Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian prayed at a ruined Mountain God Temple for the power to save his mother, awakening the clay idol Gu Changqing and activating his system. Gu Changqing accepted Yang Jian as his disciple and offered to teach him the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force.

• Yang Jian, carrying his unconscious sister and bleeding from his injuries, offered incense and begged a god for the power to save his mother.
• Gu Changqing awakened inside the idol when Yang Jian's karmic incense and desperate prayers activated the Myriad Worlds Incense-and-Faith Transmission System.
• Gu Changqing decided Yang Jian was a worthy disciple, and the idol manifested divine light and spoke to him.
• Yang Jian accepted Gu Changqing as his master, establishing a karmic bond and completing the system's beginner mission.
• Gu Changqing began teaching Yang Jian the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force and asked whether he was willing to learn.

Gu Changqing granted Yang Jian the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force as heavenly soldiers arrived to capture him and Yang Chan. Yang Jian awakened eight particles and shattered their Heavenly Net with one punch, leaving the divine general and soldiers facing his power.

• A heavenly general serving under Li Jing threatened to destroy the Mountain God Temple unless Yang Jian and Yang Chan surrendered.
• Gu Changqing passed the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force to Yang Jian, who thanked him and went outside to face the soldiers.
• The divine general ordered the soldiers to form a Heavenly Net, and Yang Jian awakened his first particle while striking it.
• Yang Jian awakened a second particle and battered the repairing net, while the soldiers poured more magical power into it.
• Hearing Yang Chan cry out, Yang Jian resolved to keep standing and awakened six more particles.
• Yang Jian delivered one final punch that shattered the Heavenly Net into fragments of immortal light.

Yang Jian slaughtered the Heavenly Court force sent to capture him, while Gu Changqing grew stronger through his disciple’s cultivation and kills. Haotian Shangdi learned his troops had been wiped out, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed an untraceable disturbance in the heavenly secrets.

• Yang Jian shattered the leading divine general’s Heavenly Net, then killed him with a punch that broke his halberd and armor.
• Yang Jian intercepted and slaughtered the fleeing Heavenly Soldiers.
• Gu Changqing received the beginner mission reward and cultivation returns from Yang Jian, strengthening his soul and transforming the clay statue.
• Gu Changqing decided to stay hidden and let Yang Jian draw the Heavenly Court’s attention.
• Haotian Shangdi discovered that the Heavenly Soldiers and divine generals he had sent were dead.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun failed to divine the source of a new variable, briefly noticed the Mountain God Temple in Guanjiangkou, and dismissed it as an ordinary place screened from heaven’s secrets.

Yang Jian used the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force to defeat the Heavenly Court’s soldiers and protect Yang Chan, but a survivor escaped to report the defeat. Haotian ordered the Giant Spirit God and a thousand soldiers to attack Guanjiangkou with the Dragon Binding Rope and Demon-Reflecting Mirror.

• Yang Jian defeated the Heavenly Court’s force with the strength of eight awakened particles, then comforted Yang Chan and thanked his master’s statue.
• Gu Changqing sensed that one badly wounded heavenly soldier had survived and watched as the soldier used a Blood Escape Talisman to flee.
• Yang Jian realized the Heavenly Court would send a stronger force, left Yang Chan in the temple, and began cultivating to awaken more particles.
• The escaped soldier reached the South Heaven Gate and reported that Yang Jian had killed the Vanguard Camp and shattered the Heavenly Net.
• Haotian ordered the Giant Spirit God to lead a thousand soldiers with the Dragon Binding Rope and Demon-Reflecting Mirror to seize Yang Jian, Yang Chan, and the being behind them.

Gu Changqing completed his transformation into an early heavenly immortal and taught Yang Jian the Hell Furnace Technique, which let him refine battlefield remains to strengthen himself. As the ninth divine elephant particle neared awakening, the Giant Spirit God arrived with a thousand heavenly soldiers, and Yang Jian prepared to use him as kindling.

