Chapter Summaries

Jiang Changsheng retaliated against a Zhou Gua spy while the Immortal Dao turned against Zhou Gua and Dao Kunlun joined the Dao Sect. As Aurora Divine Lord challenged Supreme Kunlun, Jiang Changsheng awakened and began shaping the final realm of Great Luo, the Daluo Golden Immortal.

• The Black-Robed Man used the Zhou Gua Technique to spy on the Immortal Dao, and Jiang Changsheng struck him with karmic backlash.
• Dao Kunlun's Eight Trigrams Technique gained followers, and the Immortal Emperors declared Zhou Gua the Immortal Dao's foremost enemy.
• Dao Kunlun joined the Dao Sect as one of its three revered leaders and later told Feng Yu he would investigate Zhou Gua with him.
• Aurora Divine Lord arrived at the Dao Sect to challenge Supreme Kunlun, and Dao Kunlun took Feng Yu to watch the battle.
• Jiang Changsheng named the final realm of Great Luo the Daluo Golden Immortal and began shaping it through the Dao Follows Nature Skill.

Jiang Changsheng began his tribulation to become a Daluo Golden Immortal, while the Immortal Dao and its Great Luos felt an oppressive force descend. As the increasingly cunning Thunder Tribulation drained more than half his Heavenly Dao Incense Value, Jiang Changsheng realized it seemed intent on killing him.

• After 1.27 million years in seclusion, Jiang Changsheng checked the Immortal Dao’s growth and his accumulated values, then began preparing for his breakthrough.
• Jiang Changsheng entered his tribulation, and the Lord of Profound Fate, the Great Luos, and Mu Lingluo all felt the oppressive force spreading through the void.
• Jiang Changsheng endured the first lightning strikes with his Primordial Undying Golden Body, but his incarnation warned him when the tribulation’s influence began clouding his judgment.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Incense Shield to protect himself, healed his body, and closed his eyes after realizing that looking at the tribulation’s power could affect his soul.
• The Thunder Tribulation continued growing stronger as it consumed more than half of Jiang Changsheng’s Heavenly Dao Incense Value, leaving him to conclude that it truly wanted him dead.

During his tribulation, Jiang Changsheng’s consciousness crossed into a future where the Jiang Clan had been nearly wiped out. He learned that the remaining clan members were trapped in a world besieged by the Darkness Power, but the black-armored survivor questioned how long he had been in seclusion.

• Jiang Changsheng summoned more than two hundred Pangu Avatars to help him withstand the intensifying heavenly tribulation.
• Jiang Changsheng lost consciousness and awoke in a future world covered with graves of Jiang Clan descendants, including Jiang Xun and the Heavenly Emperor Jiang Lu.
• Jiang Changsheng found Jiang Qi digging his own grave and buried him after he died.
• A wounded black-armored Jiang Clan member fell from the sky, and Jiang Changsheng healed him.
• The black-armored man explained that the Darkness Power had surrounded the Jiang Clan’s world and that the clan had sacrificed itself to form the Ancestor Eye, then asked which generation Jiang Changsheng came from.

Jiang Changsheng discovered that Darkness Power was evolved karmic backlash and taught Jiang Jiu the Great Stealing Heaven Technique to help him defend the Supreme Yi Immortal Domain. Jiang Jiu accepted the burden of using it, while Jiang Changsheng watched over his descendant as the crisis beyond the heavens remained.

• Jiang Changsheng learned from Jiang Jiu that Darkness Power corrupted the Dao heart and could destroy even a Great Luo, then realized it resembled karmic backlash.
• Jiang Changsheng reasoned that reversing the Dark Evil Spirits with the Great Stealing Heaven Technique might offer a way to save the Supreme Yi Immortal Domain.
• Jiang Changsheng revealed his Great Dao Eye to Jiang Jiu, identified himself as an ancestor descended from Heavenly Emperor Jiang Lu, and forced the Great Stealing Heaven Technique into Jiang Jiu's consciousness.
• Jiang Jiu awakened, recognized Jiang Changsheng as an ancestor, and learned the technique's cost and consequences.
• Jiang Jiu vowed to use the Great Stealing Heaven Technique to protect the Supreme Yi Immortal Domain, despite the karmic price, and his hair turned white.

Jiang Changsheng returned from his consciousness's journey through time and endured his tribulation with the Pangu Avatars' aid. After the Pangu Phantom destroyed the worst of the heavenly lightning, he broke through to a higher realm and began transforming into a Daluo Golden Immortal.

