Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yi grew more devoted to the Immortal Dao after a dream, while Tianji Xuanlao began considering joining it. Jiang Changsheng achieved initial mastery of the Primordial Undying Golden Body and announced a sermon, leaving Tianji Xuanlao weighing whether the Immortal Dao could become the next great path.

• Jiang Yi told Tianji Xuanlao that his dream had deepened his understanding of the Immortal Dao and asked whether devouring providence could strengthen him.
• Jiang Changsheng tempered his body in a cauldron with Great Dao Power and supreme yang treasures as Bai Qi and Mu Lingluo watched.
• Jiang Changsheng requested more resources, and the Heavenly Emperor, the Purple Star Great Emperor, and Immortal Dao believers gathered treasures for him.
• After a hundred years, Jiang Changsheng achieved initial mastery of the Primordial Undying Golden Body and announced that he would preach the Dao in five years.
• Jiang Yi urged Tianji Xuanlao to attend the sermon and join the Immortal Dao, prompting Tianji Xuanlao to consider whether it was the next orthodox path of the Great Dao.

Jiang Changsheng taught the Immortal Dao believers the Undying Golden Body and announced a contest for the title of Fighting Immortal Saint. As Jiang Yi and Tianji Xuanlao began discussing the method, Divine Venerable Bi Liu’s Golden Great Path emerged from the Sea of Gloom and its travelers encountered a strange black vortex.

• Jiang Changsheng gave a seven-day sermon on the Undying Golden Body, teaching believers to absorb external power and Rule Power to transform their bodies and souls.
• Jiang Changsheng announced that the first person to cultivate the Undying Golden Body would become the Fighting Immortal Saint and receive Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Jiang Changsheng returned to Purple Cloud Palace, checked that no powerful beings had grown stronger, and began secluded cultivation to pursue a breakthrough.
• Jiang Yi and Tianji Xuanlao praised the Undying Golden Body and considered competing to become the Fighting Immortal Saint as they discussed the method.
• Lin Haotian and Jiang Jian emerged from the Sea of Gloom on Divine Venerable Bi Liu’s Golden Great Path and saw a black vortex gathering at its edge.

Divine Venerable Bi Liu confronted a newly formed Calamity God on the Golden Great Path as the Immortal Dao’s Undying Golden Body sparked a body-refinement craze. A resurrection calamity then spread across the Three Thousand Worlds, prompting Supreme Kunlun and the Heavenly Court to investigate the Calamity God and the Rebirth Clan’s whereabouts.

• Divine Venerable Bi Liu absorbed the black vortex with a Rule Beam, but the vortex exploded and formed a six-armed, headless Calamity God; she challenged it while Jiang Jian and Lin Haotian watched in fear.
• Immortal Dao disciples adopted the Undying Golden Body, inspiring a body-refinement craze that later spread to martial artists across the Three Thousand Worlds and the Heavenly Realm.
• Supreme Kunlun learned that Resurrection Power was raising the dead in graveyards and ordered his followers to contact other great factions and search for the Calamity God.
• The Heavenly Emperor asked about the Rebirth Clan, and Ye Zhan revealed that he had not seen them for two thousand years after agreeing to their proposal to revive martial artists in the Three Thousand Worlds.

While Jiang Changsheng remained in seclusion, the Resurrection Calamity spread and the Immortal Dao began a prolonged war with the Divine Dao. After more than 3,800 years, Jiang Changsheng awakened with a breakthrough opportunity, learned what had happened, and vanished to prepare for his breakthrough in the Ultimate Realm.

• Ji Wujun urged the Heavenly Court to investigate the Calamity God and share information about the Resurrection Calamity, which had spread across the Three Thousand Worlds and the Endless Void.
• The Divine Dao attacked Kunlun World, and the Heavenly Emperor returned there and killed several Divine Dao experts, beginning a thousand-year war between immortals and gods.
• Jiang Changsheng awakened from a retreat lasting more than 3,800 years and calculated that the strongest expert in the known range had 954 Heavenly Dao Incense Value.
• Mu Lingluo and Bai Qi told Jiang Changsheng about the calamity, the war, and other events; Jiang Changsheng said he would not intervene unless the Immortal Dao faced annihilation and told Ziyu to fulfill his duties as Heavenly Emperor.
• After another hundred years of cultivation, Jiang Changsheng vanished from Purple Cloud Palace with the Great Dao Qian Yuan Divine Seat to prepare for his breakthrough in the Ultimate Realm.

