Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu’s Dao Body destroyed the Yan Family’s forces and killed a soldier captain in the First Sacred City before vanishing when its technique expired. The city’s guards began investigating his true identity, and the second commander confronted Jiang Zhu at a restaurant, where Jiang Zhu challenged him to attack without evidence.

• Jiang Zhu defeated the soldier captain and shattered his weapons, then killed him with the True Phoenix Wing despite a commander’s order to stop.
• Jiang Zhu argued that he had acted in self-defense, but the second commander accused him of breaking the city’s laws and demanded that he go to the Guide’s Residence.
• Jiang Zhu’s Dao Body dissolved and vanished, shocking witnesses and revealing that the battle had been fought by only a Dao Body.
• The second commander ordered an investigation into Jiang Zhu’s identity and the whereabouts of his true body, while news of the killing spread through the First Sacred City.
• The second commander confronted Jiang Zhu outside a restaurant, and Jiang Zhu demanded evidence and invited him to attack so he could claim self-defense.

Jiang Zhu entered Saintfall Island, where the trial participants were divided among its regions to seek the Great Dao. After months of comprehending the island’s ancient laws and refining his Seed of Chaos, he turned his attention to the forbidden ground.

• Second Commander Chi Ge left without attacking Jiang Zhu, and the following days passed without further assassination attempts.
• The Reception Envoy announced the trial, and the city commander led more than four hundred participants through a teleportation passage to Saintfall Island.
• The commander explained the island’s regions and warned that its central forbidden ground was deadly; Jiang Zhu entered the first region while the other participants chose routes to avoid him.
• Jiang Zhu crossed the island alone, encountered two Ancient Saint scarlet Flood Dragons, and found an ancient palm print beneath a green tree, where he began comprehending the laws.
• Over the following months, Jiang Zhu studied Dao Marks across the island and accumulated sealing chains weighing ninety million jin in the fiftieth secret realm; every cultivator who attacked him was killed.
• Jiang Zhu turned toward the forbidden ground, undeterred by the powerful beings said to dwell there.

Jiang Zhu reached the heart of Saintfall Island, fought five imperfect copies of himself in the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool, and used the Supreme Evolution Liquid to break through into the Saint Realm. His breakthrough triggered a world-shattering tribulation outside the island, where he endured Chaos Divine Thunder and began refining the Chaos Bell anew.

• Jiang Zhu entered Saintfall Island’s forbidden core, suppressed its lingering Saint Dao Marks, and destroyed a Pixiu-bloodline Variant Beast and twenty-seven layers of Dao Pattern traps.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool and fought five powerful versions of himself for three days, emerging grievously injured.
• After healing, Jiang Zhu consumed the Supreme Evolution Liquid left by the Azure Emperor and broke through the final shackle of his cultivation.
• Jiang Zhu’s Saint Tribulation shook Saintfall Island, and he broke through its seal to face Heavenly Punishment in the starry universe.
• Jiang Zhu endured successive divine lightning strikes, including Chaos Divine Thunder, as his body repeatedly reconstructed and he refined the Chaos Bell.

Jiang Zhu endured the Saint tribulation, reforged the Chaos Bell by merging it with his body and Primordial Spirit, and ascended into the Saint Realm. The final tribulation summoned Ancient Great Emperor figures who wielded techniques Jiang Zhu recognized, and he realized they were manifestations of himself.

• Jiang Zhu endured the Chaos Divine Thunder as the Chaos Bell shattered, merging its fragments with his blood, flesh, and five-colored Primordial Spirit.
• Jiang Zhu used the World-Creation Tribulation to reassemble and forge the Chaos Bell, engraving it with images of divine beasts and all living things.
• Jiang Zhu crossed into the Saint Realm as the Chaos Bell became an Immortal Saint Weapon and entered his Immortal Platform.
• Jiang Zhu absorbed the remaining tribulation lightning, then faced an Ancient Great Emperor who attacked with the True Dragon Fist.
• A crimson figure struck Jiang Zhu with the True Phoenix Precious Technique, followed by figures wielding the Grass Character Sword Art and White Tiger Geng Metal Qi.
• Jiang Zhu recognized the imperial figures as manifestations of himself.

