Recaps

After Xiang Yu died at the Wu River, guides from the Heroic Spirit Hall offered to take him to the Heroic Spirit Throne, where he hoped to meet Taiyi and challenge great figures from history. He agreed to go after learning that Qin Shi Huang was still alive.

• Xiang Yu charged the Han army, then slit his throat after telling the soldiers to claim rewards for his head.
• Han soldiers fought over Xiang Yu’s body, and Wang Yi and four others took parts of it and were made marquises.
• Xiang Yu’s soul met guides from the Heroic Spirit Hall, who invited him to the Heroic Spirit Throne.
• The guides told Xiang Yu that Taiyi’s former associates were at the Heroic Spirit Throne and that it would fight alongside Taiyi in the future.
• Xiang Yu asked whether he could fight Ying Zheng, but the guide said Qin Shi Huang had not died.

After Liu Bang established the Han Empire, he declared Taiyi its heavenly god, while Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei settled near Shushan. Jiang Yang explained that he would defend human civilization from outside invaders, leaving Bai Weiwei to confront the threat of countless hostile civilizations in the universe.

• Tushan Yao traveled to Fusang, defeated the local ghosts, monsters, and yao, and gained believers among Xu Fu’s scattered followers.
• Liu Bang consulted his ministers about the Han Empire’s faith and chose Chu’s god Taiyi as its heavenly god.
• The Han Empire replaced White Emperor statues with statues of Taiyi, including the one in Green Ox Village where Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei lived.
• Jiang Yang told Bai Weiwei he would protect human civilization from powerful enemies beyond Earth and described the universe as a dark forest where civilizations ruthlessly slaughtered one another.

After thirty thousand years of refinement, Tai Shang Lao Jun completed the Eastern Imperial Bell, and Jiang Yang emerged from seclusion to give it its final purpose. He made it the vessel of the Demon Race Civilization and ordered it to toll each day until that civilization disappeared.

• Tai Shang Lao Jun revealed the completed Eastern Imperial Bell, which had been refined for thirty thousand years into a supreme spiritual treasure.
• Jiang Yang emerged from seclusion on Zhou Mountain and thanked Tai Shang Lao Jun for forging the bell.
• Jiang Yang stroked the Imperial Bell and told it he wanted it to accompany him in future battles.
• Jiang Yang declared that the bell would record and bear the blessing of the Demon Race Civilization.
• Jiang Yang ordered the Imperial Bell to hang above Zhou Mountain and toll each day until the Demon Race Civilization disappeared.

The Imperial Bell became a symbol of justice and a nightly light for the Demon Race, leaving traces in the River of Time that led to the later appearance of the moon. In the Sixth Epoch, Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei left Green Ox Village, and Jiang Yang joined the Han army and fought in its campaign against the Xiongnu.

• The Imperial Bell recorded the Demon Race Civilization, upheld justice in the imperial court, and illuminated the land at night.
• A radiant figure downstream in the River of Time said the moon’s origin had changed and warned that Satan might no longer have a chance to win.
• After spending fifty years in Green Ox Village and witnessing three generations grow up, Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei left to travel the world.
• Jiang Yang later joined a Han frontier cavalry unit during Emperor Wu of Han’s reign.
• Jiang Yang fought with the Han army as it defeated the Xiongnu and drove them from the Northern Desert.

At the end of the Western Han, Jiang Yang encountered the young Liu Xiu and watched Di Yaoji decide to help him restore the Han Dynasty. After Di Yaoji used her demonic power to aid Liu Xiu at Kunyang, Jiang Yang took her back to the Demon Realm, where Di Jun sealed her beneath a mountain.

• Jiang Yang parted from Bai Weiwei as she entered seclusion on Mount Kongtong, then settled in Caiyang County after meeting the young Liu Xiu.
• Di Yaoji met Jiang Yang and chose Liu Xiu as the man destined to restore the Han Dynasty, teaching him statecraft while Jiang Yang told him stories.
• After Liu Xiu raised troops against the Xin Dynasty and won at Kunyang, Di Yaoji confessed that she had used demonic power to rain boulders on the enemy army.
• Jiang Yang rebuked Di Yaoji for interfering in Mortal Realm affairs and brought her back to the Demon Realm for punishment.
• Di Jun refused to spare Di Yaoji and sealed her beneath a great mountain.

