Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu used a Great Sage Mecha from the ghost ships to overwhelm the Saints, killing the Cao Family's Saint and the Mo Clan's Saint. Fan Yuntong and the Qi Family's Saint begged for mercy and offered their families' treasures, leaving Jiang Zhu to decide their fate.

• The Cao Family's Saint donned Saint King Mecha and attacked Jiang Zhu with a crimson divine dragon, while Jiang Zhu answered with a Great Sage Mecha.
• Jiang Zhu's punch shattered the divine dragon, and he crushed the Cao Family's Saint and his mecha, killing him outright.
• Jiang Zhu pierced the Mo Clan's Saint with a beam, causing him and his primordial spirit to shatter into dust.
• Fan Yuntong begged Jiang Zhu to spare him and offered the Fan Family's treasures.
• The Qi Family's Saint dropped to his knees, offered materials for the Supreme Evolution Liquid, and pledged the Qi Family's allegiance.

Jiang Zhu defeated the Cao and Mo fleets, killed their Saints, and left the Eternal Star Domain reeling as its powers sought to recruit or capture him and his Divine Bloodline. He and his companions headed for Immortal Feather Star to refine the Supreme Evolution Liquid, leaving the Black Emperor to handle their teleportation.

• Jiang Zhu took the Qi Clan and Mo Clan’s rare ingredients, spared the Fan and Qi families, and destroyed the remaining Cao and Mo fleets with the Great Sage Mecha.
• Jiang Zhu ignored the two gods’ recruitment pleas and left with Yan Ruyu and the others after clearing the battlefield.
• News and recordings of the battle spread, revealing the deaths of the Cao Family Saint and the Mo Clan ancestor and stirring fear, greed, and recruitment plans across the Eternal Star Domain.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions searched for a secure place to refine the remaining Supreme Evolution Liquid, then chose Immortal Feather Star.
• The group passed through a Star Gate into space near Immortal Feather Star, and the Black Emperor prepared a teleportation array to take them to the planet’s surface.

Jiang Zhu and his companions successfully reached Immortal Feather Star and explored its modern, ancient, and technologically advanced city before arriving at the Qi Ancestral Land to refine the Supreme Evolution Liquid. The Qi Family prepared to attack the uninvited group, but Qi Yaoguang recognized Jiang Zhu’s aura and stopped them.

• Ji Zi corrected the Black Emperor’s mistakes in the teleportation array, and the group used the completed formation to travel safely to Immortal Feather Star.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions toured the planet’s city, observing its entertainment, technology, and gladiatorial arena.
• Jiang Zhu led the group to the Qi Ancestral Land, where they appeared above the divine islands and announced they would borrow the territory.
• The Qi Family’s guardian elders mobilized against the apparent intruders, but Qi Yaoguang ordered them to stop.
• Qi Yaoguang recognized Jiang Zhu from his aura despite the group’s altered appearances.

Jiang Zhu used the Qi Family’s sacred mountain to refine Supreme Evolution Liquid, while Qi Yaoguang chose to accommodate him rather than risk the clan’s destruction. The furnace produced sixth-stage Evolution Liquid, leaving the Qi Family’s disciples astonished and eager to know what would happen next.

• Qi Yaoguang welcomed Jiang Zhu to the Qi Family’s ancestral grounds and agreed to let him use the sacred mountain in the Pure Land.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions began refining Supreme Evolution Liquid in a Great Sage furnace with five primary ingredients, and the sacred mountain filled with extraordinary phenomena.
• Qi Family disciples learned that the visitor was the Saint-slaying outsider, while Qi Yun criticized Qi Yaoguang’s decision and Qi Kun warned him against endangering the clan.
• Qi Yaoguang watched the furnace finish refining the Supreme Evolution Liquid as its lid opened and the sixth-stage liquid released its fragrance.
• Jiang Zhu sealed the liquid in a jade bottle while Pang Bo and Black Emperor reacted to its potency and the Qi Family disciples marveled at the result.

