Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu created his Dao Palace scripture on the ancient stars, shattering the five deities and forging a path centered on his own body. Meanwhile, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Yan Ruyu, Ji Zi, the Great Moon, and the Little Moon reached the true Human Race Ancient Road and approached its first city.

• Jiang Zhu studied the Tyrant Bell and the celestial arrangement of the sacred body and tyrant body burial grounds, then used the starry taiji pattern to cultivate.
• Jiang Zhu formed his Dao Palace scripture from yin-yang and the five elements, then shattered its five deities so their essence could strengthen his body.
• Jiang Zhu's scripture triggered thunder, Dao sounds, and astonishing manifestations across the ancient star, which cultivators at the Fiftieth Pass recognized as signs of someone creating a scripture.
• Jiang Zhu declined to cultivate the tyrant body's nine divine forms, returned to the fiftieth city, and prepared to continue onward with the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and the Five-Colored Peacock.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Yan Ruyu, Ji Zi, the Great Moon, and the Little Moon arrived at the true Human Race Ancient Road after years of battles among the stars.
• The group confirmed their destination, reached the majestic ancient city at the end of the blue-stone road, and walked toward its gates.

Jiang Zhu announced that he would sweep through the Holy Spirit Ancient Road, prompting Ye Fan and his companions to follow and drawing young supremes from many races to the conflict. The human and Saint Spirit supremes gathered on the road, setting the stage for their first full-scale clash.

• At a tavern, Ye Fan, Yan Ruyu, Ji Zi, and Pang Bo learned that Jiang Zhu planned to return to the Holy Spirit Ancient Road, and they decided to join him.
• At the Fifty-Seventh City, Jiang Zhu told Great Sage Qinghuang he would set out immediately, and Qinghuang agreed to accompany him.
• Jiang Zhu’s declaration spread across the cosmos, drawing Heavenly Prodigies and Dao Protectors from across the ancient roads to the Holy Spirit Ancient Road.
• Ao Yuan challenged Jiang Zhu from the Saint Spirits’ eighty-first pass, while Jiang Zhu appeared at the Fifty-Seventh City and dared him to fight.
• Gu Huang, Di Tian, and Fairy Qing Shi arrived on the Holy Spirit Ancient Road, and the Saint Spirit Race’s four young supremes emerged to face the human challengers.

Jiang Zhu fought his way toward the Saint Spirit Race’s Eighty-First Pass, defeating two Saint Spirit geniuses and suppressing the Eightieth Pass’s City Lord. He arrived at the Eighty-First Pass to challenge Saint Spirit Ao Yuan, whose figure appeared as the confrontation began.

• Great Sage Qinghuang taunted Great Sage Ao Mang over Jiang Zhu’s victories, and the two Great Sages fought to a stalemate as Ao Mang vowed to kill Jiang Zhu at the Eighty-First Pass.
• Jiang Zhu reached Spirit Star and killed two Saint Spirit geniuses who challenged him, shattering one’s treasure and destroying both of them with a single blow.
• The Eightieth Pass’s City Lord attacked Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu fought back in his Great Sage Battle Armor and used the True Dragon Heaven-Binding Formation to suppress him.
• Jiang Zhu left Spirit Star and arrived at the Saint Spirit Race’s Eighty-First Pass in his war chariot, declaring that he had come to end the race’s glory.
• Saint Spirit experts retreated before Jiang Zhu’s battle intent as Saint Spirit Ao Yuan appeared in a surge of azure light.

Jiang Zhu fought the Saint Spirit Race’s four young supremes at the Eighty-First Pass and revealed his overwhelming power in the Divine Forbidden Domain. After killing Stone Spirit and Ao Yuan, he charged at the two remaining Saint Spirits, Jade Spirit and Fire Spirit.

• Ao Yuan, Stone Spirit, Jade Spirit, and Fire Spirit gathered at the Eighty-First Pass and demanded that Jiang Zhu surrender.
• The four young supremes attacked Jiang Zhu together, but he entered the Divine Forbidden Domain and shattered their combined assault with his fists.
• Jiang Zhu killed Stone Spirit and destroyed his Primordial Spirit after catching the Saint Spirit’s War Spear between two fingers.
• Jiang Zhu caught up with the fleeing Ao Yuan, pierced him with a punch, and killed him despite his powerful physique and life-bound weapon.
• Jade Spirit and Fire Spirit faced Jiang Zhu as he charged toward them with seven-colored divine light blazing around him.