Jiang Zhu endured a Heavenly Tribulation of his own incarnations, nine Great Emperor imprints, and the Heavenly Court of the Chaotic Ancient Era, where he fought the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword shadow for three days and nights. He emerged with the Chaos Bell refined and reached Saint Fourth Heaven, leaving the trial participants and Great Commander astonished.

• Jiang Zhu defeated the manifestations of himself, then fought successive groups of nine Great Emperor imprints until he survived the trial with his conviction strengthened.
• Jiang Zhu entered the lightning-formed Heavenly Court of the Chaotic Ancient Era and battled its armies before reaching the empty hall and seeing the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword shadow attacked Jiang Zhu, who fought it with the Chaos Bell for three days and nights before escaping the Heavenly Court.
• Jiang Zhu refined the Chaos Bell in the Chaos Sea as the tribulation ended, and he advanced four stages to Saint Fourth Heaven.
• The trial participants and the Great Commander watched the celestial phenomena and marveled at Jiang Zhu’s power and consecutive breakthroughs.

After reaching Saint Fourth Heaven, Jiang Zhu killed a spy among the First Pass soldiers and completed the Saintfall Island trial. He continued along the Human Race Ancient Road to the battlefield between the first and Second Passes, where he rejected the Demon Nation’s offer and killed a great demon who attacked him.

• Jiang Zhu reached Saint Fourth Heaven after three days of cultivation and used Nine Secrets: Qian to kill a soldier preparing to send information about him.
• The Saintfall Island trial ended, and the grand commander led the surviving 422 participants back to the First Pass of the Human Race.
• Seven days later, Jiang Zhu set out for the Second Pass while several participants chose to stay behind as city guards.
• Jiang Zhu arrived at the battlefield where cultivators sought sources of the Dao and was attacked as soon as he appeared.
• A great demon offered Jiang Zhu a thirty-seventy share to help the Demon Nation, but Jiang Zhu refused to accept the lesser portion.
• The great demon attacked Jiang Zhu, who seized his War Spear and killed him with it.

Jiang Zhu slaughtered more than ten Saints and drove the battlefield into silence. He then drew out the Source of the Dao, but its will declared that he would never attain the Dao or become an Emperor.

• Jiang Zhu killed the Demon Nation's warriors with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass after they attacked him with giant war spears.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the magical artifacts and killed more than ten Saints who joined forces against him.
• The surviving cultivators stopped fighting and feared provoking Jiang Zhu after witnessing his strength.
• Jiang Zhu extracted an ancient scripture from the Saints' lingering Divine Sense and used it to summon the Source of the Dao.
• The Source of the Dao rose from underground, and its will declared that Jiang Zhu would never attain the Dao or become an Emperor.

Jiang Zhu forcibly suppressed the Source of the Dao, endured the resulting Heavenly Punishment, and stored it in the Demon-Refining Pot. When Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord attacked to claim it, Jiang Zhu fought both Saint Kings and left them badly wounded, though their battle continued.

• Jiang Zhu imprisoned the Source of the Dao by force and endured the Heavenly Punishment, absorbing its lightning as he suppressed it.
• Jiang Zhu put the Source of the Dao into the Demon-Refining Pot, causing the tribulation to disappear.
• Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord demanded the Source of the Dao and attacked Jiang Zhu when he offered to trade it for Immortal Gold or Immortal Medicine.
• Jiang Zhu fought the two Saint Kings with the True Dragon Secret Art and True Phoenix Precious Technique, manifesting True Dragon and True Phoenix phantoms.
• Jiang Zhu battered Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord, but the Divine Lord's sword strike sent Jiang Zhu crashing into a mountain.
• Jiang Zhu emerged with only a shallow sword wound, shocking the Divine Lord with how quickly it nearly healed.

Jiang Zhu defeated Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord, then fed the Source of the Dao to the Seed of Chaos, causing it to fully solidify. After reaching the Second Sacred City, he became the focus of rumors, and Di Tian learned that the Source of the Dao had appeared again and ordered it brought to him.