Jiang Changsheng began a perilous tribulation in the Extreme Realm while an Ancient Wood Giant Coffin confronted a colossal eye and Jiang Yi and Tianji Xuanlao encountered a powerful enemy. The tribulation escalated into red lightning that affected Jiang Changsheng’s Dao heart, and he used incense points to resist its illusions.

• Jiang Changsheng prepared the Extreme Realm for his breakthrough, planned to establish nine Heaven Realms, and began drawing down a vast heavenly tribulation.
• An Ancient Wood Giant Coffin repelled a beam from a colossal eye, then its occupant remarked that other powers were watching the calamity.
• Tianji Xuanlao explained the Sea of Gloom’s role to Jiang Yi, then sent Jiang Yi into space-time when a mysterious enemy appeared and attacked them.
• Jiang Changsheng endured the lightning for an hour after his formations were destroyed, then activated his incense point shield when dark red lightning brought on visions.
• Jiang Changsheng saw a vortex expanding within the tribulation clouds as the lightning threatened his body and Dao heart.

Jiang Changsheng endured a terrifying heavenly tribulation, broke through to the fourteenth layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, and was swept into the life of a newborn named Jiang Qian. Seven years later, a visitor arrived to invite Jiang Wanjin and his family to Kunlun to cultivate immortality.

• Jiang Changsheng resisted the tribulation’s illusions and watched a giant eye emerge from the lightning sun as a red-robed man fled after sensing it.
• As a massive black bolt struck, Jiang Changsheng broke through and learned the new cultivation technique was called Great Dao Karma.
• The giant eye’s seven-colored light overwhelmed Jiang Changsheng, who awoke as a newborn named Jiang Qian in the Jiang family.
• Jiang Changsheng grew up in Jiang Wanjin’s merchant household, secretly cultivating the Primordial Undying Golden Body from the age of two.
• When Jiang Changsheng was seven, a visitor told Jiang Wanjin to bring his family to Kunlun to cultivate immortality.

Jiang Changsheng entered Kunlun as a child and discovered that the Jiang Clan was being hunted and had been reduced to a few scattered descendants. After learning that Jiang Xun was the Jiang Clan’s last Immortal Emperor, he began cultivating among the clan’s surviving bloodlines and grew stronger over ten years.

• Jiang Changsheng agreed to leave with Jiang San and traveled to Kunlun, where Jiang San warned him not to mention the Jiang Clan to outsiders.
• A fox demon told Jiang Changsheng that powerful beings were hunting the Jiang Clan and revealed that her master, Jiang Yuan, was the son of the last Immortal Emperor, Jiang Xun.
• Jiang Changsheng learned that Jiang Yuan had gathered several dozen Jiang Clan descendants in Kunlun and chose to live alone in a wooden house with three cultivation manuals.
• Jiang Changsheng began cultivating the Primordial Undying Golden Body while living among the clan’s children, many of whom feared their uncertain fate.
• Ten years later, Jiang Changsheng had initially mastered the Primordial Undying Golden Body and was stronger than anyone in the Kunlun valley, including the fox demon.

After ten years in Kunlun Valley, Jiang Changsheng was selected to join four other youths in the Jiang clan’s ancestral Inner World, where Kunlun Zhenren revealed the clan’s history and its war with the Demon Race. Jiang Xun reacted in shock when he heard Jiang Changsheng’s name, recalling a mysterious old friend who had once taught him divine abilities.

• At seventeen, Jiang Changsheng was chosen by Kunlun Zhenren to leave Kunlun Valley with four other youths, while the remaining disciples had their memories erased and bloodlines sealed.
• Kunlun Zhenren transported the five youths to the Jiang clan’s ancestral Inner World and recognized that Jiang Changsheng had achieved minor accomplishment in the Golden Body Art.
• Kunlun Zhenren explained that the Demon Race had nearly destroyed the Jiang clan and still hunted its last surviving branch, fearing the power of the Dao Ancestor and the Heavenly Court.
• Kunlun Zhenren assigned Jiang Changsheng a courtyard and said the clan would provide him with body-tempering treasures so he could cultivate the Golden Body Art.
• Kunlun Zhenren told his father, Immortal Emperor Jiang Xun, that the seventeen-year-old Jiang Qian had mastered the Golden Body Art, and Jiang Xun reacted violently to the name, recalling a mysterious clansman who had taught him divine abilities.

Jiang Changsheng cultivated the Primordial Undying Golden Body in the future, while Jiang Xun struggled with the Jiang Clan’s legacy and the threat of the Heavenly Demon. After decades, Jiang Changsheng met the aging Jiang Xun, who asked for his help with the clan’s crisis.

