Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu woke on the Five-Colored Altar in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, badly wounded and surrounded by classmates fighting crocodile-like creatures. As the Crocodile Ancestor threatened to break free and the Starry Sky Ancient Road began opening, Jiang Zhu discovered the Demon-Refining Pot inside his head and learned it was healing him and could refine demonic bloodlines.

• Jiang Zhu woke on the Five-Colored Altar and recognized Pang Bo, Mars, and other classmates fighting Little Divine Crocodiles.
• Jiang Zhu recovered memories showing he had transmigrated into the body of a classmate of Ye Fan who was supposed to die on the altar.
• A female classmate identified the enormous creature near the Great Thunderclap Temple as possibly the Crocodile Ancestor, while its descendants swarmed the altar.
• The Five-Colored Altar activated the Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram as the Crocodile Ancestor struggled to escape its underground prison.
• Jiang Zhu discovered the Demon-Refining Pot in the hole in his head, and its power began repairing his injury as it revealed its bloodline-refining abilities.
• Jiang Zhu remembered that two Dayun trucks had struck him and that the Demon-Refining Pot had been hanging from the first truck.

Jiang Zhu transformed into a little Divine Crocodile and fought his way toward the bronze coffin as the Crocodile Ancestor attacked the altar. Ye Fan and the others escaped through the Starry Sky Gate, but Jiang Zhu was left behind on Mars.

• As Divine Crocodiles overwhelmed the altar, Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to absorb their blood and learned the True Dragon Transformation technique.
• Jiang Zhu transformed into a little Divine Crocodile, healed his injuries, and killed the crocodiles that had been eating him.
• Jiang Zhu charged toward the bronze coffin as the Crocodile Ancestor attacked the Five-Colored Altar and the Starry Sky Gate opened.
• The Crocodile Ancestor was injured by the bronze coffin, then tried to hold the Starry Sky Gate in place as Ye Fan and the others boarded the coffin.
• Jiang Zhu could not reach the coffin before the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin escaped through the Starry Sky Gate, leaving him behind on Mars.

Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to absorb the Crocodile Ancestor’s blood, transforming his tail and greatly increasing his strength. The Crocodile Ancestor mistook him for the divine remnant of a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, and Jiang Zhu planned to persuade him to leave Mars together.

• The Crocodile Ancestor briefly examined Jiang Zhu, then went to the ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple with his followers.
• Jiang Zhu extracted the Crocodile Ancestor’s remaining demonic blood with the Demon-Refining Pot and endured a painful transformation of his tail.
• Jiang Zhu tested his new tail and found it could break the sound barrier and carve a trench into the ground.
• The Crocodile Ancestor addressed Jiang Zhu as a fellow Daoist and asked about his plans and interest in the Immortal Burial Ground.
• Jiang Zhu pretended to be a remnant seeking to reclaim a Sacred Body’s Dao Fruit, convincing the Crocodile Ancestor he did not intend to compete for the burial ground.
• Jiang Zhu warned that the Temple-Guarding Demon God was about to manifest and hoped to persuade the Crocodile Ancestor to take him away from Mars.

Jiang Zhu persuaded Crocodile Ancestor to take him to Earth by hinting at secrets of immortality, and Crocodile Ancestor arrived at Mount Tai with him. After Crocodile Ancestor summoned Earth’s cultivation lineages to pay homage, he took the altar bearing the Heavenly Book, while Jiang Zhu concealed its connection to the dangerous Kunlun Immortal Land.

• Crocodile Ancestor deduced that Jiang Zhu wanted to reach Earth and agreed to travel with him in search of immortality.
• Crocodile Ancestor gathered the little crocodiles into his Minor World and crossed the starry reaches with Jiang Zhu to Earth.
• At Mount Tai, Crocodile Ancestor’s saintly might subdued the Eastern and Western cultivators, and he ordered every Dao lineage to pay homage the next day.
• Jiang Zhu told the cultivators to leave and return the following day, while Earth’s cultivation powers debated how to respond to the Saint.
• Crocodile Ancestor examined the Heavenly Book altar and took it, unaware that Jiang Zhu knew its hidden map pointed toward the perilous Kunlun Immortal Land.

