Chapter Summaries

After reaching the fifth step, Jiang Yang learned that the Sixth Epoch’s destiny was rejecting him and preventing him from advancing further on Earth. He considered seeking cultivation elsewhere while remaining curious about Earth’s future and began searching the myriad worlds for a suitable place to grow stronger.

• Jiang Yang learned that the Sixth Epoch’s destiny had begun rejecting the Divine Clan after his breakthrough to the fifth step.
• Jiang Yang sensed that the Emperor-Rank Fifth Step was his limit on Earth and that he would need to seek his next breakthrough elsewhere.
• Jiang Yang told Yusheng to leave after hearing his report on events in the Mortal Realm.
• Jiang Yang considered traveling south to investigate the Dragon Clan’s rise.
• Jiang Yang linked himself to the Flame Law and searched outer space for a resource-rich but vulnerable world where he could cultivate.

Jiang Yang learned that the Dragon Clan’s emperor, Constana, was as powerful as he was, and agreed to travel south to meet her. As he set out, Constana sensed that something important was about to happen and added another layer of protection around her residence.

• Jiang Yang searched the flame law sea for a suitable world for a year, then stopped and guided the Divine Court Guards in their cultivation.
• Yusheng told Jiang Yang that the Dragon Clan had named the Ice Emperor its emperor and feared the Dragon Clan might attack the Northern Territory Holy City.
• Jiang Yang confirmed that the Dragon Clan’s emperor was in the same realm as him, but assured Yusheng that she posed little threat.
• Jiang Yang decided to travel south with Yusheng to meet the Dragon Clan emperor, Constana.
• Constana sensed that something important was about to happen and resolved to add another formation around her residence.

While traveling south with Yusheng, Jiang Yang contemplated how the Sixth Epoch’s first cycle of seasons might shape civilization and prepare it for the end-of-epoch calamity. He resolved to grow stronger, while a mysterious old man in an impossible realm briefly opened his eyes and murmured about heaven’s timing, earth’s advantage, and unity among people.

• Jiang Yang and Yusheng traveled south on foot as Jiang Yang observed the recovering world and reflected on the Bronze Age.
• Jiang Yang reasoned that the Sixth Epoch’s first seasonal cycle had skipped high summer and autumn, storing their abundance for a future age of enduring summer splendor.
• Jiang Yang considered whether that future prosperity could help Earth withstand the destructive calamity that had ended earlier epochs, though he sensed overwhelming terror when he imagined investigating its depths.
• Yusheng called to the motionless Jiang Yang, who dismissed his concern and continued walking with renewed determination to become stronger.
• In a distant, paradoxical realm, an old man seated on a gigantic white jade wheel briefly opened his eyes, smiled, and said, “Heaven’s timing, earth’s advantage, unity among people...”

Jiang Yang and Yusheng traveled south through lands filled with Dragon Beasts and reached the prosperous capital, True Dragon City. As a True Dragon’s procession entered the city, the two stood out by refusing to bow, catching the dragon’s attention.

• Jiang Yang learned from Yusheng that Dragon Beasts had flourished after the previous Winter Calamity and that some had become intelligent True Dragons.
• Jiang Yang saw villages and towns where beings of many races lived in low status, hoping to master the Dragon Transformation Method and join the Dragon Clan.
• Several months later, Jiang Yang and Yusheng arrived at True Dragon City, the expanding capital of the Dragon Kingdom.
• A Land Dragon pulled an iron-bodied carriage carrying a human-shaped True Dragon through the crowd as people of the myriad races bowed and moved aside.
• Jiang Yang and Yusheng remained standing upright by the roadside, and the True Dragon noticed them.

Jiang Yang and Yusheng entered a Dragon Clan city, where a Red Dragon named Angsaisis tried to punish them for not bowing. Jiang Yang spared him after sensing he had a destined role in the future Sixth Epoch, then took Yusheng to Kangna's Many Treasures Shop.

