Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changsheng built the Heavenly Court, strengthened Tianjing, and began studying how to create a Heavenly River of his own. The Violet Firmament Divine Lord warned him that investigators from the upper realm would soon arrive and urged him to hide, while also revealing the danger posed by the Eternal Killing Star.

• Jiang Changsheng appointed Di Chang as a general and publicly announced that he was Great Jing’s second Martial Emperor.
• Jiang Changsheng created palaces across the Nine Heavens and named Guan Tongyou and Di Chang the Heavenly Court’s two great divine generals.
• The Black-Clothed Man and a woman in green robes chose a weak fortune dynasty as a place to hide and seek revenge after the Great Wilderness Divine Lord’s death.
• Lin Haotian brought martial artists from the Green Stone Tribe to Tianjing, where they were struck by the capital’s prosperity.
• Jiang Changsheng reflected on the Heavenly River’s influence and spent years studying its Rule Power as Martial Dao Spiritual Energy surged in Tianjing.
• The Violet Firmament Divine Lord warned Jiang Changsheng that upper-realm investigators would come to the Great Wilderness and told him to hide, avoid Ye Zhan and Ye Qingzhi, and investigate the Eternal Killing Star.

Jiang Changsheng intercepted White Blaze Star and altered his memories to protect the Martial World from Nine Absolutes Emperor. Later, Jiang Ziyu brought him his newborn son, whom Jiang Changsheng recognized as the reincarnated Eternal Killing Star and named Jiang Shan; he then asked Chang Yao Ling to explain the Eternal Killing Star’s deeds.

• Jiang Changsheng learned from Chang Yao Ling that Violet Firmament Divine Lord’s account was believable, then sent an incarnation to await the next threat while he cultivated.
• Six years later, Jiang Changsheng subdued White Blaze Star as he descended, read his memories, and altered them so he would blame Great Wilderness Divine Lord’s death on a mysterious Heaven-Equalling Great Sage.
• White Blaze Star returned to Nine Absolutes Emperor and reported the false story, prompting Nine Absolutes Emperor to order an investigation into the Heaven-Equalling Great Sage.
• During Tianjing’s centennial celebrations, Jiang Changsheng sensed something unusual about the infant Jiang Ziyu brought him and discovered the baby carried the Eternal Killing Star’s fate.
• Jiang Changsheng named the child Jiang Shan and later summoned Chang Yao Ling to tell him more about the Eternal Killing Star.

Jiang Changsheng learned more about the Eternal Killing Star and the Divine Martial World while the Violet Firmament Divine Lord expanded her influence through ascension. As Jiang Tianming led Jiang Shan and other descendants out for experience, the Divine Lord grew suspicious of Chang Yao Ling and ordered agents sent to infiltrate Tianjing.

• Chang Yao Ling explained the Eternal Killing Star’s history and described the Divine Martial World’s control over the Three Thousand Worlds.
• Jiang Ziyu began handling state affairs, and ten years later Jiang Changsheng watched Jiang Shan’s cultivation and considered training a group of Jiang Family divine generals.
• Jiang Changsheng witnessed a powerful martial artist ascend, realizing the Violet Firmament Divine Lord was drawing Martial Emperor-level fighters into the upper realm.
• Jiang Tianming told Jiang Shan that he, Xuan Zhen, Jiang Luo, and Jiang Ye would travel together for experience on Jiang Changsheng’s orders.
• The Violet Firmament Divine Lord questioned five Martial Emperors about Jiang Changsheng, then suspected Chang Yao Ling had joined him and ordered unfamiliar low-realm martial artists to infiltrate Tianjing.

The Divine Martial World selected the Great Wilderness Martial World for a thousand-year competition in which one hundred fortune dynasties would compete, and only three worlds would survive. Jiang Changsheng warned Jiang Ziyu, who saw the contest as a chance for Heavenly Jing to expand and announced it to his ministers.

