Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yun endured the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation, advanced directly to Mid-Stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and returned to the Dou Qi Continent after surviving its crisis. He reunited with his loved ones, promised to help Zhu Kun become a Dou Di, and left the continent’s factions in place rather than unifying them.

• Jiang Yun flew beyond the Dou Qi Continent and faced the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation alone, defeating its attacks and refining the tribulation clouds with his Saint Demon Flame.
• Jiang Yun reached Mid-Stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and gained the Sovereign Divine Ability Spell Immunity.
• Jiang Yun returned to the Central Plains, where Zi Yan and another woman embraced him as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin watched with relief.
• Jiang Yun promised to help Zhu Kun become a Dou Di and said he would marry Zi Yan and the others on the day Zhu Kun broke through.
• Jiang Yun refused to unify the continent and told its factions to return home and recover.

Jiang Yun refined an Emperor Grade Pill to help Zhu Kun break through to Dou Di, suppressing the pill’s consciousness and its heavenly tribulation. After completing it, he began refining a supplementary pill while Zhu Kun and observers watched.

• Jiang Yun established a formation to draw energy from the planar void and began refining an Emperor Grade Pill with the Reincarnation Demonic Flame.
• Jiang Yun refined more than a hundred thousand medicinal herbs into spiritual liquid and condensed them into an Emperor Pill whose power matched a Dou Di’s.
• The Emperor Pill awakened, and its birth drew experts from across the continent as destructive tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• Jiang Yun shattered the lightning dragon, swallowed the remaining thunderclouds with his Dharma Body, and formed the Emperor Pill.
• Jiang Yun suppressed the conscious pill and refined it into a spirit pill, while Zhu Kun eagerly anticipated his breakthrough to Dou Di.
• Jiang Yun brought out more than ten thousand medicinal ingredients and began refining a supplementary pill as Zi Yan explained its purpose to Zhu Kun.

Jiang Yun refined six Ninth Grade Golden Pills to help Zhu Kun attain Dou Di, resurrected the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, and later witnessed Zhu Kun’s breakthrough. Zhu Kun celebrated his return by agreeing to Jiang Yun’s plan to hold all four weddings together after first beating him over it.

• Jiang Yun refined six Ninth Grade Golden Pills and gave them, along with the Emperor Pill, to Zhu Kun so he could break through to Dou Di.
• Xuan Kongzi urged Cao Ying to let go of her feelings for Jiang Yun, and Cao Ying accepted that they belonged to different worlds.
• Jiang Yun used the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s blood essence and remnant soul to resurrect him over seven days.
• Half a year later, Zhu Kun attained Dou Di, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan benefited from his breakthrough, with Zi Yan reaching the peak of Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Zhu Kun learned Jiang Yun planned to marry Zi Yan, Medusa, and the other women together, punched Jiang Yun, and eventually agreed to the joint wedding.

Three months after his wedding, Jiang Yun found the Bodhi Ancient Tree and persuaded it to leave the Dou Qi Continent with him and Xiao Yi Xian. Three years later, he reopened the plane passage to the Great Thousand World, preparing to return to his homeland.

• Jiang Yun married Zi Yan, Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian, then spent the following days enjoying married life instead of cultivating.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Jiang Yun found it and strengthened it with a gift of spiritual power.
• Jiang Yun invited the Bodhi Ancient Tree to leave the Dou Qi Continent, and Xiao Yi Xian persuaded it to accompany them.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree uprooted itself without harming the land, shrank to three feet tall, and settled in Xiao Yi Xian's hands.
• Three years later, Jiang Yun reopened the plane passage above Sacred Pill City and brought Origin Qi back to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Jiang Yun looked toward the passage leading to the Great Thousand World, where he planned to return to his homeland.

Jiang Yun and Zhu Kun entered the Great Thousand World and arrived in the Lesser Western Heaven Realm, where Jiang Yun began a scheme to secure resources by using Zhu Kun's spiritual energy tribulation. The disturbance alerted the Luo God Clan, and Luo Tianshen went to investigate while his son guarded Luo Shen City.