After centuries of protecting Jingshan, Jiang Yang hosted Cao Zhi and other scholars at his villa. When Cao Zhi wished to see the Luo River Goddess, Jiang Yang began summoning her with a song from his sword, and the river stirred.

• Jiang Yang settled at Jingshan Villa, protected the surrounding people from bandits, and gained a reputation as a sage and guardian.
• Zhang Jue visited Jiang Yang, discussed the Dao with him, and later called him the true god walking among men.
• After Cao Cao rose to power and the north grew peaceful, Cao Zhi became a regular guest at Jiang Yang's villa.
• Cao Zhi said he longed to see the Luo River Goddess, and the river surged before its waters quickly settled.
• Jiang Yang drew his sword and played a wondrous rhythm, causing ripples to spread across the Luo River.

Feng Luobin emerged from the Luo River and reunited with Jiang Yang at Jingshan Villa, where Cao Zhi was captivated by her beauty and composed a poem for her. She accepted his work, titled Ode to the Luo River Goddess, and cherished it.

• Feng Luobin emerged from the Luo River and walked toward Jingshan Villa, where she greeted Jiang Yang as her master.
• Cao Zhi saw Feng Luobin, fell in love at first sight, and recited a poem inspired by her beauty.
• Feng Luobin asked Cao Zhi for the poem, and Jiang Yang nodded as she conjured golden paper and a brush for him.
• Cao Zhi wrote down the poem and named it Ode to the Luo River Goddess.
• Feng Luobin praised the title and carefully kept the golden paper.

Feng Luobin rejected Cao Zhi’s romantic hopes but ascended to the Divine Realm, while Jiang Yang taught Cao Zhi the Heroic Spirit Law that later let them reunite. In the Divine Realm, Feng Luobin met Filiya, who offered to take her to visit Female Immortal Xuanming, Jiang Yang’s Dao companion.

• Feng Luobin told Cao Zhi that she was a goddess who would soon leave for the Divine Realm, and Jiang Yang taught Cao Zhi the Heroic Spirit Law so they might meet again.
• Feng Luobin ascended from the Luo River, and Jiang Yang later left Jingshan Villa after becoming known as a god living in the world.
• Decades later, Cao Zhi died and the Heroic Spirit Throne took him in, giving him the chance to see Feng Luobin again.
• Feng Luobin arrived in the Divine Realm, where Filiya welcomed her and said she would take her to meet Female Immortal Xuanming.

Filiya brought Feng Luobin through Sky God City, where the divine subjects welcomed the Return Goddess. She publicly named Feng Luobin the Oath Goddess, and the city erupted in worship.

• Filiya took Feng Luobin through Sky God City in a golden Heavenly Horse carriage as the inhabitants bowed and praised her as the Return Goddess.
• Feng Luobin asked Filiya why she had that title, and Filiya explained that Artemis had coined it after she returned from Earth with many demigods.
• Filiya announced Feng Luobin as the Divine Clan’s Oath Goddess and invited divine subjects to pray to her and enter covenants under her protection.
• After a brief moment of confusion, the divine subjects began chanting, “Oath Goddess!”

Feng Luobin visited the Goddess Home with Filiya and met Sister Xuanming, while on Earth Jiang Yang continued living under different identities as his cultivation advanced. The chapter ended with Jiang Yang slaughtering barbarian cavalry who were abusing and consuming Han Chinese, inspiring resistance in the north.

• Filiya brought Feng Luobin to the Goddess Home, where administrator Xiao Lan registered her and guided them inside.
• Filiya introduced Feng Luobin to the goddesses gathered in the garden and took her to meet Sister Xuanming.
• Sister Xuanming welcomed Feng Luobin warmly and invited her to call her Sister.
• On Earth, Jiang Yang spent centuries trying different occupations and continued cultivating toward the pinnacle of the Ninth Step.
• During the Sixth Epoch, Jiang Yang saw barbarian cavalry using Han Chinese as provisions and abusing captive women, so he killed a thousand cavalrymen and rescued them.
• A barbarian general brought three thousand more cavalrymen, but Jiang Yang broke their formation and killed them, and stories of him inspired northerners to resist barbarian rule.