• Jiang Changsheng declined Jiang Ling’s invitation to the Jiang Clan assessment and offered to guide her and the other disciples in cultivation.
• Jiang Xun rebuked Kunlun Zhenren for questioning the Jiang Clan’s struggle, explaining that his own past actions had helped bring about the clan’s decline.
• Jiang Changsheng spent fifty years studying the Primordial Undying Golden Body and learned to use Rule Power to temper it.
• Jiang Changsheng left his room and found an aged Jiang Xun waiting in the courtyard.
• Jiang Xun knelt and confessed that he had failed the Jiang Clan, then described Jiang Changsheng’s earlier disappearance and asked about the Heavenly Demon.

Jiang Changsheng heard Jiang Xun’s account of how the Heavenly Demon had devastated the Jiang Clan and promised to teach him the Primordial Undying Golden Body. After training Jiang Xun and Kunlun Zhenren for three years, Jiang Changsheng departed to settle this body’s karma, revealing that he was the ancestor of Jiang Xun’s ancestor.

• Jiang Xun recounted how the Heavenly Demon rose to power, destroyed the Jiang Clan’s dominance, and repeatedly defeated him despite his Great Thousand Path Execution Finger.
• Jiang Changsheng offered to teach Jiang Xun the Primordial Undying Golden Body and assured him that his life could be saved, freeing Jiang Xun from his crushing guilt.
• Jiang Xun recognized Jiang Changsheng as the Jiang Clan’s ancestor and asked him to help prepare Kunlun Zhenren to lead the clan.
• Jiang Changsheng taught the Primordial Undying Golden Body to Jiang Xun and Kunlun Zhenren for three years, then prepared to leave and asked Kunlun Zhenren to care for the four little ones and conceal his origins.
• Jiang Changsheng told the stunned Jiang Xun and Kunlun Zhenren that he was not merely their ancestor, but their ancestor’s ancestor.

Jiang Changsheng explored karma and encountered countless versions of himself, then learned from a future self that they were all manifestations of one original self on the Great Luo Path. He returned to his body after striking a Heavenly Demon in the future, successfully comprehending the Dao and continuing his tribulation.

• Jiang Changsheng returned to his mortal-life hometown, found it reduced to a desert, and used karma to witness its destruction and his parents’ deaths.
• Jiang Changsheng saw numerous versions of himself across different lives and eras while immersing himself in karmic comprehension.
• A Black Robed Man demanded that Jiang Changsheng reveal the Jiang Clan’s hiding place, so Jiang Changsheng killed him with the Great Thousand Path Execution Finger.
• Jiang Changsheng met a white-haired version of himself, who explained that the myriad selves were manifestations of the original self and that Jiang Changsheng was walking the Great Luo Path.
• Jiang Changsheng realized his past and future experiences were reflections of the Great Luo realm, then returned to his true body and resumed his tribulation despite minor karmic backlash.

Jiang Changsheng broke through to the fourteenth layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, survived his tribulation, and began projecting his will across time to cultivate Great Dao Karma. Meanwhile, the Resurrection Calamity surrounded the Heavenly Realm, and the Heavenly Court prepared to resist as Heaven and Earth Laugh and Other Shore Dao Sovereign speculated about the force behind it.

• Jiang Changsheng survived the Void Breaking Great Heavenly Tribulation, comprehended the fourteenth layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, and received the World Evolution Heaven Great Dharma Idol.
• Jiang Changsheng spent a hundred years consolidating his cultivation, returned to the Purple Cloud Palace, and confirmed that no known being exceeded one thousand Heavenly Dao Incense Value.
• Jiang Changsheng refined the Pangu Fruit into a Pangu Avatar and began projecting his will into the past, present, and future to deepen his understanding of Great Dao Karma.
• Chen Li told the Heavenly Emperor that some Noble Clans planned to leave the Heavenly Realm, and the Heavenly Emperor ordered the Heavenly Court to prepare for the Resurrection Calamity.
• Heaven and Earth Laugh told Other Shore Dao Sovereign that resurrected beings might carry the remnants of destroyed Great Dao heritage, and they suspected the force behind the calamity sought to replace the Martial Dao with the Immortal Dao.

Jiang Changsheng entered the Forbidden Prison to answer Tianji Xuanlao’s call, rescued him, and learned about the Heavenly Secret Divine Record and the Heaven Realm. As they traveled through the prison, a hostile voice confronted Jiang Changsheng and linked the place to the Resurrection Power.

