Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhu acquired the White Tiger Divine Medicine as a companion by feeding it white tiger origin blood, then left Kunlun with it. On the way out, he encountered the Ruthless Great Emperor’s grave and heard the final words preserved there from her elder brother.

• Jiang Zhu discovered that the White Tiger Divine Medicine had lost the White Tiger Immortal King’s bloodline and could not help him unlock the white tiger true spirit totem.
• Jiang Zhu gave the little white tiger white tiger origin blood, and it agreed to leave with him in exchange for receiving more each day.
• Jiang Zhu prepared a fertile, immortal-qi-rich space inside the Demon-Refining Pot and brought the White Tiger Divine Medicine and its fruits there.
• Jiang Zhu left the immortal valley with the little white tiger on his shoulder, recognizing that he needed to face the dangers of the world and his future lightning tribulations.
• Jiang Zhu found the Ruthless Great Emperor’s grave, where her elder brother’s final words and her vow to wait for his return echoed through the ages.

Jiang Zhu gathered medicine kings and the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda in the Great Emperor Killing Formation, then encountered a dead Human Great Sage and promised to resolve the cause of Earth's declining spiritual vitality. The Great Sage's corpse dissolved, leaving behind a divine lamp.

• Jiang Zhu transplanted medicine kings and medicinal fields into the Demon-Refining Pot and harvested ripe Medicine King Fruits and seeds.
• Jiang Zhu found the Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda and concluded that Crocodile Ancestor had recently controlled it before dying in the Great Emperor Killing Formation.
• Jiang Zhu put the pagoda into the Demon-Refining Pot to slowly melt it into divine markings for his weapon.
• Jiang Zhu transformed into Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and rode on Little White Tiger as it detoured around the Quasi-Emperor Corpse Ground.
• Jiang Zhu communicated with the Great Saint Weapon Deity and learned that the dead Great Sage had been an ancient Earthling who sought to restore Earth's spiritual vitality.
• Jiang Zhu promised to eliminate the root cause of Earth's deterioration, and the Great Sage's corpse dissolved into light as a divine lamp appeared.

Jiang Zhu escaped Kunlun’s formation with the Great Saint Weapon, recruited He Shou Wu, and plundered the outer region before returning to Big Dipper. In Skytrace City, he learned that the attack on Qing Emperor’s Tomb had failed and began considering which power could provide him with protection and an Emperor Weapon.

• Jiang Zhu brought the Great Saint Weapon to safety, returned to He Shou Wu, and convinced it to leave with him.
• Jiang Zhu collected treasures throughout Kunlun’s outer region and filled the Demon-Refining Pot with chaos energy from the Chaos Divine Lake.
• Jiang Zhu traveled along the Starry Sky Ancient Road back to Big Dipper and quickly left the outskirts of the Undying Mountain.
• In Skytrace City, Jiang Zhu listened to cultivators report that the Southern Region’s holy lands and Desolate Ancient Families had failed to seize the Demon Emperor Weapon from Qing Emperor’s Tomb.
• Jiang Zhu weighed the major powers on Big Dipper and decided that the Azure Emperor’s descendants were his best prospect for gaining backing and access to an Emperor Weapon.

Jiang Zhu traveled to the Northern Region to find source and planned to visit Purple Mountain after failing to locate a worthwhile vein. On the way, he was attacked by wolf riders and killed them all, taking dozens of jin of source from their belongings.

• Jiang Zhu chose the Azure Emperor's descendant as his target for infiltrating the demon race and went to the Northern Region to seek fire-attribute exotic sources.
• Jiang Zhu sensed the Northern Region's dried dragon veins and found only a small source vein that was not worth mining.
• Jiang Zhu decided to trade his precious medicinal fruits in the Sacred City and visit Purple Mountain to investigate the Source Heaven Book.
• Jiang Zhu encountered more than thirty wolf riders, who attacked him with spears and charged at him.
• Jiang Zhu killed the wolf riders with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass deity's sword qi and recovered dozens of jin of source from their belongings.