• Yang Jian resolved to grow stronger to protect Yang Chan and rescue his mother, and sensed that refining the battlefield’s lingering immortal essence could awaken more divine elephant particles.
• Gu Changqing unlocked his divine realm and taught Yang Jian the Hell Furnace Technique, which could refine spiritual energy, magical treasures, and battlefield remnants into life essence.
• Yang Jian refined the remains of heavenly soldiers and their weapons, strengthening the cracks in his ninth divine elephant particle.
• The Giant Spirit God arrived with a thousand heavenly soldiers, the Dragon Binding Rope, and the Demon-Reflecting Mirror, and demanded that Yang Jian surrender.
• Yang Jian defied the Giant Spirit God and regarded him as the final spark needed to awaken his ninth particle.

Yang Jian awakened his ninth divine elephant particle, defeated Giant Spirit God, and used the Hell Furnace to refine the fleeing Heavenly Soldiers. Gu Changqing received powerful cultivation rewards, while Yang Jian turned his thoughts toward rescuing his imprisoned mother at Peach Mountain.

• Giant Spirit God attacked Yang Jian with his Mountain-Splitting Giant Axe, and the pressure awakened Yang Jian’s ninth divine elephant particle.
• Yang Jian shattered Giant Spirit God’s axe strike and shield with his fist, badly wounded him, and forced him to flee.
• At Gu Changqing’s command, Yang Jian let Giant Spirit God escape, then used the Hell Furnace to refine the Heavenly Soldiers caught in their formation’s lingering power.
• The system rewarded Gu Changqing with one million years of cultivation, new divine arts and sources of power, raising him to the threshold of True Immortal.
• Yang Jian’s tenth divine elephant particle fully lit up, and he vowed to rescue his mother imprisoned beneath Peach Mountain.

After annihilating the Heavenly Court’s soldiers and defeating Giant Spirit God, Yang Jian left Guanjiangkou to rescue his mother at Peach Mountain, entrusting Yang Chan to his master’s protection. Yu Ding Zhenren discovered that Yang Jian’s fate and cultivation had changed, then raced after him to stop him from challenging Peach Mountain’s wards.

• Yang Jian awakened fifteen divine elephant particles after refining the celestial soldiers and Giant Spirit God’s divine blood, then resolved to rescue Yao Ji at Peach Mountain.
• Yang Jian left a fragment of the Mountain-Splitting Giant Axe at the ruined temple as a warning, asked Gu Changqing to shelter Yang Chan, and set off east.
• Gu Changqing observed that Yang Chan had a strong foundation and considered taking her in someday, while anticipating Yang Jian’s encounter with Yu Ding Zhenren.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Yu Ding Zhenren divined that Yang Jian’s destined master-disciple bond had become uncertain and went to investigate Guanjiangkou.
• Yu Ding Zhenren found the ruined temple shrouded from his divine sense and saw Yang Jian racing toward Peach Mountain, so he pursued him to prevent him from disturbing its wards.

Yang Jian forced his way up Peach Mountain to reach his imprisoned mother, resisting the seal with his tremendous physical strength. After Yu Ding Zhenren tried to stop him, Yang Jian cracked his Eight-Nine Arcane Art golden body with one punch, and the seal’s alarm brought the Heavenly Court’s attention as Yao Ji called out to him.

• Yang Jian climbed Peach Mountain’s sealed path using his blood energy and fifteen divine elephant particles, while Yu Ding Zhenren watched from the clouds.
• Yu Ding Zhenren appeared and warned Yang Jian that breaking the seal would alert the Heavenly Court, but Yang Jian refused to leave his mother behind.
• Yu Ding Zhenren attempted to restrain Yang Jian with the Body-Binding Forbidden Art, and Yang Jian countered with a punch that cracked Yu Ding Zhenren’s Eight-Nine Arcane Art golden body.
• Peach Mountain’s sealing runes lit up, and Yao Ji’s faint voice called Yang Jian by name.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s Dharma Mirror blazed in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, revealing that someone was breaching Peach Mountain’s formation.

Yang Jian joined Yu Ding Zhenren in locating and destroying Peach Mountain’s outer Array Core so he could reach his mother, Yao Ji. As Yang Jian rushed through the opening in the seal, Haotian saw him and Yu Ding Zhenren in the Dharma Mirror and confronted the Jade Void Palace.