• Jiang Yun left Zi Yan, Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian behind on the Dou Qi Continent and departed with Zhu Kun through the plane channel.
• Jiang Yun guided Zhu Kun through concealed spatial turbulence, and the two emerged in the western Great Thousand World.
• After Zhu Kun lost his ability to fly and began transforming his Dou Qi into spiritual energy, Jiang Yun sealed him and formed a plan to obtain resources through compensation from those drawn by the disturbance.
• Zhu Kun began absorbing vast quantities of spiritual energy while Jiang Yun concealed himself, creating a massive commotion in the Lesser Western Heaven Realm.
• Luo God Clan guards reported abnormal spiritual energy to Luo Tianshen's son, and Luo Tianshen went to investigate while his son remained to defend Luo Shen City.

The Four Great God Clans converged on Zhu Kun, whose cultivation was rising within a dangerous spiritual energy storm. After the clans entered together, Xue Lingzi attacked Zhu Kun and appeared to disrupt his advancement.

• Xue Lingzi learned that Zhu Kun was a dragon who had ascended from a lower realm and decided to subdue him for the Blood God Clan.
• Luo Tianshen confronted Xue Lingzi, but the patriarchs of the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan arrived with their forces, surrounding him.
• The four clan patriarchs agreed to enter the storm together and compete for the divine beast, then activated their Dharma Bodies to withstand it.
• The patriarchs reached Zhu Kun as he advanced from First Grade Sovereign to Second Grade Sovereign, revealing himself as a True Dragon divine beast.
• Xue Lingzi struck Zhu Kun with a blood-red palm, disrupting his cultivation, then urged the other patriarchs to attack.

Jiang Yun revealed his Heavenly Sovereign power and annihilated Xue Lingzi, the chiefs of the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan, and their armies after Zhu Kun was attacked. He spared Luo Tianshen and asked him to explain where they were and who he was.

• Xue Lingzi and the chiefs of the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan joined forces to attack Zhu Kun, who unleashed a force that made them believe he was a Heavenly Sovereign and knocked them back.
• Xue Lingzi urged the other chiefs to attack Zhu Kun again, believing his recently ascended Dou Qi left him weak, while Luo Tianshen noticed Jiang Yun standing nearby.
• Jiang Yun appeared beside Zhu Kun and extinguished the three chiefs' attacks with his Heavenly Sovereign pressure.
• Jiang Yun shattered the three chiefs' defenses, killed them, and caused the armies of their clans to disintegrate.
• Luo Tianshen bowed to Jiang Yun, who spared him for not attacking and asked where they were and who he was.

Jiang Yun spared Luo Tianshen and sent the Luo God Clan to destroy the Blood God Clan, Strength God Clan, and Bone God Clan, then used their resources to help Zhu Kun restore his strength. After Zhu Kun recovered to peak Ninth Grade Sovereign, Jiang Yun prepared to part ways as Zhu Kun neared an Earthly Sovereign breakthrough.

• Luo Tianshen explained that the four clans ruled the Lesser Western Heaven Realm, and Zhu Kun warned Jiang Yun that the Luo River concealed a dangerous mystery.
• Jiang Yun spared Luo Tianshen and had the Luo God Clan eliminate the other three clans in exchange for their resources.
• Zhu Kun dispersed his Dou Qi and converted his cultivation to spiritual energy, reaching Seventh Grade Sovereign.
• Luo Tianshen returned with four Sumeru Rings containing Supreme Spirit Liquid and other resources from the three clans, along with additional liquid from the Luo God Clan.
• Jiang Yun gave Zhu Kun the Supreme Spirit Liquid, and Zhu Kun cultivated until he recovered to peak Ninth Grade Sovereign.
• Jiang Yun sensed Zhu Kun was close to breaking through to Earthly Sovereign and said it was time for them to part.

Zhu Kun emerged from seclusion, broke through to Earthly Sovereign, and survived his spirit tribulation while Jiang Yun refined pills and completed his own pill tribulations. After they parted ways, Jiang Yun traveled to the Merchant Continent to sell treasures and arrived at Merchant City, whose powerful defenses barred entry from the sky.

