blasted a mountain with lightning, promised to protect the mortal world, and received Li Ya's support and access to Shun Heaven's martial treasury.
• Jiang Changsheng watched a leaf fall and urged Li Yi to work hard, prompting Huang Tian to ask whether he was not working hard enough.

Jiang Changsheng continued cultivating as Great Jing expanded its martial culture and its experts grew stronger. After Ye Xundi brought him a mysterious stone tablet, Jiang Changsheng witnessed a memory warning that the heavens would break within ten thousand years unless the Great Wilderness Royal Clan revived to mend them.

• Bai Qi teased Jiang Changsheng about noticing another genius, while he reflected on his plans to cultivate immortality and help those around him.
• Three years later, Great Jing established the Heavenly Pride Ranking, with Lin Haotian first and Jiang Jian second, and Chen Li asked Ji Wujun to deal with a powerful fiend in Great Qi.
• Guan Tongyou advanced to the Martial Dao Saint King realm, and Jiang Changsheng sent an avatar into the Great Wilderness to expand his records while he cultivated.
• Jiang Jian, Lin Haotian, and Ping'an entered a cave while searching for a rare treasure indicated by a growing aura of destiny.
• Ye Xundi returned with the Sword God after both made breakthroughs, and Ye Xundi gave Jiang Changsheng a stone tablet that contained a sealed memory.
• Jiang Changsheng saw a female Snake Person tell Ferocious Beasts that the Great Wilderness Royal Clan had to revive and mend the heavens before the Extraterrestrial Demon River overwhelmed all living beings.

Jiang Changsheng learned more about the Great Wilderness Royal Clan and watched Great Jing take control of its Underground Palace, where a brutal battle against a powerful Ferocious Beast ended in victory. He expanded his incense network and received his avatar’s updated Classic of Mountains and Seas and Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, which revealed Jiang Jian and his companions adventuring.

• Ye Xundi and the Sword God told Jiang Changsheng about Great Jing’s peaceful growth in the Great Wilderness, and he declined to travel with them.
• Ji Wujun returned and reported that Great Jing controlled part of the vast Underground Palace, which appeared connected to the Great Wilderness Royal Clan.
• The Son of Heaven invited martial artists to explore the Underground Palace, and its valuable materials and Ferocious Beasts drew people from across Great Jing.
• A powerful Ferocious Beast slaughtered martial artists in the Underground Palace, but Zhu Tianzhi, Ye Xundi, and other experts killed it after a six-month battle.
• Jiang Changsheng empowered five devoted believers and received his avatar’s seventy-two-page Classic of Mountains and Seas and Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror to watch Jiang Jian and his companions, prompting Bai Qi and the others to ask why he had taken them in.

Jiang Changsheng sent an avatar away with the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, then learned that sects were migrating into the Great Wilderness and observed new talents emerging in Great Jing. Meanwhile, the Martial Emperor ordered Martial Emperor Island to prepare for a final battle against the Seven Great Demon Saints, intending to sacrifice its warriors to revive the Martial Benevolence Great Emperor.

• Jiang Changsheng explained that only he could use the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror, then sent an avatar away carrying it and the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Five years later, Li Min told Jiang Changsheng that the former Court Sect and other sects were moving from Tianjing Earth into the Great Wilderness, and Jiang Changsheng advised letting them go.
• Jiang Changsheng observed Heavenly Connection teaching children and noticed a seven-year-old whose vitality rivaled that of a Ferocious Beast cub.
• The Martial Emperor heard Old Man Tianji report that the Seven Great Demon Saints were capturing huge numbers of human martial artists and declared that Martial Emperor Island must prepare for war.
• Old Man Tianji asked whether Great Jing and Jiang Changsheng could save the humans of the seas, but the Martial Emperor said they had withdrawn from the struggle.
• The Martial Emperor ordered the island's martial artists over three hundred to prepare to sacrifice themselves and control the revived Martial Benevolence Great Emperor in a final fight.

Jiang Changsheng discovered that the Seven Great Demon Saints were using an ancient Heaven and Earth Furnace formation to sacrifice humans and refine Supreme Pills, forcing him to consider intervening despite the danger of attracting the Demon Race Supreme. As human fortune surged across the skies, Ji Wujun sensed that a Martial Emperor had been born among the human race.

• Bai Qi told Jiang Changsheng that the imperial court had found a Dragon Spine and was holding an Ascension Tournament for it.
• Ji Wujun warned that she sensed a great calamity threatening the human race of the Endless Ocean.
• Jiang Changsheng entered the dreams of incense believers and saw humans trapped amid corpses in a vast furnace-like land controlled by demon beasts.
• Ji Wujun identified the site as the Heaven and Earth Furnace, where the Seven Great Demon Saints planned to refine Supreme Pills from human flesh and blood.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Heaven and Earth Boundless Eye to locate the furnace and saw the immense demon army surrounding it.
• Human fortune surged across the sky, and Ji Wujun declared that a Martial Emperor had been born among the human race.

The resurrected Martial Benevolence Great Emperor fought the Seven Great Demon Saints at the Heaven and Earth Furnace, prompting Jiang Changsheng to go south after learning the emperor’s mind was unstable. As survivors watched, the Great Emperor struggled against voices within him, including the despairing will of the original Martial Emperor.

• On Martial Emperor Island, the dying Martial Emperor asked the Martial Benevolence Great Emperor to fulfill the island’s wish before collapsing, and the resurrected emperor departed.
• The Martial Benevolence Great Emperor arrived at the Heaven and Earth Furnace and attacked the Seven Great Demon Saints, overpowering them with his saber.
• Jiang Changsheng identified the fighter as a Martial Emperor and showed Ji Wujun and the others the battle, while Ji warned that resurrected emperors could become dangerous.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed the Great Emperor’s unstable state and left to intervene, telling Ji Wujun to guard Great Jing.
• The Great Emperor crushed a Four-Armed Black Ape but struggled with conflicting voices in his mind, including the original Martial Emperor’s despairing question about abandoning humanity.

Jiang Changsheng arrived to rescue the humans trapped in the Heaven and Earth Furnace and confronted the Seven Great Demon Saints. He lifted the humans and their land into his palm, trapped the demons in his sword formation, and sent seven Soul Thought Divine Swords toward the Demon Saints.

• Martial Benevolence Great Emperor left after Mountain Range Demon Saint recognized that a new consciousness had taken control of his corpse.
• Mountain Range Demon Saint explained that the Demon Ancestor had helped preserve the Demon Saints, who planned to prepare the Heaven and Earth Furnace and challenge the Demon Race Supreme.
• Jiang Changsheng descended through the demon clouds and declared that he had come to save the human race.
• Jiang Changsheng used Universe in the Palm to lift the trapped humans and their land, then surrounded the Demon Saints and demon beasts with the Sun Moon Qiankun Sword Formation.
• The Demon Saints burned their Demon Power and attacked Jiang Changsheng, but his Soul Thought Divine Sword crushed them back down and split into seven swords aimed at them.