• Yang Jian’s blood energy cracked Yu Ding Zhenren’s protective golden body when Yu tried to stop him from reaching Yao Ji.
• Yu Ding Zhenren explained that Peach Mountain’s seal drew power from the earth veins and offered to help Yang Jian find its Array Core.
• Yu Ding Zhenren revealed the Heavenly Court runes bound to the mountain and identified a dark-gold sigil as the outer Array Core.
• Yang Jian smashed the Array Core, briefly reversing the seal’s power as Yao Ji called out to him from the broken cliff.
• Yang Jian charged into the opening, while Haotian saw him and Yu Ding Zhenren in the Dharma Mirror and accused Jade Void Palace of meddling.

Yang Jian shattered the Heavenly Emperor’s Golden Edict Talisman, split Peach Mountain, and reached his mother, Yao Ji, breaking several chains that bound her. Haotian saw the destruction in the Haotian Mirror and ordered heavenly forces to descend and suppress Yang Jian, while threatening to confront Yuanshi if the Jade Void Palace intervened.

• Yu Ding Zhenren opened a three-breath path through Peach Mountain’s seal so Yang Jian could reach the Heavenly Emperor’s Golden Edict Talisman.
• Yang Jian absorbed the earth-vein power through the Hell Furnace, awakened fifty divine elephant particles, and shattered the talisman with a punch.
• Yang Jian split Peach Mountain and found Yao Ji imprisoned in its hollow; he told her he had come to take her home.
• Yang Jian tore apart several golden chains binding Yao Ji and swallowed the seal’s lightning with the Hell Furnace.
• Haotian saw Yang Jian and Yu Ding Zhenren in the Haotian Mirror and ordered the Thunder Department, Dipper Department, and Heavenly River Navy to seal Peach Mountain and suppress Yang Jian.

Yang Jian freed Yao Ji from the last chains in Peach Mountain, then faced the Heavenly Court’s forces as they moved to suppress him. In Guanjiangkou, Gu Changqing received a ten-thousandfold return that advanced him to Golden Immortal and strengthened his divine embryo, while the battle at Peach Mountain began.

• Yang Jian absorbed the Heavenly Emperor’s lightning runes, broke the final chains, and freed Yao Ji from Peach Mountain.
• Yao Ji warned Yang Jian that the Thunder Department, Dipper Department, and Heavenly River Navy had surrounded Peach Mountain to carry out Haotian’s order.
• Yang Jian confronted the Heavenly Court’s divine general and vowed to stop anyone who tried to take his mother.
• Gu Changqing received a ten-thousandfold return, gained ten million years of cultivation and the true meaning of laws, and advanced to Golden Immortal.
• The Heavenly Court’s divine general ordered Yang Jian suppressed, and the Nine Heavens Thunder Sea crashed down on Peach Mountain.

Yang Jian protected Yao Ji from the Heavenly Court’s army and defeated the Four Heavenly Kings after tearing apart their Heavenly Net with one finger. He learned that Haotian’s Prison-Suppressing Talisman was already descending, and Haotian commanded him to kneel.

• Yang Jian shattered the Heavenly King of Growth’s oppressive voice of law and tore open the Heavenly Net by striking its heart with one finger.
• Yang Jian passed through the formation, broke the Heavenly King Who Holds the Kingdom’s pipa, and defeated the Heavenly Kings of Growth and Wide Vision.
• Yang Jian shattered the Primordial Pearl Umbrella, seized the Heavenly King of Much Learning, and demanded to know who else Haotian had sent.
• The Heavenly King of Much Learning revealed that the Thunder Department commander, the Dipper Department Star Lords, the Heavenly River Marshal, and Haotian’s Prison-Suppressing Talisman were coming.
• Haotian’s golden talismanic decree descended over Peach Mountain, and his voice commanded Yang Jian to kneel.

Yang Jian destroyed the Heavenly Emperor's Prison-Suppressing Talisman, defeated the Four Heavenly Kings, and prepared to face Li Jing's hundred thousand Heavenly River Navy troops at Peach Mountain. Meanwhile, Gu Changqing accepted Nezha as his second disciple and taught him the Self-Manifestation Technique, leaving Nezha newly empowered and on his way to confront Li Jing.