Qi Yaoguang accepted Jiang Zhu’s payment of potent Second-Stage Evolution Liquid before Jiang Zhu and his companions left the Qi Family. They searched Immortal Feather Star for traces of the Azure Emperor and found a Chaos Green Lotus at the heart of the Chaos Immortal Pool, where Yan Ruyu’s Green Lotus Emperor Weapon awakened.

• Jiang Zhu gave Qi Yaoguang a jade bottle of Second-Stage Evolution Liquid as payment for borrowing the Sacred Mountain, and Qi Yaoguang verified its potency.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions departed through a Domain Gate and began exploring Immortal Feather Star’s ancient ruins for traces of the Azure Emperor.
• At Evergreen Pool, Pang Bo carved “Lord Pang was here!” into a bluestone before the group continued visiting sites associated with the Azure Emperor.
• Yan Ruyu led the group into the Chaos Immortal Pool, where they found an azure lotus formed from the Azure Emperor’s Dao Resonance.
• As Yan Ruyu approached the Chaos Green Lotus, the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon within her revived and shone through the chaotic water.

Jiang Zhu comprehended the Azure Emperor’s Dao resonance in the chaos pool and clarified his path of refining True Spirit Bloodlines and myriad laws into his body. Meanwhile, an overwhelming fleet arrived at Evolving Immortal Star to find the offworlder, and Qi Yaoguang blocked its search of the Qi Family’s ancestral grounds as the hunters announced they had found their target.

• The Green Lotus Emperor Weapon stirred the Chaos Green Lotus, manifesting a young Azure Emperor who demonstrated his Dao by opening a world from a lotus seed before his phantom vanished.
• Jiang Zhu resolved to refine True Spirit Bloodlines and the laws of myriad Daos into a divine chaos physique, briefly manifesting the beginnings of a domain that shocked Ye Fan, Ji Zi, Pang Bo, and the Big Black Dog.
• A fleet from the five great families arrived at Evolving Immortal Star, and its leaders ordered a search for the offworlder and a blockade of Immortal Feather Star.
• The fleet’s three Saint King Weapons illuminated Evolving Immortal Star, but Qi Yaoguang raised the Qi Family’s ancestral defenses to block their search of its grounds.
• Qi Yaoguang refused to let the fleet investigate his ancestral grounds despite accusations from Cao Lie and pressure from the others, while Zhao You agreed to search elsewhere first.
• Someone in the fleet suddenly announced, “Found him!”

Jiang Zhu and his companions were tracked down by the five great clans and fought back against their fleet using Saint King Mechas. When two Saint Kings arrived, Jiang Zhu revealed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, whose power destroyed hundreds of ships and left Zi Xiao asking who Jiang Zhu was.

• The five great clans used a detection beam to locate Jiang Zhu and pursued him with more than twenty motherships and hundreds of escort ships.
• Black Emperor, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Ji Zi, and Yan Ruyu resisted the fleet’s saturation bombardment, and their Saint King Mechas let them devastate the attackers’ formation.
• Cao Lie called for the Saint Kings after the five clans’ fleet suffered heavy losses, and Zi Xiao and Zhao Ming arrived to confront Jiang Zhu’s group.
• Jiang Zhu used his Great Sage Mecha to block Zi Xiao’s attack, then summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy as the two Saint Kings faced him.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s aura overwhelmed the cultivators and disintegrated hundreds of escort ships, prompting Zi Xiao to ask Jiang Zhu who he was.

Jiang Zhu activated the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and annihilated the five great clans’ fleet, killing Saint Kings Ziyun Xiao and Zhao Ming. News of the massacre spread across the Eternal Star Domain, leaving its powers terrified and Jiang Zhu’s origins the subject of speculation.

• Jiang Zhu unleashed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, erasing hundreds of warships and sending the five great clans’ forces fleeing.
• Jiang Zhu pursued Ziyun Xiao and vaporized him with the canopy after Ziyun Xiao tried to buy his life with resources.
• Jiang Zhu’s black light caught Zhao Ming and killed him, then destroyed the remaining fleet and left Immortal Feather Star’s wilderness silent.
• Cultivators across the Eternal Star Domain learned that two Saint Kings and the allied fleet had been wiped out, while Fan Yuntong realized his earlier plea for mercy had saved the Fan Family.
• The five great clans reeled from their losses, and factions across the domain spread stories of Jiang Zhu as a divine weapon wielder who might be a deity’s own son.