Crocodile Ancestor forced Earth’s traditions to surrender their ancient texts and artifacts, while Jiang Zhu used the spoils to prepare for cultivation. After choosing the Dao Scripture, Jiang Zhu drew on the Demon-Refining Pot’s precious blood to sense his Wheel of Life.

• Crocodile Ancestor threatened Earth’s traditions and demonstrated his power by destroying satellites and over a hundred thousand asteroids, prompting their representatives to submit.
• Three days later, Jiang Zhu searched the surrendered scriptures and artifacts, then used the Demon-Refining Pot to extract precious blood and awaken traces of several totems.
• Jiang Zhu considered cultivating the Solar and Taiyin scriptures together but abandoned the dangerous idea and chose the Dao Scripture.
• After studying the Dao Scripture for over half a month, Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot’s precious blood to sense his Wheel of Life.

Jiang Zhu opened his Bitter Sea and reached the Life Spring Realm with help from the Demon-Refining Pot and precious blood. He then tried to forge a weapon from his divine patterns, but could only fuse them into a rectangular block for now.

• Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot and precious blood to expand his Bitter Sea and form a Life Spring.
• Jiang Zhu discovered that his new Life Spring had greatly increased his strength and divine power.
• Jiang Zhu considered which weapon to forge from his twenty divine patterns and chose a bell after ruling out other forms.
• Jiang Zhu struggled to shape the divine patterns and managed only to fuse them into a rectangular block.
• Jiang Zhu decided that the block would suffice as a weapon until he found suitable material to refine.

Jiang Zhu and the Crocodile Ancestor traveled to Hangu Pass after learning it might be connected to the Ancient Heavenly Court. They passed through the guarded ancient city and reached a Five-Colored Altar beneath the stars, where an ancient road began.

• Jiang Zhu told the Crocodile Ancestor that ancient books linked Hangu Pass to Laozi and the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• The Crocodile Ancestor brought Jiang Zhu through an ancient formation to Hangu Pass, where Emperor Formations stopped his attack on the city.
• A Dao-Slaying greater demon explained that Hangu Pass guarded Earth’s ancient formations and opened the city gates for them.
• Jiang Zhu and the Crocodile Ancestor passed statues of Laozi and Yin Xi and saw a Great Stele bearing the laws and imprint of a Great Saint.
• Xuan Chi revealed a Five-Colored Altar beyond Hangu Pass and said an ancient road began there before returning to his post.

Jiang Zhu and Crocodile Ancestor traveled the Starry Sky Ancient Road, gathering divine source and refining the remains of ancient creatures on successive barren planets. On the nineteenth star, they learned it was Flying Immortal and encountered the Kunlun Remnant Clan, prompting Crocodile Ancestor to speculate about Kunlun Mountain’s connection to Earth and the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains.

• Jiang Zhu and Crocodile Ancestor opened the ancient road from Hangu Pass and emerged on a desolate star, where Crocodile Ancestor extracted divine source from ancient antlike creatures.
• Jiang Zhu refined the ant corpses into Origin Blood, and a humanoid totem appeared on the Demon-Refining Pot.
• Jiang Zhu and Crocodile Ancestor crossed the road repeatedly over the following month, fighting on barren planets as Crocodile Ancestor collected divine source and Jiang Zhu refined corpses and bloodlines.
• Jiang Zhu gained over half the True Dragon Source Blood he needed, along with other bloodlines, including Gu’s totem from creatures on a later planet.
• On the nineteenth ancient star, Jiang Zhu and Crocodile Ancestor learned that the star was Flying Immortal and that the cultivators they had defeated belonged to the Kunlun Remnant Clan.
• Crocodile Ancestor considered how the Kunlun Remnant Clan, Kunlun Mountain, and Earth might be connected, and became eager to reach Flying Immortal to investigate.

Jiang Zhu and Crocodile Ancestor followed the Starry Sky Ancient Road to the Big Dipper, where the Undying Mountain blocked their way to Flying Immortal and forced them to return to Earth. Back on Mount Tai, Crocodile Ancestor pursued a possible map fragment while Jiang Zhu began transforming his body with true dragon source blood.