• Zhu Kun opened his eyes after nearly half a month, discovered his Earthly Sovereign strength, and faced the spirit tribulation.
• Jiang Yun finished refining more than a dozen pills and absorbed their pill lightning tribulations into spatial vortices.
• After the tribulations ended, Jiang Yun gave Zhu Kun several bottles of pills, and Zhu Kun set off for the Divine Beast Continent.
• Jiang Yun departed for the Merchant Continent, intending to exchange treasures and resources he no longer needed.
• Jiang Yun reached Merchant City and inspected its formation, which could stop enemies below Heavenly Sovereign from breaching the city quickly.

Jiang Yun entered Merchant City to sell treasures he had taken from powerful clans and arranged a huge barter deal with the Merchant Auction House. He attended the auction, used his Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign aura to silence a rival bidder, and waited as the final attraction was about to be revealed.

• Jiang Yun concealed his presence as he entered Merchant City and made his way to the Merchant Auction House, a Divine Artifact that admitted Sovereigns.
• Jiang Yun offered several Sumeru Rings filled with treasures and Divine Arts for appraisal, and the elderly steward estimated their value at at least thirty billion Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• Jiang Yun accepted an honored guest token and took a private pavilion at the auction, where he bid one hundred million Supreme Spirit Liquid for the Crimson Flame Heavenly Vine.
• An angry red-robed Lower Earthly Sovereign challenged Jiang Yun's bid, but Jiang Yun's aura overwhelmed him and the auctioneer awarded Jiang Yun the vine.
• Jiang Yun bought several more items as the auction continued, and the venue fell silent before the final attraction was brought out.

Jiang Yun won the War King Bead at the Merchant City auction, then traded his treasures for a vast collection of resources from the Merchant Auction Pavilion. After dealing with those who had followed him, he set out for Tianluo Continent, confident he could overcome its factions.

• The auctioneer revealed the War King Bead, a Quasi-Sacred Object said to offer a chance at the War King's inheritance, and bidding rose past one hundred million Supreme Spirit Liquid.
• A masked Upper Earth Sovereign bid eight hundred million Supreme Spirit Liquid, but Jiang Yun outbid him with one billion and won the bead.
• Jiang Yun agreed to accept goods instead of Supreme Spirit Liquid for his treasures and selected more than a thousand medicines and ores, divine abilities, and information from Steward Qiu Yunxing.
• Three days later, Jiang Yun received the goods, dealt with the followers coveting his wealth, and prepared to leave Merchant Continent for Tianluo Continent.
• Jiang Yun considered Tianluo Continent's rival factions and the restrictions on Heavenly Sovereigns, then resolved to overcome any enemy below Saint Grade.

Jiang Yun entered Dragon Phoenix Heaven ahead of schedule, took its greatest treasures, and sent every other entrant back outside before the Northern Realm learned that a Heavenly Sovereign had appeared. He then visited Mandala in the Great Luo Heavenly Domain, revealed her curse, and began to remove it in exchange for information about the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

• Jiang Yun forced open Dragon Phoenix Heaven, entered ahead of the other cultivators, and found Heavenly Sovereign dragon and phoenix bones and two super Dragon Phoenix Pools.
• Jiang Yun expelled everyone else from the secret realm and seized its treasures, causing news of an unknown Heavenly Sovereign to spread through the Northern Realm.
• Jiang Yun arrived at the Great Luo Heavenly Domain and met Mandala, who identified herself after questioning him.
• Jiang Yun offered to heal Mandala's curse in exchange for what she knew about the Ancient Heavenly Palace, then revealed his Heavenly Sovereign cultivation when she tried to flee.
• Jiang Yun's purified energy overwhelmed Mandala's curse, causing black thorns to erupt from her body before they began to wither and disappear.

After curing Mandala and learning she was the Heavenly Emperor’s adopted daughter, Jiang Yun used her connection to her original body to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins. He recovered her Mandala Flower and blood-jade lotus pedestal, then arrived at a barren mountain range deeper within the ruins.