Jiang Yang recalled his friendship with Li Bai, from their sword duels and drinking bouts to the chance he gave Li Bai to pursue immortality. They met again years later, but Li Bai was too old to resume his practice; after Li Bai died, Jiang Yang eventually met Lü Dongbin.

• Jiang Yang met Li Bai on the road, helped Gao Shi against bandits, and became friends with them.
• Li Bai repeatedly challenged Jiang Yang to sword duels and lost, then learned from Pei Min that Jiang Yang's swordsmanship surpassed his own.
• While drinking, Jiang Yang offered to make Li Bai his disciple, but Li Bai declined, so Jiang Yang secretly taught him the Green Lotus Dharma-Form Visualization Method.
• Years later, Jiang Yang met the exiled and pardoned Li Bai again, and Li Bai regretted not persevering with the method because he had sought immortals all his life.
• Jiang Yang and Li Bai drank together, discussed the golden-eyed people, and Li Bai recognized Jiang Yang as a divine lord.
• Li Bai died a few years later, and decades afterward Jiang Yang met Lü Dongbin.

Jiang Yang met Lü Dongbin at his Daoist temple and learned that Lü had reincarnated to pursue a new path to the Great Dao. After surviving Jiang Yang’s scrutiny, Lü’s disciples began spreading a legend about the Heavenly Emperor, while Jiang Yang continued traveling through the Mortal Realm.

• Jiang Yang encountered Lü Dongbin at his temple, and Lü explained that he had reincarnated to cultivate a new great Dao after learning from his defeat by Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang and Lü Dongbin reflected on their past failures and the importance of humility as cultivators.
• After Jiang Yang left, Lü Dongbin told his disciples that he had escaped a calamity and described Jiang Yang as the greatest Emperor Lord in the world.
• Lü Dongbin’s disciples wondered whether Jiang Yang was the Heavenly Emperor, and a legend about the Heavenly Emperor’s mortal tribulations spread across the Mortal Realm.
• Jiang Yang traveled west in the guise of a merchant after the Song dynasty was established in the East, as Urban II’s war unfolded in the west.

Jiang Yang traveled west as a solitary merchant, defeating bandits, horse thieves, and a large Turkic cavalry unit along the way. He arrived in Jerusalem, where his reputation as the Golden-Eyed Knight from the East had preceded him.

• Jiang Yang crossed the Hexi Corridor, snowy mountains, plateaus, and desert, trading goods as he retraced an old route.
• Jiang Yang killed bandits, defeated Arabian Horse Thieves, and routed three hundred Turkic Cavalrymen.
• Jiang Yang reached Jerusalem after the First Crusaders War, when Baldwin I ruled the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• Jiang Yang entered the city at sunset, and the soldiers and people stepped aside in awe of his reputation and golden eyes.

Jiang Yang refused Baldwin I’s summons and continued to Christ’s church, where he recognized the central statue as Heavenly Lord Ye Hehua, known here as Jesus Christ. The chapter ended with Jiang Yang seeing six Seraphim standing beside the statue.

• A middle-aged noble knight invited Jiang Yang to meet Baldwin I, who wanted to see the famed eastern warrior.
• Jiang Yang refused the invitation, saying he would meet the king at the church if the king came to find him.
• Jiang Yang’s overwhelming majesty frightened the knights into clearing his path, and the noble knight decided to report back to Baldwin I.
• Jiang Yang entrusted his horse and goods to a monk and entered the church.
• Jiang Yang recognized the statue of Heavenly Lord Ye Hehua as Jesus Christ and saw six Seraphim standing beside it.

Jiang Yang told a priest in the church that he had turned to Gabriel rather than Jesus and had once betrayed Jesus. As priests and believers turned toward him, holy white light welled up, while Baldwin I was on his way to the church.