• Jiang Zhu overpowered Xuan Sha, Demon Lord and Xuan Guang, Divine Lord, destroying their Saint King artifacts and killing them.
• Jiang Zhu refined the Source of the Dao into the Seed of Chaos, which transformed and unleashed manifestations across the surrounding region.
• The trial ended, and Jiang Zhu and the surviving trial-takers traveled by altar to the Second Sacred City.
• The Second Sacred City's residents heard that Jiang Zhu had slain two Saint Kings and obtained the Source of the Dao.
• Di Tian learned of the Source of the Dao's reappearance and ordered his elderly servant to ensure it came into his hands.

The Source of the Dao’s reappearance drew powerful factions and challengers toward the Second Sacred City, where Jiang Zhu had forcibly suppressed it. As exhausted trial participants chose whether to leave or persevere, Jiang Zhu and the survivors prepared to advance into the Primordial Era Daoist Arena.

• A flower-seated fairy ordered Yuan'er to watch Jiang Zhu, while the Great Demon God set out to seek him and an imperial-robed man ordered his followers to monitor the Second Sacred City.
• A woman waiting for a Twelve-Grade Lotus Platform decided to visit the Second Sacred City and persuade Jiang Zhu to give the Source of the Dao to Di Tian.
• News of Jiang Zhu and the Source of the Dao spread along the Human Race Ancient Road, drawing countless gazes and powerful beings toward the Second Sacred City.
• Wu Feng, Chen Mo, Lin Feng, and Sun Hai voiced their despair, and more than a dozen trial participants left for home, reducing their group to 120.
• Lei Zhen chose to keep training, while Ye Qingfeng and several wounded cultivators renewed their resolve to face the dangers ahead.
• At dawn, Jiang Zhu learned that the survivors would soon enter the Primordial Era Daoist Arena.

Jiang Zhu comprehended the Great Dao of Strength in the Primordial Daoist Arena and clarified the path of his taboo domain. He then broke out of the Trial Grounds and reached an ancient star filled with the power of Dao Dissolution, where he intended to master his Sixth True Spirit Transformation.

• Jiang Zhu entered the Primordial Daoist Arena and resonated with the Great Dao of Strength through his five united True Spirit Bloodlines.
• Jiang Zhu spent more than half a month cultivating and gained insight into his taboo domain, basing it on his bloodlines, Precious Techniques, and the prospect of Reverse-Slaying the Great Dao.
• Fairy Qing Shi and other figures from farther along the ancient road returned to the second city, prompting speculation that they had come for the Source of the Dao and might threaten Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu used his united bloodlines and inherited Precious Techniques to shatter the Primordial Daoist Arena's restrictions and escape into the star domain.
• Jiang Zhu reached an ancient Life Star filled with the power of Dao Dissolution and decided to master his Sixth True Spirit Transformation there.

Jiang Zhu cultivated the Kun Peng Transformation in the Chaos Ancient Cave, mastered its yin-yang techniques and peerless speed, and emerged as a true Kun Peng. He returned to find Bai Zhan watching a great Peng and a Flood Dragon fight over a crystalline ancient tree.

• Jiang Zhu entered the Chaos Ancient Cave on the ancient star and absorbed its yin-yang energies, chaos mother qi, and Kun Peng Origin Blood.
• Jiang Zhu witnessed a Kun Peng battle three Immortal Kings in a vision and studied its Precious Technique.
• Jiang Zhu transformed into a Kun Peng, practiced Yin-Yang Evolution, and advanced his Seed of Chaos.
• Jiang Zhu tested the Kun Peng Divine Speed, found it superior to Nine Secrets: Xing, and decided to leave.
• Bai Zhan watched a great Peng and a Flood Dragon fight over a crystalline ancient tree, and Jiang Zhu returned.

Jiang Zhu learned that Di Tian’s subordinates had entered the Primordial Era Daoist Arena to seize the Source of the Dao, then confronted them and rejected their demand to submit. He effortlessly neutralized the four Saint Kings’ coordinated attack and began counterattacking with the Supreme Immortal Bird Precious Technique.

