Recaps

Jiang Zhu survived the Chaos Heavenly Dragon Tribulation and advanced to the Dragon Transformation second transformation before arriving with Ye Fan and Xiao Nannan at the Azure Flood Dragon King's Minor World. There, Ye Fan learned Pang Bo was secluded in the Ageless Hall and could not be disturbed for a year.

• Jiang Zhu endured all eighty-one chaos heavenly dragons, advanced to the Dragon Transformation second transformation, and weathered a second, easier tribulation.
• Jiang Zhu brought Ye Fan and Xiao Nannan to the Azure Flood Dragon King's Minor World, where the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King welcomed them and warned Jiang Zhu that the Golden-Winged Little Peng King wanted to challenge him.
• Jiang Zhu reunited with Yan Ruyu, who told Ye Fan that Pang Bo was in secluded cultivation and could not be disturbed until a year had passed.
• Jiang Zhu assured Yan Ruyu that whoever succeeded would belong to the Demon Clan, then spent the night with her.
• Jiang Zhu showed Ye Fan the Ageless Hall and explained that Pang Bo was secluded there, while urging Ye Fan to improve his cultivation before trying to see him.

Ye Fan left Jiang Zhu to care for Xiao Nannan while he and Black Emperor headed for Jade Pool's Former Site and Purple Mountain. At a Demon Clan banquet, Golden-Winged Little Peng King challenged Jiang Zhu and was defeated by one punch, leaving the gathered demons stunned by Jiang Zhu's strength.

• Ye Fan asked Jiang Zhu to look after Xiao Nannan while he and Black Emperor went to Jade Pool's Former Site and then Purple Mountain.
• Jiang Zhu returned with Xiao Nannan to the Minor World, where Peacock King and the other Demon Clan powers welcomed him and introduced him to Fire Crow Taoist.
• At a banquet celebrating Jiang Zhu, the demon leaders discussed Xiao Nannan's mysterious origins and agreed to take good care of her.
• Golden-Winged Little Peng King arrived and challenged Jiang Zhu, boasting that he had defeated the Eastern Wasteland's younger generation.
• Jiang Zhu revealed he had reached Dragon Transformation and offered to suppress his cultivation to Four Extremes; Little Peng King attacked him with the Great Wilderness Halberd.
• Jiang Zhu struck the halberd aside and punched through Little Peng King's chest, defeating him in one move and shocking the entire banquet.

Jiang Zhu entered the God Forbidden Domain while cultivating the True Dragon Law, then left seclusion and returned to Sacred City to pursue the Jade Pool Holy Maiden and gather blood essence for his next True Spirit Transformation. He targeted Wanchu Holy Land’s stone gambling workshop and began cutting valuable treasures from its stones.

• Jiang Zhu briefly entered the God Forbidden Domain and found that it helped his three bloodlines coexist, but he could not sustain the state until he improved his cultivation and accumulation.
• Jiang Zhu reached the fourth level of Dragon Transformation, attempted to enter the God Forbidden Domain again, and eventually succeeded after using the three divine medicines and repeatedly cultivating his True Spirit Transformations.
• Jiang Zhu concluded that seclusion alone would not advance him further, spent time with Yan Ruyu, and left the Azure Flood Dragon King’s Minor World for Sacred City.
• Jiang Zhu returned to Sacred City, where passersby recognized him from the holy lands’ wanted notices and followed him to Wanchu Holy Land’s stone gambling workshop.
• Jiang Zhu used the Source Heaven Divine Eye to inspect the stones and cut out divine source, exotic sources, immortal treasures, and medicines as the crowd watched.

Jiang Zhu swept Wanchu Holy Land’s stone workshops, uncovered Eternal Blue Gold, and refused the Wanchu Holy Son’s demands before visiting Yaoguang Holy Land and then Jade Pool. At Jade Pool, the Saintess asked him to appraise unusual stones, and Jiang Zhu asked what payment she would offer.

