Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan defeated Xia Jiuyou by breaking her Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody, while Jiang Zhu declined an invitation to cultivate at Qishi Mansion. Ye Fan accepted the invitation and planned to go, leaving Jiang Zhu behind as his friends discussed the academy.

• Xia Jiuyou's Nine Nether Immortal Melody continued into the Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody, but Ye Fan activated Nine Secrets: Jie and shattered her attack with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Ye Fan stopped short of killing Xia Jiuyou at Jiang Zhu's request, then teased her after she refused to accept defeat and her servants carried her away.
• Three elders invited Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan to Qishi Mansion, explaining that it selected the top young experts from the five great regions and opened once every ten thousand years.
• Jiang Zhu declined the invitation, while Ye Fan became interested after learning that Qishi Mansion had ties beyond this world and agreed to go when the time came.
• Pang Bo and Tu Fei questioned Jiang Zhu about refusing, and Jiang Zhu joked that Ye Fan might capture Holy Maidens instead.

At the Yaochi Grand Gathering, Nangong Zheng recounted the horrors of the Bronze Immortal Palace and accused Jiang Zhu of having taken treasures from it. His claims stirred suspicion that Jiang Zhu was Ruthless's successor, and Jiang Zhu denied the accusations while challenging his enemies to attack him openly.

• Jiang Zhu attended the Yaochi Grand Gathering alongside the Fighting Saint Ape, drawing attention for his battle record.
• Nangong Zheng arrived and described the Bronze Immortal Palace, including the bloodstained character “immortal,” the aura of the Ruthless Great Emperor, and the deaths of his companions.
• Nangong Zheng claimed Jiang Zhu had obtained the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy and immortal gold from the palace, then said Ye Fan had taken the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things there.
• Ye Fan confirmed he had found his Source Root in the palace but denied seeing the treasures Nangong Zheng attributed to Jiang Zhu.
• The Wanchu Holy Lord, the Dao Yi Saint Lord, and others insinuated that Jiang Zhu was Ruthless's successor and possessed her inheritance.
• Jiang Zhu denied entering the Bronze Immortal Palace and challenged his accusers to attack him openly, while the Queen Mother of the West said there was no reason to suspect him.

Jiang Zhu and Ye Fan drew accusations that they had obtained Ruthless's inheritance, then claimed an immortal medicine had helped Ye Fan break the Sacred Body curse. Jiang Zhu lured the gathered powers through a Domain Gate with the promise of the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine, then trapped them beneath powerful imperial weapons.

• Jiang Zhu, the Queen Mother of the West, Jiang Taixu, and the demons rejected accusations that Jiang Zhu had cultivated the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art, but their opponents redirected suspicion toward Ye Fan and his trip to the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• Pressed to explain how he broke the Sacred Body curse, Ye Fan said an immortal medicine's fruit had helped him, and Jiang Zhu claimed it was the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine.
• Jiang Zhu displayed three sacred fruits, and a Source Arts Family elder recognized them as pieces of a single immortal medicine, prompting the gathered cultivators to demand its location.
• After stalling, Jiang Zhu opened a Domain Gate, and most of the cultivators crossed through to pursue the immortal medicine.
• The Azure Emperor's Weapon, the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, and the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron appeared overhead, and Jiang Zhu declared that he had caught the pursuers in one net.

Jiang Zhu and his allies trapped the Saint Lords who had accused him of being Ruthless’s inheritor inside Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation and began killing them with the formation and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy. The massacre continued as prominent leaders fell, leaving the remaining captives desperate to escape.

• The Void Mirror awakened, and the Red Dragon Old Daoist, Monkey, the Demon Clan experts, God King, and Queen Mother of the West prevented the Saint Lords from fleeing.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the Black Emperor to activate Great Emperor Wushi’s Slaughter Formation, trapping everyone inside and killing a Source Arts Family elder.
• The Saint Lords attacked together but failed to break the formation, which began binding and crushing them.
• Jiang Zhu used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy to kill the Carefree Sect Leader, the Illusion Destruction Palace Old Palace Master, the Yin-Yang Sect Deputy Leader, and others.
• The formation and Jiang Zhu’s weapon killed the Dao Yi Saint Lord, the Purple Mansion Holy Lord, and many more, while at least half of the supreme figures died.