• In the Underworld, Jiang Xuannian told the Punishment Head that Jiang Shan had been the most gifted newborn during the reincarnation anomaly, and the Punishment Head decided to consult the Dao Ancestor in secret.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed a ray of light reaching toward the Great Wilderness Martial World and summoned Chang Yao Ling to contact Violet Firmament Divine Lord.
• Violet Firmament Divine Lord explained that the Divine Martial World had ordered one hundred Martial Worlds to compete for a thousand years, after which only three would ascend into the Profound Yellow Great World and the rest would be destroyed.
• Jiang Changsheng suspected the competition might be connected to Jiang Shan and chose to avoid risking a direct victory while he cultivated toward a realm capable of facing the Divine Martial World.
• Jiang Changsheng informed Jiang Ziyu, who welcomed the contest as an opportunity for Heavenly Jing and revealed it to the ministers at morning court.

As the Martial World Competition began, Jiang Changsheng prepared to establish the Heavenly Court by enthroning gods and began arranging Heavenly Jing’s transition. He announced that the enthronement would take place in ten years, while Jiang Jian agreed to return to Heavenly Jing and Bai Qi secured a place among the gods.

• Over ten years, news that the heavens were centered on humanity spread through the Great Wilderness as Heavenly Jing prepared for war, and Jiang Changsheng decided to develop the Heavenly Court alongside Heavenly Jing.
• The Violet Firmament Divine Lord suspected that an unknown power had drawn the Great Wilderness into the Martial World Competition and worried that Jiang Changsheng might not survive the coming calamities.
• After the Martial World Competition began in the 141st year of Immortal Yuan, Jiang Changsheng gave Jiang Ziyu a list of court officials to be granted godhood, and they agreed to hold the enthronement ten years later when Jiang Ziyu ascended the throne.
• The Crown Prince announced that the Dao Ancestor would confer godhood upon 365 Orthodox Gods and 100,000 Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, prompting Lin Haotian to urge Jiang Jian to return to Heavenly Jing.
• Jiang Jian agreed to return with his family, while Jiang Changsheng promised to grant Bai Qi, White Dragon, and the others divine positions and instructed Bai Qi about her future duties.

Jiang Changsheng abdicated to Jiang Ziyu, established the Heavenly Court, and began the long-awaited investiture of gods before the gathered people of Tianjing and the Great Wilderness. He conferred divine ranks on the Four Saints Great Marshal, the Immortal Taming Three Heavenly Lords, and the Thirty-six Tiangang Great Generals, with the ceremony still underway.

• Great Guang Heaven’s Lin Hongchen decided to send people to Tianjing to seek a long-distance Teleportation Array and learn how Tianjing established itself in the Great Wilderness.
• On New Year’s Day, officials, commoners, martial artists, and Foreign Race creatures gathered to witness Tianjing’s enthronement and investiture of gods.
• Jiang Changsheng crowned Jiang Ziyu, ended the Immortal Origin era, and announced the new era name, Establishing Heaven.
• Jiang Changsheng proclaimed the establishment of the Heavenly Court and revealed the enormous, golden Investiture of the Gods.
• Jiang Changsheng conferred Guan Tongyou, Di Chang, Ji Wujun, and Xu Tianji as the Four Saints Great Marshal, then appointed Chen Li, Yang Che, and White Venerable as the Immortal Taming Three Heavenly Lords.
• Jiang Changsheng began conferring the Thirty-six Tiangang Great Generals, including Jiang Jue, who wept with guilt at realizing his ancestor had watched over him.

Jiang Changsheng completed the deification ceremony, appointing Orthodox Gods and one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers before transporting them to the Heavenly Court. He established the court’s leadership and rules, then left with Mu Lingluo to cultivate as the Great Wilderness entered an age ruled by immortals and gods.