• Jiang Zhu cut valuable stones throughout Wanchu Holy Land’s Heaven-Class and Earth-Class gardens, then uncovered a palm-sized piece of Eternal Blue Gold in the final stone.
• The Wanchu Holy Son and workshop manager demanded the Eternal Blue Gold, but Jiang Zhu refused and left with Yao Xi for Yaoguang Holy Land’s stone workshop.
• Jiang Zhu found that Yaoguang Holy Land had removed most of its stones and declined to cut the few remaining ones before leaving.
• The Jade Pool Saintess invited Jiang Zhu to Jade Pool Holy Land’s stone workshop, where he teased her about its past connection to Source Heavenly Masters.
• The Jade Pool Saintess asked Jiang Zhu to appraise several unusual stones, and he asked what Jade Pool would offer in payment.

Jiang Zhu visited Jade Pool Holy Land to examine unusual stones and negotiate for Immortal Pool water, while the Queen Mother of the West considered his claim about a Stone King. After Jade Pool agreed to hand over the Stone King, the Heavenly Emperor’s Son awakened and tried to summon the Primordial Race.

• Jiang Zhu traveled to Jade Pool under the protection of two elders after attackers tried to ambush him.
• The Jade Pool Holy Maiden offered Jiang Zhu a Flat Peach Divine Medicine fruit for nourishing a Stone King with his blood, but he refused.
• Jiang Zhu agreed to use his Source Arts to seal Jade Pool’s unusual stones in exchange for Immortal Pool water.
• Jiang Zhu identified a Stone King as the Phoenix Egg and claimed it contained the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s son, then showed the Queen Mother of the West memories from Purple Mountain.
• The Queen Mother of the West consulted an ancestor sealed in Divine Source, who confirmed the Stone King’s identity and approved giving it to Jiang Zhu.
• The Stone King shook as the Heavenly Emperor’s Son awakened, released divine light, and tried to summon the Primordial Race.

Jiang Zhu sealed the Heavenly Emperor's Son, harvested treasures from the Stone Kings, and used the captive Immortal Phoenix to nourish his medicines and cultivation. He ended the chapter roasting and eating the Heavenly Emperor's Son's wings while condemning the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

• Jiang Zhu used the True Dragon Heaven-Locking Formation to capture and seal the Heavenly Emperor's Son, preventing his bloodline imprint from summoning the Primordial Race.
• Jiang Zhu opened the remaining Stone Kings, uncovering Source Heavenly Master red hair, Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, and other treasures, then prepared the Saint Spirit Stone King with Jade Pool's materials.
• Jiang Zhu soaked three Immortal Medicines in Immortal Pool water and received permission from the Queen Mother of the West to cultivate at Jade Pool.
• Jiang Zhu brought the Heavenly Emperor's Son into the Demon-Refining Pot, revealed his Immortal Phoenix form, and drained his blood to feed the True Phoenix Immortal Medicine and strengthen his True Phoenix Totem.
• Jiang Zhu stripped the Heavenly Emperor's Son of his life-saving pendant and other treasures, then tore off his wings and roasted them over golden flames.
• Jiang Zhu ate the Immortal Phoenix wings, felt his power surge, and cursed the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

Jiang Zhu strengthened himself by consuming the Heavenly Emperor's Son's immortal phoenix meat and trading for blood essence before setting out for Purple Mountain. On the road near Pingyan City, three powerful ambushers attacked him, and the chapter ended with their battle still raging.

• Jiang Zhu ate the immortal phoenix wing, which strengthened his body and raised his cultivation to the consummate fourth level of Dragon Transformation.
• Jiang Zhu traded Precious Blood with Jade Pool for phoenix and qilin blood essence, advancing the True Phoenix totem on the Demon-Refining Pot.
• Jiang Zhu left Jade Pool and flew toward Purple Mountain, passing the desolate wasteland near Pingyan City.
• Three ambushers attacked Jiang Zhu with a pitch-black spear, a great cauldron, and a Saint Weapon, while the Wanchu Holy Son watched from afar.
• Jiang Zhu fought back with his Great Saint Weapon and the Divine Dragon Tail Sweep, and the clash devastated the wasteland as the battle continued.