Jiang Zhu forced the Ji Family to yield the Void Mirror for fifty years by revealing the location of the Void Emperor’s bones, then returned to Jade Pool as news of the Saint Lords’ deaths and his control over Emperor Weapons spread across the world. The chapter ended when the Queen Mother of the West announced that a Primordial Creature from the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning had come to Jade Pool.

• The Ji Family Saint Lord stopped the Void Mirror’s awakening and offered to end the Ji Family’s conflict with Jiang Zhu, but Jiang Zhu demanded the mirror and refused to let the family’s past actions go unanswered.
• Jiang Zhu offered to use the Void Mirror for fifty years and return it afterward, then sent the Ji Family Saint Lord a drop of blood containing information about the Void Emperor’s burial place.
• The Void Mirror accepted Jiang Zhu’s offer and flew to him, while the Ji Family Saint Lord was relieved that his family had avoided destruction.
• Jiang Zhu and the others returned to Jade Pool, and reports of the many dead Saint Lords and Jiang Zhu’s suppression of the Void Mirror spread throughout the world.
• The Queen Mother of the West summoned Jiang Zhu and the assembled factions to the Heavenly Palace, where she announced that a Primordial Creature from the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning had asked to enter Jade Pool.

At Jade Pool, Gu Daoya delivered a letter demanding territory for the emerging Primordial royal clans, while Zi Yan arrived from Myriad Dragon Nest with a far more modest message. Gu Daoya left in alarm after reading Myriad Dragon Nest’s letter and wondering whether the imperial clan had turned against the other Primordial races.

• Gu Daoya arrived at Jade Pool and announced that Primordial Beings would emerge within one to five thousand years, seeking land around their kings’ sleeping places.
• Gu Daoya recognized the Fighting Saint Ape as the son of the ancient Fighting Saint Emperor and prostrated himself before him.
• A Jade Pool disciple announced that Zi Yan from Myriad Dragon Nest had come to visit, and Zi Yan respectfully greeted Jiang Zhu.
• Zi Yan delivered letters from the Myriad Dragon Emperor’s Daughter, whose only demand was that outsiders stay out of Myriad Dragon Nest without permission.
• After reading Myriad Dragon Nest’s modest demand, Gu Daoya suspected the imperial clan had defied the Primordial races and hurried back to the Forbidden Zone of Absolute Beginning.

The Myriad Dragon Emperor's Daughter chose to seek peace with Big Dipper's human powers, while Saint Prince asked Jiang Zhu for Sacred Fruits to save the Divine Silkworm Princess. In return, Saint Prince gave Jiang Zhu the God Emperor's scripture, whose insights began changing Jiang Zhu's body as he studied it.

• The Myriad Dragon Emperor's Daughter persuaded Great Sage Qianlun that Myriad Dragon Nest should avoid fighting Big Dipper's human powers over land and instead recognize their strength.
• Jiang Zhu reassured Yan Ruyu about his message from the Myriad Dragon Emperor's Daughter, and the Yaochi Grand Gathering ended as Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Heishui, and the others departed for Qishi Mansion.
• Little Divine Silkworm refused to leave with Saint Prince, who asked Jiang Zhu for three Sacred Fruits to save the Divine Silkworm Princess.
• Jiang Zhu gave Saint Prince three Sacred Fruits, and Saint Prince repaid him with his own blood, his father's scripture, and the God Emperor's scripture.
• Jiang Zhu studied the God Emperor's nine transformations and tenth transformation, finding insights into merging his True Spirit Bloodlines.
• Jiang Zhu entered a profound state of comprehension, and his body began transforming into forms such as Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and a True Dragon.

Jiang Zhu broke through to the fourth heaven of the First Layer of the Immortal Platform after glimpsing the gates of potential within his body in the God Forbidden Domain. When the Ji Family invaded Jade Pool to reclaim the Void Mirror, Jiang Zhu confronted them, killed several with the weapon, and watched its deity ignore the Ji Family and return to him.