Jiang Zhu discovered Purple Mountain and seized the Wushi Emperor Jade by subduing the Azure Cloud Sect, then entered the mountain through a dragon vein. He reached an underground cavern and began fighting its Demon Bats.

• Jiang Zhu found Purple Mountain, a sacred land formed by nine dragon veins, and recalled that the Wushi Emperor Jade allowed its bearer to enter safely.
• Jiang Zhu chose to attack the Azure Cloud Sect, whose members possessed a piece of Emperor Jade and preyed on mortals.
• Jiang Zhu froze and subdued the sect members, took their belongings and the Wushi Emperor Jade, and sealed them inside an earth vein as punishment.
• Jiang Zhu freed the mortals the sect had abducted and entered Purple Mountain through a dragon vein, carrying the Great Sage Lamp to light his way.
• Demon Bats attacked Jiang Zhu in an underground cavern, and he crushed them with a dragon claw infused with the dragon vein's power.

Jiang Zhu crossed the Two-Qi Celestial River and entered Purple Mountain, resisting the Primordial Creatures’ summons as he pressed deeper. After finding seven slain experts, he heard God King Jiang Taixu identify himself and ask about the dragon and grass.

• Jiang Zhu fought through Demon Bats, poisonous vines, and spirit-devouring moss as he followed a vigorous dragon vein deeper into Purple Mountain.
• Jiang Zhu reached the Two-Qi Celestial River, used the Glazed Glass Lamp to cross it, and discovered that droplets from its source-energy current were divine source.
• Jiang Zhu tore through a living purple stone wall and entered an empty palace complex leading to a cavern filled with divine source crystals.
• Jiang Zhu resisted the Primordial Creatures’ demonic summons with the power of the true dragon and Nine-Leaf Sword Grass blood within him.
• Jiang Zhu found seven peerless experts’ skeletons, each marked by a fatal blow to the skull, then heard God King Jiang Taixu ask about the dragon and grass.

Jiang Zhu met the weakened God King Jiang Taixu inside a purple wall, but refused his offer to teach Nine Secrets: Dou until Taixu noticed the extraordinary hundred herb liquid Jiang Zhu had brought. After examining Jiang Zhu’s blood, Taixu concluded that he was descended from another branch of Emperor Hengyu’s bloodline.

• Jiang Taixu offered to teach Jiang Zhu a move, but Jiang Zhu refused because he already had powerful secret arts and lacked time to learn more.
• Jiang Zhu left a bottle of hundred herb liquid for Jiang Taixu, who was astonished by its potent medicinal fragrance and asked what Jiang Zhu wanted in return.
• Jiang Zhu revealed that his surname was Jiang and sent a drop of his blood into the purple wall for Taixu to examine.
• Jiang Taixu recognized the Jiang Family bloodline in Jiang Zhu’s blood and speculated that Jiang Zhu descended from another branch of Emperor Hengyu’s lineage.

Jiang Zhu obtained the Hengyu Scripture’s cultivation method and the Nine Secrets: Dou from Jiang Taixu, then explored deeper into Purple Mountain. After finding Zhang Jiye’s Source Heaven Book and reaching the Wushi Scripture, he discovered the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine and prepared to coax it away.

• Jiang Taixu accepted Jiang Zhu’s Hundred Herb Liquid and gave him the Hengyu Scripture’s cultivation method and the Nine Secrets: Dou.
• Jiang Zhu pushed deeper into Purple Mountain, killed a half-human, half-snake primordial creature, and watched the Wushi Bell suppress another primordial creature.
• Jiang Zhu found Zhang Jiye’s remains and the Source Heaven Book, memorized its source-related passages and the Jade Pool Holy Maiden’s life-nourishing art, then buried Zhang Jiye.
• Jiang Zhu followed the Wushi Emperor Jade’s guidance to the Wushi Scripture and saw the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine growing on the Dao platform.

Jiang Zhu lured the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine from the Dao Platform with the White Tiger Divine Medicine and true phoenix origin blood, then fought off the Black Emperor when he tried to seize them. He subdued the dog and won the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine’s fruit, leaving the Black Emperor trapped and envious.