Di Tian, Gu Huang, and other young supremes gathered in the Saint Spirit Race's eighty-first city as Jiang Zhu faced the Hundred-Legged Demon Spider and a host of powerful newcomers. Jiang Zhu defeated Xin Lan in a brief clash, then claimed his constitution was merely a mortal body.

• Di Tian, Gu Huang, and the Human Clan's young supremes arrived at the eighty-first city after Jiang Zhu had killed two Saint Spirits.
• The Hundred-Legged Demon Spider appeared and threatened to devour the young supremes, but Jiang Zhu wounded its primordial spirit with a powerful attack.
• Xi Gu and the four Golden Snake Young Masters arrived, and Xin Lan revealed herself as a member of the Divine Race.
• Xin Lan attacked Jiang Zhu with a technique that froze the void, but he broke through it and overwhelmed her in battle.
• Jiang Zhu shattered Xin Lan's divine body and, when she demanded to know his constitution, called it a mere mortal body.

Jiang Zhu rejected Xin Lan’s offer to join the Divine Race, then fought the young supremes Blood Beast and Earth Corpse after they coveted his blood and flesh. He transformed Earth Corpse into a stronger Buddhist demon and tore apart the Blood Beast’s wings, but the Blood Beast unleashed its racial secret art as the battle continued.

• Xin Lan offered Jiang Zhu a place in the Divine Race and a divine bride, but he mocked the proposal and refused.
• The Blood Beast and Earth Corpse appeared with other young supremes, and Jiang Zhu attacked them after they called his blood and flesh treasures.
• Jiang Zhu severely wounded the Blood Beast and broke Earth Corpse’s chains before destroying Earth Corpse’s body.
• Earth Corpse’s dormant Buddhist power awakened; he transformed into a demon, healed, grew stronger, and withdrew from the fight.
• Jiang Zhu resumed battling the Blood Beast, revealed its true form, and tore off its wings.
• The Blood Beast unleashed a racial secret art, and Jiang Zhu vowed to kill even a god as their battle continued.

Jiang Zhu defeated the blood beast and challenged every young supreme on the battlefield at once. He endured their combined assault, then killed the Fourth Young Lord of the Golden Snake, while the battle continued.

• Jiang Zhu killed the blood beast with his Immortal Map and Kun Peng Extreme Speed, then challenged all the young supremes to attack him together.
• The Golden Snake young lords, Sang Gu, Earth Corpse, Jade Spirit, Fire Spirit, Xin Lan, and other supremes joined forces and unleashed their attacks on Jiang Zhu.
• Jiang Zhu used the True Spirit Diagram to withstand their combined assault, suffering only a slight wound before fighting back with growing force.
• Jiang Zhu formed three Dao Bodies with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and drove back the three Golden Snake young lords.
• Jiang Zhu caught the Fourth Young Lord of the Golden Snake and killed him with one punch, destroying his body and soul.

Jiang Zhu battled Di Tian and the other young supreme prodigies, enduring their combined attacks and repeatedly breaking through his limits. As the fight continued, he entered the Divine Forbidden Domain again and overwhelmed his enemies, while Di Tian and the Heaven-Swallowing Beast were left gravely injured.

• The eldest Golden Snake Lord summoned the Quasi-Emperor Teng Snake Diagram, and Jiang Zhu countered it with his imitation Five-Colored Heavenly Blade.
• Jiang Zhu fell out of the God Forbidden Domain and was badly wounded, but he grew fiercer as his Taiji Immortal Map and True Spirit Diagram began to merge.
• Jiang Zhu nearly killed Di Tian and grievously wounded the second Golden Snake Lord, the Hundred-Legged Demon Spider, and the Heaven-Swallowing Beast.
• Di Tian and the other three enemies launched another coordinated attack, but Jiang Zhu killed the Hundred-Legged Demon Spider and second Golden Snake Lord and struck down the Heaven-Swallowing Beast again.
• Di Tian invoked Three Realms Reincarnation and the Heaven-Swallowing Beast formed a miniature universe to cage Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu entered the Divine Forbidden Domain and battered both of them with the True Spirit Fist.