• Jiang Jiu finished healing, then followed Jiang Changsheng beyond the heavens to confront the approaching Dark Evil Spirits with the Great Stealing Heaven Technique.
• Jiang Jiu charged into the darkness as Jiang Changsheng's vision blurred and his consciousness returned to his body, where he was still undergoing his tribulation.
• Jiang Changsheng used more than two hundred Pangu Avatars to summon the Pangu Phantom, which cleaved through the tribulation and annihilated the ocean of heavenly lightning.
• The heavenly tribulation weakened, and Jiang Changsheng guided his mana toward the Daluo Golden Immortal realm as Great Dao Spiritual Qi surged into him.
• Jiang Changsheng broke through to a higher realm, transformed his Dao Fruit and soul, and absorbed karma flowing to him across countless timelines.

Jiang Changsheng completed his breakthrough to the seventeenth layer of the Dao Follows Nature Skill, became a Daluo Golden Immortal, and refined the Creation Return Crown. After confirming Zhou Gua’s strength, he resolved to confront them and strengthen the immortal path before returning to the Heavenly Court.

• Jiang Changsheng chose to continue immortal cultivation after passing the Great Dao Life and Death Tribulation and received the Creation Return Crown.
• Jiang Changsheng calculated that his worth was 425 million Heavenly Dao Incense Value, then returned to the All Heavens Great Dao Tree and refined more Pangu Avatars.
• Jiang Changsheng refined the Creation Return Crown and took four Great Dao Fruits to reward the immortal path’s living beings.
• Jiang Changsheng reassured Mu Lingluo and Bai Qi that no enemy had attacked, then announced plans to visit Zhou Gua and give sermons.
• Jiang Changsheng calculated that Zhou Gua’s strongest person was worth 465 million Heavenly Dao Incense Value and resolved to make Zhou Gua suffer for plotting against the immortal path.
• Jiang Changsheng went to the Heavenly Court after several million years away and saw bloodstains on the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Jiang Changsheng visited the Heavenly Court, then announced a sermon for all living beings and a separate gathering to teach the Great Luo cultivators. As the Great Luo cultivators gathered at the Purple Cloud Palace, the Aurora Divine Lord’s challenge to the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas stirred the assembly, and Jiang Changsheng’s sermon was about to begin.

• Jiang Changsheng visited the Heavenly Emperor, guided him in completing a mirror-shaped treasure, and left to travel alone through the Great Luo Immortal Domain.
• Jiang Changsheng announced that he would preach to all living beings in ten years, exciting Tianji Xuanlao and believers across the Immortal Dao.
• After the month-long sermon, Jiang Changsheng invited the Great Luo cultivators to the Purple Cloud Palace in a thousand years to hear the Great Luo Path.
• The Great Luo cultivators gathered at the Purple Cloud Palace, where Aurora Divine Lord challenged the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Dao Kunlun greeted the assembly.
• Bai Qi welcomed the Great Luo cultivators into the palace, where the Primordial Nine Saints took the front row and Aurora Divine Lord claimed a seat behind them.

Jiang Changsheng expounded the Great Luo Dao, revealed the three realms of Great Luo, and announced rewards for the Great Luo who benefited most from three future teachings. As anticipation and rivalry spread through the Immortal Dao, the Great Luo gathered again ten thousand years later for the next exposition.

• Aurora Divine Lord argued with other Great Luo over his seat until Bai Qi stopped the dispute and the assembly took their places.
• Jiang Changsheng taught the Great Luo for three thousand years and explained the Transcendence Realm, Divine Appearance Realm, and Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Changsheng announced that the top listener after three expositions would become his personal disciple, while the next two would receive Great Dao Fruits.
• Jiang Changsheng sent Bai Qi to fetch Ping'an and Huang Chuan so he could nurture them toward Great Luo, then spoke privately with Mu Lingluo.
• Rumors of Jiang Changsheng's offer spread, and many believed Aurora Divine Lord had the best chance; ten thousand years later, the Great Luo gathered again outside Purple Cloud Palace.

During the third sermon, the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas, Dao Kunlun, and Aurora Divine Lord revealed the aptitude to attain Great Luo Divine Appearances, and Jiang Changsheng made Dao Kunlun his direct disciple while accepting the other two as registered disciples. As Immortal Dao entered the era of the Three Saints, Dao Yan’s ruler Seeking Evil Evolution Saint debated whether his people could safely leave their refuge.