• Jiang Zhu fused his bloodlines and secret realms in the God Forbidden Domain, where he saw the gates of potential within his body and gained a deeper understanding of the Shrouding Method.
• Jiang Zhu's cultivation advanced three steps to the fourth heaven of the First Layer of the Immortal Platform.
• The Ji Family arrived at Jade Pool with an ancient Saint Sage and demanded that Jiang Zhu return the Void Mirror, threatening war if he refused.
• Jiang Zhu came out to face the Ji Family, rejected their claims, and used the Void Mirror to pulverize several members who insulted him.
• The Ji Family invoked an ancient ritual to summon the Mirror Ancestor, but the deity appeared briefly, looked at Jiang Zhu, and vanished without attacking him.

Jiang Zhu subdued the Ji Family with the Void Mirror, crippled several elders, and ordered Old Eight confined in a privy for a hundred years before leaving for Central Province with Xiao Nannan. At the Feathered Divine Dynasty Ruins, Xiao Nannan was overwhelmed by the place’s connection to the Empress, while Jiang Zhu entered the dynasty’s thirty-six-layer minor world.

• Jiang Zhu used the Void Mirror to kill Ji Family members who defied him, then slapped and crippled Old Eight, Old Six, and Old Nine.
• Jiang Zhu ordered the Ji Family Saint to suppress Old Eight in a privy for a hundred years and left the Ji Family to return to Jade Pool.
• Jiang Zhu departed Jade Pool with Xiao Nannan and the Little Divine Silkworm, heading to Central Province to find Little Good’s brother and a star chart.
• At the Feathered Divine Dynasty Ruins, Xiao Nannan began crying because the place stirred the Empress’s lingering obsession, and Jiang Zhu comforted her.
• Jiang Zhu used the Void Mirror to enter the Ancestral Temple and discovered the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s thirty-six connected minor worlds.

Jiang Zhu fought his way through the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s Minor Worlds with the Void Mirror, collecting rare treasures and refining defeated creatures. He reached the thirty-fourth level, a ghost-filled world, with Xiao Nannan and Little Divine Silkworm frightened by the horrors around them.

• Jiang Zhu used the Void Mirror to destroy Yin God descendants and passed through the early levels, while Xiao Nannan warned him away from carvings that could trigger Dao Dissolution.
• On the eleventh level, Jiang Zhu crushed a beast tide with the Void Mirror and refined the ancient beasts’ corpses in the Demon-Refining Pot.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed the God-Slaying Insects on the thirteenth level and continued blasting through the temple worlds without stopping.
• On the thirty-third level, Jiang Zhu claimed a piece of immortal tear green gold and found the God Emperor’s coffin guarded by ancient God-Slaying Insects.
• Jiang Zhu entered the thirty-fourth level, where ghosts and corpses filled the world, and Xiao Nannan shielded him while Little Divine Silkworm clung to her.

Jiang Zhu entered the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s highest Minor Worlds, killed the Yin Gods guarding the supposed Feathered Great Emperor, and began collecting the dynasty’s legacies. In the forty-ninth ancient temple, he uncovered a hidden chamber containing a star-filled hall and concealed Starfield Coordinates.

• Jiang Zhu entered the Thirty-Fifth-Layer World and confronted two Yin Gods who claimed the Feathered Great Emperor still lived.
• Jiang Zhu split the Stone Embryo with a strand of sword energy, and the Yin Gods realized their Great Emperor was gone.
• Jiang Zhu killed the two Yin Gods with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy, collected their corpses, and captured their descendants with the Void Mirror.
• Jiang Zhu entered the Thirty-Sixth Layer and collected the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ancient temples and Saint-level legacies with the Demon-Refining Pot.
• At the forty-ninth temple, Jiang Zhu found concealed Starfield Coordinates and opened a hidden stone hall filled with stars.

Jiang Zhu plundered the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s thirty-six-heaven ruins, studied the Feathered Scripture, and cultivated with the origins of two Saint yin spirits until he reached Immortal Platform Second Layer Fourth Heaven. He left the ruins collapsed and empty, prompting widespread speculation that the ancient dynasty’s treasures had surfaced.

• Jiang Zhu collected the Ancient Starfield Map, inspected the central hall, and removed the Feathered Scripture steles made of feathered green gold and phoenix blood red gold.
• Jiang Zhu took the steles to Central Province’s First Ancestral Vein and used the Feathered Scripture’s formation to absorb two Saint yin spirit origins alongside Xiao Nannan and Little Divine Silkworm.
• Jiang Zhu cultivated until his realm advanced to Immortal Platform Second Layer Fourth Heaven, while Xiao Nannan slept and Little Divine Silkworm absorbed essence.
• Jiang Zhu took the star-travel altar and, after Xiao Nannan awoke, removed the entire Feathered Divine Dynasty ruins and its thirty-six Minor Worlds.
• The ground around the former ruins collapsed, and people across Central Province speculated that the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ancestral temple and treasures had emerged.