• Tianji Xuanlao became trapped in the Forbidden Prison after sacrificing himself to save Jiang Yi and called out to Jiang Changsheng for help.
• Jiang Changsheng reached Tianji Xuanlao, questioned him about the Heavenly Secret Divine Record, and took him into his palm.
• Tianji Xuanlao told Jiang Changsheng about the Immortal Dao, Dao Yan, and the power of Carefree Heaven.
• Jiang Changsheng asked whether beings beyond Heaven would descend into the Endless Void, and Tianji Xuanlao said they were unlikely to come.
• A hostile voice accused Jiang Changsheng of trespassing in the Forbidden Prison, and Jiang Changsheng asked whether the Resurrection Power came from there.

Jiang Changsheng defeated a barefoot man who sought the Resurrection Power, but the man’s master threatened to descend upon the Immortal Dao. Jiang Changsheng foresaw a true Resurrection Calamity aimed at the Immortal Dao, while Supreme Kunlun learned that an Evolution Heaven controlled the resurrected.

• Jiang Changsheng subdued the barefoot man, but the man’s memories shattered and his body turned to ash as a mysterious voice vowed to attack the Immortal Dao.
• Jiang Changsheng brought Tianji Xuanlao to the Heavenly Court and told Mu Lingluo that the coming Resurrection Calamity would target the Immortal Dao alone.
• Jiang Changsheng took Mu Lingluo and Bai Qi to visit the mortal world.
• World Evolution Heaven told Supreme Kunlun that an Evolution Heaven who remained in the void had created the resurrected to establish his own Great Dao lineage.
• Supreme Kunlun asked World Evolution Heaven whether he would save him or Lu Yan Yantian if he became the Calamity God.

Jiang Changsheng observed the Resurrection Calamity gathering around the Heavenly Realm while traveling among mortals with Mu Lingluo and Bai Qi. As the Heavenly Court faced an overwhelming host of resurrected beings and uncovered the Cave Heaven Martial God among them, its immortals pleaded for the Dao Ancestor to intervene.

• Jiang Changsheng, Mu Lingluo, and Bai Qi traveled through Tianjing as resurrected beings converged on the Heavenly Realm, and Jiang Changsheng said the calamity could not be avoided.
• The resurrected gathered into a vast ring around the Heavenly Realm, while the Heavenly Court stayed to defend it and other major factions fled.
• Jiang Changsheng assessed the power of the approaching resurrected and chose to let the pressure build while he investigated the force controlling them.
• Mu Lingluo questioned Jiang Changsheng about the calamity, and he suspected the resurrected were revived through body seizure rather than newly formed sentience.
• At Lingxiao Palace, the Other Shore Dao Sovereign identified the Cauldron Lifting Figure as the Cave Heaven Martial God, and Tianji Xuanlao warned that the calamity included powerful beings from the Inner Void.
• The Heavenly Court’s immortals feared that stronger resurrected were still coming and repeatedly asked the Heavenly Emperor to summon the Dao Ancestor.

As resurrected ones overwhelmed the Heavenly Realm, Jiang Changsheng appeared in a colossal form and unleashed the Golden Scale Mystical Tree against them. The resurrected ones began turning to ash as he declared that they would return to the Immortal Dao cycle of reincarnation.

• The Heavenly Emperor returned to the Heavenly Court after Bai Qi assured him that the Dao Ancestor knew of the Resurrection Calamity.
• The Heavenly Realm sealed its teleportation arrays as resurrected ones gathered, while news spread that the Dao Ancestor would act.
• World Evolution Heaven told Supreme Kunlun that defeating the Resurrection Calamity could either usher in a flourishing Great Dao system or annihilate the Great Dao.
• The Cauldron Lifting Figure attacked the Heavenly Realm with his giant cauldron, but a golden barrier blocked his strikes.
• Jiang Changsheng appeared above the Heavenly Realm and challenged the hidden will behind the resurrected ones.
• Jiang Changsheng summoned the Golden Scale Mystical Tree, whose leaves pierced and incinerated countless resurrected ones.

Jiang Changsheng defended the Heavenly Realm from the Resurrection Calamity, destroying its strongest attackers and using magic treasures to suppress the endless army. When the force behind the calamity breached the golden barrier, he recognized the resurrected beings’ tragic origins but prepared to stop them nonetheless.