Jiang Zhu entered the forbidden domain, defeated the remaining young supremes, and began clearing the battlefield while the Human Clan’s Great Sages fought the alien guardians. He absorbed a second Source of the Dao into his Chaos World, strengthening its Miniature Heavenly Heart Imprint and transforming the world within.

• Jiang Zhu killed Golden Snake First Young Lord and Golden Snake Third Young Lord after destroying their Teng Snake secret arts.
• Jiang Zhu defeated Jade Spirit and Fire Spirit, then faced the surviving young supremes as they began to withdraw.
• Great Sage Qinghuang warned Jiang Zhu that the Human Clan’s Great Sages were struggling against the alien Great Sages, and Jiang Zhu saw Human Demon and Old Madman fighting among them.
• Jiang Zhu collected the aliens’ corpses and found the Source of the Dao in Di Tian’s ruined body.
• Jiang Zhu drew the Source of the Dao into his Chaos World, where it strengthened the Miniature Heavenly Heart Imprint and caused mountains and dragon veins to emerge.

Jiang Zhu strengthened the Chaos World by placing Tang Valley and the Taiyin River at the Ancestral Dragon Vein’s Yin and Yang eyes, gaining innate origin essence in return. He then crossed the Saint Spirit Eighty-First City and reached the first pass of the Ultimate Ancient Road, where the sealed gates and Crystal Stele awaited the road’s opening.

• Jiang Zhu discovered that the Ancestral Dragon Vein had produced Xuanhuang Mother Qi and vast silver essence, including a deposit of Great Luo Silver Essence.
• Jiang Zhu placed Tang Valley and the Taiyin River at the Dragon Vein’s Yang and Yin eyes, deepening the Chaos World’s power and receiving innate origin essence.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Saint Spirit Eighty-First City with the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and Five-Colored Peacock, while the defeated Saint Spirits watched in despair.
• Jiang Zhu left the city and reached the first pass of the Ultimate Ancient Road, where stone pillars bore the marks of ancient emperors and sovereigns.
• Jiang Zhu approached the sealed pass and saw the Crystal Stele, where arriving cultivators could leave their names until the Heavenly Road opened.

Jiang Zhu left his name first on the Crystal Stele, then reunited with Yan Ruyu and their friends at Saint Spirit Final Pass before continuing along the Golden Ancient Road. He reached the declining Golden Seven Cities, where a Great Sage greeted him and remarked on the recent arrival of young people.

• Jiang Zhu carved his name as number one on the Crystal Stele and returned to Saint Spirit Eighty-First City.
• Jiang Zhu reunited with Yan Ruyu, and Ye Fan and Pang Bo teased them about their quiet reunion before the group shared a feast and traded stories.
• Jiang Zhu discussed cultivation and the Desolate Heavenly Emperor with his friends, then parted from Yan Ruyu and the others to continue along the Ancient Road.
• Jiang Zhu reached the nearly deserted Golden Seven Cities and met a white-haired Great Sage who said young people had recently begun arriving.

Jiang Zhu entered the Mythical Ancient Road and battled a sentient Great Sage corpse before spending two and a half years following traces of Lingbao Heavenly Venerable. He reached the boundary of the Mythical Ancient Hunting Zone, where signs of life appeared and a streak of silver light tore through the universe.

• Jiang Zhu offered more than ten kinds of ancient blood to the Mythical Altar, which transported him to the Mythical Ancient Road.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions encountered a sentient Great Sage corpse, and Jiang Zhu defeated it by striking its damaged head and Immortal Platform.
• The Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and the Five-Colored Peacock harvested the corpse's potent blood essence while Jiang Zhu healed.
• Jiang Zhu followed traces left by Lingbao Heavenly Venerable through ruins and dangerous battles for two and a half years.
• Jiang Zhu found the boundary stele warning of the Mythical Ancient Hunting Zone and entered the region with his companions.
• Jiang Zhu warned his companions to be careful as a streak of silver light appeared ahead.

