Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang revealed that Ying Zheng’s White Emperor Dharma Form had cultivated a dragon soul and offered to preserve him through the Funeral Method. After Ying Zheng was sealed in a coffin, Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei carried him away from Shaqiu Palace, leaving the Qin State’s fate behind.

• Jiang Yang explained that the White Emperor Dharma Form could grant Ying Zheng an immortal body, but Ying Zheng had not mastered it.
• Jiang Yang offered Ying Zheng the Funeral Method, and Ying Zheng agreed to be buried until the future.
• Bai Weiwei brought out a black coffin, and Jiang Yang inscribed runes before she sealed it with divine power.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei carried the coffin outside Shaqiu Palace, where Bai Weiwei told the Qin Army that Ying Zheng had died and was being taken to heaven.
• Zhao Gao affirmed their story, and several thousand loyal Qin Army soldiers followed Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei as they departed.
• Jiang Yang refused to involve himself in the Qin State’s fate, while Bai Weiwei reflected on the lives behind the empire’s coming destruction.

Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei witnessed the fall of Qin, as Liu Bang captured Xianyang and Xiang Yu summoned King Ziying to fight. Just as Xiang Yu prepared to kill the helpless Ziying, a golden-eyed young man of Qin's royal house stepped forward to challenge him.

• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei watched Liu Bang rise as the Red Emperor's Son after he slew a white snake, and Jiang Yang wondered how Di Yaoji would feel about it.
• Liu Bang captured Xianyang, Ziying surrendered, and Qin fell; Xiang Yu later entered the city and summoned Ziying to the palace.
• Xiang Yu demanded that Ziying fight him, offering him three moves to wound him and win his life.
• Ziying refused to fight and accepted that Xiang Yu would kill him.
• A tall young man with radiant golden eyes declared that he would fight Xiang Yu because he, too, belonged to Qin's royal house.

Jiang Yang defeated Xiang Yu in the Qin palace and offered to take him away and make him stronger. Xiang Yu chose to remain the Western Chu Overlord to care for his eight thousand men, so Jiang Yang gave him a method to cultivate his soul and will, allowing him to become a powerful Heroic Spirit after death.

• Jiang Yang stepped forward to defend Ying Ziying, and Xiang Yu challenged him to a fight.
• Jiang Yang defeated Xiang Yu after more than fifty sword exchanges, and Xiang Yu ordered his soldiers to leave the hall.
• Jiang Yang revealed that he was Taiyi, and Bai Weiwei showed Xiang Yu an image of myriad yao bowing to him.
• Jiang Yang offered to take Xiang Yu away and help him grow stronger, but Xiang Yu refused because he could not abandon his eight thousand men in Xianyang.
• Jiang Yang recognized Xiang Yu's concern for mortals and taught him a method to cultivate his soul and will so he could become a powerful Heroic Spirit after death.

Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei visited Shushan, where Yin Xi was forging two divine swords to defend the mountain from Tushan Yao. The chapter ended with Yin Xi declaring that the swords would be ready to defeat her.

• Jiang Yang imparted the Ghost Clan Arts to Xiang Yu, then left with Ziying, who concealed his identity while Xiang Yu claimed to have killed him and divided the lands among the feudal lords.
• Jiang Yang took Bai Weiwei to Shushan, where the disciples recognized him as the Sword Canon Patriarch and Bai Weiwei asked to learn their Sword-Riding Technique.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei met Yin Xi at the summit, where he apologized for being unable to leave the furnace he was tending.
• Yin Xi explained that Tushan Yao, a powerful Demon King of the Tushan Clan, had demanded Shushan's lands, and that he was forging two divine swords to defeat her.

Tushan Yao tried to seize Shushan’s spiritual grounds to preserve her dwindling cultivation, but Yin Xi used his newly forged twin swords to drive her away. Months later, Bai Weiwei learned the Sword-Riding Technique while Jiang Yang wondered why Tushan Yi had sent his descendant to the Mortal Realm.

• Tushan Yao lamented that she had failed to find the Demon Emperor’s stranded princess and planned to take Shushan’s spiritual grounds before considering a journey east to Fusang.
• Yin Xi told Jiang Yang that Shushan’s divine swords would be complete in two days, and Jiang Yang saw their yin-and-yang radiance within the furnace.
• Tushan Yao confronted Xu Zhijia and Shushan’s disciples, weakening them with red light and demanding that they surrender their blessed grounds.
• Yin Xi used the completed twin swords to attack Tushan Yao, and their merged cry made her suspect that Shushan had ties to the Golden Crow Royal Clan.
• Tushan Yao asked where Yin Xi had learned to forge the swords; after he cited a Sword Canon passed down three hundred years earlier, she withdrew and headed east.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei stayed at Shushan for several months, where Bai Weiwei learned the Sword-Riding Technique and spread her sword-flying slogan among the disciples.

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.