Chapter Summaries

The Crown Princess sought Jiang Changsheng’s protection for her sons, while White Venerable revealed that Jiang Xuanzhen shared the fate of the legendary Lamenting Heaven Saint. Elsewhere, Lin Hongchen investigated the Dao Ancestor’s movements, and Jiang Han faced pressure from the Vassal Kings before learning that Jiang Che’s youngest son had been born in the Grotto Heaven Realm.

• The Crown Princess asked Jiang Changsheng to bless Jiang Xuannian and Jiang Xuanzhen, and he gave each of her sons and her a strand of hair to protect their lives.
• White Venerable said Jiang Xuanzhen’s fortune and fate matched those of the Lamenting Heaven Saint, but Jiang Changsheng declined to take responsibility for raising him.
• Lin Hongchen halted his search for stolen Martial Emperor remains and prepared to visit the Demon Race, while ordering the Silver-Armored Man to investigate the Dao Ancestor in the north.
• Jiang Han learned that the Vassal Kings had ignored his order to reduce their troops, and he considered striking first against one of them.
• The North Border King offered Jiang Han his support in cutting the Vassal Kings’ military authority and revealed that Jiang Che’s youngest son had been born in the Grotto Heaven Realm.

At Jiang Changsheng’s three-hundredth birthday gathering, Chen Li warned that Jiang Han’s purges would drive Great Jing toward chaos, while Jiang Changsheng wrestled with his concern for the realm and the descendants who relied on him. Years later, Jiang Han revealed the Jiang family’s secret to the Crown Prince and demanded he rule without depending on the Dao Ancestor, leaving the Crown Prince determined to improve Great Jing.

• Bai Qi gathered Jiang Changsheng, Mu Lingluo, Chen Li, and others to celebrate Jiang Changsheng’s three-hundredth birthday, where Chen Li warned that Jiang Han’s harsh rule could plunge Great Jing into chaos.
• Jiang Changsheng admitted to Mu Lingluo that he was troubled that Jiang Han had not come to him, while she reminded him that governing the common people was the court’s responsibility.
• In the thirteenth year of the Earth Emperor Era, Jiang Han fell ill from his lingering assassination wounds and summoned the Crown Prince to his bedside.
• Jiang Han revealed that the Dao Ancestor was their ancestor, then warned the Crown Prince not to depend on him and explained that the Jiang family had to earn the strength to rule on its own.
• Jiang Han told the Crown Prince he had three years left to help him and warned that their branch could be erased if he failed; the Crown Prince vowed to make Great Jing better.

Jiang Changsheng watched the underworld develop and continued cultivating while Great Jing passed from Jiang Han’s turbulent reign to the Crown Prince’s new Dinghe era. After Jiang Han was assassinated by his own son, Jiang Changsheng summoned his spirit, and Jiang Han explained why he had allowed the killing.

• Jiang Changsheng saw the underworld’s reincarnation laws advancing, reached the tenth level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, and checked the strength of beings around Great Jing.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed Jiang Jian’s struggles but chose not to intervene, and continued aiding his incense believers while the Emperor’s purges shook Great Jing.
• In the sixteenth year of Earth Emperor, Jiang Han abdicated to the Crown Prince, and an old minister denounced him before taking his own life during the enthronement ceremony.
• The new Emperor began the Dinghe era, promoted An Chang and other confidants, and ordered an investigation after Jiang Han was assassinated in the Ancestral Palace.
• After Jiang Han died, Jiang Changsheng summoned him to a bamboo forest, where Jiang Han admitted that he had hinted his son should kill him to consolidate imperial power.

Jiang Changsheng heard Jiang Han’s grievances and reflected on how Great Jing’s luck-based system could be changed to avoid restricting the Son of Heaven’s fate. As Great Jing faced unrest at court and a growing presence of foreign powers, a mysterious meteor crossed the Great Wilderness, and the Son of Heaven turned the court’s attention to the Qiangliang Clan.

• Jiang Changsheng told Jiang Han he approved of his resolve, listened to his account, and sent him to reincarnate beside the Yellow Springs.
• Jiang Changsheng considered whether he could create a form of heaven-and-earth power that would preserve Great Jing without limiting the Son of Heaven’s lifespan.
• The Son of Heaven used Jiang Han’s death to arrest officials and consolidate power, while Ye Xundi, White Venerable, and Chen Li discussed Great Jing’s prospects and the arrival of martial artists from the Endless Ocean.
• A flaming meteor streaked over Huang Tian and Hei Tian’s mountain range, and Huang Tian sensed that a living being was inside it.
• At court, An Chang urged the Son of Heaven to turn from the Late Emperor’s case to foreign threats, and the Son of Heaven began a discussion of the Qiangliang Clan.