• Yang Jian refined the Prison-Suppressing Talisman, killed the Heavenly King of Much Learning, and learned that Li Jing was leading the Heavenly River Navy toward Peach Mountain.
• Nezha's remnant soul sought revenge after Li Jing destroyed his temple, but Taiyi Zhenren warned that a new Lotus Incarnation would not let Nezha defeat Li Jing soon.
• A mysterious voice directed Nezha to Gu Changqing's ruined Mountain God Temple, where Nezha offered his soul as incense and asked Gu Changqing to make him his master.
• Gu Changqing accepted Nezha as his second disciple and taught him the Self-Manifestation Technique, reforging his soul and resentment into a new battle body.
• Li Jing arrived at Peach Mountain with a hundred thousand Heavenly River Navy troops and challenged Yang Jian, but Nezha's voice reached him through their father-son karma, promising to collect his debt.

Li Jing led the Heavenly River Navy to Peach Mountain and trapped Yang Jian in the Sea-Covering Grand Formation, but Yang Jian refined its water-element law and destroyed its core. As Li Jing prepared to fight on, Nezha returned in a burst of demonic energy and vowed to collect his debt.

• Li Jing confronted Yang Jian at Peach Mountain and ordered the Heavenly River Navy to deploy its Sea-Covering Grand Formation.
• Yang Jian endured the formation's crushing water-element law and used the Hell Furnace to devour and refine it.
• Yang Jian awakened more Divine Elephant Particles as the formation drained the navy's power and began to collapse.
• Yang Jian split the formation sigil, causing the Heavenly River vortex to shake and the hundred thousand naval soldiers to cough up blood.
• Nezha's demonic energy followed his karmic bond with Li Jing to Peach Mountain, where Nezha declared that he had returned to collect his debt.

Nezha returned as a demon god and used the karmic debt between himself and Li Jing to break Li Jing’s Dao heart, allowing Yang Jian to escape the Heavenly River Sea-Covering Grand Formation. Yang Jian refined the formation’s water-element laws as Nezha confronted Haotian, leaving the Heavenly Court facing their next move.

• Nezha manifested before Li Jing and used their karmic bond to force Li Jing to relive his past wrongs and kneel in remorse.
• With Li Jing’s Dao heart shattered, Yang Jian absorbed the formation’s power and awakened his fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, and fifty-sixth Divine Elephant Particles.
• Nezha stepped on the Exquisite Pagoda and threatened Li Jing while Yang Jian broke the Heavenly River Sea-Covering Grand Formation apart from within.
• Yang Jian descended beside Nezha as the hundred thousand naval troops were thrown back by the formation’s collapse.
• Haotian watched the confrontation through the Haotian Mirror, and Nezha challenged him by asking who was next.

Yang Jian and Nezha defeated the Heavenly River Navy at Peach Mountain, revealed that they shared a master, and vowed to confront Haotian. Haotian ordered a campaign and descended in person as the chapter ended with his imperial chariot approaching Peach Mountain.

• Yang Jian shattered the Heavenly River Sea-Covering Grand Formation, routed the navy, and awakened his sixtieth divine elephant particle.
• Yang Jian and Nezha recognized each other as disciples of the same master, while Nezha suppressed Li Jing and devoured the Heavenly River Navy's remaining power.
• Yang Jian promised to take Yao Ji to safety before settling accounts with Haotian, and Nezha vowed to join him at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Yu Ding Zhenren left for Kunlun Mountain to report that Yang Jian and Nezha had broken free of their expected paths.
• Haotian ordered the heavenly forces mobilized, declared that he would lead the campaign himself, and descended toward Peach Mountain in his imperial chariot.

Gu Changqing received immense rewards from Yang Jian and Nezha’s victories, breaking through to the late Taiyi Golden Immortal stage while concealing his presence. As Haotian prepared a Heavenly Court expedition and Daoist Randeng approached, Gu Changqing sent Yang Jian to obtain Yu Ding Zhenren’s Eight-Nine Arcane Art, leaving Yu Ding cornered at Peach Mountain.