Jiang Zhu fought three Half-Step Great Powers on the Red Earth Wasteland, revealing overwhelming strength and three extraordinary Visions. As a hidden swordsman launched a lethal attack and the Jade Pool forces arrived, a bell made from Divine Mark Purple Gold appeared, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• Jiang Zhu fought off the spear-wielding man and sent the cauldron wielder’s ancient cauldron flying while the onlookers recognized him as a Demon Clan prodigy.
• Jiang Zhu summoned three Sea of Bitterness Visions, including nine Immortal Kings, a True Dragon, Sword Grass, and a winged White Tiger, and overwhelmed the three ambushers’ attacks.
• Jiang Zhu battled the three Half-Step Great Powers in a fierce melee, destroying the cauldron with his dragon tail as the ambushers worried that Jade Pool reinforcements would arrive.
• A hidden swordsman appeared and struck at Jiang Zhu, but the first sword failed to pierce his body, and the assassin immediately followed with a deadly thrust at his head.
• The Jade Pool Saintess and her companions arrived as the Wanchu Holy Son celebrated Jiang Zhu’s apparent impending death.
• A purple bell bearing Dao Marks and True Spirit Totems rang across the wasteland, and the crowd identified it as a Chaos Bell made from Divine Mark Purple Gold.

Jiang Zhu killed two Human World assassins and three Half-Step Great Powers with the Chaos Bell, then pursued and attacked the Wanchu Holy Son. The Wanchu Holy Son unleashed the Heavenly Demon Blood Box, and its demonic blood began corroding Jiang Zhu’s dragon scales as he prepared to strike again.

• Jiang Zhu used the Chaos Bell to expose and annihilate two Human World assassin seed candidates who had tried to kill him.
• Three Half-Step Great Powers attacked Jiang Zhu to seize the Chaos Bell, but he merged his Dao Palace deities and visions into it and trapped them in a chaotic world.
• The Chaos Bell ground one Half-Step Great Power to dust, and Jiang Zhu killed the remaining two as they struggled to escape.
• The Wanchu Holy Son fled, but Jiang Zhu pursued him and struck him with a Primordial Heavenly Dragon fist despite the Heavenly Demon Blood Box’s defense.
• The Wanchu Holy Son was badly wounded, while the demon blood corroded Jiang Zhu’s dragon scales; he laughed and claimed Jiang Zhu’s death and treasures were certain.

Jiang Zhu absorbed the Heavenly Demon essence blood, killed the Wanchu Holy Son, and became known across the Eastern Wasteland as the Eastern Emperor. After the news stirred the region and Ye Fan drew unwanted challenges, Jiang Zhu returned to Purple Mountain and found the Fortune Source Eye, most of whose power had already been absorbed by the Heavenly Emperor's Son.

• Jiang Zhu absorbed the Heavenly Demon essence blood and killed the Wanchu Holy Son with his True Dragon Tail Sweep.
• The Jade Pool Saintess praised Jiang Zhu, and he accepted the Myriad Demon Blood Box before setting out for Purple Mountain.
• News of the ambush spread, establishing Jiang Zhu's fearsome reputation and the title Eastern Emperor while drawing attention to his Chaos Bell.
• Ye Fan returned to the Demon Clan Minor World and faced challenges from its younger generation, while he wondered whether Earth's myths were real.
• Jiang Zhu entered Purple Mountain, found the Fortune Source Eye, and discovered that the Heavenly Emperor's Son had absorbed most of its power.

Jiang Zhu used the last of the Fortune Source Eye to strengthen phoenix-blooded creatures, then freed Jiang Taixu from Purple Mountain with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar's Jar Lid. The two entered the mountain's depths, where a Primordial Race member knelt after seeing Jiang Zhu's Ancient Emperor Token.