• Jiang Zhu emerged through a rift in the sky, frightening the Golden-Winged Peng Bird and Flood Dragon into fleeing from the Jade Marrow Tree.
• Bai Zhan told Jiang Zhu that Cangming and Di Tian’s other subordinates were in the arena to intercept him, and Jiang Zhu declined Bai Zhan’s Calamity-Averting Talisman.
• The foremost War General, the Vermilion Bird Holy Envoy, the White Tiger Holy Envoy, and the Qilin Holy Envoy found Jiang Zhu alongside Yan Chifeng and demanded that he surrender the Source of the Dao to Di Tian.
• Jiang Zhu refused to submit and dismissed the four envoys, prompting them to attack him together with their powerful techniques.
• Jiang Zhu used True Dragon Trapping Heaven to shatter the four Saint Kings’ attacks, then launched a counterattack with the Supreme Immortal Bird Precious Technique.

Jiang Zhu annihilated Di Tian’s four Saint King-level subordinates and pursued Yan Chifeng as he tried to escape through a spatial portal. The chapter left Jiang Zhu blocking Yan Chifeng’s path just before he could enter the portal.

• Jiang Zhu killed the Vermilion Bird Holy Envoy with the Heavenly Phoenix Great Divine Ability, then used the True Dragon Heaven-Locking Formation to smash the First War General’s halberd and grievously wound him.
• Jiang Zhu overcame Bai Li’s Gengjin Sword Qi with the Way of the White Tiger and killed the White Tiger Holy Envoy with White Tiger Heaven-rending.
• Jiang Zhu seized the Qilin Holy Envoy with a purple Qilin Giant Palm and crushed him, then stopped the First War General’s sacrificial attack with Yin-Yang Reversal as the First War General crumbled to dust.
• Yan Chifeng fled the battlefield and opened a spatial portal with an ancient jade talisman, but Jiang Zhu appeared in front of him before he could enter.

Jiang Zhu killed Yan Chifeng after defeating the veterans sent by Great Commander Yan Yu, then broke out of the Primordial Era Daoist Arena and confronted Yan Yu in the Sacred City. He unleashed a storm of Golden Sword Feathers that killed Yan Yu and swept across the square, leaving the surviving soldiers in terror.

• Great Commander Yan Yu sent a veteran squad carrying the Realm-Suppressing Mirror into the Daoist Arena to rescue Yan Chifeng.
• Jiang Zhu broke the mirror's suppression, killed the veterans, and destroyed Yan Chifeng's soul before escaping through the sealed gateway.
• Jiang Zhu emerged in the Sacred City, killed soldiers who attacked him, and tossed Yan Chifeng's corpse before Yan Yu.
• After the soldiers accused Jiang Zhu of treason and tried to seize him, Jiang Zhu killed more of them with Golden Sword Feathers.
• Jiang Zhu unleashed a golden storm that tore through Yan Yu's defenses, killed him, and swept across the square as the remaining soldiers tried to flee.

Jiang Zhu slaughtered Yan Yu and his soldiers, then confronted the Reception Envoy and a silver-armored enforcer after exposing the attack on him in the Primordial Era Daoist Arena. As doubts spread that the enforcer was an impostor, the Reception Envoy demanded to see his Enforcer Divine Token, and the enforcer’s armor flared brightly.

• Jiang Zhu used golden Sword Feathers to kill Yan Yu and the soldiers who had tried to surround him.
• Jiang Zhu killed a subordinate of Di Tian who had stirred up trouble, while Fairy Qing Shi stepped forward to shield another subordinate.
• Jiang Zhu confronted the Reception Envoy and the enforcer, rejecting their accusations and presenting divine-sense evidence of the earlier attack on him.
• Jiang Zhu called the enforcer an impostor, prompting the crowd to question his identity and Di Tian’s subordinates to defend him.
• The Reception Envoy asked whether the enforcer possessed an Enforcer Divine Token, and the enforcer’s silver armor erupted in brilliant light.

