Arc 2Chapters 26–50
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Jiang Zhu crossed the Two-Qi Celestial River and entered Purple Mountain, resisting the Primordial Creatures’ summons as he pressed deeper. After finding seven slain experts, he heard God King Jiang Taixu identify himself and ask about the dragon and grass.
Jiang Zhu met the weakened God King Jiang Taixu inside a purple wall, but refused his offer to teach Nine Secrets: Dou until Taixu noticed the extraordinary hundred herb liquid Jiang Zhu had brought. After examining Jiang Zhu’s blood, Taixu concluded that he was descended from another branch of Emperor Hengyu’s bloodline.
Jiang Zhu obtained the Hengyu Scripture’s cultivation method and the Nine Secrets: Dou from Jiang Taixu, then explored deeper into Purple Mountain. After finding Zhang Jiye’s Source Heaven Book and reaching the Wushi Scripture, he discovered the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine and prepared to coax it away.
Jiang Zhu lured the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine from the Dao Platform with the White Tiger Divine Medicine and true phoenix origin blood, then fought off the Black Emperor when he tried to seize them. He subdued the dog and won the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine’s fruit, leaving the Black Emperor trapped and envious.
Jiang Zhu traded with Black Emperor’s greed to secure a chance to cultivate using the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine’s fruit. After half a month in seclusion, he opened his spleen divine treasury and left Purple Mountain considering how to balance the strength of his divine treasuries and future true spirit bloodlines.
Jiang Zhu left Purple Mountain after trading a treasure medicine for the Black Emperor’s blood, which revealed a Nine Nether Ao totem. He returned to the surface and headed for the Azure Cloud Sect’s fallen headquarters, where he cleared out a band of brigands and examined a pile of stone gall.
Jiang Zhu mastered the Source Heaven Divine Eye and entered the Sacred City in disguise to find the stone containing the seed of the Kirin Immortal Medicine. He bought the Demon Womb Stone in Yaoguang’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden and prepared to open it before a crowd of curious onlookers.
Jiang Zhu uncovered a Kirin Immortal Medicine seed and refused to sell it despite offers and threats from the major powers. He retaliated by sweeping treasures from the stone workshops of those who threatened him, then arrived at the Dao Yi Holy Land’s workshop.
Jiang Zhu opened two stones in the Heaven-Class Stone Garden, uncovering a dragon-patterned black gold sword and a fragrant root sealed in ice-snow source. The sword went into his Demon-Refining Pot, while the root’s value remained uncertain.
After leaving the Sacred City with an incomplete Immortal Medicine, Jiang Zhu lured the forces pursuing him into a formation in the northern desert. He repelled their first assault, but twelve Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators surrounded him and launched a new attack.
After killing twelve holy-land and great-sect elders, Jiang Zhu evaded the ensuing hunt and returned to Purple Mountain to cultivate. He perfected his spleen divine treasury and began advancing his lung divine treasury, but a primordial bird attacked before his training was complete.
Jiang Zhu fought awakened Primordial Creatures in Purple Mountain, then left and found Black Emperor’s trail in a village of Source Heavenly Master descendants. While examining their inherited stone implements, he uncovered two petrified Immortal Medicines, leaving Black Emperor distraught over the lost treasures.
Jiang Zhu uncovered and destroyed a cursed relic before settling into cultivation in an abandoned mine. After perfecting his lung divine treasury, he began breaking through to the fifth and final divine treasury.
Jiang Zhu perfected his dao palace secret realm and forged a purple Chaos Bell from divine mark purple gold. He then bargained with Black Emperor for demon blood and revealed that a bandit had found the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, leaving Black Emperor intent on claiming its Jar Lid.
Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor traveled to the Wei Kingdom in the Southern Region to find Ye Fan, whom Jiang Zhu proved his identity to after defeating his suspicious attack. Ye Fan followed them to a tavern, where Jiang Zhu explained how he survived Mars and revealed that the Crocodile Ancestor had returned him to Earth, leaving Ye Fan alarmed for his parents.
Ye Fan learned that his parents on Earth were safe and that several difficult routes might lead him home, while Jiang Zhu collected payment from the Black Emperor for finding him. Later, Ye Fan gave Jiang Zhu the Original Manuscript of the Dao Scripture's Sea of Bitterness Chapter to repay his help.
After studying the Dao Scripture’s Original Manuscript, Jiang Zhu broke through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm and faced a powerful lightning tribulation. He survived all nine waves, strengthening his body, techniques, and Chaos Bell as the lightning vanished.
Jiang Zhu completed his breakthrough into the first heaven of the Four Extremes secret realm and traveled to Profound Origin Valley seeking the Azure Emperor Scripture. There, he was brought before Yan Ruyu, the Azure Emperor’s descendant.
Jiang Zhu learned that the Demon Clan planned to use his powerful body to nurture the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart, promising that it would strengthen him and might eventually earn him Yan Ruyu's hand in marriage. The chapter ended with Yan Ruyu giving him the Sacred Heart and asking him to place it in his Life Spring himself.
Jiang Zhu placed the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart in his Bitter Sea and nourished it with his vital essence, allowing it to release sacred blood that strengthened his body. After days of cultivation, Qin Yao told him that Yan Ruyu was ready to cultivate the secret art and that he should prepare.
Jiang Zhu helped Yan Ruyu cultivate by transferring blood energy from the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart, but most of it was lost along the way. The next day, Yan Ruyu tried a new method, and Jiang Zhu used his Source Heaven Divine Eye to see through his blindfold as she approached.
Jiang Zhu and Yan Ruyu continued cultivating together, and Yan Ruyu questioned Jiang Zhu after sensing his unusual resemblance to the Demon Emperor’s Sacred Heart. When Jiang Zhu revealed that he was a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, the Azure Emperor’s Weapon manifested as the Chaos Green Lotus and recognized him as another immortal medicine that had broken free of its limits.
Jiang Zhu received the Demon Emperor Scripture from the Chaos Green Lotus's deity and began recasting his foundation with it. His growing closeness with Yan Ruyu was interrupted when an uninvited guest prompted her to withdraw from the Profound Origin Sect and seek refuge with a powerful Demon Clan expert.
Ji Haoyue cornered Yan Ruyu and the Demon Clan in the Ancient Battlefield, demanding the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon and crushing their first resistance. As Yan Ruyu's manifestation overwhelmed his, five Ji Family elders attacked her, and Jiang Zhu entered the fight.
Jiang Zhu intervened in the battle and fought the Ji Family elders with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, destroying one elder’s imitation Void Mirror and wounding him. As Ji Haoyue and Yan Ruyu clashed with their Emperor Weapons, purple lightning descended from the heavens.