A secret faction used Canglang and Chancellor An Chang to test whether the Dao Ancestor would intervene as Great Jing faced disasters and rising unrest. After the Son of Heaven entrusted An Chang with suppressing a rebellion, the chapter left him demanding an explanation for a sudden upheaval in national destiny.

• A Black Robed Man and Taoist Priest Qingxu discussed using Canglang to test the Dao Ancestor’s response and prepare a larger plan.
• The Grand Desolate Assembly passed peacefully, and the Son of Heaven promoted An Chang to Chancellor, allowing him to consolidate influence at court.
• Drought and cold disasters struck Great Jing, while An Chang’s Department of Destiny drew blame and resentment toward the court and the Dao Ancestor.
• Jiang Changsheng’s followers debated the growing crisis, and Chen Li argued that turmoil could eventually let the Dao Ancestor restore the Jiang Family’s authority.
• The Son of Heaven ordered An Chang to form a martial alliance and accepted a Turtle Essence Pill from him.
• When rebellion in an entire province caused national destiny to shift, An Chang told the Son of Heaven that he had arranged to suppress it.

An Chang persuaded the Son of Heaven to let Xu Mang’s rebellion grow, while secretly monitored by the Thief God, and Xu Mang’s forces rapidly conquered North Suspended State and beyond. As Jiang Changsheng watched the realm’s competing forces and pursued his cultivation, Great Guang Heaven faced a Demon Race invasion with its Heavenly Duke absent.

• An Chang proposed using the rebellion to draw aristocratic families into conflict, and the Son of Heaven assigned him to manage it while ordering the Thief God to keep watching him.
• Xu Mang’s rebels defeated the North Suspended State army, seized the State Prefecture, and grew into a vast force despite Dragon Arising Temple denying any connection to him.
• After two Vassal Kings failed to conquer North Suspended State, the Son of Heaven offered a king’s title for Xu Mang’s head, but Xu Mang’s forces took another state by June.
• Chen Li told his companions that Xu Mang’s revolt was only the start of wider chaos, while Jiang Changsheng observed the Dao World and considered how Great Jing’s national fortune might strengthen him.
• Great Guang Heaven’s puppet Son of Heaven asked his ministers what to do as the Demon Race invaded and the Heavenly Duke remained absent.

Jiang Changsheng reflected on his Dao and the ties influencing his cultivation before reliving a memory of his youth at Dragon Arising Mountain. The memory ended with Taoist Priest Qingxu confronting the young Jiang Changsheng about practicing alone.

• The Son of Heaven approved defenses against the Demon Race and privately considered seeking help from the Dao Ancestor.
• Xu Mang captured more territory as the Black Robed Man and Taoist Priest Qingxu discussed his rising rebellion and the coming of Turbid Heaven.
• The Son of Heaven appointed the North Border King to command the Heavenly Strategy Army against Xu Mang, while Zhou Jueshi warned An Chang that events were going too smoothly.
• Jiang Tianming asked Jiang Changsheng to let him fight Xu Mang, but Jiang Changsheng told him to wait until he reached the Martial Dao Saint King realm.
• Jiang Changsheng contemplated his Dao and watched a vision of his younger self practicing alone until Taoist Priest Qingxu asked why he was not training with his fellow disciples.

Jiang Changsheng revisited memories of his youth and returned to the present with a firmer resolve as Xu Mang’s rebellion gained supernatural aid and spread across Great Jing. The Yang Family entered the war with powerful generals, while the Son of Heaven planned to use and then kill Jiang An Chang.

• Jiang Changsheng recalled Taoist Priest Qingxu urging his younger self to keep his quiet ways and understood the need to stay low-profile while protecting himself.
• Xu Mang rallied his followers after predicting a major change, and his forces later benefited when a meteorite struck the Heavenly Strategy Army and sent it fleeing.
• Jiang Changsheng detected a faint, unusual power surrounding Xu Mang and questioned whether Great Jing’s failure to defeat him meant the Son of Heaven’s rule should end.
• Rebels seized territory in more than forty states, while Yang Zhou and the Eighteen Stars failed to kill Xu Mang and numerous powerful families joined the campaign.
• Yang Zheng and the Yang Family Army won major victories, and the Son of Heaven told the Thief God that Jiang An Chang must die if he could not suppress the Yang Family.

Jiang Changsheng considered creating a heavenly bureaucracy while the Underworld established reincarnation, deepening his grasp of its laws. After Great Jing defeated Xu Mang’s rebellion, the Son of Heaven ordered An Chang and Yang Zheng to investigate the court and Shun Tian.