• Jiang Changsheng appointed the Four Great Celestial Masters, members of the eight departments, and other Orthodox Gods, leaving several dozen positions vacant.
• Jiang Changsheng named one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers, including the agents sent by Violet Firmament Divine Lord, who abandoned their allegiance after being chosen.
• Jiang Changsheng ended the ceremony and transported the immortals, gods, Heavenly Soldiers, and Investiture of the Gods to Lingxiao Palace.
• Jiang Changsheng appointed Mu Lingluo Queen Mother and assigned the Three Great Heavenly Sovereigns and Four Saints Great Marshal their duties, while warning that Orthodox Gods could lose their positions for breaking Heavenly Rules.
• Jiang Changsheng told Mu Lingluo that she could select up to a thousand virtuous women as Heavenly Court Fairies, then invited her to cultivate with him in Purple Cloud Palace.

As the Heavenly Court grew stronger, Jiang Changsheng watched the Martial World Competition bring foreign forces toward the Great Wilderness and continued cultivating. In Establishing Heaven, Year Seventeen, the Heavenly Court sent its first army to suppress an evil race, while powerful outsiders plotted around the Great Wilderness.

• The Heavenly Court expanded its duties and inducted gods, while Jiang Ziyu rebuilt Tianjing and its people established Mountain God and Land God temples.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Heaven and Earth Boundless Eye to learn that foreign human armies could threaten Tianjing within twenty years, and planned for the Heavenly Court to defend it.
• Violet Firmament Divine Lord suspected that the Dao Ancestor had influenced spies who entered the Heavenly Court, and decided to watch events unfold as more forces gathered around the Great Wilderness.
• Flame Master delayed confronting the Eternal Killing Star and other figures until he had absorbed the earth vein's fire aura, then ordered his subordinate to unite a human faction.
• Jiang Jian and Jiang Shan sparred before Guan Tongyou announced that ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers would suppress an evil race.
• In Establishing Heaven, Year Seventeen, Guan Tongyou led twelve Heavenly Gang Great Generals, thirty-six Earthly Fiend Generals, and ten thousand Heavenly Soldiers aboard the Heaven-Equalling Cloud Sea to begin the Heavenly Court's first campaign.

Jiang Changsheng unlocked Incense Teleportation after his Incense Points passed one hundred billion, while the Heavenly Court expanded its influence and Tianjing prepared for the first invasion of the Martial World Competition. The chapter ended with Di Chang battling a powerful Black-Clothed Man who had arrived to destroy the Heavenly Court.

• Guan Tongyou led the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals in defeating the Stone Abyss Clan and establishing the Heavenly Prison.
• Jiang Changsheng received the Incense Teleportation function, surveyed the realms, and resumed cultivation after finding no immediate threat beyond himself.
• Jiang Ziyu prepared Tianjing's commanders for the first wave of enemy armies and declared that the Heavenly Court would aid them.
• A Black-Clothed Man appeared at the Eastern Heavenly Gate and challenged the Heavenly Court, prompting Di Chang to intercept him.
• The Black-Clothed Man knocked Di Chang down, but Di Chang returned with the Divine Form Technique and pressed the attack.

Jiang Changsheng captured a powerful Black-Clothed Man with the Purple-Gold Gourd, then Tianjing’s heavenly generals helped defeat an invading army from the Crimson Sky Martial World. After the victory, Chen Li visited the defeated army and offered them a path toward immortality through the Heavenly Court.

• The Black-Clothed Man overwhelmed Di Chang until Jiang Changsheng used the God-Binding Silk and Purple-Gold Gourd to capture him.
• Jiang Changsheng returned the treasure to the Purple Cloud Palace and let its flames burn the captive before questioning him.
• In the thirtieth year of Establishing Heaven, the Thirty-six Tiangang Great Generals and seventy-two Earthly Baleful Generals helped Tianjing crush an invasion from the Crimson Sky Martial World.
• The defeated army’s commanders discussed their losses and feared the power of the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Li entered the enemy camp, questioned their chances in the Martial World Competition, and presented the Purple-Gold Gourd as proof of the Heavenly Emperor’s strength.

Chen Li used the Purple-Gold Gourd to convince the Crimson Sky Martial World’s commanders of the Heavenly Court’s power, while Jiang Changsheng brought the Netherworld under closer Heavenly Court cooperation and warned the immortals of a future upper-realm tribulation. He learned that the trapped Martial God was Hei Hou, an ascended warrior who warned that upper-realm figures had descended and might be targeting Jiang Changsheng.