• Mandala awakened with her curse gone and thanked Jiang Yun, who asked her for a way to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Mandala explained that the Star Suppressing Demon Tower might reveal the palace, but Jiang Yun recognized her identity and proposed using her link to her original body instead.
• Mandala warned Jiang Yun about the void storms and the Heavenly Emperor’s formation, but agreed to help him open a temporary passage.
• Jiang Yun suppressed his aura, found a weak point in the formation, and entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins.
• Jiang Yun located Mandala’s original body in the First Hall and took the Mandala Flower and its blood-jade lotus pedestal.
• Jiang Yun traveled toward the strongest aura and emerged above a barren mountain range.

Jiang Yun reached the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, exposed the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s deception, and used his flames to refine the demon and free the Heavenly Emperor’s lingering will. The Heavenly Emperor appeared before Jiang Yun and reflected on how the demon had survived their ancient battle.

• Jiang Yun crossed the shattered Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum and found the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s figure holding a Saint Grade Peerless Saint Artifact sword.
• The Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor pretended to be the Heavenly Emperor and offered Jiang Yun the divine ability One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Jiang Yun revealed his Heavenly Sovereign strength and trapped the weakened demon in a cauldron of flames, while the Great Thousand World’s will further suppressed him.
• Jiang Yun’s flames melted the demonic skull and dispelled its evil energy, revealing the Heavenly Emperor’s lingering will.
• The Heavenly Emperor thanked Jiang Yun and said he had failed to destroy the demon despite sacrificing himself to seal it.

Jiang Yun refined the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, received the Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones technique and Heavenly Emperor Sword, and broke through to the late stage of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign. He returned to the Tianluo Continent, where Mandala encountered a mysterious visitor in Great Luo Heaven.

• Jiang Yun refined the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor while concealing its Demon Heart from the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor offered Jiang Yun One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and passed on the technique through true-spirit empowerment.
• The Heavenly Emperor entrusted Jiang Yun with the Heavenly Emperor Sword and vanished after asking him to carry on his legacy.
• Jiang Yun broke through to the late stage of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and left the Ancient Heavenly Palace for the Tianluo Continent.
• A spatial disturbance appeared before Mandala in Great Luo Heaven, and a mysterious figure called her his benefactor.

Jiang Yun restored Mandala’s original body, helping her reach Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign, and recruited her to reopen the Ancient Heavenly Palace and unify the Northern Realm. After giving her a rune for summoning him and several pills, Jiang Yun disappeared, while the chapter shifted to introduce the Fire Spirit Continent and its declining Fire Spirit Clan.

• Jiang Yun returned from the Ancient Heavenly Palace with the Heavenly Emperor Sword and told Mandala that the Heavenly Emperor had fallen, then gave her back her original Mandala Flower.
• Mandala merged with the flower, absorbed a vast tide of Spiritual Energy, and emerged as a Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign.
• Mandala vowed to deal with Lu Heng, and Jiang Yun invited her to rejoin the Ancient Heavenly Palace and unify the Northern Realm while waiting for it to reemerge.
• Jiang Yun gave Mandala a rune that could summon him if she encountered a Heavenly Sovereign, along with several Ninth-Grade Profound Pills, then vanished before the Three Emperors arrived.
• The narrative introduced the Fire Spirit Continent, home of the ancient Fire Spirit Clan, which was now supported by its sole Heavenly Sovereign, the Fire Spirit Ancestor.

Jiang Yun arrived in Fire Spirit City and challenged the Fire Spirit Clan, displaying overwhelming power as he shattered its Clan Protection Array and defeated its forces. The Fire Spirit Ancestor appeared to confront him, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Jiang Yun reached the Fire Spirit Clan's grounds and said its Clan Protection Array might not withstand one strike from him.
• Jiang Yun revealed his Heavenly Sovereign aura, shattered the array, and taunted the crowd that had mocked him before flying into the clan grounds.
• Jiang Yun summoned all twenty-two Heavenly Flames, and the nihility devouring flame drained spiritual energy from the Fire Spirit Clan's members.
• Zhu Huoxuan activated the Heaven Refining Clan Protection Array, but Jiang Yun's flaming magical beasts overwhelmed it and injured many clan experts.
• Zhu Huoxuan called for the Fire Spirit Ancestor, who appeared and roared at Jiang Yun in fury.