• Crocodile Ancestor killed the Ant Dragons on an ancient planet, and Jiang Zhu refined their remains into true dragon source blood and Heavenly Horned Ant origin blood.
• Jiang Zhu refined the blood of creatures from several ancient planets until his True Dragon Totem was fully lit and he could master the True Dragon Transformation.
• Jiang Zhu warned Crocodile Ancestor that they had reached the Undying Mountain, so they turned back and returned to Earth.
• Crocodile Ancestor examined ancient jade books from the Ten Thousand Demons Valley and suspected Chisongzi's Immortal Bone carried another fragment of the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains map.
• Jiang Zhu returned to seclusion and used the Demon-Refining Pot's true dragon source blood to transform his heart, bones, organs, and body.

After completing his True Dragon Transformation, Jiang Zhu gained the true dragon treasure arts and advanced through the Calamity of Lostness to the Other Shore. He completed nine cycles of rebirth there, leaving his body newly renewed and surging with divine power.

• Jiang Zhu emerged from the collapsed cave after a month-long transformation, finding his body had grown into a powerful five-clawed true dragon.
• Jiang Zhu tested the Dragon-Calling Hand and recalled the true dragon’s battle against five powerful enemies, memorizing its treasure arts as an Immortal King Law.
• Jiang Zhu examined his altered Bitter Sea and expanded Life Spring, then used his accumulated precious blood to advance his cultivation and form the Divine Bridge.
• Jiang Zhu endured the Calamity of Lostness, regained his senses by realizing that wherever he stood was the Other Shore, and reached the far end of the Bitter Sea.
• Jiang Zhu underwent nine cycles of decay and rebirth on the Other Shore, renewing his blood, bones, organs, and flesh as divine power surged through him.

Jiang Zhu developed a true dragon battle immortal map and settled his ties to his family and acquaintances before preparing to leave Earth. After failing to use Earth’s dragon veins to smelt his artifact, he drew cultivators to Mount Lu and Eight Ridges Mountain, where Crocodile Ancestor found two more map pieces and grew eager to enter Kunlun.

• Jiang Zhu formed a true dragon battle immortal map in his Sea of Bitterness and smelted his divine patterns into an immovable Divine Iron Lump.
• Jiang Zhu visited his parents, former classmates, Pang Bo’s family, and Ye Fan’s parents, leaving them liquor mixed with precious blood; he kept Pang Bo’s disappearance secret and told Ye Fan’s parents that Ye Fan would return after cultivating.
• Jiang Zhu tried to follow Mount Lu’s dragon vein to its source and use its fire essence to smelt his artifact, but killing intent stopped him; he also failed to reach other dangerous sacred sites.
• Jiang Zhu used the Dragon-Calling Hand to stir the dragon veins of Mount Lu and Eight Ridges Mountain, drawing cultivators who fought and died there.
• Crocodile Ancestor swept through both mountains and found two Bone-Slab Map pieces, then became more determined to gather the complete map and enter the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains.
• Crocodile Ancestor received a phone call from Jiang Zhu, who said, “I’ll wait for you in Kunlun!”

Jiang Zhu learned that Crocodile Ancestor was hunting the remaining bone fragments, then returned to Eight Ridges Mountain and obtained the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass transformation by refining a Fire Vine. He began transforming into a Fire Vine, while Crocodile Ancestor gathered fragments and rallied the cultivation world to search for the last one.

• Jiang Zhu revealed to Crocodile Ancestor that he knew about the map fragments before crushing his phone and entering JZ City in disguise.
• Crocodile Ancestor searched the Heavenly Scale Tribe and the Vatican, found two bone fragments, and shattered the Vatican’s ocean of faith when its cultivators tried to suppress him.
• Crocodile Ancestor ordered cultivators across the world to search for the remaining fragment, promising to take its finder to another planet.
• Jiang Zhu reached Chisongzi’s ruined burial place at Eight Ridges Mountain and used the Demon-Refining Pot to collect the remaining Fire Vine.
• Refining the Fire Vine awakened the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass totem, and Jiang Zhu chose its transformation as his second true spirit transformation.
• Jiang Zhu began the transformation and vanished, leaving a small, crimson Fire Vine in his place.