• A priest approached Jiang Yang and asked whether seeing Jesus’s statue had cleansed his soul.
• Jiang Yang said he remembered Gabriel’s tears, then asked the priest about Gabriel’s brother Lucifer.
• The priest explained that the Bible identified Lucifer, after his fall, as Satan, the master of Hell.
• Jiang Yang said he had turned to Gabriel’s faith, not Jesus’s, and claimed Jesus might not be able to bear his conversion.
• Jiang Yang revealed that he had once betrayed Jesus, shocking the priest as the church’s priests and believers looked toward him.
• Baldwin I headed to the church as holy white light suddenly filled it.

Jiang Yang met Jehovah in Jerusalem and refused to spare Satan, while Gabriel defended Lucifer and gave Jiang Yang a pair of ornamental wings. Gabriel departed, leaving their reunion for the future.

• Holy light spread across Jerusalem, healing believers and strengthening soldiers and holy warriors.
• Baldwin I arrived at the church seeking Jiang Yang’s help and knelt when he witnessed the miracle.
• Jehovah told Jiang Yang that he would become a Supreme and asked him to spare Satan, but Jiang Yang refused because Satan had invaded Earth and killed his compatriots.
• Gabriel emerged from her statue, condemned Satan’s crimes, and declared that the glory of the Supreme would belong to Lucifer.
• Gabriel gave Jiang Yang black-and-white wings of light, then left after he called her his big sister.

After Gabriel erased the mortals’ memories of her conversation with Jiang Yang, her public kiss made him known as a Blessed Knight. Baldwin I then told Jiang Yang about his family’s ties to Gabriel and asked him to rescue his daughter from the Witch Forest.

• Gabriel cleared the mortals’ memories, appeared as an Angels’ Shadow, kissed Jiang Yang’s forehead, and departed.
• The church’s priests and believers hailed Jiang Yang as a Blessed Knight, and Bishop Kang De told Baldwin I that Gabriel had kissed him.
• Baldwin I introduced himself to Jiang Yang and recounted how the angel Edessa had helped establish his lineage.
• Baldwin I explained that his youngest daughter had been taken by a Witcher at the request of Angelica, the Witches God, and that the knights he sent to the Witch Forest never returned.
• Baldwin I asked Jiang Yang to bring his daughter back because the Church could not spare forces to help.

Jiang Yang accepted Baldwin I’s commission to rescue his daughter from the Witch Forest and agreed to accept an estate and noble title as a reward. After hearing about the Witches God, Angelica, he asked Baldwin I to take him to the witcher who knew the forest’s location.

• Jiang Yang accepted Baldwin I’s commission and tacitly agreed to the promised estate and noble title.
• The old priest Kang De said the Holy See should confer Jiang Yang’s title while Baldwin I granted him land.
• Baldwin I explained that the Witches God, Angelica, had led witches for over a thousand years, though the Holy See had not acted against her.
• Jiang Yang asked Baldwin I where the Witch Forest was, and Baldwin I said the witcher who guided his knights knew its location.
• Jiang Yang asked to meet the witcher, and Baldwin I agreed to take him there.

Jiang Yang met the Witcher Ated and agreed to accompany him into the Witch Forest to bring back Baldwin I’s daughter. They left the city together at dawn, with Ated prepared to take the commission seriously.

• Baldwin I introduced Jiang Yang to Ated, who warned that Angelica had not harmed the king’s daughter and questioned whether Jiang Yang could survive the Witch Forest.
• Baldwin I paid Ated and entrusted his daughter’s rescue to Jiang Yang.
• Jiang Yang and Ated agreed to meet at the city gate the following morning before setting out.
• At dawn, Jiang Yang found Ated waiting at the gate, neatly dressed and ready for the journey.
• Jiang Yang and Ated left the city together and headed north toward the Witch Forest.

Jiang Yang and Ated traveled north from Jerusalem and reached a crowded tavern where demon hunters gathered. A burly man greeted Ated and asked which demon hunter sect Jiang Yang belonged to.

• Jiang Yang and Ated rode north along the Mediterranean, passing docks and newly built noble domains.
• Ated told Jiang Yang that the princess had asked him to take her to find the witch, rather than being abducted by him.
• After traveling for over ten days and passing Constantinople, Jiang Yang and Ated arrived at a tavern in winter.
• Ated invited Jiang Yang inside and said he would handle some demon hunter business while buying the drinks.
• A burly, balding man recognized Ated and asked which demon hunter sect Jiang Yang came from.