• Jiang Zhu exhausted the Fortune Source Eye while evolving phoenix-type creatures and extracted enough essence to make the True Phoenix Totem's remaining head glow faintly.
• Jiang Zhu found Jiang Taixu, learned that Ye Fan's visit had silenced the Primordial Race, and used the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar's Jar Lid to break open the Purple Crystal Jade Wall.
• Jiang Taixu drank Immortal Pool water to restore his vitality, then joined Jiang Zhu in exploring Purple Mountain in search of the Wushi Scripture.
• Jiang Zhu told Jiang Taixu that only someone with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo could master Great Emperor Wushi's scripture, and they continued deeper into the mountain.
• Jiang Zhu and Jiang Taixu encountered a six-armed Primordial Race member, who knelt after Jiang Zhu showed him the Undying Heavenly Emperor's Ancient Emperor Token.

Jiang Zhu used the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Ancient Emperor Token to reach the Eight Tribes’ sealed stronghold in Purple Mountain and secretly collected Primordial creatures with phoenix bloodlines in the Demon-Refining Pot. As he and Jiang Taixu began leaving, a terrifying aura suddenly swept toward them.

• Jiang Zhu convinced Jiang Taixu that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had existed, then used the Ancient Emperor Token to make a six-armed Primordial creature lead them deeper into Purple Mountain.
• The group passed a Divine Source-sealed Primordial King and rows of crystal coffins; Jiang Zhu sensed an unseen presence near two opened coffins and suspected the corrupted Fifth-Generation Source Heavenly Master.
• Jiang Zhu and Jiang Taixu reached the hall where the Eight Tribes lay sealed in Divine Source, including powerful royal members, divine generals, and the Undying Heavenly Empress.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the six-armed guide to bring Primordial creatures with phoenix bloodlines to the entrance, then used the Demon-Refining Pot to take them out of the hall unnoticed.
• Jiang Zhu and Jiang Taixu started to leave Purple Mountain, but a horrifying aura suddenly swept toward them.

Jiang Zhu and Jiang Taixu fought off Zhang Lin’s ghostly followers with the Jar Lid of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, then briefly restored Zhang Lin’s senses with divine flame. Zhang Lin revealed that he had little time left and brought them to see the Jade Pool Saintess, Yang Yi, preserved inside a Source Block.

• A nine-headed fiend ambushed Jiang Zhu and Jiang Taixu, but the Jar Lid of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar destroyed it.
• The two returned to the crystal coffins, where Jiang Zhu used the Jar Lid to suppress the awakened ghost corpses and Jiang Taixu wielded it against the coffins.
• Jiang Zhu called out Zhang Lin, and the red-haired Source Heavenly Master appeared amid the restless ghost corpses.
• Jiang Taixu’s Jar Lid destroyed the dragon-shaped corpse and the eighty-one black banners protecting the ghost corpses, while Jiang Zhu’s divine flame burned away Zhang Lin’s red hair and restored his senses briefly.
• Zhang Lin explained that the Red-Hair Curse was bound to his life and asked Jiang Zhu and Jiang Taixu to fulfill one last wish.
• Zhang Lin led them through the caverns and returned carrying a Source Block containing the sleeping Jade Pool Saintess, Yang Yi.

Jiang Zhu revived Yang Yi and left Purple Mountain with Jiang Taixu, then perfected the True Phoenix Transformation and saw Loves Drinking Beast Milk Most teach a red dragon the Phoenix Secret Art. Back in the Azure Flood Dragon King Minor World, he reunited with Ye Fan and Pang Bo and ended a feast by revealing that the Jade Pool water they had been drinking was corpse bathwater.

• Jiang Zhu revived Yang Yi with a drop of hundred herb liquid, and Yang Yi woke to recognize Zhang Lin.
• Yang Yi buried Zhang Lin beside his descendant Zhang Jiye, while Jiang Taixu left Jiang Zhu a Jiang Family token and departed.
• Jiang Zhu refined Primordial Race members with phoenix bloodlines, completed his True Phoenix Transformation, and saw Loves Drinking Beast Milk Most teach a red dragon to cultivate the True Phoenix Secret Art.
• Jiang Zhu returned to the Azure Flood Dragon King Minor World, reunited with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, and hosted a feast with Yan Ruyu and Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King.
• Jiang Zhu served Heavenly Emperor's Son's Immortal Phoenix meat, and the guests feasted until most of them were full.
• Jiang Zhu revealed that the water from the Jade Pool ruins was bathwater from dead Jade Pool Immortal Maidens, making Pang Bo spit it out.