• Chen Li showed the Crimson Sky Martial World’s commanders the trapped Black-Clothed Man in the Purple-Gold Gourd and urged them to join Tianjing.
• Jiang Changsheng convened the immortals and gods, established cooperation between the Heavenly Court and the Netherworld, and warned that the Heavenly Court would face a tribulation a thousand years later.
• Jiang Changsheng questioned the exhausted Black-Clothed Man and learned that his name was Hei Hou, a Martial Dao Divine Connection warrior who had descended to investigate the Great Wilderness Divine Lord’s death.
• Hei Hou warned Jiang Changsheng that many upper-realm figures had descended for the Martial World Competition and might have come for him.

Hei Hou joined the Heavenly Court as a Heavenly Soldier and grew stronger while serving under Di Chang. Meanwhile, Jiang Ziyu reached the Heaven and Earth Great Venerable realm, and Ye Zhan crushed Great Guang Heaven’s army and began taking control of the Endless Ocean.

• Jiang Changsheng accepted Hei Hou into the Heavenly Court as a Heavenly Soldier, and Di Chang took him to guard the North Heavenly Gate.
• Hei Hou befriended the Heavenly Soldiers, taught them upper-realm martial arts, and entered the Divine Roam Great Heaven and Earth within five years.
• Jiang Ziyu reached the Heaven and Earth Great Venerable realm and agreed to send Tianjing talents with Jiang Tianming on a journey to another Martial World.
• Jiang Ziyu and Jiang Tianming flew away to spar, setting off booming clashes that alarmed the people of Si Province.
• Ye Zhan destroyed the archipelago and routed Lin Hongchen’s Great Guang Heaven army, then seized Lin Hongchen and forced the surviving experts to submit.

Jiang Ziyu learned that the Great Guang Heaven had fallen into civil strife and suspected Ye Zhan would become a rival, while Violet Firmament Divine Lord discussed Dao Ancestor and the Old Ancient Sect. The Bloodthirsty Insect Tower arrived in Jiang Shan’s realm seeking the Eternal Killing Star, leaving Hei Hou alarmed by the old man’s remark about Jiang Shan.

• Jiang Ziyu told three envoys that the Great Guang Heaven had fallen under the Luo Hong Dynasty’s influence, then offered them a place in Tianjing while they waited for news.
• Jiang Ziyu wrote Ye Zhan’s name and reflected that he might become a formidable rival.
• Violet Firmament Divine Lord rejected speculation that Dao Ancestor was an Old Ancient Sect cultist and said Heavenly Punishment would await him if he survived the Martial World Competition.
• Taishi Changce ordered the Bloodthirsty Insect Tower to capture the Eternal Killing Star before he awakened, and disparaged Ye Zhan and the fallen Ye Family.
• The Bloodthirsty Insect Tower reached Jiang Shan’s realm, where Taishi Changce confronted Hei Hou and the old man remarked that Jiang Shan might have awakened in five hundred years, prompting Hei Hou to suspect Jiang Shan was the Eternal Killing Star.

Taishi Changce and Taishi Zibo seized Jiang Shan after identifying him as the Eternal Killing Star, but Jiang Changsheng’s Dao Heart Deity intervened and defeated them. Back in the Purple Cloud Palace, Jiang Changsheng received the divine power Heaven and Earth Annihilation as a survival reward and chose to keep Taishi Changce sealed rather than kill him.

• Taishi Changce attacked Hei Hou and had Taishi Zibo snatch Jiang Shan, while Jiang Tianming’s third eye broke through Taishi Changce’s blood-red True Qi.
• Jiang Changsheng’s Dao Heart Deity appeared, dispersed Taishi Changce’s attack, killed Taishi Zibo, and sealed Taishi Changce before handing him to Hei Hou for transport to the Heavenly Court.
• Jiang Tianming pulled Jiang Shan from the Bloodthirsty Insect Tower as the gathered Heavenly Soldiers and martial artists reacted to the Dao Heart Deity’s power.
• Jiang Changsheng received the divine power Heaven and Earth Annihilation as a survival reward for intervening to save Jiang Shan.
• Jiang Changsheng decided to keep Taishi Changce sealed because killing him might endanger the Great Wilderness Martial World.