Jiang Zhu forged a bell-shaped weapon in the sun essence fire and fought off cultivators who ambushed him as he left Chisongzi’s tomb. He then reached the hidden Changbai Mountain, where only a few members of the Heavenly Scale Tribe remained after Crocodile Ancestor captured most of them.

• Jiang Zhu adapted to his fire-vine body and used the Demon-Refining Pot to move through the sun essence fire and close Chisongzi’s coffin.
• Jiang Zhu forged a fist-sized bell from divine patterns, named it the East Emperor Bell, and tested its power.
• Cultivators ambushed Jiang Zhu as he left the burial chamber, but their weapons could not harm him, and he killed several with the Dragon-Calling Hand.
• Jiang Zhu traveled to Changbai Mountain and entered its hidden wilderness through the ruins of the formation Crocodile Ancestor had damaged.
• Jiang Zhu learned that Crocodile Ancestor had captured nearly all of the Heavenly Scale Tribe and taken the Celestial Snake’s shed skin, leaving only a few tribespeople behind.

Jiang Zhu found the Ginseng Ancestor in Changbai Mountain and received his divine blood essence after the ancient ginseng sensed Jiang Zhu’s resemblance to the Azure Emperor. Refining the gift strengthened Jiang Zhu’s true spirit totem and gave him the resources to begin cultivating the Dao Palace Secret Realm.

• Jiang Zhu tracked ginseng pits through Changbai Mountain’s old forest and found a dangerous Primordial Killing Array near the Ginseng Ancestor’s trail.
• Jiang Zhu stirred the mountain’s dragon vein and searched underground as a fire vine, but the Ginseng Ancestor fled before returning to investigate him.
• The Ginseng Ancestor recognized a resemblance between Jiang Zhu and the Azure Emperor, whom Jiang Zhu identified as the Chaos Green Lotus that had attained the Dao.
• The Ginseng Ancestor gave Jiang Zhu five-colored blood essence, then vanished underground; Jiang Zhu bowed and left precious blood in return.
• Jiang Zhu refined the divine liquid, illuminating two leaves on the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true spirit totem and preparing to enter the Dao Palace Secret Realm using the Dao Scripture.

Jiang Zhu cultivated the Dao Scripture, broke through to the Dao Palace Secret Realm, and awakened his Liver Divine Treasury. He then delivered the eighth Terrain Map to Crocodile Ancestor so he could enter Kunlun and seek divine medicines.

• Jiang Zhu refined the Ancestor Ginseng Divine Liquid, crossed the Heavenly Gate, and entered the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Jiang Zhu chose to cultivate the Liver Divine Treasury first and used the Dao Scripture to bring its deity into being.
• The Liver Divine Treasury awakened, substantially strengthening Jiang Zhu and allowing him to fly.
• Crocodile Ancestor prepared to enter Kunlun after failing to find the eighth Terrain Map for more than a month.
• Jiang Zhu presented Crocodile Ancestor with the Eighth-Corner Map and asked for a chance to cultivate on a planet rich in spiritual energy.

Crocodile Ancestor led the Dao-Slaying Kings into Kunlun, while Jiang Zhu escaped and harvested treasure medicines with He Shou Wu. Crocodile Ancestor reached the Immortal Ascension Ground but could not find a way in without the missing ninth map piece.

• Crocodile Ancestor gathered the eight terrain-map pieces and led the group deeper into Kunlun, bringing Jiang Zhu along.
• Crocodile Ancestor chased a half-divine He Shou Wu through the earth veins, and Jiang Zhu used the distraction to escape.
• Jiang Zhu befriended He Shou Wu with precious blood, then harvested Medicine Kings and other treasure medicines with his help, advancing his Liver Divine Treasury and Nine-Leaf Sword Grass totem.
• Crocodile Ancestor discovered the Immortal-Birthing Land, where more than ten thousand dragon-headed peaks nourished the Immortal Ascension Ground, and believed he had found the Ancient Heavenly Court's secret.
• Crocodile Ancestor and the Dao-Slaying Kings saw numerous Medicine Kings and a starfield that revealed images from the Feathered Divine Dynasty, but they found no entrance and left.

