Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yang gave Dante a Bloodline Potion, awakening his Divine Clan bloodline and setting him on the path to becoming a Witcher under Damon’s training. Months later, Jiang Yang left his Mediterranean territory, intending to return to the East after hearing that its ruling dynasty had changed again.

• Jiang Yang gave Dante Angelica’s Bloodline Potion, and Dante awakened the Divine Clan bloodline and the power of thunder.
• Damon agreed to train Dante as a Witcher Master, and Jiang Yang revealed that his divine name was Jiang before leaving the temple.
• Dante learned that Jiang Yang had departed and began his Witcher training under Damon.
• Jiang Yang reflected on how his territory had remained untouched by invading armies and decided it was time to leave for the East.

After the Crusader Kingdom fell, Jiang Yang left his territory and visited Dante in Egypt before heading east. He gave Dante a meditation manual and asked him to look after his manor in the land of the Franks.

• In AD 1291, Jiang Yang left his territory with his guards and servants after the Crusader Kingdom fell, then settled them at his manor in the land of the Franks.
• Jiang Yang took his guards of Eastern descent and traveled to Egypt to visit Dante, who had seen the seven layers of Hell and was preparing to go to Europe to write the Divine Comedy.
• Jiang Yang warned Dante to stop hunting demonic projections for a while and digest the demonic power he had absorbed, but Dante insisted he needed his current state to write.
• Jiang Yang gave Dante a meditation manual bearing his image as Lucifer and advised him to be cautious around demons.
• Jiang Yang asked Dante to look after his manor in the land of the Franks and told him he was leaving for the East.

The Demon Race Civilization flourished for long ages while Jiang Yang neared the pinnacle of the ninth step. In the East Sea, the Ninth Crown Prince welcomed his daughter Xuanming, whose birth stirred Jiang Yang’s heart, though he remained just a little short of his breakthrough.

• Jiang Yang sensed that he would soon reach the pinnacle of the ninth step as the Demon Race Civilization continued to thrive under his rule.
• The Play It Safe Demon King received a deep-sea territory and became neighbors and close friends with the Ninth Crown Prince, his former comrade in the Immortal-Slaying Army.
• The Ninth Crown Prince married a woman from the Western Continent’s Winged Dragon Clan, and they later invited the Play It Safe Demon King to celebrate her pregnancy.
• The Ninth Crown Prince’s daughter was born amid falling snow in the sea, and he named her Xuanming, predicting that she would become a wise female Demon Lord.
• Jiang Yang felt a stirring from deep within the Imperial Court, looked toward the East Sea, and said he was still just a little short.

Xuanming agreed to consider marrying Kong Ling, but the Imperial Bell decreed that she would become the Demon Emperor’s consort. Jiang Yang revealed that he had created false memories for her and then granted Demon King Gou a promotion and a post in the Imperial Court.

• The Ninth Prince struggled to refuse Kong Ling’s marriage proposal, which the Sea Dragon King’s Eldest Prince supported.
• Xuanming emerged and agreed to her father’s proposed match with Kong Ling.
• The Imperial Bell decreed that Xuanming would become the Demon Emperor’s consort, leaving Kong Ling and the other suitors heartbroken.
• Jiang Yang said he had strengthened Xuanming’s false memories and decided to give Demon King Gou an opportunity.
• The Imperial Bell appointed Demon King Gou a Demon Lord and granted him a post in the Imperial Court, despite his confusion about being praised for guarding his kingdom.

Jiang Yang made Xuanming his consort and reflected on his long rule over the Demon Race, resolving not to claim its Supreme Position and instead to focus on cultivation. After Lao Jun rewarded Demon King Play It Safe for tending the furnace, Jiang Yang arrived in the eastern world of the Sixth Epoch, where a vast dynasty already ruled.

• Jiang Yang decreed that Xuanming be invested as Demon Emperor Consort, then helped her rise and led her into the imperial court.
• Jiang Yang stood atop Zhou Mountain and decided he would not become the Demon Race's Supreme, since his roots remained with the Divine Clan.
• Jiang Yang vowed to devote himself to reaching the pinnacle of the Ninth Step, having gained precious time.
• Lao Jun promised to expound the Dao to Demon King Play It Safe for six hours on the first day of each month after three hundred years of tending the furnace.
• Jiang Yang arrived with his guards in the eastern lands of the Sixth Epoch, where a vast dynasty already ruled.