Jiang Changsheng studied Heaven and Earth Annihilation and learned from Taishi Changce’s memories about the vast martial realms, the Taishi Clan, and the forbidden Old Ancient Sect. He encouraged Jiang Shan to embrace his own identity, then resolved to grow strong enough to move the Great Wilderness Martial World before the thousand-year deadline.

• Jiang Ziyu heard a general recount the Dao Ancestor’s victory and sealed the news about Jiang Shan being the Eternal Killing Star, while considering how Tianjing might benefit from the attention.
• Bai Qi helped Jiang Shan realize that his choices, not his past life as the Eternal Killing Star, defined him, and Jiang Changsheng urged him to become a slayer of evil demons.
• Jiang Changsheng read Taishi Changce’s memories and learned about the Taishi Clan, higher martial realms, the vanished Ye Clan, and Ye Shenkong’s immense power.
• Jiang Changsheng discovered that the Old Ancient Sect pursued forbidden Ancient Arts and suspected the Divine Martial World used the Creation Origin Stele to detect and destroy other cultivation systems.
• Jiang Changsheng decided to reach the eleventh level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill so he could eventually carry the Great Wilderness Martial World to safety.

After forty years of seclusion, Jiang Changsheng awoke with his cultivation at its limit and prepared for a breakthrough, first practicing Heaven and Earth Annihilation. He left a Great Jing refugee guarding the resulting void, promising him the qualifications to become immortal if he stayed until the region recovered.

• Huang Tian and Hei Tian led their Demon Race army westward to build their strength, while a mountain spirit reported their departure to Mount Tai Sovereign.
• After learning that forty years had passed, Jiang Changsheng awoke and told Mu Lingluo and Bai Qi that a breakthrough was near.
• Jiang Changsheng went alone to a desolate mountain region and practiced Heaven and Earth Annihilation, erasing a vast area of space and its laws.
• Jiang Changsheng watched the void for a month and confirmed that the laws of heaven and earth were beginning to mend it.
• Jiang Changsheng found a Great Jing refugee, taught him a supreme technique, and tasked him with guarding the void until it recovered in exchange for the qualifications to become immortal.

Jiang Changsheng’s Dao Fruit began transforming as he approached the eleventh level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, and he hid his breakthrough inside a region of nothingness to avoid drawing attention from the upper realm. The heavenly tribulation still found him there, while the Violet Firmament Divine Lord learned that the one hundred Martial Worlds would be destroyed after the Martial World Competition.

• In the ninety-ninth year of Establishing Heaven, Jiang Changsheng observed Tianjing’s growing strength and began cultivating, triggering a surge that startled Mu Lingluo, Bai Qi, and the White Dragon.
• Jiang Changsheng entered his Dao Fruit and watched it transform as the Heavenly Court’s spiritual energy and the minds of its immortals grew clearer; the Flame Master and the Violet Firmament Divine Lord sensed disturbances in the Great Wilderness Martial World.
• In the one hundred and third year of Establishing Heaven, Jiang Changsheng suspected his breakthrough was attracting the upper realm, left a clone behind, and entered the region of nothingness to cultivate unseen.
• Jiang Changsheng’s heavenly tribulation appeared even in the region of nothingness, and he poured his mana into his Dao Fruit to pursue the eleventh level of the Dao Follows Nature Skill.
• The Violet Firmament Divine Lord asked a white-haired Divine Palace Lord about the disturbance, and he found no abnormality in the Great Wilderness Martial World’s luck or rules.
• The white-haired elder told the Violet Firmament Divine Lord that the one hundred Martial Worlds would cease to exist after the Martial World Competition and promised to transfer her out beforehand.