Ye Fan entered the Azure Flood Dragon King's treasury to examine a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body's remains and discovered that his Green Lotus could channel his power into the corpse. He animated the remains, gained the Single Secret Realm Cultivation Method, and left everyone wondering what ancient art had enabled the feat.

• Jiang Zhu explained that Ye Fan had been extorted by Black Emperor for the primer to the Western Empress Scripture, and the group discussed whether Ye Fan could break through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• The Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King took Ye Fan, Jiang Zhu, Pang Bo, Black Emperor, and their companions to his father's treasury to see the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body's remains.
• Ye Fan approached the remains, which resonated with him, and his three-leaf Green Lotus entered the corpse and began restoring vitality to its Sea of Bitterness.
• Ye Fan used the Green Lotus to animate the remains, making them stand and effortlessly split a nearby treasure with one sweep of an arm.
• Ye Fan said he had obtained the Single Secret Realm Cultivation Method, and Black Emperor and the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King questioned how a Sacred Body could succeed at such cultivation.

Ye Fan and the demon kings learned that Saint Cliff held Great Emperor Wushi’s God-Sealing List and the inheritance of Nine Secrets: Xing, then set out to explore it with the Red Dragon Old Daoist. The group entered the dangerous cliffs, where the Big Black Dog was struck down by a lightning formation after ignoring the Red Dragon Old Daoist’s warning.

• Ye Fan shared a Sacred Body secret art, and the Green-Clad Little Flood Dragon King offered to ask the Azure Flood Dragon King to trade the Sacred Body Remains for it.
• The Red Dragon Old Daoist revealed that he had been trapped on Saint Cliff for fifteen hundred years and described the God-Sealing List and the Emperor Formation there.
• Jiang Zhu said Saint Cliff contained Nine Secrets: Xing, and the demon kings agreed to join the expedition; the Azure Flood Dragon King brought the Sacred Body Remains along.
• The group entered Saint Cliff, and Jiang Zhu killed a Human-Faced Monster Bird guarding the approach.
• The Red Dragon Old Daoist led the group into the depths, but the Big Black Dog ignored his warning and was struck by lightning from an array.

Jiang Zhu and his companions crossed Saint Cliff’s dangerous formations and confronted the creatures guarding its mountains, with the Azure Emperor’s Weapon defeating a Three-Legged Golden Crow. They reached Saint Cliff’s deepest mountain, where a huge stone coffin and the God-Sealing List awaited them.

• The Big Black Dog was struck by lightning twice while guiding the group through changed Array Patterns, so the Red Dragon Old Daoist led them safely onward.
• At a lake, Jiang Zhu suppressed a chained black iron sedan chair with the Glazed Glass Lamp’s Saintly Might, and the group saw an eerie figure near a broken mountain peak.
• A million Fire Divine Crows attacked the group, and Yan Ruyu handed the Azure Emperor’s Weapon to the Peacock King, who killed the Three-Legged Golden Crow and collapsed its mountain.
• Ye Fan stored the Golden Crow’s corpse in his Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi, and Jiang Zhu identified a revealed black beast bone as a fragment of the Taiyang True Scripture.
• Jiang Zhu pulled Xiao Nannan away from Reincarnation Lake after she glimpsed visions of herself, and the group continued deeper into Saint Cliff.
• At the central mountain, Ye Fan wondered whether the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body was buried in the stone coffin, while the Black Emperor recognized the God-Sealing List.

Jiang Zhu and the others reached Saint Cliff’s summit, where they uncovered Nine Secrets: Xing and the corpse of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body. Ye Fan tried to use his Sacred Body bloodline and Three-leaf Green Lotus to control the corpse, awakening its Sea of Bitterness and unleashing immense power.