• Jiang Changsheng killed the Cauldron Lifting Figure with the Great Thousand Path Execution Finger and used Primordial Chaos Divine Essence Qi to destroy the resurrected beings besieging the Heavenly Realm.
• Jiang Changsheng opened the Six Paths of Reincarnation to send the resurrected beings’ cursed souls into the underworld, while the Blue-Haired Figure attacked the Golden Scale Mystical Tree with dragon-shaped qi.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Three Purities Saint Bell to daze the battlefield, then killed the Blue-Haired Figure with the Slaying Immortal Flying Knife.
• Jiang Changsheng brought out his magic treasures to hold back the resurrected army as cultivators, Three Thousand Worlds experts, Supreme Kunlun, and the Great Dao inheritors watched in awe.
• An Ancient Wood Giant Coffin breached the golden barrier, and Jiang Changsheng sensed that the being inside, worth 760 Heavenly Dao Incense Value, was behind the Resurrection Calamity.
• Jiang Changsheng understood that the resurrected beings came from a Great Dao where souls could never be reborn, but declared that the Immortal Dao must not be offended.

Jiang Changsheng ended the Resurrection Calamity, gained and refined a Heavenly Dao Treasure, and watched the Immortal Dao’s fame spread throughout the Endless Void. Supreme Kunlun sought to join the Immortal Dao and, when granted an audience, offered to explain how Dao Evolution’s beings grew stronger.

• Jiang Changsheng shattered the Ancient Wood Giant Coffin, captured the thousand-zhang finger in his Purple-Gold Gourd, and used his Taiji Suspension Dao Manifestation to destroy the resurrected beings.
• Jiang Changsheng declared the calamity over, returned to the Purple Cloud Palace, and calculated that a nearby Dao Evolution expert had 939 Heavenly Dao Incense Value.
• Jiang Changsheng received the Heavenly Fire Yin-Yang Great Extinction Mirror as a survival reward, spent thirty years refining it, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation sent the resurrected dead souls to the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Supreme Kunlun discussed bringing his Supreme Dao into the Immortal Dao with Heaven and Earth Laugh, who urged him to meet the Dao Ancestor despite his pride.
• Jiang Changsheng welcomed Supreme Kunlun, who offered to reveal how the living beings of Dao Evolution grew stronger.

Supreme Kunlun proposed an Emotionless Dao to counter Dao Evolution, and Jiang Changsheng encouraged him to found it while imparting Daoist techniques. After reading Corpse Evolution Heaven’s memories, Jiang Changsheng learned how Dao Evolution weakened Great Dao Wills and heard that several Carefree Beings could threaten Immortal Dao.

• Supreme Kunlun urged Jiang Changsheng to create a technique that erased emotions, and Jiang Changsheng instead tasked him with founding the Supreme Emotionless Dao.
• Jiang Changsheng transferred Corpse Evolution Heaven into the Heavenly Fire Yin-Yang Great Extinction Mirror, forcing him to surrender and submit to having his memories read.
• Jiang Changsheng learned that Corpse Evolution Heaven had once been a Great Dao master whose realm and people were destroyed before he reincarnated within Dao Evolution.
• Corpse Evolution Heaven’s memories revealed that Dao Evolution hunted Great Dao Gods to weaken Great Dao Wills, then attacked the weakened realms.
• Corpse Evolution Heaven warned Jiang Changsheng that resisting Dao Evolution would draw its attention and asked whether he could withstand several Carefree Beings.

Jiang Changsheng gave Corpse Evolution Heaven a thousand years to decide whether to accept reincarnation, then watched his captured allies and the Immortal Dao’s expansion. As the Great Dao Will began trying to expel him for exceeding Carefree Heaven, he monitored World Evolution Heaven and the prisoners held by Zong Ku while considering the growing power of the Primal Chaos Divine Talisman.

• Jiang Changsheng told Corpse Evolution Heaven that his people’s souls had gone to the Underworld and would be allowed to reincarnate after atoning, then gave him a thousand years to consider his choice.
• Jiang Changsheng learned that Zong Ku had captured Jiang Yi, Jiang Jian, Lin Haotian, Feng Yu, and Divine Venerable Bi Liu, and that World Evolution Heaven had begun backing puppets within the divided Supreme Dao.
• The Heavenly Court consolidated its control of the Heavenly Realm, Supreme Kunlun joined the Immortal Dao and became marshal of the Celestial Martial Divine Army, and the Heavenly Court grew stronger over the following century.
• After five hundred years, Jiang Changsheng sensed the Great Dao Will trying to expel him because his incense worth had surpassed Carefree Heaven, and he considered how the Heavenly Dao could imitate that force.
• Jiang Changsheng observed World Evolution Heaven cultivating within the Supreme Dao and saw Jiang Yi growing stronger as prisoners in Zong Ku’s Inner World fought and killed one another.
• Jiang Changsheng found that Feng Yu’s Primal Chaos Divine Talisman had grown to Taiji Suspension Dao Manifestation level and considered whether to retrieve it or let it grow further.