Crocodile Ancestor forced his way through the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains’ killing formation, sacrificing scouts and surviving deadly encounters to reach a Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda. After exhausting the power of a Quasi-Emperor’s blood, he discovered the pagoda was an extreme Dao weapon embryo and claimed it.

• Crocodile Ancestor sent Dao-Slaying Kings into the formation to test routes, and the formation killed one while he killed another who tried to flee.
• Crocodile Ancestor used Immortal Platform cultivators as scouts and advanced through the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, where he found dead Great Sages and lost the rest of his followers.
• Crocodile Ancestor found a Quasi-Emperor’s shattered remains and a small pagoda made entirely of Divine Mark Purple Gold.
• Crocodile Ancestor attacked the Quasi-Emperor blood beside the pagoda with the Heavenly Demon Mystic Art, wearing down its power but suffering severe injuries.
• Jiang Zhu sensed the killing intent from outside the Emperor Formation as Crocodile Ancestor exhausted the Quasi-Emperor blood’s divine energy.
• Crocodile Ancestor took the pagoda and recognized it as an extreme Dao weapon embryo nourished by immortal energy.

Jiang Zhu cultivated beside the Chaos Waterfall, perfected his liver divine treasury, and began cultivating his heart divine treasury with He Shou Wu’s help. After harvesting the herbs He Shou Wu had gathered, he prepared to master the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Transformation as He Shou Wu reflected on its newfound companionship.

• Crocodile Ancestor put away the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda and continued onward in search of a path to immortality.
• He Shou Wu brought Jiang Zhu to the Chaos Waterfall, where he began secluded cultivation beside the monument to the Ruthless Great Emperor’s brother.
• Jiang Zhu perfected his liver divine treasury, formed a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass deity, and advanced to the Dao Palace second realm.
• Jiang Zhu cultivated his heart divine treasury for ten days, then emerged ready to master the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass Transformation.
• Jiang Zhu found that He Shou Wu had turned the area beneath the waterfall into an herb field, harvested its precious herbs, and refined their blood essence.
• He Shou Wu returned with more herbs and felt that helping Jiang Zhu had made its long, lonely existence more meaningful.

Jiang Zhu ventured to the edge of the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains’ core hoping to find herbs, while Crocodile Ancestor tried to reach the valley said to hold the hope of immortality. After Crocodile Ancestor died in the Great Emperor Killing Formation, its deity seized Jiang Zhu and brought him into the valley, where it studied him with curiosity.

• Jiang Zhu collected the outskirts’ precious herbs but found that his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true spirit totem had only lit its eighth leaf, so he decided to search near the core.
• He Shou Wu warned Jiang Zhu that a god lived there but followed him underground to the dragon-head peaks, where he found no reachable herbs and suppressed the urge to resonate with the dragon qi.
• Jiang Zhu transformed into Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and rested at the formation’s edge, drawing in the rich spiritual vitality through his roots.
• Crocodile Ancestor advanced toward the valley, but the Great Emperor Killing Formation destroyed him and knocked his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda beyond the safe line.
• The formation’s deity appeared, calmed the formation, and used an enormous hand to seize Jiang Zhu and carry him into the valley.
• The deity looked at Jiang Zhu with curiosity amid the Immortal Pool and Immortal Medicine, having never seen anything like him.

Jiang Zhu traded precious blood for sap from the White Tiger Divine Medicine and completed his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass transformation. He witnessed the sword grass’s final battle against four Immortal Kings, gained the Grass Character Sword Art, and named the new manifestation Sword Grass Splits the Starry Firmament.

• The Formation Spirit allowed Jiang Zhu to move freely around the Immortal Pool grounds and marked one of his leaves.
• Jiang Zhu traded precious blood with the White Tiger Divine Medicine for its sap, then used the sap to complete his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass transformation.
• Jiang Zhu witnessed the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass fight Wushang, Pumaking, the Red King, and Anlan before falling after exhausting his origin.
• Jiang Zhu obtained the Grass Character Sword Art and saw a manifestation of the battle appear in his Sea of Bitterness.
• Jiang Zhu named the new manifestation Sword Grass Splits the Starry Firmament.