Dao Yi planned to trap Jiang Zhu’s group and seize the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar before beginning the Ancestral Path, while Jiang Zhu led his companions to an Azure Emperor refuge on Eternal Main Star. They found the Azure Emperor’s handwritten notes and peak seventh-stage Evolution Liquid, and news then spread of a map pointing to the Life Ancient Tree.

• Dao Yi decided to use an Ancient Emperor Formation to ambush the people from Big Dipper and take the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar before setting out on the Ancestral Path.
• Jiang Zhu brought Yan Ruyu, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Ji Zi, and the Black Emperor to Eternal Main Star, where he led them to Tengxian Pool to find what the Azure Emperor had left behind.
• Yan Ruyu’s Azure Emperor bloodline revealed a hidden Void Minor World beneath Tengxian Pool, and the group followed its rune path through a divine gate.
• Inside the Minor World, Yan Ruyu found the Azure Emperor’s handwritten notes, while Jiang Zhu identified the contents of an azure gourd as peak seventh-stage Evolution Liquid.
• News spread across the Eternal Star Domain that the declining Sutu Clan possessed a Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll recording the location of the Life Ancient Tree, stirring the great powers to seek the Immortal Medicine.

The Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll sparked a rush to find the vanished Tan Mou Starfield and its Life Ancient Tree, while Jiang Zhu recognized the search as Dao Yi’s trap and chose to wait for others to uncover the hidden star. Jiang Zhu’s group reached the starfield, searched unsuccessfully, and then witnessed a mothership destroyed in a clash between hostile powers.

• The Sutu Clan revealed that the star domain described in the Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll had vanished, drawing the interest of powerful lineages seeking the Life Ancient Tree.
• The Sutu Clan repeatedly traded copies of the scroll, and leaked rubbings spread until major powers set out for the Tan Mou Starfield.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions traveled to the starfield, where their searches found no trace of the ancient star.
• Jiang Zhu told the group to wait for others to find the hidden star and secretly search for Dao Yi, whom he suspected of laying the trap.
• A powerful mothership bearing the emblem of the God Organization arrived, and the group continued searching for both the ancient star and Dao Yi.
• A mothership ahead was sunk in a sudden clash between two hostile powers, killing numerous experts.

The Past Mirror revealed that a colossal hand had carried away the Life Ancient Tree and its flourishing star, sending the Tan Mou Starfield’s powers in pursuit. They found a dying ancient planet where the Canghai Clan uncovered a sealed altar holding buds from the Tree of Life, while Jiang Zhu and his companions sensed that the planet was a trap.

• The God Organization used the Past Mirror to show a gigantic figure seizing an Ancient Life Star and carrying it into the depths of the universe.
• Jiang Zhu, Ye Fan, Ji Zi, Yan Ruyu, and the Black Emperor followed the other powers to a newly discovered life-bearing planet, where they sensed a sinister aura.
• The powers landed on the dying planet and found withered landscapes, abandoned cities, and few remaining signs of life.
• The Canghai Clan uncovered a black crystal altar holding a jade platter and a tender branch bearing translucent buds of the Life Ancient Tree.
• The gathered powers discovered that the altar’s restrictions protected the buds and began working together to unravel them.

Jiang Zhu and his allies prepared Black Emperor to use the Beginningless Killing Formation against the powers seeking the Life Ancient Tree on the Fifth Divine Star. After the Eternal Star Domain returned with reinforcements, the God Organization’s Great Sage arrived and overwhelmed its rivals, leaving the Tree of Life’s fate uncertain.

• Jiang Zhu persuaded Black Emperor to set up a planet-wide Slaughter Formation, promising him an extra share of the spoils.
• The Eternal Star Domain’s powers discovered that a Great Sage-level formation protected the Life Ancient Tree and withdrew to gather reinforcements.
• Dao Yi stayed behind and told an old mercenary that he sought the dangers and vitality of life among the stars.
• A tender shoot from the Life Ancient Tree fetched an astronomical price at auction, prompting major powers to assemble and return to the Fifth Divine Star.
• The God Organization’s Great Sage arrived on the Fifth Divine Star and drove back the rival powers, while the Tree of Life remained deep in the mountains.