• Jiang Changsheng’s third sermon stirred the Great Luo’s Dao Fruits, revealing Divine Appearance phantoms around the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas, Dao Kunlun, and Aurora Divine Lord.
• Jiang Changsheng named Dao Kunlun his direct disciple and gave the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord Great Dao Fruits, accepting both as registered disciples.
• The Great Luo began calling the three the Three Saints, and news of their new status spread across Immortal Dao.
• Jiang Changsheng told Mu Lingluo that he would take the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord to Zhou Gua after Dao Kunlun attained the Great Luo Divine Appearance, leaving Dao Kunlun to guard Immortal Dao.
• In Dao Yan’s hidden refuge, Seeking Evil Evolution Saint rejected a proposal to leave, warning that the outside world was even more dangerous.

Seeking Evil Evolution Saint led Dao Evolution in activating the Nirvana Plan, and Jiang Changsheng absorbed its Emotional Power into the Heavenly Dao, preserving its talents while binding its survivors to the Immortal Dao. After Dao Kunlun reached the second realm of Great Luo, Jiang Changsheng took the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and the Aurora Divine Lord toward Zhou Gua to observe and comprehend the Great Dao.

• Seeking Evil Evolution Saint announced that he would lead those who remained in Dao Evolution through the Nirvana Plan, while others argued over whether to proceed.
• Jiang Changsheng erased Dao Evolution's karma as its Emotional Power entered the Heavenly Dao, ending Dao Evolution and strengthening the Immortal Dao.
• Jiang Changsheng left a Great Dao Fruit for Xiaohe Goddess, who recognized it and welcomed its gift.
• Dao Kunlun announced that he had attained the second realm of Great Luo and would lecture at the Eight Trigrams Palace.
• Jiang Changsheng summoned the Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and the Aurora Divine Lord, then transported them toward Zhou Gua and told them to observe and comprehend along the way.

Jiang Changsheng brought Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord to Zhou Gua after guiding them toward the Great Luo Divine Appearance realm. He revealed the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler and struck the Zhou Gua Great World, leaving it exposed and devastated despite its luck shield.

• Jiang Changsheng guided Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord through the Great Dao rules as they traveled across the Great Thousand Worlds.
• The Black-Robed Man learned from the deep-purple phantom that Zhou Gua faced an impending calamity and that a Divine Venerable was dissatisfied with him.
• Jiang Changsheng arrived before Zhou Gua with his two disciples and told them to watch him fight using Daluo Golden Immortal abilities.
• Jiang Changsheng used the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler to break through the concealment surrounding Zhou Gua and expose its Great World.
• Jiang Changsheng enlarged the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler and brought it down on Zhou Gua, whose luck shield blocked the blow but could not prevent devastating damage and countless deaths.

Jiang Changsheng destroyed the Zhou Gua Great World and confronted the Zhou Gua Divine Venerable, who arrived to avenge it. As the two prepared to clash, Jiang Changsheng took the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler into his hand and challenged his opponent’s treasure.

• Jiang Changsheng used the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler to split the Zhou Gua Great World and slew attackers who tried to ambush Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed two Eternal Divine Venerables approaching and calculated that both possessed more than four hundred million Heavenly Dao Incense Value.
• The Zhou Gua Divine Venerable formed from the shattered world’s karma, introduced himself, and summoned more than a hundred Dao Void Venerables and Undying Fate Masters.
• Jiang Changsheng declared that he would decide life and death, then used the Initial Creation of Two Extremes Divine Light to meet the Zhou Gua Divine Venerable’s Karma Divine Weapon.
• Jiang Changsheng transferred the karmic power away from Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord, rose from his divine seat, and summoned the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler into his hand.

Jiang Changsheng defeated Zhou Gua Divine Venerable and spared the fleeing Zhou Gua beings, then learned that Han Zun was pursuing his weakened foe. On the journey home, Jiang Changsheng began seeking a domineering Great Dao Power and turned his thoughts toward Pangu’s Great Dao.

• Jiang Changsheng trapped Zhou Gua Divine Venerable with karma power and shattered his Karma Divine Weapon with the Heaven Measuring Dao Ruler.
• Jiang Changsheng struck Zhou Gua Divine Venerable with overwhelming Daluo Golden Immortal power, forcing him to abandon his body and escape as a soul.
• Jiang Changsheng spared the remaining Zhou Gua beings and told Primal Ancestor of All Buddhas and Aurora Divine Lord that Zhou Gua Divine Venerable was an Eternal Divine Venerable.
• Han Zun confronted the weakened Zhou Gua Divine Venerable, vowing to make him hide for hundreds of millions of years.
• Jiang Changsheng continued toward the Great Luo Immortal Domain and decided to seek insight into Pangu’s Great Dao for his next stage of cultivation.