Violet Firmament Divine Lord learned that the Divine Martial World planned to destroy a hundred martial worlds after staging the Martial World Competition, while Jiang Changsheng endured a dangerous heavenly tribulation in the void. As his defenses ran out, remnants of other immortal cultivators appeared around his Dao Fruit, and he faced the storm with renewed resolve.

• The white-haired old man told Violet Firmament Divine Lord that the Divine Martial World would use the Martial World Competition as a pretext before destroying a hundred martial worlds, including the Eternal Killing Star’s target worlds.
• Jiang Changsheng began his tribulation in the void region and used his Luck Value barrier to withstand successive waves of increasingly powerful heavenly lightning.
• Ji Gang guarded the enormous black sphere and grew nervous as the tribulation’s spatial fluctuations intensified.
• Ye Zhan told Ye Qingzhi that he intended to challenge the Dao Ancestor after breaking through, while Ye Qingzhi urged him to investigate the Dao Ancestor’s background.
• Jiang Changsheng exhausted his Luck Value and Incense Value, then saw illusions of immortal cultivators enduring or dying in tribulations around his Dao Fruit.
• Jiang Changsheng realized the visions were remnants left by the Dao Follows Nature Skill and summoned the Great Dao Eye as the tribulation clouds churned overhead.

Jiang Changsheng passed the Pure Void Tranquil Heart Heavenly Tribulation and reached the eleventh layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, gaining immense strength and the Three Purities Saint Bell. After exploring the Profound Yellow Great World with his consciousness, he returned to the Heavenly Court and prepared to alter Taishi Changce’s memories.

• Jiang Changsheng passed his seventh heavenly tribulation, chose to continue immortal cultivation, and unlocked the Luck Divine Weapon function.
• Jiang Changsheng spent three years comprehending the eleventh layer, then sensed across the Great Wilderness Martial World and into the spiral heavenly rivers.
• Jiang Changsheng sent his consciousness into the Profound Yellow Great World, explored its star regions, and encountered a veiled Black-Clothed Man riding a vast river of Sword Qi.
• Jiang Changsheng returned to the Purple Cloud Palace and calculated the strength of experts in the Martial World Competition, finding more than twenty Heavenly Essence Extreme Martial experts.
• Jiang Changsheng refined the Three Purities Saint Bell and accidentally froze every immortal and god in the Heavenly Court with a single chime.
• Jiang Changsheng turned his attention to Taishi Changce and considered altering his memories now that his power had increased.

Jiang Changsheng completed his work on Taishi Changce’s memories and granted Bai Qi three dragon-transformation spots. As Jiang Ziyu prepared to expand Heavenly Jing across the Endless Ocean, the Nine Netherworlds Demon Lord sought an alliance with the Heavenly Court against a threat from beyond the heavens and was brought to Purple Cloud Palace.

• Jiang Changsheng released Taishi Changce after spending half a year weaving himself into his memories, then gave Bai Qi three dragon-transformation spots to assign within the Divine Roam Great Heaven and Earth.
• In the one hundred and twelfth year of Establishing Heaven, Jiang Ziyu began planning to conquer the Endless Ocean and recruited three displaced envoys from Great Guang Heaven into Heavenly Jing’s court.
• Jiang Ziyu consulted the Heaven and Earth Treasure Toad about defeating the Luo Hong Dynasty, then studied a map of the Endless Ocean and summoned Crown Prince Jiang Xiu.
• The Nine Netherworlds Demon Lord asked his former disciple Jiang Ye to introduce him to the Heavenly Emperor so his race could join the Heavenly Court against a crisis brewing beyond the heavens.
• Jiang Changsheng told Jiang Ye to bring the Nine Netherworlds Demon Lord, who traveled through the heavens and felt overwhelmed by Taishi Changce’s presence at the North Heavenly Gate.
• Jiang Ye brought the Nine Netherworlds Demon Lord to the Eighth Heaven, where they stopped before Purple Cloud Palace.