Jiang Zhu crossed the Mythical Ancient Hunting Zone, found Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Sea of Bitterness, and entered it with the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and Five-Colored Peacock. At the sea’s Life Spring, an ancient Tyrant Body corpse awakened and attacked Jiang Zhu, beginning a fierce battle.

• Jiang Zhu’s dragon cry frightened the fish-python monsters, and he traveled through the starry hunting zone with the two beasts without fighting its other ancient creatures.
• Jiang Zhu followed the beasts to Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Dao Platform, where a blurred figure recited a scripture that let the gathered creatures comprehend their own arts.
• After five years of searching with an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon and the Nine Secrets: Qian, Jiang Zhu located the entrance to the Heavenly Venerable’s Sea of Bitterness.
• Jiang Zhu led the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and Five-Colored Peacock into the immense sea, warned them away from its power-draining water, and took an ancient ship toward its central Life Spring.
• A long-dead Tyrant Body corpse rose from the sea and attacked Jiang Zhu, who met it in battle as the Bitter Sea erupted around them.

Jiang Zhu defeated an ancient Heavenly Tyrant corpse and used the Heavenly Venerable Life Spring to nurture Immortal Medicines and temper his body. He reached the heart of the spring, where Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s Four Zhuxian Swords and ancient cave abode lay.

• Jiang Zhu activated the Daoyan Immortal Robe to defeat the ancient Tyrant Body corpse and collected its treasures, including a purple bell.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Heavenly Venerable Life Spring with the Five-Colored Peacock and Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon, where they refined its divine liquid.
• Jiang Zhu nurtured the Qilin Divine Medicine seed, Peach of Immortality pit, and incomplete Immortal Medicine in the spring, while explaining that the two petrified Immortal Medicines might still be saved through nirvana.
• Jiang Zhu traveled through the Bitter Sea, passed other Life Springs and ancient corpses, and reached the central ninth Life Spring where the Four Zhuxian Swords were located.
• Jiang Zhu spent three years tempering his body and primordial spirit with Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s killing aura, improving his cultivation art and foundations.
• Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to approach the spring’s bottom, where he saw the Four Zhuxian Swords, Lingbao Heavenly Venerable’s cave abode, and a golden-furred Six-Eared Macaque.

Jiang Zhu failed to seize the four Killing Swords when the Zhuxian Sword Formation awakened, then spent five years completing his Dragon Transformation scripture and advancing to the seventh heaven of the Saint King Realm. The Divine Bridge appeared, carrying him, the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon, and the Five-Colored Peacock to the Divine Other Shore and its Five Elements Continent.

• Jiang Zhu tried to collect the four Killing Swords with the Demon-Refining Pot, but the Zhuxian Sword Formation awakened and clashed with his three Emperor Weapons.
• Jiang Zhu withdrew his weapons, planted the Immortal Medicines in the Heavenly Venerable Life Spring, and spent five years comprehending the Dao and completing his Dragon Transformation scripture.
• Jiang Zhu emerged from the Life Spring, endured a day-long Heavenly Tribulation, and reached the seventh heaven of the Saint King Realm.
• The Divine Bridge formed beneath the Bitter Sea, and Jiang Zhu led the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and Five-Colored Peacock across it.
• Jiang Zhu and his companions reached the Divine Other Shore and saw its five vast continents, known as the Five Elements Continent.

Jiang Zhu arrived on the Divine Other Shore and sought a legitimate route into the Divine Realm by approaching the Tiger Clan. After proving his White Tiger bloodline, he became the clan’s patriarch and received a Divine Domain Elder Token that could let him enter the Divine Realm in disguise.

• Jiang Zhu and the two beasts landed on an ancient star, where a bronze chariot announced the Divine Realm’s order to hunt down otherworldly invaders.
• Jiang Zhu subdued a demon tiger, learned about the Tiger Clan, and reached its sacred territory to request an audience with its patriarch.
• Jiang Zhu revealed his White Tiger bloodline to the Tiger Clan patriarch, Bai Yu, who relinquished the patriarch’s position to him.
• Jiang Zhu gave Bai Yu the Demon Emperor’s bloodline-refining method, and Bai Yu and Bai Xiao pledged their loyalty to him.
• Bai Yu gave Jiang Zhu a Divine Domain Elder Token and explained how it could grant access to the Divine Realm while concealing his identity.
• Jiang Zhu accepted Saint Spirit Liquid from his supplies for the Tiger Clan and began drawing power from the token’s faith.