• Angsaisis ordered his driver to whip Jiang Yang and Yusheng for failing to bow before him.
• Yusheng seized the driver's whip and flung him onto the city wall.
• Angsaisis threatened Jiang Yang and Yusheng, but Jiang Yang's glance overwhelmed him and forced him to his knees.
• Dragon Clan Enforcers arrived, and Angsaisis concealed what had happened while they dealt with his driver.
• Jiang Yang told Yusheng that Angsaisis had a destined course of fate and led him to Kangna's Many Treasures Shop.

Jiang Yang and Yusheng visited Kangna's Shop in True Dragon City, where Jiang Yang met the mysterious dragon lady Constana. He examined a silver small sword and realized that Constana had moved it through a subtle manipulation of its natural trajectory.

• Jiang Yang and Yusheng walked through True Dragon City to a distinctive little shop on the western side.
• A girl named Constana welcomed them from behind the counter and told them each person could choose only one item.
• Jiang Yang asked to examine a silver small sword, and Constana sent it floating into his hand.
• Jiang Yang recognized that Constana had moved the sword without using power, by subtly altering its trajectory.

Jiang Yang traded an ice-type Devil Lord’s law heart for Constana’s flying sword and, impressed by their shared understanding of the Dao, decided to stay near her shop. The next morning, he greeted Kangna outside the shop as her new neighbor.

• Jiang Yang examined Constana’s silver flying sword, admired its unfamiliar runes, and watched her demonstrate its flight.
• Jiang Yang traded an ice-type Devil Lord’s law heart for the flying sword and spent the afternoon discussing cultivation and the world with Constana.
• Jiang Yang told Yusheng to find a house near Kangna’s Many Treasures Shop so he could stay and exchange insights with Constana.
• The next morning, Jiang Yang greeted Kangna outside her shop.

Jiang Yang visited Kangna again, and their daily discussions of the Dao grew comfortable as he settled in across from her shop. When Yuhua returned and gave Kangna a gift, he learned that Jiang Yang was a regular neighbor and felt threatened by his presence.

• Jiang Yang visited Kangna with snacks, and she reluctantly let him into her shop before enjoying the treats and asking him to bring more.
• Jiang Yang and Kangna discussed the Dao for hours, then discovered that he had rented a place diagonally across from her shop.
• Over the following dozen days, Jiang Yang visited Kangna daily and the two grew familiar.
• Yuhua returned from Ai Smoke City, gave Kangna a wooden dragon charm, and told her he had memorized the material she had given him.
• Kangna introduced Yuhua to Jiang Yang, who revealed that he lived across from her and would be seeing Yuhua often, leaving the boy alarmed.

Three years after the Winter Calamity, Jiang Yang watched Constana bargain with a Devil Clan merchant at her shop. He told Yuhua about the Dragon Clan emperor’s plan to recruit talented young people as Royal Guards, while Constana realized she had not known about it.

• A Devil Clan merchant bartered with Constana for a white jade ring that could withstand three full-power attacks from someone in the Profound Dragon Realm.
• After the merchant left, Constana complained about how difficult the Devil Clan merchants were to deal with, and Jiang Yang teased her.
• Yuhua praised Constana’s patience as he wiped the shop’s shelves.
• Jiang Yang told Yuhua that the Dragon Clan emperor was recruiting talented young people of any race to train as Royal Guards, with status equal to True Dragons.
• Constana was surprised that she, the emperor, had not heard about the recruitment.

Yuhua reflected on how Jiang Yang and Constana had helped him develop the Qi Refining Method, then agreed to enter an opportunity to test it. After he left to prepare, Jiang Yang revealed that he had arranged the opportunity on Constana’s behalf, prompting their familiar teasing.

• Yuhua recalled meeting Kangna and learning cultivation, then combining the Magic Potion Method and Immortal Clan Arts into the Qi Refining Method with Jiang Yang and Constana’s help.
• Jiang Yang encouraged Yuhua to test his method, and Constana supported him.
• Yuhua agreed to enter the opportunity starting the next day and hurried home to prepare.
• Jiang Yang told Constana he had arranged the opportunity after a young True Dragon mistook him for her and delivered a letter.
• Constana questioned Jiang Yang for making the decision for her, then accepted his explanation that Yuhua needed the opportunity.