Jiang Yang visited Mount Kongtong and learned that Bai Weiwei had left to pursue the defecting Star Lords Greedy Wolf, Seven Killings, and Army Breaker, who had stolen the Heavenly Court’s Demon-Suppressing Mirror. He left word for Bai Weiwei and continued his travels, eventually reaching Dadu, the Yuan Dynasty’s capital.

• Jiang Yang visited the Heavenly Court Secret Realm on Mount Kongtong and spoke with the Four Mo Brothers.
• The Four Mo Brothers told Jiang Yang that Bai Weiwei had emerged from seclusion and gone after Greedy Wolf, Seven Killings, and Army Breaker, who had defected after injuring Lei Zhenzi and stealing the Demon-Suppressing Mirror.
• Jiang Yang learned that the Demon-Suppressing Mirror was the treasure he had brought down from Kunlun and reassured the Four Mo Brothers that Bai Weiwei could handle the pursuit.
• Jiang Yang asked the Four Mo Brothers to tell Bai Weiwei that he had visited and said he would leave secret marks so she could find him.
• Several months later, Jiang Yang entered Dadu with guards and several cartloads of goods.

Jiang Yang and his guards fought their way into Dadu after a Han Army Hereditary Lord ordered their arrest, then continued slaughtering the troops sent to stop them. As they headed toward the imperial palace, Temür ordered the gates shut, summoned reinforcements, and called for Master Heavenly Wolf.

• A Han Army Hereditary Lord ordered Jiang Yang and his companions arrested at Dadu's gate, and Jiang Yang killed him and dozens of soldiers in the ensuing fight.
• Jiang Yang sheathed his sword and led his guards into the city, while the gate guards rushed off to report the disturbance.
• Temür ordered the Commission for the Defense of the Capital to capture the intruders, but reports soon said the small group was cutting through the city and heading for the palace.
• Temür ordered troops summoned from outside the city and the gates closed, then sent attendants to summon Master Heavenly Wolf from the Buddha Hall.

Bai Weiwei traced Greedy Wolf Star Lords’ betrayal to his discovery of a buried battlefield and the Mirror of Sin, which he used to devour his companions and gain devil power. The chapter ended with Bai Weiwei arriving in the Yuan Dynasty Capital to purge him.

• Greedy Wolf Star Lords, Seven Killings Star Lords, and Army Breaker Star Lords uncovered an ancient battlefield beneath the Far North Icefield.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords used the Demon-Suppressing Treasure Mirror to draw power from a Great Devil Lord’s corpse and revealed that the mirror held the Devil Lord’s Law Heart.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords offered to share the devil power, then defeated and devoured Seven Killings Star Lords and Army Breaker Star Lords.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords cultivated in seclusion, then joined a rising northern tribe and urged it to wage campaigns so he could cultivate devil arts.
• Greedy Wolf Star Lords became the Yuan Empire’s imperial preceptor, and Bai Weiwei arrived in the Yuan Dynasty Capital to purge him.

Bai Weiwei entered Dadu’s imperial city and discovered that Jiang Yang and his men had fought their way into the palace. As she recognized her lord, the Yuan state preceptor arrived and prepared to confront the intruders.

• Bai Weiwei found Yuan soldiers dead and the imperial gates smashed open as she entered the city.
• Bai Weiwei drew her sword, suspecting supernatural forces had attacked the palace.
• Jiang Yang and a dozen armored men, empowered by medicinal liquid, defeated the Yuan forces and reached the palace hall.
• Bai Weiwei recognized Jiang Yang on the palace steps, and he turned toward her.
• Temür and his ministers received the state preceptor, who identified the attackers’ strength as coming from potions and pills and vowed to stop them.

Jiang Yang reached the Yuan palace after leading a small force through Dadu, where he confronted the former Heavenly Court member Greedy Wolf. As Greedy Wolf revealed his overwhelming power, Bai Weiwei arrived and offered to fight him.