After returning from his battle with Zhou Gua, Jiang Changsheng resumed his quiet cultivation as the Immortal Dao expanded and new powers emerged. The chapter ended with Bai Qi explaining that Ghost Son of Heaven had stolen an immortal dynasty’s luck to found a ghost dynasty, prompting its Son of Heaven to beg Jiang Changsheng for justice.

• Jiang Changsheng returned to the Purple Cloud Palace, told Mu Lingluo and Bai Qi about Zhou Gua, and began refining the Causality Zhuqing Robe.
• News of Jiang Changsheng’s victory spread through the Great Thousand Worlds, while Dao Kunlun and Aurora Divine Lord entered seclusion and the Heavenly Court became the Great Luo Immortal Domain’s leading faction by number of Great Luos.
• Dao Kunlun and Bai Qi watched Shennong brave a dangerous forest, then left him a cultivation manual and a small cauldron before moving on to another human tribe.
• Bai Qi told Jiang Changsheng about the Ten Thousand Things Sect, a mortal sect whose members used spiritual energy to create weapons and other devices under the guidance of a Heavenly Court immortal official.
• Bai Qi explained that Ghost Son of Heaven had stolen the luck of the first immortal dynasty and that the Underworld supported his plan to establish a ghost dynasty.

Jiang Changsheng studied Pangu’s Great Dao Power and began refining the Investiture of the Gods for the Heavenly Emperor. He revealed that the stolen Dao Bone could let someone become an “unbound” version of himself, while the Heavenly Court’s Great Luos set out to recover it.

• Jiang Changsheng told Bai Qi to have the Heavenly Court resolve the Ghost Son of Heaven’s conflict, then observed the isolated Earth Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Changsheng spent two hundred thousand years studying Pangu’s Great Dao Power and formed an idea for creating a Great Dao driven by will.
• The Heavenly Emperor sent Jiang Jian, Lu Shenzhou, Jiang Tianming, Ping An, and Daoist Yang to track down the thief who had stolen the Dao Bone.
• Chen Li warned the Heavenly Emperor that the Heavenly Court’s growing ranks of immortals could leave it burdened with others’ karmic debts, prompting the Heavenly Emperor to visit Purple Cloud Palace.
• The Heavenly Emperor visited Jiang Changsheng, who explained his Great Dao of Power and began refining the Investiture of the Gods.
• Jiang Changsheng told the Heavenly Emperor that whoever obtained the Dao Bone could become an unbound version of him.

Jiang Changsheng refined the Investiture of the Gods, named his own path the Primordial Great Dao, and learned that Mu Lingluo was nearing the Great Luo Divine Appearance. Elsewhere, a gaunt old man wielding Jiang Changsheng’s Dao Bone trapped five Great Luo, who charged out to fight him.

• Jiang Changsheng warned the Heavenly Emperor that he needed to cultivate harder, then spent three hundred years refining the Investiture of the Gods and gave it to him.
• The Black-Robed Man warned a dark-purple phantom that the Immortal Dao might have inherited the Dominator Dao Tradition, but the phantom left to report the claim to the Divine Venerable.
• Jiang Changsheng named his ultimate path the Primordial Great Dao and discussed the Ten Thousand Things Sect and Mu Lingluo’s cultivation with her.
• Jiang Changsheng sensed danger in the void and sent a strand of hair toward it.
• Jiang Jian, Jiang Tianming, Ping'an, Lu Shenzhou, and Daoist Yang faced a gaunt old man wielding the Dao Bone as countless shadows attacked them.
• Ping'an unleashed the Primordial Undying Golden Body and led the five Great Luo out of their protective barrier to fight, while the old man vowed to use their Dao Fruits as a sacrifice.

Jiang Jian and the others were overwhelmed by a gaunt man who fused with the Dao Bone, until Jiang Changsheng intervened through the Dao Heart Deity and helped them defeat him. The group escaped with the Dao Bone and a sealed prisoner, while Jiang Changsheng wondered why the black shadows resembled Dark Evil Spirits.