Jiang Yang and Constana finally introduced themselves openly and discussed their true identities. Constana revealed that she came from the Third Epoch, the Immortal Epoch, and described its civilization before leaving Jiang Yang eager to learn more.

• Jiang Yang and Constana admitted that they had long guessed each other's identities but had kept pretending otherwise.
• Jiang Yang introduced himself as Jiang Yang, and Constana gave her name as Constana.
• Constana first claimed she was born in the Sixth Epoch, then the early Fifth Epoch, before admitting she came from the Third Epoch.
• Constana described the Third Epoch as the Immortal Epoch, when the Dao Ancestor created immortal arts and drove back demons and evil creatures.
• Constana named thirteen Grand Ascension cultivators from the Immortal Clan's civilization and called it an age of flourishing glory.

Constana told Jiang Yang how she survived the Immortal-Demon War in hiding and learned that the Immortal Clan had moved to the Immortal Realm. The two agreed to search for their respective civilizations, then prepared to attend the selection for the Dragon Clan emperor’s guards.

• Constana recounted how she hid for ten thousand years, found her master’s recording, and learned she could reach the Immortal Realm by following its aura once she reached the Mahayana Stage.
• Jiang Yang marveled at the Immortal Clan’s power and considered what its civilization trait might be.
• Constana and Jiang Yang agreed to look for the Immortal Realm and a suitable world for the Divine Clan while searching the great chiliocosm.
• Jiang Yang told Constana he would accompany her to the Dragon Clan emperor’s guard selection the next day, and Constana began worrying that something unexpected might happen.

Yuhua attended the Dragon Clan's grand guard selection in True Dragon City, where the emperor and her friend arrived together to address the crowd. Their appearance left the True Dragons stunned as they watched the two monarchs sit and chat amiably.

• Talented young people from across the Dragon Kingdom gathered in True Dragon City for the emperor's guard selection, whose rules had been expanded after Ao Tian's failed meeting with the emperor and encounter with the god from Mount Tai.
• Yuhua joined the contestants after receiving an unannounced exception to the preliminary screening, while his family watched from the stands.
• Lord Bahamut announced the arrival of the Dragon Clan's emperor and her friend, and the arena fell silent.
• Constana and Jiang Yang approached the dais together, drawing the attention of everyone in the arena.
• Spectators wondered which figure was the emperor, while the True Dragons silently worried that their enemy had already taken their base.

Jiang Yang and Constana watched the Dragon Clan’s imperial guard selection as Torch Dragon tested the candidates with his aura. Yuhua passed the first trial, and the surviving contestants prepared to fight in the free-for-all.

• Yuhua glimpsed Jiang Yang and Constana on the platform but did not recognize them as the people he knew.
• Constana approved the start of the selection, and the Platinum Dragon announced the first round, Defying the Tide.
• Torch Dragon unleashed his powerful aura on the candidates, causing most of them to collapse and lose eligibility.
• Yuhua and a few dozen other young prodigies endured the trial and remained in the arena.
• The Platinum Dragon announced the second round, a free-for-all battle.

Yuhua reached the top ten in the selection for imperial guards, then lost his individual match after holding back against a Dragon Clan prince and was unfairly judged the loser. Jiang Yang challenged the decision, and Bahamut overturned it in Yuhua’s favor, leaving the crowd astonished that Jiang Yang was also addressed as Your Majesty.

• Yuhua survived the melee selection, which left ten prodigies standing, and qualified for the individual combat round.
• At Kangna’s Many Treasures Shop, Yuhua told Jiang Yang and Constana that he had made the top ten, and their argument over combat advice helped ease his nerves.
• Yuhua faced the Red Dragon Duke in the third match and stopped his sword thrust, allowing the Duke’s spear to wound him.
• The True Dragon referee declared the Duke the winner and insulted Yuhua, who protested the decision.
• Jiang Yang objected from the high platform, and Bahamut awarded the match to Yuhua, sentenced referee Andertes to ten years in prison, and addressed Jiang Yang as Your Majesty.

The selection for the Dragon Emperor’s seven imperial guards ended, and the victors were summoned to meet Constana and formally become her dragon attendants. Yuhua followed the group toward the emperor, unsettled by memories of her closeness with Jiang Yang.