• The Son of Heaven told the Thief God to keep watching An Chang, then summoned Jiang Xuannian and ordered him to deliver a reward decree to the Yang residence.
• Jiang Changsheng considered creating a heaven for meritorious officials and saints, then went to the Underworld after the Punishment Head reported that reincarnation had been connected.
• The Punishment Head showed Jiang Changsheng the Bridge of Helplessness, where Jade Consort served Forget Life Water to the dead, and Jiang Han watched his ancestor pass by.
• By June of the tenth year of Dinghe, Great Jing had crushed the rebel armies, and the Son of Heaven rewarded Yang Zheng, the North Border King, Mu Jiang, and Chen Quan for their victories.
• Yang Zheng warned that people in the court had supported Xu Mang and called for a thorough investigation, prompting the Son of Heaven to order him and An Chang to investigate the court and Shun Tian together.

As Great Jing’s court factional conflict threatened to erupt into wider chaos, the Demon Lord ordered the Devil Race to begin a campaign for the Creation Origin Stele. After the Yang Family’s Three Great Generals attacked An Chang and the Son of Heaven let the battle go unchecked, Jiang Changsheng completed a new divine ability and saw that the Son of Heaven was nearing death.

• Chen Li warned the Dao Ancestor’s courtyard that the Yang Family’s Three Great Generals planned to kill An Chang and that the realm was heading toward chaos.
• The Demon Lord announced that the Creation Origin Stele had emerged and ordered the Devil Race to conquer the Nine Yin Clan within a hundred years.
• The Yang Family’s Three Great Generals attacked An Chang’s residence, and their battle devastated parts of Shun Tian City while the Son of Heaven refused to intervene.
• Jiang Changsheng perfected an illusion-based divine ability by combining the Illusory God Eyes with the Great Dao Eye and began applying the Rule Power of heaven and earth.
• Jiang Changsheng discovered that a disguised Foreign Race member was teaching Xu Mang and saw that the Son of Heaven had only a few years left to live.

Jiang Changsheng prepared to enter seclusion for a breakthrough and entrusted Great Jing’s affairs to his companions, permitting Chen Li’s plan as long as the dynasty did not fall. Before cultivating, he used the Great Dao Eye to kill the mysterious being who had been accompanying Xu Mang, leaving Xu Mang stunned.

• Jiang Xuannian discussed with his dying father, Jiang Ci, his plan to support Jiang Xuanzhen and use upheaval among the vassals to renew Great Jing.
• After the Empress was poisoned, the Yang Family attacked An Chang, but his mysterious protector repelled them, and Yang Zheng called on the realm to kill An Chang in exchange for a royal title.
• Jiang Changsheng announced that he would enter seclusion, authorized Chen Li’s plan under the condition that Great Jing survive, and gave his companions strands of his hair for protection.
• Jiang Changsheng sent a golden attack through the Great Dao Eye and returned to his cultivation after his avatar merged with him.
• A golden streak struck Xu Mang’s master, reducing the man in coarse clothes to charred bones and scattering them, while Xu Mang watched in shock.

Jiang Changsheng began a breakthrough and used his Great Dao Eye to perceive the laws of heaven and the souls trapped in Great Jing’s river of destiny. As Great Jing descended into war and Zhu Kuangji was maneuvered toward seizing power, Jiang Changsheng’s consciousness reached beyond the firmament and encountered an immense river among the stars.

• Jiang Changsheng began cultivating through his breakthrough and saw the laws of heaven, the lives of people across the world, and the souls of past emperors trapped in Great Jing’s river of destiny.
• Mu Lingluo, Ji Wujun, Bai Qi, and Jiang Tianming discussed Great Jing’s collapse into warlord conflict and debated who might become its next Son of Heaven.
• The Black Robed Man and Taoist Priest Qingxu persuaded Zhu Kuangji to seek control of Great Jing by rescuing the missing Son of Heaven and ruling through a puppet.
• Jiang Changsheng’s consciousness rose beyond the firmament, where he saw an enormous river filled with moving stars and wondered whether it was the Extraterrestrial Demon River.

Jiang Changsheng began his immortal tribulation after reaching the tenth level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, while a lightning figure from the Martial God's Realm attacked him. As disasters spread across Great Jing, Jiang Xuannian unleashed a hidden power to save Jiang Xuanzhen from Zhu Kuangji and An Chang.