• Red Dragon Old Daoist used Black Emperor’s formation fragment to guide the group safely to Saint Cliff’s summit.
• They found the huge coffin covered in green hair and opened it, revealing Nine Secrets: Xing and the body of the Heavenly Court’s former Lord.
• Xiao Nannan accidentally demonstrated Nine Secrets: Xing, then spotted an Old Sage’s corpse in the blood pool with green hairs and marks around its neck.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body emerged from the coffin, and Jiang Zhu urged Ye Fan to try taking control of him.
• Ye Fan summoned the Three-leaf Green Lotus into the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s Sea of Bitterness, causing it to revive and unleash devastating divine power.

Jiang Zhu and the others took the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and its stone coffin from Saint Cliff, then encountered the ancient Undying Daoist on their way out. The God-Sealing List repeatedly struck the Undying Daoist whenever he revealed his power, leaving him trapped as Jiang Zhu prepared to suppress him and obtain the Nine Secrets.

• The God-Sealing List forced the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body back into its coffin, and Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to take the coffin.
• The Peacock King gave Ye Fan the sealed Heavenly Court Scepter, and the group began descending Saint Cliff.
• The group met the Undying Daoist, who offered to teach them two of the Nine Secrets and claimed to have only a primordial spirit left.
• Jiang Zhu and the Peacock King attacked the Undying Daoist, and the God-Sealing List knocked him down whenever he unleashed his imperial might.
• Jiang Zhu brought out the suppressed Heavenly Emperor's Son to stall the Undying Daoist, who threatened to kill everyone connected to him.

Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan obtained two more of the Nine Secrets from the Undying Daoist, then traveled to Licheng after news of another secret surfaced. As factions converged on Great Emperor Wushi’s sleeping palace, Jiang Zhu fought a Ji Family Grand Elder outside while Ye Fan and the others prepared to leave with an ancient scroll.

• Jiang Zhu used the God-Sealing List and Ye Fan’s control of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body to wound the Undying Daoist, and Jiang Zhu recovered the secrets Zhe and Jie from a fragment of his soul.
• Ye Fan emerged dazed from the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, and Jiang Zhu and the Peacock King warned him that controlling powerful bodies could harm his soul and Dao path.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, and the Demon Clan traveled to Licheng, where Ye Fan obtained an ancient scroll and discovered that its silk map marked Saint Cliff, whose treasure they had already found; the scroll itself mapped Purple Mountain.
• At Great Emperor Wushi’s sleeping palace, Ye Fan and the others faced members of Yaoguang Holy Land and the Ji Family, while Jiang Zhu fought a Ji Family Grand Elder outside.
• Jiang Zhu’s roar shook the underground world, and Ye Fan threw the ancient scroll toward the center of the sleeping palace before following Kong Teng out as the factions demanded it and other treasures.

Jiang Zhu battled the Ji Family’s experts and overwhelmed the attackers who tried to seize the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi during negotiations over the ancient scroll and the captured Holy Sons and Holy Maidens. After recovering from a killing blow with the True Phoenix Nirvana Art, he continued fighting as the Ji Family’s mighty expert turned his attention to Ye Fan and the cauldron.

• Jiang Zhu defeated the Ji Family Supreme Elder with his Dragon Fist and nine-leaf sword qi, while Ye Fan told him they had let the other holy lands take the ancient scroll.
• Jiang Zhu demanded the scroll, and the factions agreed to exchange it and the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi for the captive Holy Sons and Holy Maidens.
• A Ji Family expert tried to seize Ye Fan’s cauldron, and Jiang Zhu countered the attack before fighting him and a Yaoguang Holy Land expert with his Dragon and Phoenix techniques.
• The Ji Family expert struck Jiang Zhu with mirror light, but Jiang Zhu recovered completely using the True Phoenix Nirvana Art and resumed his assault.
• Unable to defeat Jiang Zhu quickly, the Ji Family expert ordered the others to capture Ye Fan and the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to rescue the captives.

After forcing the holy lands to retreat from Licheng, Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan returned to the Demon Clan with the Yaoguang Holy Son and Saintess still imprisoned. The Peacock King extracted the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inheritance from the Holy Son, and Jiang Zhu considered how its arts related to his own path.