Jiang Zhu emerged from the Feathered Divine Dynasty's ancestral temple with its World Stones and survived a devastating tribulation, reaching the Saint Lord level. When Central Province's cultivators demanded the Feathered Scripture and Green Cauldron, Jiang Zhu killed a Yin-Yang Sect Great Power who secretly incited them, leaving the others afraid to confront him.

• Jiang Zhu's tribulation revealed that he had taken the World Stones from all thirty-six Minor Worlds, prompting cultivators to suspect he had seized the ancestral temple's treasures.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and other prodigies watched Jiang Zhu endure two days and a night of lightning, Ten Fiends, and heavenly palaces before becoming a Saint Lord.
• Jiang Zhu reunited with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, said Nannan was safe inside the Emperor Weapon, and agreed to talk elsewhere.
• Cultivators demanded that Jiang Zhu surrender the Feathered Scripture and Green Cauldron, but he denied seeing the treasure and challenged them to attack if they wanted to rob him.
• Jiang Zhu seized a Yin-Yang Sect Great Power who had secretly incited the crowd and killed him with a flash of sword light.

Jiang Zhu fought off the Central Province factions demanding the Green Cauldron, then crushed Wang Teng’s opening assault with a single punch. Wang Teng recovered and unleashed an Emperor Scripture art that wove the powers of the world into a net around Jiang Zhu.

• Jiang Zhu killed two attackers and rejected the Central Province factions’ demands for the Green Cauldron.
• The Four Great Dynasties and other forces attacked Jiang Zhu, but his Chaos Bell shattered their weapons and injured several Great Powers.
• Wang Teng arrived in his golden war chariot and attacked Jiang Zhu with eighty-one True Dragons and his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye.
• Jiang Zhu destroyed Wang Teng’s attack and struck him with a punch that blasted apart half his body.
• Wang Teng regenerated, then cast “Myriad spirits dissolve into the Dao, as countless as the sands of the Ganges!” and formed a vast net of Dao rules around Jiang Zhu.

Jiang Zhu fought Wang Teng, who used the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor’s secret arts to banish him into an unknown dimension. Wang Teng recovered with the Self-Slaying Enlightenment Art, but Jiang Zhu suddenly returned as the void shattered.

• Jiang Zhu transformed into a True Phoenix and attacked Wang Teng’s Golden Ancient War Chariot, destroying it and leaving Wang Teng grievously injured.
• Wang Teng used Nine Secrets: Qian and the Chaotic Ancient Era Saint Art to separate Jiang Zhu’s primordial spirit from his body, then banished him into endless void turbulence with Eternal Exile.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo cried out as Wang Teng’s supporters celebrated Jiang Zhu’s apparent defeat, while onlookers praised the Northern Emperor’s secret techniques.
• Wang Teng used the Self-Slaying Enlightenment Art to destroy and reform his body, though blood and wounds showed that his technique was incomplete.
• After Wang Teng’s younger brother mocked Jiang Zhu, the void shattered and people cried out Jiang Zhu’s name.

Jiang Zhu defeated and captured Wang Teng, then took his treasures as the Northern Emperor’s allies watched in shock. After the group mocked the old sovereigns who demanded the Green Cauldron, the Nine Li Dynasty’s old sovereign attacked Jiang Zhu.

• Jiang Zhu broke Wang Teng’s banishment techniques, captured him, and took the Chaotic Ancient Emperor Talisman.
• Wang Teng’s Primordial Spirit tried to destroy itself rather than surrender Nine Secrets: Qian, but Jiang Zhu sealed it in the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• The Southern Demon acknowledged Jiang Zhu’s strength, while Xiang Yufei left after watching him.
• Jiang Zhu’s group took the Golden Ancient War Chariot and Golden Battle Sword before the old sovereigns demanded the Green Cauldron.
• Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Jiang Zhu mocked the Nine Li Dynasty’s old sovereign, who threatened them and charged Jiang Zhu with his Divine Axe.