• Yang Jian and Nezha routed the Heavenly Court’s forces, triggering tribulation-level system returns for Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing gained one hundred million years of cultivation, powerful techniques and treasures, and broke through to the late Taiyi Golden Immortal stage.
• Gu Changqing sensed Haotian rallying the Heavenly Court and Daoist Randeng heading toward the conflict, and decided Yang Jian needed more training before confronting Haotian.
• Gu Changqing told Nezha that Daoist Randeng’s Qiankun Ruler would make a good gift, and Nezha vowed to claim it for his master.
• Gu Changqing directed Yang Jian to seek Yu Ding Zhenren’s Eight-Nine Arcane Art, and Yang Jian stopped Yu Ding and asked to borrow the inheritance.
• Nezha offered to help Yang Jian take the art, leaving Yu Ding Zhenren under pressure at Peach Mountain.

Yang Jian forced Yu Ding Zhenren to surrender the complete Eight-Nine Arcane Art, then prepared to face Haotian after studying it. At Guanjiangkou, Gu Changqing received a system reward and began fusing the art’s principles with the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force.

• Yang Jian threatened Yu Ding Zhenren with the Hell Furnace until Yu Ding agreed to hand over the complete Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
• Yu Ding Zhenren gave Yang Jian a Mystic Slip containing the art and his cultivation insights, then left for Kunlun Mountain.
• Yang Jian let Yu Ding go, and he and Nezha watched Haotian’s Imperial Chariot descend as Yang Jian vowed to call Haotian to account.
• Gu Changqing’s system rewarded him with a million years of pure cultivation, the Eight-Nine Arcane Art’s Origin Dao Principles, and Orthodox Xuanmen fortune after Yang Jian comprehended the art.
• Gu Changqing ordered the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force fused, causing their Dao principles to collide as incense vow power surged backward through the Divine Realm.

Gu Changqing fused two cultivation arts into the Primordial Chaos God-Demon Prison-Suppressing Body, gaining a powerful new body and passing its first layer to Yang Jian. As Yang Jian transformed at Peach Mountain, Daoist Randeng arrived to confront Nezha and Yang Jian, and Nezha challenged him while Yang Jian continued absorbing the art.

• Gu Changqing fused Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force and Eight-Nine Arcane Art into the Primordial Chaos God-Demon Prison-Suppressing Body and awakened ten god-demon acupoints, advancing to the brink of the daluo golden immortal realm.
• Gu Changqing sent the first layer of the new art to Yang Jian, whose sixty divine elephant particles became the foundation for his first strength god-demon acupoint.
• Yang Jian thanked his master, while Yao Ji watched his transformation and Nezha expressed envy and renewed determination to oppose the Heavenly Court.
• Daoist Randeng arrived at Peach Mountain and urged Nezha to return to the Jade Void Palace, warning that his demonic nature threatened the Three Realms.
• Nezha refused Randeng's offer, and Randeng raised the Qiankun Ruler to suppress him and question him about his master.
• Nezha invoked his master and challenged Randeng, declaring that he and Yang Jian would take the Qiankun Ruler once Yang Jian awakened.

Nezha used his obsession-manifesting demonic art to wound Randeng and seize the Qiankun Ruler, then prepared to attack Randeng’s primordial spirit. Zhunti descended to stop him as Yang Jian completed his first strength god-demon acupoint, while the Heavenly Emperor Divine Position Fragment lit up in Gu Changqing’s palm.

• Randeng attacked Nezha with the Qiankun Ruler, but Nezha manifested Randeng’s ideal self and cracked the treasure by turning Randeng’s own obsession against him.
• Randeng summoned the Spirit Coffin Lamp and struck Nezha, but Nezha used his demonic art again to expose Randeng’s longing for Sainthood and disrupt the lamp’s and ruler’s Dao patterns.
• Nezha seized the Qiankun Ruler and pinned Randeng’s divine sense, then threatened to refine a wisp of Randeng’s primordial-spirit Dao fire.
• Zhunti descended in a Saint’s manifestation and halted Nezha, while Yang Jian completed his first strength god-demon acupoint and shielded Yao Ji from the pressure.
• As Nezha faced Zhunti, the newly formed Heavenly Emperor Divine Position Fragment lit up in Gu Changqing’s palm at the Ruined Temple in Guanjiangkou.