• Jiang Changsheng witnessed a vast river beyond the heavens and a pair of terrifying scarlet eyes before falling into a fiery realm filled with enormous creatures.
• Jiang Xuanzhen told Qi Yuan he would leave to rescue Jiang Xuannian from Xuan Ting City, and Qi Yuan warned him that the journey could cost him his life.
• Jiang Changsheng completed his breakthrough, inspected the reincarnations of four old acquaintances, and saw that feudal wars had plunged Great Jing into chaos.
• Jiang Changsheng began his heavenly tribulation above the heavens, where a lightning figure calling the place the Martial God's Realm attacked him and his protective treasures.
• Jiang Xuanzhen confronted Zhu Kuangji and An Chang in Xuan Ting City, but Jiang Xuannian released a burst of power that blasted them away and formed a blue sword phantom beside him.

Jiang Xuannian sacrificed himself after killing An Chang and Zhu Kuangji, leaving Jiang Xuanzhen the throne and a troubling revelation about the Jiang Family’s ancestor. Meanwhile, Jiang Changsheng survived his heavenly tribulation, reached the tenth level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, and faced a choice between abandoning immortal cultivation or continuing on the path to the Heavenly Dao.

• Jiang Xuannian killed An Chang and Zhu Kuangji with the Soul Thought Divine Sword, then fatally stabbed himself to make Jiang Xuanzhen the Son of Heaven.
• Jiang Xuannian told Jiang Xuanzhen that the Jiang Family had chosen to prove itself without its ancestor’s intervention, then died before finishing his final instruction.
• Jiang Changsheng endured increasingly powerful lightning with his treasures, Great Dao Eye, and Incense Shield as ancient beings watched from afar.
• Jiang Changsheng’s Dao Fruit transformed during the tribulation, and he comprehended the deeper cultivation method of the Dao Follows Nature Skill.
• Jiang Changsheng passed the Heaven and Earth Martial God heavenly tribulation, received the Great Creation Divine Art, and was offered the choice to abandon immortal cultivation or continue and activate the fortune function.
• At Dragon Arising Mountain, Jiang Tianming vowed to avenge Jiang Xuannian, while Ji Wujun left to visit the Profound Court and Bai Qi worried about Great Jing’s fractured realm.

After fourteen years of seclusion, Jiang Changsheng mastered the Great Creation Divine Art and learned that the Qiangliang Clan was marching toward Great Jing. He took Jiang Tianming to confront the powerful army, while Ye Xundi, the Sword God, and Ji Wujun fought to rescue Jiang Xuanzhen.

• Jiang Changsheng activated the Luck function, accumulated more than one hundred million Luck Points, and used incense calculations to assess the power he had encountered during his last tribulation and his own strength.
• Jiang Changsheng inherited and mastered the Great Creation Divine Art, which he planned to use to create Nine Heavens above Great Jing.
• After emerging from fourteen years of seclusion, Jiang Changsheng told Bai Qi and the others that he would face the approaching Qiangliang Clan, then brought Jiang Tianming along to witness the battle.
• Jiang Changsheng explained to Jiang Tianming that six Heaven and Earth Emperor Realm experts led the Qiangliang army and urged him to train beyond the mortal limit of the Martial Emperor.
• Jiang Changsheng summoned the Golden Scale Mystical Tree and told Jiang Tianming that he was beyond the Martial Emperor, though he did not know the name of the realm.
• Ye Xundi and the Sword God carried Jiang Xuanzhen toward safety while Ji Wujun fought the Black Robed Man, who questioned whether the Dao Ancestor had sent them.

Jiang Changsheng annihilated much of the invading Qiangliang Clan with his Great Dao Eye and forced its survivors to kneel and submit to the human race. Two months later, Jiang Xuanzhen reached the Daoist temple and begged Jiang Changsheng to ascend the throne and lead Great Jing for another three hundred years.

• The Sword God told Jiang Xuanzhen that he and his companions cultivated under the Dao Ancestor, and that Jiang Changsheng remained in seclusion.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Golden Scale Mystical Tree and his Great Dao Eye to destroy Qiangliang Clan warriors and kill three of its leaders.
• Jiang Changsheng spared the surviving Qiangliang Clan after making its leaders and warriors kneel and pledge loyalty beneath the human race.
• Jiang Changsheng returned to Dragon Arising Mountain and received a Peach Tree as a survival reward for overcoming the Qiangliang Clan invasion.
• Two months later, Ji Wujun, Ye Xundi, and the Sword God returned with Jiang Xuanzhen, who knelt before the Daoist temple and begged Jiang Changsheng to ascend the throne.