• The selection concluded with seven victors, while the Red Dragon who claimed to be Tiamat’s son withdrew in shame.
• The victors waited in the rest area and learned they would be brought before Constana to become her dragon attendants.
• Yuhua felt reverence for Constana but grew uneasy as he recalled her warm, harmonious scene with Jiang Yang.
• Bahamut ordered the victors to follow him to an audience with Constana and the other mysterious Majesty.
• The victors fell silent and followed Bahamut toward the raised platform.

Jiang Yang and Constana took seven young people, including Yuhua, under their care, then watched them grow into masters over the next hundred years. As they continued searching for the world they sought, Constana announced that she had found the Immortal Realm.

• Bahamut brought seven young people to meet Jiang Yang and Constana, where Yuhua recognized Jiang Yang as Brother Jiang Yan.
• Constana made the seven young people her guards and promised to teach them once a week for a year before sending them out into the world.
• A year later, Constana felt relieved as the seven departed, while Jiang Yang comforted her.
• Over the next hundred years, the seven became powerful in their regions, and Yuhua earned fame as a Qi Refiner.
• Jiang Yang and Constana continued searching for their desired world while Constana cultivated and connected with the mortal world through the young people.
• Constana excitedly told Jiang Yang that she had found the Immortal Realm.

Constana found the Immortal Realm’s coordinates and decided to travel Earth with Jiang Yang before leaving. At the True Dragon Council, they declined to take sides in the dispute between the Dragon Kingdom and the Northern Territory Holy City, urging a peaceful resolution.

• Constana told Jiang Yang she wanted to explore Earth with him before returning to the Immortal Realm, and he agreed to leave the next day.
• Constana and Jiang Yang visited the True Dragon Council, where envoys from the Northern Territory Holy City were negotiating with the Dragon Kingdom over their expanding borders.
• The Dragon Kingdom and Holy City envoys argued over which side should submit to the other, then turned to Constana and Jiang Yang to decide.
• Jiang Yang said he and Constana would not interfere in mortal affairs and hoped the dispute could be resolved peacefully.

Jiang Yang and Constana traveled across Earth, recording its lands and peoples before visiting the Great Snowfield Shelter, where Constana exchanged knowledge with the Fifth Epoch Humans. Their conversation turned to the Immortal Realm and the possibility that they would someday leave Earth for the Myriad Heavens, though they believed they might return in the distant future.

• Jiang Yang and Constana left True Dragon City and began traveling across the world, while Constana recorded their journey with her Recording Stone.
• Jiang Yang and Constana visited glaciers, deserts, elven cities, the Secluded Plateau, the Shallow Sea, the Dwarves, Olympus, the Abyss, and the Arctic Icefield.
• Jiang Yang brought Constana to the Great Snowfield Shelter, where she met Li Xiaowa, Qing Fengxi, and the others and toured Fifth Epoch technology.
• Constana praised the Path of Technology and exchanged scientific knowledge with the shelter residents, leaving behind many Immortal Clan spells.
• Li Xiaowa asked about the Immortal Realm and whether they might leave Earth someday, and Jiang Yang said they might journey to the Myriad Heavens once Earth no longer needed them.
• Qing Fengxi reflected that they would become legends, and Jiang Yang and Li Zhe expressed hope that they could someday return to Earth.

Constana decided to leave Earth to pursue the Great Dao and reach the Immortal Realm, despite the time she had spent with Jiang Yang. After opening a passage to the Immortal Realm, she departed, leaving Jiang Yang with a promise to meet again.

• Constana told Jiang Yang she would leave the next morning because she could not advance beyond the emperor-rank fifth step on Earth.
• Constana declined Jiang Yang's offer to travel with him, saying their closeness would weaken her pursuit of the Dao.
• The next morning, Constana warned Jiang Yang that connecting to the Immortal Realm carried a small chance of failure, then used the ice Law Sea to open a doorway.
• Constana told Jiang Yang that her name in the Immortal Realm was Xuanming and said he could seek her there.
• Constana entered the doorway and vanished as she and Jiang Yang said, “See you in the future.”