• Chu Linkong escaped the underground palace with Yaoguang’s ancient scroll while Jiang Zhu used the Azure Emperor’s Weapon to make the holy lands withdraw and promise ransoms.
• Ye Fan gave Jiang Zhu the Li Fire Furnace, which Jiang Zhu identified as the weapon Emperor Hengyu had used before attaining the Dao.
• News of the Nine Secrets, the captured holy land successors, and Ye Fan’s Desolate Ancient Waste Body spread throughout the Northern Region, along with rumors about his Mother Qi cauldron.
• At the Azure Flood Dragon King Minor World, Pang Bo and the Big Black Dog learned that Jiang Zhu believed the Yaoguang Holy Son was the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inheritor.
• Jiang Zhu showed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, and the Peacock King probed the Yaoguang Holy Son’s soul, extracting the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art.
• Jiang Zhu studied the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art and concluded that it could inform his own cultivation but could not accomplish the bloodline fusion he had imagined.

After the Wushi Emperor Bell devastated the holy lands’ assault on Purple Mountain, its revelation stirred the Big Dipper and left Black Emperor grieving over Great Emperor Wushi. Ye Fan then asked Jiang Zhu how to overcome the Sacred Body’s curse, and Jiang Zhu revealed that emperor blood left by Wushi at Jade Pool’s Former Site could break it.

• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Big Black Dog headed to Purple Mountain to move the Source Heavenly Master Descendants, while the Ji Family mediated a gathering of holy lands there.
• The holy lands’ joint assault awakened the Wushi Emperor Bell, which destroyed their weapon replicas and killed more than a hundred venerable experts.
• News of the Wushi Emperor Bell and Great Emperor Wushi spread across the Big Dipper, leaving Black Emperor grieving and Ye Fan wondering whether Wushi had truly died.
• Ye Fan and Big Black Dog asked Jiang Zhu about the Sacred Body’s inability to cultivate, and Jiang Zhu explained that a curse afflicted Sacred Bodies and Source Heavenly Masters.
• Jiang Zhu named God King Blood and emperor blood as possible ways to break the curse, then revealed that Great Emperor Wushi had left emperor blood at Jade Pool’s Former Site.

Ye Fan, Jiang Zhu, and Big Black Dog entered Jade Pool’s Former Site to search for Great Emperor Wushi’s blood essence and then break Ye Fan’s Sacred Body curse. They reached the ninth underground lake, where imperial might surrounded a woman identified as the Queen Mother of the West.

• Jiang Zhu proposed using the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body to retrieve Wushi’s blood essence and suggested that Ye Fan break his curse in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Black Emperor guided Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan from the Primordial Ancient Mine into the sealed Jade Pool Ruins, where they found a dead, desolate landscape and a lake filled with Jade Pool corpses.
• Jiang Zhu opened the spring beneath the immortal pool, and the group descended through underground lakes filled with increasingly powerful female corpses.
• Ye Fan controlled the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body to lead them past the corpses, and the group collected shattered divine source from Jade Pool’s former reserves.
• The group reached the ninth underground lake and found a woman seated in a small, secluded pool; they identified her as the Queen Mother of the West.

Ye Fan, Jiang Zhu, and the Black Emperor found Great Emperor Wushi's Stone Chest beside the Queen Mother of the West and Wushi's father, then recovered Wushi's Essence Blood. After hearing Wushi's warning about a great calamity and the Road to Immortality, they left Jade Pool's Former Site with questions about the emperor's enemy.

• Ye Fan approached the Queen Mother of the West and Wushi's father, discovered a Black-Green Copper Block that showed him a vision of the Sacred Body's curse, and returned it to its place.
• Ye Fan found the Stone Chest beside the two corpses, respectfully took it, and rejoined Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan collected Immortal Pool water before they followed their route back to Jade Pool's Former Site.
• The Black Emperor opened the Stone Chest and heard Great Emperor Wushi's warning about a great calamity and the Road to Immortality, then found Wushi's Essence Blood inside.
• Jiang Zhu explained that the Road to Immortality connected the mortal world and the Immortal Domain, and the Black Emperor suspected that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had been Wushi's enemy.
• Jiang Zhu urged Ye Fan and the Black Emperor to grow stronger before seeking answers, then walked toward the exit of Jade Pool's Former Site.