Jiang Zhu exposed Liu Ye as an impostor law enforcer, killed him and Di Tian’s remaining subordinates, and left the Second Sacred City sealed as news of his deeds spread along the Starry Sky Ancient Road. After passing nine more trials, Jiang Zhu and his companions reached the Tenth Pass, where they found a famed Ancient Life Star for cultivating toward Sainthood and faced the attention of the city’s residents and commanders.

• Jiang Zhu revealed that Liu Ye had impersonated his law-enforcer uncle and exposed how the law enforcer had helped Di Tian’s people enter the Second Sacred City.
• Jiang Zhu killed Liu Ye and Di Tian’s remaining subordinates after the Reception Envoy sealed the city, while Fairy Qing Shi chose to leave without asking him for the source of the Dao.
• News of Jiang Zhu’s killings spread along the Starry Sky Ancient Road, and many trial participants chose to remain in the Second Sacred City after the trial ended.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions passed through nine consecutive passes over more than a year and arrived at the Tenth Pass, a Sacred City above an Ancient Life Star known for its powerful laws and opportunities to attain Sainthood.
• Residents and the Tenth Sacred City’s Great Commander watched Jiang Zhu’s arrival, anticipating conflict because of his reputation.

Jiang Zhu secluded himself on an Ancient Life Star to create his own cultivation method, combining insights from his scriptures and the Single Secret Realm Cultivation Method. As he witnessed the Desolate Heavenly Emperor creating his method, his scripture began to take shape, drawing attention and stirring unrest across the star.

• The Great Commander of the Tenth City explained the Ancient Life Star’s cultivation environment and its restrictions to the trial participants.
• Jiang Zhu arrived on the star, ignored its ancient scriptures and steles, and chose a secluded valley to cultivate.
• Jiang Zhu entered the God Forbidden Domain and combined the insights of his many methods, forming a divine diagram from the powers of six primordial fierce beasts.
• The sword mark on the Demon-Refining Pot let Jiang Zhu witness the Desolate Heavenly Emperor creating his method, deepening his understanding of the cultivation path.
• Jiang Zhu’s Dao sounds and visions spread across the star, prompting cultivators to search for their source while he continued refining his own scripture.

Jiang Zhu forged new scripture principles for the Sea of Bitterness and Dao Palace secret realms, reshaping his Sea of Bitterness into a miniature world and enduring a Tribulation of Creating the Dao. After defeating the Five-Colored Peacock King, he faced a group of Human Clan Trialists who demanded his treasures and Immortal Scripture.

• Jiang Zhu created a new method for the Sea of Bitterness, transforming it into a world where chaos, yin and yang, and life and death coexisted.
• Jiang Zhu emerged from his creation of the Dao to find the land devastated and realized he had undergone a Tribulation of Creating the Dao.
• The Five-Colored Peacock King challenged Jiang Zhu for entering his territory, but Jiang Zhu's Five-Colored Divine Light easily defeated him.
• The Peacock King set aside his pride and asked to follow Jiang Zhu and cultivate, but Jiang Zhu called him weak despite his potential.
• A group of Human Clan Trialists arrived, mistook Jiang Zhu's achievement for an Immortal Scripture, and demanded that he hand over his treasures.

Jiang Zhu defeated a group of trial-takers, destroyed their forbidden weapon, and killed their Saint King leader before traveling to the Demon Emperor's underwater cave abode. There he forced the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon to submit and uncovered nine jade discs containing fragments of ancient Demon Clan Dao lineages.

• Jiang Zhu and the Five-Colored Peacock King fought trial-takers who demanded their divine treasure, and the peacock killed two of them.
• Jiang Zhu recognized that the leading Saint King had activated a forbidden weapon, smashed it apart, and killed him while the Five-Colored Peacock King pursued the fleeing trial-takers.
• Jiang Zhu left with the Five-Colored Peacock King and reached the lake where the Demon Emperor had left a cave abode.
• The Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon challenged Jiang Zhu, then submitted as his mount under the pressure of Jiang Zhu's True Dragon bloodline.
• Jiang Zhu entered the underwater cave abode, found a hidden chamber, and discovered nine jade discs containing fragments of ancient Demon Clan Dao lineages.