Jiang Yang traveled with Ated through the snowy north, demonstrating his strength to the Witchers and frightening Count Dracula into fleeing. After passing through Dracula’s castle, they reached the Witch Forest and opened its gateway.

• Jiang Yang knocked down Wright and Monchi in the Witchers’ tavern, then used the Divine Emperor’s Will to make the other Witchers raise their cups.
• Ated collected materials for his advancement, and he and Jiang Yang continued north through snowbound villages and kingdoms.
• Jiang Yang and Ated reached Count Dracula’s castle, where the vampire army defeated the werewolves outside its walls.
• When Jiang Yang asked Dracula about Angelica, Dracula saw Jiang Yang’s golden eyes and fled as a swarm of blood bats.
• Jiang Yang and Ated passed through Dracula’s castle, where Ated explained that its human subjects traded blood for food and safety.
• Ated used his token to open a rainbow bridge into the Witch Forest.

Jiang Yang entered the Witch Forest to seek Angelica, the daughter of King Baldwin, and easily subdued a bronze Dragon guarding the first trial. The Dragon warned that Jiang Yang would not be able to cross the barren mountain, which was Angelica’s creation.

• A green-gowned witch led Jiang Yang through the portal into the Witch Forest after Ated presented a token and explained their mission to retrieve the king’s daughter.
• Jiang Yang crossed the forest calmly, frightening its wild animals, and rode a grizzly bear to the foot of a barren mountain.
• A bronze Dragon landed before Jiang Yang and ordered him to leave because Angelica did not wish to see him.
• Jiang Yang’s overwhelming spiritual majesty forced the bronze Dragon to the ground, and the Dragon agreed to let him proceed.
• The bronze Dragon warned Jiang Yang that he could not cross the mountain, explaining that Angelica had created it and that it could not sense his power.

Jiang Yang passed the Bronze Dragon’s trial by evading the Stone Giant and reached the edge of the Witch Forest. Facing the impossible path of the Heavenly River and the colossal central tree, he revealed a pair of radiant wings and prepared to meet the Witches God and Angelica.

• The Stone Giant awakened, and the Witches watched as Jiang Yang began crossing its mountain terrain.
• Jiang Yang evaded the Giant’s attacks and advanced until it stopped at the forest’s boundary and returned to its mountain form.
• A Witch studying how ordinary humans could approach transcendents watched Jiang Yang’s physical prowess and considered it a new direction for her research.
• Jiang Yang surveyed the Witch Forest’s spiraling Heavenly River and colossal central tree, recognizing them as the path to the Witches God.
• Jiang Yang addressed the Witches God and Angelica, then spread one black and one white wing formed of radiance.

Angelica and the silver-haired little girl discussed whether their world was real and why they had been brought there, then speculated that Jiang Yang might be the fallen Angel Lucifer. They saw Jiang Yang flying toward the Central Giant Tree and waited to question him.

• Witches across the Central Giant Tree cried out in astonishment when they saw a mortal knight with Angel wings.
• The silver-haired little girl told Angelica that she believed their world was real and that their former civilization might have been destroyed.
• The silver-haired little girl said she believed they had been brought there with a mission and wanted to see her family again.
• Angelica wondered if Jiang Yang was Lucifer from the Holy See's Bible, while the silver-haired little girl pointed out his golden eyes.
• The silver-haired little girl spotted Jiang Yang flying toward them with his wings.

Jiang Yang reached Angelica and Illya in the Sky Courtyard and revealed that he was Lucifer. After Illya refused to return to her father, Jiang Yang agreed to respect her choice and joined the witches to exchange questions.

• Jiang Yang flew to the giant tree’s Sky Courtyard, where Angelica and Illya watched his arrival.
• Jiang Yang told Illya that King Baldwin had sent him to bring her home, but Illya asked him to tell her father she was well and would return when she was ready.
• Jiang Yang accepted Illya’s decision, saying that she could choose her own actions and that he would not violate her wishes.
• Illya said Jiang Yang might be Lucifer, and Jiang Yang confirmed his identity to her and Angelica.
• Angelica invited Jiang Yang into her courtyard so they could exchange questions, and he accepted.