Jiang Xuanzhen asked Jiang Changsheng to take the throne, but Jiang Changsheng emerged from seclusion and declared that he would become Great Jing’s Son of Heaven and usher in an Era of Immortals and Gods. Meanwhile, Zhu Tianjia prepared to contend for the realm, while the Black Robed Man’s allies waited for the Qiangliang Clan to arrive.

• Jiang Xuanzhen entered Purple Cloud Palace and begged Jiang Changsheng to ascend the throne, explaining that fortune had doomed Great Jing’s past Son of Heaven rulers.
• Jiang Xuanzhen confessed his guilt over Jiang Xuannian’s death and said he had never wanted to be Son of Heaven; Jiang Changsheng considered taking the throne and transforming Great Jing’s fortune.
• After nearly half a month, Jiang Changsheng left the temple and announced that he would marry Mu Lingluo and ascend the throne, bringing the people an opportunity to become immortals and gods.
• Jiang Changsheng revealed his Great Dao Eye and said Yang Che could prove his lineage, while Chen Li and the others celebrated his decision.
• In Xuanting, Zhu Tianjia vowed to contend for the realm, while the Black Robed Man and Taoist Priest Qingxu questioned a black shadow about the Qiangliang Clan’s arrival.

Jiang Changsheng revealed that he had scattered Great Jing’s providence to replace it while building the Heavenly Court and guiding his future son toward inheriting the throne. He appeared before the conspirators in Xuan Ting City, killed Zhu Tianjia, and prepared to punish the remaining enemies.

• Rumors that the Son of Heaven had asked the Dao Ancestor to ascend the throne spread across the land, alarming the North Border King, who decided to visit Dragon Arising Temple and ordered his people not to act.
• Jiang Changsheng told Mu Lingluo he would establish the Nine Heavens and Heavenly Court, then explained that their son would inherit Great Jing before becoming Heavenly Emperor; he also reassured her that he would keep searching for her through future reincarnations.
• Jiang Changsheng dispersed Great Jing’s providence, intensifying the realm’s chaos and leaving Zhu Tianjia and his allies in Xuan Ting City unable to explain what had happened.
• Jiang Changsheng appeared in the hall, admitted he had scattered the providence, and turned Zhu Tianjia to ash while preventing the Black Robed Man, Taoist Priest Qingxu, and Xu Mang from escaping.
• Jiang Changsheng exposed the black shadow as a member of the Heavenly Constellation Clan and declared that everyone present except Xu Mang would die; the Black Robed Man attacked and was crushed into the dragon steps without Jiang Changsheng moving.

Jiang Changsheng defeated the intruders, discovered the truth behind Zhang Ying’s death, and saw Taoist Priest Qingxu safely toward reincarnation. As regional lords submitted or were overthrown, Jiang Changsheng prepared to ascend the throne and rename Great Jing Tianjing.

• Jiang Changsheng annihilated the black shadow, read the Black Robed Man’s memories, and learned that Xiao Buku’s hidden power had killed Zhang Ying before sending Xiao Buku to reincarnate.
• Jiang Changsheng confronted the being occupying Taoist Priest Qingxu’s body, then met his master’s soul in the underworld and watched him join the line of dead souls.
• Jiang Changsheng’s planned enthronement spread across the land, and Yu Lin was killed by his own general after refusing to submit.
• Chen Li reported that forty-seven regional lords had surrendered and eighteen had been killed by their subordinates as Jiang Changsheng prepared to establish fortune himself.
• Jiang Changsheng announced that Great Jing would be renamed Tianjing and that officials who earned merit could ascend to the Heavenly Court.

Jiang Changsheng attended the enthronement ceremony and transformed Great Jing into Tianjing, a fortune dynasty linking the mortal realm to a heavenly court. The chapter ended with him proclaiming himself Tianjing’s first Son of Heaven and Human Emperor as the realm’s people celebrated.

• Jiang Changsheng sealed Xiao Buku’s black qi in the Purple-Gold Gourd, then continued cultivating while considering the threat beyond heaven.
• At the enthronement ceremony, Jiang Xuanzhen, the Vassal Kings, and the gathered dignitaries knelt before Jiang Changsheng as his divine power showed the scene across Great Jing.
• Jiang Changsheng declared that Great Jing would be renamed Tianjing and that meritorious people could ascend as immortals and serve in the heavenly court.
• Jiang Changsheng began the Immortal Origin Year and spread a new fortune across Tianjing, while the Southern Heavenly Gate appeared above the clouds with Guan Tongyou guarding it.
• Jiang Changsheng proclaimed himself Tianjing’s first Son of Heaven and Human Emperor as the White Dragon and Golden Crow circled him.