• Jiang Zhu found inscriptions praising Great Emperor Wushi and brought the White Tiger Divine Medicine to help lure the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine.
• Jiang Zhu transformed into Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and presented a patch of Immortal Soil, persuading the Little Immortal Phoenix to leave the Dao Platform with him.
• The Black Emperor charged Jiang Zhu to steal the Immortal Medicines, but Jiang Zhu’s Liver Deity slashed him and drove him back.
• The Black Emperor tried to activate an Emperor Formation, but Jiang Zhu seized him with a dragon claw and collapsed the dao patterns.
• The Little Immortal Phoenix took out its Phoenix Nest, revealing the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine Fruit, while the trapped Black Emperor watched in envy.

Jiang Zhu traded with Black Emperor’s greed to secure a chance to cultivate using the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine’s fruit. After half a month in seclusion, he opened his spleen divine treasury and left Purple Mountain considering how to balance the strength of his divine treasuries and future true spirit bloodlines.

• Black Emperor begged the Wushi Bell for an Immortal Medicine fruit, then tried to bargain with Jiang Zhu over the secret of his imperial-blood-strengthened body.
• Jiang Zhu tempted Black Emperor with a Yellow-Central Plum fruit, and Black Emperor offered his blood in exchange for a Medicine King or precious herb.
• Jiang Zhu used a drop of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine’s medicinal liquid to cultivate in seclusion for half a month, strengthening his heart divine treasury and forming an illusory True Phoenix Deity.
• Jiang Zhu followed the True Phoenix Deity’s guidance and successfully opened his spleen divine treasury, improving his ability to absorb and refine vital essence.
• Jiang Zhu prepared to leave Purple Mountain but recognized that his powerful liver divine treasury and weaker heart divine treasury could create an imbalance in his future cultivation.

Jiang Zhu left Purple Mountain after trading a treasure medicine for the Black Emperor’s blood, which revealed a Nine Nether Ao totem. He returned to the surface and headed for the Azure Cloud Sect’s fallen headquarters, where he cleared out a band of brigands and examined a pile of stone gall.

• Jiang Zhu decided he needed an earth-aligned bloodline or Immortal Medicine to balance his Dao Palace, then freed the Black Emperor and prepared to leave Purple Mountain.
• The Black Emperor offered his blood in exchange for a treasure medicine, and Jiang Zhu gained a Nine Nether Ao true spirit totem.
• Jiang Zhu activated the teleportation formation with emperor jade and left Purple Mountain with the Black Emperor, ignoring the dog’s pitch for a trip to the old Jade Pool grounds.
• Jiang Zhu silenced the Black Emperor’s noisy celebrations after they reached the Northern Region, then flew away and left the dog behind.
• Jiang Zhu reached the Azure Cloud Sect’s fallen headquarters, killed the brigands occupying it, and found two unusual pieces of stone gall among a pile.

Jiang Zhu mastered the Source Heaven Divine Eye and entered the Sacred City in disguise to find the stone containing the seed of the Kirin Immortal Medicine. He bought the Demon Womb Stone in Yaoguang’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden and prepared to open it before a crowd of curious onlookers.

• Jiang Zhu used stone gall juice and the Source Heaven Book’s method to master the Source Heaven Divine Eye, gaining the ability to see through things.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Sacred City disguised with true dragon features and headed for the Yaoguang Stone Workshop.
• Jiang Zhu presented divine source granules to gain entry to the Heaven-Class Stone Garden and used his divine eye to identify the Demon Womb Stone containing the Kirin Immortal Medicine’s seed.
• Jiang Zhu bought the Demon Womb Stone for a hundred and twenty thousand jin of pure source and was required to open it on the spot.
• The elders and Yaoguang Holy Land representatives gathered to watch Jiang Zhu cut open the stone, while he regretted that nobody had bet against him.