Jiang Zhu revealed that Dao Yi had orchestrated the Life Ancient Tree trap and was the son of Dao Yan Great Emperor, then trapped him and the gathered factions in Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation. Dao Yi countered with a Divine God Formation, but Jiang Zhu brought out the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, which began cracking its barrier.

• Jiang Zhu appeared before the God Organization’s Great Sage and declared that he would take the Life Ancient Tree.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the Black Emperor to activate Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation, sealing the planet and killing a Half-Saint who tried to escape.
• Jiang Zhu exposed Dao Yi as Dao Yan Great Emperor’s son and accused him of arranging the trap around the Divine-Skin Ancient Scroll and Life Ancient Tree.
• Dao Yi took a branch of the Life Ancient Tree, revealed its missing Immortal Sprout, and activated a Divine God Formation that clashed with the Slaughter Formation.
• Jiang Zhu manifested the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, and the Divine God Formation’s barrier began to crack.

Jiang Zhu and Dao Yi’s Emperor Weapons clashed across the sealed Fifth Divine Star, killing countless people in the Eternal Star Domain. After the God Organization’s Great Sage donned the Daoyan Immortal Robe and attacked Jiang Zhu, the youthful Old Madman arrived with the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and turned the battle against him.

• Dao Yi used the Daoyan Immortal Robe to meet Jiang Zhu’s Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy in an Extreme Dao clash, whose aftershocks devastated the Fifth Divine Star.
• The Great Sage of the God Organization rescued some of his followers as the sealed formation trapped the survivors, while Dao Yi was struck back by Jiang Zhu.
• Dao Yi lent the Daoyan Immortal Robe to the God Organization’s Great Sage, who gained immense power and attacked Jiang Zhu with golden Dao swords.
• The youthful Old Madman appeared with the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and shattered the Great Sage’s attack, revealing that a third Emperor Weapon had entered the battle.
• The Great Sage attacked the Old Madman, but the Old Madman’s azure strikes injured him as their battle continued.

The Human Demon battled Dao Yi’s Protector Great Sage while Ji Zi defeated Dao Yi inside the Beginningless Killing Formation. Dao Yi escaped after his Protector sacrificed himself to break the formation, leaving him vowing revenge against Jiang Zhu and Ji Zi.

• The Human Demon fought Dao Yi’s Protector Great Sage among the stars, preventing him from interfering with the battle on the Fifth Divine Star.
• Ji Zi challenged Dao Yi, revealed himself as the Void Emperor’s son, and overwhelmed the already injured Dao Yi.
• Dao Yi revived the Daoyan Immortal Robe and tore open the Beginningless Killing Formation, but Jiang Zhu and his allies closed it around him again.
• Dao Yi’s Protector used a forbidden weapon and sacrificed the God Organization’s Great Sage to strengthen the Daoyan Immortal Robe.
• Dao Yi’s Protector burned his life to blast the Emperor Weapons away and open a path through the formation, dying as Dao Yi escaped into the universe.
• Dao Yi vowed to grow stronger and avenge his Protector against Jiang Zhu and Ji Zi.

Jiang Zhu and his allies defeated Dao Yi with three Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, killing him and destroying the Daoyan Immortal Robe Replica. After refining sixth-stage Supreme Evolution Liquid on the Fifth Divine Star, the group prepared to return to the Big Dipper while Jiang Zhu set out on his own road with Yan Ruyu.

• Jiang Zhu used the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron to help suppress the Daoyan Immortal Robe, then captured it with the Demon-Refining Pot.
• The Human Demon and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron joined the Green Lotus Emperor Weapon and Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy in killing Dao Yi and shattering his robe.
• The survivors from the Eternal Star Domain surrendered their possessions and fled, leaving their factions in shock and turmoil.
• Jiang Zhu and the others refined sixth-stage Supreme Evolution Liquid over several hundred days using rare materials and shoots from the Life Ancient Tree.
• Ji Zi said the group would return to the Big Dipper and take his father's coffin to the Ji Family, while Jiang Zhu chose to continue along his own road.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, the Black Emperor, and the others said their farewells to Jiang Zhu, leaving him with Yan Ruyu.