• The gaunt man absorbed the Dao Bone’s power and covered himself in black armor, resisting the attacks of Jiang Jian, Jiang Tianming, Ping'an, Lu Shenzhou, and Daoist Yang.
• The gaunt man declared himself the Dao Ancestor and continued to withstand the five Great Luo’s attacks.
• Jiang Jian recognized a strand of hair and threw it at the gaunt man, summoning a golden strike that pierced him and dispersed his armor.
• The Dao Heart Deity appeared and left the Dao Bone behind; Jiang Tianming destroyed the gaunt man’s head, and Daoist Yang sealed his fading soul for questioning.
• Jiang Jian collected the Dao Bone, and the group sealed one of the remaining black shadows before leaving.
• In Purple Cloud Palace, Jiang Changsheng wondered why the black shadows resembled the Dark Evil Spirits he had seen in the future.

Jiang Changsheng entered long seclusion as the Immortal Dao expanded and new powers rose over millions of years. When Bai Qi warned that a calamity involving Great Luo cultivators was approaching, Forget Dust Great Immortal, Su Yin, and Zhou Bushi set out to recruit disciples from a powerful race born in the Demon Race, where an Emperor Star had appeared.

• Jiang Jian and four others returned safely to the Great Luo Immortal Domain and sealed the Dao Bone in the Heavenly Court, but stories of its theft continued to spread.
• Aurora Divine Lord helped the Spirit World rise by establishing a dao field and bringing Immortal Emperor Dao arts there, while the Immortal Dao expanded across surrounding worlds.
• Over millions of years, the Heavenly Emperor entered seclusion to pursue Great Luo Divine Appearance, and the Immortal Dao Royal Clan, Jiang Clan, and Demon Race grew in power.
• Bai Qi gathered Forget Dust Great Immortal, Su Yin, and Zhou Bushi, warned them that the Great Luo Immortal Domain's first calamity was approaching, and asked them to recruit talented members of a powerful race as disciples.
• Forget Dust Great Immortal, Su Yin, and Zhou Bushi sensed an Emperor Star and Killing Intent rising from the south, identified the signs as coming from the Demon Race, and departed to carry out Bai Qi's request.

After failing to create a Great Dao, Jiang Changsheng emerged from seclusion and learned how Immortal Dao had flourished, while Mu Lingluo had attained the Great Luo Divine Appearance. Zhou Gua then offered the Heavenly Court a Great Dao Divine Weapon and asked to settle under Immortal Dao’s protection, leaving Jiang Xiu to consider the dangerous enemies pursuing it.

• Jiang Changsheng ended his seclusion after two million years, having failed to create a Great Dao but gained a deeper understanding of it.
• Jiang Changsheng saw that the Yan Race had become powerful and learned that Mu Lingluo had attained the Great Luo Divine Appearance.
• Jiang Changsheng gave Bai Qi a Great Dao Fruit for the Demon Race and urged her to strengthen herself as she watched him refine Pangu Avatars.
• The Blue Armor Man told Jiang Xiu that Zhou Gua would offer Immortal Dao a Great Dao Divine Weapon in exchange for settling within its Great Thousand Domain and receiving protection.
• Jiang Xiu asked about Zhou Gua’s enemies, and the Blue Armor Man’s account left the Heavenly Court’s officials gravely concerned.

Jiang Xiu accepted Zhou Gua’s alliance and sent Jiang Jian to retrieve its Great Dao Divine Weapon, while Jiang Changsheng began creating a Dao method that fused other Great Daos. As Zhou Gua joined the Immortal Dao, Profound Fate and Town Pivot debated fleeing the region, and a hidden figure vowed to destroy Profound Fate.

• Jiang Xiu agreed to accept Zhou Gua, provided the Heavenly Court first obtained its Great Dao Divine Weapon, and the immortals nominated Jiang Jian for the mission.
• Jiang Changsheng encouraged Bai Qi to cultivate the Way of the Avatar, then began developing a Dao method that combined Pangu’s Great Dao Power with the Way of Karma.
• Jiang Jian endured a million years of hardship before returning from Zhou Gua with the Great Dao Divine Weapon, and Zhou Gua began joining the Immortal Dao.
• The Lord of Town Pivot urged Profound Fate to leave the region with Town Pivot, but Profound Fate’s subordinates resisted because many had already turned toward the Immortal Dao.
• The Lord of Town Pivot told a dark crimson figure that Profound Fate had joined the Immortal Dao, and the figure vowed to destroy Profound Fate after Town Pivot departed.