Jiang Zhu uncovered a Kirin Immortal Medicine seed and refused to sell it despite offers and threats from the major powers. He retaliated by sweeping treasures from the stone workshops of those who threatened him, then arrived at the Dao Yi Holy Land’s workshop.

• Jiang Zhu cut open a stone in the Yaoguang Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden and revealed a Kirin Immortal Medicine seed sealed in divine source.
• Jiang Zhu recognized that the seed could help resolve the imbalance in his Dao Palace and refused to sell it to the gathered cultivators and holy lands.
• After several powers threatened him, Jiang Zhu left the stone garden and decided to retaliate by collecting treasures from their workshops.
• Jiang Zhu spent over two hundred thousand jin of ordinary source at the Wanchu Holy Land’s Heaven-Class Stone Garden and cut out divine source and Treasure Medicines.
• Jiang Zhu swept through the stone workshops of several holy lands, selling life-extending treasures to old cultivators as they followed him.
• Jiang Zhu arrived at the Dao Yi Holy Land’s stone workshop, where a crowd of old cultivators waited to see what he would uncover.

Jiang Zhu opened two stones in the Heaven-Class Stone Garden, uncovering a dragon-patterned black gold sword and a fragrant root sealed in ice-snow source. The sword went into his Demon-Refining Pot, while the root’s value remained uncertain.

• Jiang Zhu chose the Nine-Aperture Stone Man and a large stone, then opened the Nine-Aperture Stone Man first.
• Jiang Zhu broke open a dark golden cocoon and revealed a tiny dragon-patterned black gold sword, which the old Daoist nun stopped from striking him.
• The old Daoist nun returned the sword to Jiang Zhu, who placed it in the Demon-Refining Pot to cleanse the Saint Spirit’s resentment.
• Jiang Zhu cut open the second stone as a flying immortal illusion appeared, prompting the old Daoist nun to seal the Heaven-Class Stone Garden.
• Jiang Zhu uncovered a palm-sized piece of ice-snow source containing a pale blue, human-foot-shaped root that the elderly onlookers recognized as a life-prolonging spirit herb.

After leaving the Sacred City with an incomplete Immortal Medicine, Jiang Zhu lured the forces pursuing him into a formation in the northern desert. He repelled their first assault, but twelve Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators surrounded him and launched a new attack.

• Jiang Zhu refused to sell the incomplete Immortal Medicine and left the Sacred City to focus on reaching the Four Extremes Secret Realm.
• Word of Jiang Zhu’s treasures and appearance spread, and he exposed his whereabouts to draw his pursuers into the desert south of the city.
• Jiang Zhu used the dragon veins to form the Heaven-Trapping Formation, trapping hundreds of knights and turning their dragon-blooded beasts against them.
• A powerful attacker’s enormous palm clashed with Jiang Zhu’s dragon formation, destroying the dragon but losing two fingers before the formation erased the hand.
• Twelve Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators surrounded Jiang Zhu, and elders from the Yaoguang and Wanchu Holy Lands attacked him for his treasures and inheritance.

After killing twelve holy-land and great-sect elders, Jiang Zhu evaded the ensuing hunt and returned to Purple Mountain to cultivate. He perfected his spleen divine treasury and began advancing his lung divine treasury, but a primordial bird attacked before his training was complete.

• Jiang Zhu used the Glazed Glass Lamp to kill the twelve Dragon Transformation cultivators who had attacked him.
• The holy lands and great sects issued a wanted notice for Jiang Zhu, but he restored his original appearance and left Kunzhou for Purple Mountain.
• Jiang Zhu used the Qilin Immortal Seeds and wu earth source to perfect his spleen divine treasury, then began cultivating his lung divine treasury.
• After a month of cultivation, Jiang Zhu was attacked by a six-eyed primordial bird on Purple Mountain.
• Jiang Zhu bound the bird with earth-vein chains and severed one of its wings with sword light, but the bird retaliated by forming a crimson cage around him.

Jiang Zhu fought awakened Primordial Creatures in Purple Mountain, then left and found Black Emperor’s trail in a village of Source Heavenly Master descendants. While examining their inherited stone implements, he uncovered two petrified Immortal Medicines, leaving Black Emperor distraught over the lost treasures.