Jiang Zhu shattered the old imperial sovereign of Jiuli’s King Weapon and killed him, then faced a gathering of Emperor Weapons as the dynasties and other factions moved against him. He unleashed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy on his enemies, leaving the battlefield in a massacre.

• Jiang Zhu destroyed the Divine Axe with his bare fists, then killed the old imperial sovereign of Jiuli with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• Jiang Zhu blasted the old imperial sovereigns of Divine State and Great Xia away, while their allies considered using Emperor Weapons.
• An ancient Jiuli ancestor activated the Jiuli Diagram, and Jiang Zhu answered with the Chaos Green Lotus and the Void Mirror.
• The great dynasties and other factions brought out Emperor and Saint Weapons, while Jiang Zhu revealed the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron and the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy.
• Jiang Zhu rejected the dynasties’ demands and attacked the hidden instigator, wiping out the Northern Plains Golden Family and killing scores of experts with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Canopy.

Jiang Zhu ended the confrontation at the Feathered Divine Dynasty Ruins and revealed Earth’s coordinates to Ye Fan and Pang Bo, who began preparing to return. As the world reeled from the battle and new upheavals, Jiang Zhu extracted Nine Secrets: Qian from Wang Teng and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.

• Jiang Zhu forced the Three Great Dynasties and the other survivors to let him leave after the Emperor Weapons nearly clashed.
• Jiang Zhu showed Ye Fan and Pang Bo Earth’s coordinates on the Starfield Map, but said he would not return with them.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo began preparing for the journey and agreed to inform their former classmates; Jiang Zhu gave Ye Fan divine spring water and medicine-king fruits for his parents.
• News spread across the Five Regions of Jiang Zhu’s massacre and the battle’s devastation, while strange lights from the Primordial Ancient Mine signaled that Primordial Creatures were about to emerge.
• Jiang Zhu subdued Wang Teng, searched his Primordial Spirit, obtained the Chaotic Ancient Scripture and Nine Secrets: Qian, and crushed him.

Jiang Zhu cultivated Nine Secrets: Qian and, after an unknown span of meditation, found himself facing six awakened Supremes in a battle that shook the universe. He gravely wounded the Lord of Reincarnation but was also battered by the other Supremes as they joined forces against him.

• Jiang Zhu studied the Chaotic Ancient Scripture, noted its survival-focused methods, and planned to cultivate the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye after mastering Nine Secrets: Qian.
• Jiang Zhu used the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree Heart pendant to comprehend Nine Secrets: Qian, and his primordial spirit light spread through his body as his secret realms resonated.
• Jiang Zhu awoke amid terrifying signs in the heavens and saw the Lord of Reincarnation and other towering Supremes appear.
• Jiang Zhu fought the Lord of Reincarnation and the other Supremes, blocking the Stone Emperor’s halberd and countering their attacks with powerful strikes.
• Jiang Zhu wounded the Lord of Reincarnation with an eight-colored divine fist, prompting the Supremes to attack him together before he could become a Great Emperor.
• Jiang Zhu focused his assault on the Lord of Reincarnation, tearing through his flesh and imperial Dao laws while the other Supremes battered Jiang Zhu and drew his blood.

Jiang Zhu experienced a vision of the Dark Turmoil, where the Supremes devastated the Big Dipper and he died fighting them, then awakened and mastered Nine Secrets: Qian. As he grew stronger, Primordial races began emerging across the Eastern Wasteland, setting the stage for conflict with humanity.

• The Lord of the Divine Ruins, the Stone Emperor, and the Heaven-Abandoning Supreme fought Jiang Zhu, and the Chaos Bell exploded as the Supremes began devouring life across the universe.
• The Dark Turmoil ravaged the Big Dipper Star Domain, and Jiang Zhu burned himself to attack the Stone Emperor before awakening in a peaceful valley.
• Jiang Zhu realized he had witnessed a possible future through Nine Secrets: Qian, resolved to prevent that fate, and advanced his Nine Secrets: Xing as well.
• Jiang Zhu broke through four tiers of tribulation, advancing from the fourth to the eighth heaven of the second level of the Immortal Platform.
• Primordial Ancestral Kings and ancient races awakened across the Eastern Wasteland, claimed territory, and began rebuilding their influence as humans feared the coming conflict.