Jiang Yun defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor and demanded to see the Fire Spirit Clan’s guardian flame, prompting the clan to suspect he had obtained the Wan Huo Indestructible Body. The Fire Spirit Ancestor summoned help from the Maha Ancient Clan, whose Maha You arrived and declared that Jiang Yun’s body should be taken into their clan’s safekeeping.

• Jiang Yun overwhelmed the Fire Spirit Ancestor with a giant flaming finger, leaving him grievously injured and the clan’s territory devastated.
• Zhu Huoxuan ordered the Earthly Sovereign elders to evacuate the disciples, but Jiang Yun let them go and the Fire Spirit Ancestor emerged alive from the ravine.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor conceded defeat, but Jiang Yun asked to see the clan’s guardian Fire Spirit Saint Flame.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor and clan elders suspected Jiang Yun possessed the Wan Huo Indestructible Body, then summoned the Maha Ancient Clan for aid.
• Maha You stepped through the spatial rift, learned Jiang Yun was suspected of cultivating the lost body, and declared that the Maha Ancient Clan should take it into safekeeping.

Jiang Yun overwhelmed Maha You in their battle, breaking through the Maha Ancient Clan prodigy’s divine abilities and defenses without being harmed. Maha You then summoned his Immortal Golden Body, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor joined him in attacking Jiang Yun, who charged both without using his Supreme Dharma Body.

• Maha You demanded the Wan Huo Indestructible Body inheritance, and Jiang Yun mocked his arrogance and refused.
• Maha You attacked with his fists and the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Kill, but Jiang Yun withstood his blows and destroyed the dragons with flames.
• Jiang Yun’s Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus burned through Maha You’s Maha Heavenly Bell and left him badly injured.
• Maha You unleashed the Maha Immeasurable Tribulation, but Jiang Yun countered it with Heavenly Fire Tribulation, Refining the Firmament with Fire and emerged unharmed.
• Maha You summoned his Immortal Golden Body and charged Jiang Yun with a purplish-golden spear as the Fire Spirit Ancestor joined the attack.
• Jiang Yun laughed and charged both attackers, still without unleashing his Supreme Dharma Body.

News of Jiang Yun defeating the Fire Spirit Ancestor, Maha You, and Maha Jing spread across the Great Thousand World, drawing sharply different reactions from the Five Great Ancient Clans. In the Maha Ancient Clan, Maha Tian chose to delay retaliation until he could reach the Saint Grade, while setting his sights on obtaining the Wan Huo Indestructible Body and the Eternal Undying Body.

• Reports spread that Jiang Yun had taken the Fire Spirit Saint Flame after defeating the Fire Spirit Clan and Maha Ancient Clan fighters, making him the focus of discussion throughout the Great Thousand World.
• The Futu Gu Clan dismissed Jiang Yun as an outsider, while members of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan favored befriending him or recruiting him.
• Maha Tian met the badly injured Maha You and one-armed Maha Jing in the Maha Realm and questioned them about Jiang Yun's strength and whether he possessed the Wan Huo Indestructible Body.
• Maha Jing reported that Jiang Yun was powerful in body, Spiritual Energy, and soul, but admitted they had not seen him use his Supreme Dharma Body and could only infer that he cultivated the Wan Huo Indestructible Body.
• Maha Tian rejected immediate retaliation, saying he lacked confidence in defeating Jiang Yun and would wait until after he inherited the clan leadership and broke through to the Saint Grade.
• Maha Tian urged Maha You to recover and rebuild his Immortal Golden Body, hoping that the Maha Ancient Clan would eventually obtain both the Eternal Undying Body and the Wan Huo Indestructible Body.