• Jiang Zhu defeated a strange bird and a Six-Armed Primordial Creature in Purple Mountain, then sensed more Primordial Creatures awakening and fled with the creature’s body in his Demon-Refining Pot.
• Jiang Zhu reached a nearby village and learned from Fifth Master Zhang that Black Emperor had gone into Purple Mountain and not returned.
• Jiang Zhu gave Fifth Master Zhang a fragment of the Source Heaven Book in exchange for examining the stone implements left by the Source Heavenly Master.
• Jiang Zhu cut open a stone implement and discovered a petrified Immortal Medicine, which he determined could not be revived.
• Black Emperor arrived and watched as Jiang Zhu uncovered a second petrified Immortal Medicine, then cursed over the wasted treasures.

Jiang Zhu uncovered and destroyed a cursed relic before settling into cultivation in an abandoned mine. After perfecting his lung divine treasury, he began breaking through to the fifth and final divine treasury.

• Jiang Zhu found a Human Origin Fruit, then uncovered red hair carrying an Underworld curse that harmed the villagers before he burned it to ash with a flame from the Demon-Refining Pot.
• Jiang Zhu asked the Black Emperor about changes inside Purple Mountain, and the Black Emperor said he had not returned but trusted the old bell to keep things under control.
• Jiang Zhu joined the stone village’s feast, where the Black Emperor discovered that Wang Shu and Erlengzi carried the rare bloodline of the Silver Blood Race.
• Jiang Zhu fortified an abandoned mine tunnel with formations and cultivated, contemplating the Dao Palace’s heavenly sounds as the resonance of his Dao self.
• Jiang Zhu refined precious blood essence, divine source essence, and White Tiger Immortal Medicine liquid until his lung divine treasury reached perfection, then began breaking through to the final divine treasury.

Jiang Zhu perfected his dao palace secret realm and forged a purple Chaos Bell from divine mark purple gold. He then bargained with Black Emperor for demon blood and revealed that a bandit had found the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, leaving Black Emperor intent on claiming its Jar Lid.

• Jiang Zhu completed the five divine treasuries, perfected his dao palace secret realm, and came close to breaking through to the four extremes secret realm.
• Jiang Zhu forged a purple Chaos Bell with chaos qi and tested its power, reducing the collapsed mine tunnel to dust.
• Jiang Zhu offered to take Black Emperor to a desolate ancient sacred body and an innate dao embryo in exchange for Demon Clan blood, and Black Emperor agreed to lead him to a Demon Clan Tomb.
• Black Emperor tried to determine whether Jiang Zhu was the Great Emperor's successor and mentioned a hidden cultivation sanctuary and its treasures.
• Jiang Zhu told Black Emperor that a Northern Region bandit had found the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, sending Black Emperor into despair.
• Black Emperor learned that no one had the Jar Lid and vowed to find it and the bandit who had found the jar.

Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor traveled to the Wei Kingdom in the Southern Region to find Ye Fan, whom Jiang Zhu proved his identity to after defeating his suspicious attack. Ye Fan followed them to a tavern, where Jiang Zhu explained how he survived Mars and revealed that the Crocodile Ancestor had returned him to Earth, leaving Ye Fan alarmed for his parents.

• The Black Emperor learned that Ye Fan was a male Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and hurried to find him, while Jiang Zhu chose a domain gate over the dog's unreliable teleportation arrays.
• Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor traveled to the Wei Kingdom and waited in its capital for half a month.
• Jiang Zhu called out to Ye Fan, who attacked him, but Jiang Zhu effortlessly stopped and overturned him.
• The Black Emperor identified Ye Fan as the Sacred Body and joked about taking him to find the Innate Dao Embryo so they could have offspring.
• Ye Fan followed Jiang Zhu and the Black Emperor to a tavern, where Jiang Zhu explained that the Crocodile Ancestor had taken him from Mars back to Earth.
• Ye Fan feared that the Crocodile Ancestor might threaten his parents on Earth.