Jiang Zhu and his companions entered the Gods and Demons Forbidden Land, where living mountains produced divine demon liquid, and drew the Divine Realm’s guardians into battle. After a powerful being formed from the faith of the Divine Realm’s ruler attacked them, Jiang Zhu revealed that it was the Faith Incarnation he had been waiting for.

• Jiang Zhu and the two beasts reached the former battlefield of the Gods, where the mountains split open and revealed bones and blood that produced divine demon liquid.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and the Five-Colored Peacock to make a disturbance, drawing the Divine Realm’s guardians to the Forbidden Land.
• The two beasts killed or drove back the first group of guardians, then fought four powerful Saint Kings who attacked them together.
• The four Saint Kings summoned a fearsome humanoid being from beams of light, and the beasts fled with Jiang Zhu as it pursued them.
• Jiang Zhu identified the being as the Faith Incarnation of the Divine Realm’s ruler and said it was exactly what he had been waiting for.

Jiang Zhu destroyed the deity’s avatar, killed the pursuing Saint Kings, and became the target of a Divine Realm execution order. He entered the Divine Realm under an assumed identity and began cultivating as the Divine Army searched for him without success.

• Jiang Zhu used the Demon-Refining Pot to erase the deity’s avatar, then killed the Youthful-Faced Maiden and Three-Headed, Six-Armed Man while the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon and Five-Colored Peacock killed the other Saint Kings.
• The deity issued an imperial edict ordering Jiang Zhu’s execution, and news of the alleged blasphemer spread throughout the Other Shore.
• Jiang Zhu disguised himself as the Tiger Clan Chief, entered the Divine Realm, and inspected the Life Ancient Tree and Divine Altar before settling in a metal-element valley to cultivate.
• The Divine Hall Knights mobilized to hunt Jiang Zhu, but after two months they had neither found him nor reported a victory, prompting widespread confusion across the Other Shore.

Jiang Zhu and Supreme God Qing Yutian undermined the reigning god by spreading rumors that he was nearing death, weakening his faith and authority over five years. As the Divine Realm’s people began doubting him, an unseen voice challenged his ability to escape the cycle of succession.

• The Divine Army failed to find Jiang Zhu, stirring doubt among the Other Shore’s believers, while Supreme God Qing Yutian ordered his followers to weaken the reigning god’s foundation of faith.
• The reigning god searched the Other Shore for Jiang Zhu using the power of faith but could not find him, and rumors spread that the god was growing old.
• Jiang Zhu activated his scattered Formation Disks to broadcast prophecies of the old god’s fall, while Qing Yutian spread further rumors and exploited Jiang Zhu’s appearances to undermine the god.
• Over five years, the reigning god’s power of faith dwindled, and even Divine Realm officials began doubting him as he raged from the Divine Altar and killed a maid who advised him to prepare for the future.
• Ancient divine statues shook as an unseen aged voice declared that even the god could not escape reincarnation, leaving the Divine Realm fearful that a new god was about to rise.

Qing Yutian challenged the old god for control of the Divine Realm, exposing the old god’s past usurpation and revealing that he had built a powerful reserve of faith. Their battle left Qing Yutian empowered to fight back after the old god entered the Quasi-Emperor realm.

• The old god threatened his challengers, while rumors of his decline and Qing Yutian’s rise spread across the Other Shore.
• Jiang Zhu waited in the Divine Realm for Lingbao Heavenly Venerable's Formation Diagram, which appeared and remained neutral as the succession conflict erupted.
• Qing Yutian confronted the old god, declared that the old god had murdered the previous god and usurped the throne, and began fighting him.
• The Supreme Divine Mountain released ancient Power of Faith to stabilize the cracking Divine Realm as the two combatants battled into the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• The old god drew on the Power of Faith to enter the Quasi-Emperor realm and overwhelm Qing Yutian, but Qing Yutian revealed his lineage had built an even greater reserve of faith across other ancient domains.