After two years of cultivation, Jiang Zhu set out alone on the ancient road, where he defeated a Demon Clan Saint King and survived years of dangerous battles. He eventually found a trail of ancient stone signposts pointing toward the road’s end.

• Yan Ruyu chose to return to Big Dipper and pursue the Saint realm, while Ye Fan, Ji Zi, the Human Demon, and Old Madman also departed.
• Jiang Zhu refined Stage Six Evolution Liquid, consolidated his cultivation for a year, and absorbed the Azure Emperor’s legacy into his body, forming a Chaos Microcosm.
• A Demon Clan Ant Saint King ambushed Jiang Zhu after he left a Star Gate, but Jiang Zhu defeated and killed him, then refined his corpse for blood essence.
• Jiang Zhu continued along the ancient road, passing God King Jiang Yue’s grave and fighting bone spirits, soul entities, and other dangerous foes.
• After several years of travel and battles, Jiang Zhu found ancient stone steles that all pointed toward the end of the road.

Jiang Zhu reached the First Pass of the Human Race with hundreds of cultivators and entered the ancient city after its gates opened. The receiving envoy announced that they would soon face their first trial and selection, then dismissed the crowd to find lodging and rest.

• Jiang Zhu witnessed Bai Zhan and Luo Xiao clash on the road, while a middle-aged woman explained that fierce competition was common on the Emperor Road.
• Jiang Zhu and the other cultivators arrived before the ancient city, where Bai Zhan and Luo Xiao's powerful mounts intimidated the gathered crowd.
• A total of 483 cultivators entered the First Pass after a divine voice ordered the gates opened, and soldiers warned them that fighting was forbidden inside the city.
• The cultivators learned that the city guards were former trial participants who had failed and remained at the checkpoints.
• Jiang Zhu entered the bustling city, where the receiving envoy announced an upcoming trial and selection, prohibited private fighting, and told everyone to find lodging and rest.

Jiang Zhu survived an assassination attempt by a Saint and uncovered a conspiracy involving the Yan Family, city soldiers, and trial participants. After the Reception Envoy refused to investigate, Jiang Zhu sent his True Phoenix Dao Body to spy on the conspirators.

• Jiang Zhu explored the First City of the Human Clan as secret manuals and information about trial participants circulated, heightening tensions before the trial.
• Luo Xiao was attacked and his Golden-Haired Hou was killed, then further assassinations left the city in panic and prompted accusations against Bai Zhan and the city's local powers.
• A Saint assassin attacked Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu wounded and captured him after a fierce fight; that same night, several other attacks killed four cultivators.
• The Reception Envoy refused the chief commander’s request to investigate, saying that surviving assassination was part of the trial, and Jiang Zhu learned the assassin had ties to the Yan Family and a secret patron.
• Jiang Zhu sent his True Phoenix Dao Body to the Yan Family’s mansion and saw the patriarch, elders, soldiers, and trial participants celebrating together.

Jiang Zhu entered the Yan Family residence and attacked after the Yan Family failed to secure the soldiers’ protection. He killed several soldiers and Yan Family members, then severed the captain and his silver halberd, while the Yan Family called for reinforcements.

• The soldiers detected an unseen watcher, and Yan Yunhai admitted that the Yan Family had underestimated Jiang Zhu and pleaded for the soldiers’ protection.
• Jiang Zhu appeared at the banquet in a clone created with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and announced that the Yan Family would not survive the day.
• Jiang Zhu killed a soldier with his first saber stroke, then cut down another soldier and a Yan Family elder as the others charged him.
• Jiang Zhu shattered the magical attacks and artifacts, leaving the captain as the only surviving soldier from the group.
• Jiang Zhu fought the captain, exchanged several blows with him, and then split the captain and his silver halberd in two.
• The Yan Family members urged everyone to attack and hold Jiang Zhu back until more soldiers arrived.