• Jiang Yang reached the palace and reflected that his troops had defeated the Yuan forces without intending to overthrow the empire.
• Greedy Wolf emerged from the palace hall and challenged Jiang Yang, claiming that Jiang Yang’s mortal body could not match his power.
• Greedy Wolf summoned a gigantic spectral-blue Heavenly Wolf, alarming the city’s residents and inspiring the Mongols.
• Jiang Yang realized he could not defeat Greedy Wolf in his current body and remembered seeing Bai Weiwei inside the palace.
• Bai Weiwei arrived beside Jiang Yang, accused Greedy Wolf of defecting from the Heavenly Court and stealing the Supreme Treasure, and offered to fight him.

Jiang Yang let Bai Weiwei fight Greedy Wolf so she could gain combat experience, but she was badly injured and defeated. He then took control of her body to face Greedy Wolf himself and show her how to fight above her rank.

• Jiang Yang encouraged Bai Weiwei to fight Greedy Wolf while warning her to be careful against a stronger opponent.
• Greedy Wolf attacked Bai Weiwei, and their battle drew the attention of Dadu's people, some of whom recognized her as the White Lotus Female Immortal.
• After four hours, Greedy Wolf defeated Bai Weiwei, who crashed into the imperial palace with severe injuries.
• Jiang Yang gave Bai Weiwei a healing potion and explained that she lacked Greedy Wolf's combat experience and awareness.
• Jiang Yang linked his will to Bai Weiwei's body, took control, and rose to fight Greedy Wolf while telling her to watch and learn.

Jiang Yang took control of Bai Weiwei during her battle with Star Lord Greedy Wolf, using precise predictions and swordplay to defeat him. After Greedy Wolf was slain, Bai Weiwei admitted she could not yet understand how to reproduce Jiang Yang’s fighting methods, and he told her to keep practicing.

• Bai Weiwei resumed her fight with Heavenly Wolf, dodging every attack and wounding him repeatedly with Sword Qi.
• Heavenly Wolf’s blood transformed people in Yuan Dadu into wolf-like monsters, who later became the ancestors of the eastern Werewolf Race.
• Jiang Yang explained his tactics to Bai Weiwei from within her inner world as he used her body to anticipate and counter Greedy Wolf’s attacks.
• Jiang Yang guided Bai Weiwei through Greedy Wolf’s attempted escape and severed the wolf’s head, killing him.
• Bai Weiwei confessed that she could not yet understand the techniques well enough to use them herself, and Jiang Yang encouraged her to practice.

Jiang Yang led his group into the Yuan imperial palace, spared the emperor, and left the city with Bai Weiwei. After Bai Weiwei returned to Mount Kongtong to train, Jiang Yang continued south and arrived at Haozhou.

• Jiang Yang encouraged Bai Weiwei to review what she had learned from the battle, then led the guards into the Yuan imperial palace.
• A Han Chinese minister who had surrendered from the Song challenged Jiang Yang, who told the Yuan emperor to ensure the minister disappeared from history.
• Jiang Yang spared the Yuan emperor, saying mortals should handle mortal affairs, and led his group out of the palace.
• A few days later, Jiang Yang's party left the Yuan capital, and the emperor and ministers breathed a sigh of relief.
• Bai Weiwei parted from Jiang Yang to return to the Heavenly Court Secret Realm on Mount Kongtong and train until she reached the Emperor-Rank Second Step.
• Jiang Yang traveled south with the others, crossed the Yellow River and the Central Plains, and stopped at Haozhou.

Jiang Yang settled in Haozhou after Yashan and reunited with Dante, who had married the Blood Clan woman Alice. Decades later, as the Yuan Dynasty weakened, Zhu Chongba was born in the village where Jiang Yang lived.

• Jiang Yang settled in Haozhou north of the Huai River and bought a ship to maintain contact between the eastern and western worlds.
• More than a decade later, Dante arrived with Alice, a Blood Clan woman he had found in an ancient ruin, and Jiang Yang welcomed their marriage.
• Dante stayed with Jiang Yang for a year, then sailed west with Alice after Jiang Yang warned him that Hell’s influence was overwhelming his divine bloodline.
• Several decades later, uprisings spread as the Yuan Dynasty began to weaken.
• Zhu Chongba was born in Jiang Yang’s village to a family descended from Yashan soldiers and one of Jiang Yang’s former guards.

Jiang Yang left the village with Bai Weiwei after decades there, then traveled west to visit Dante’s Manor and learned Dante had gone to Hell with Alice. He met Dante’s young daughter Lilith and decided to stay for about ten years to care for her.

• Bai Weiwei told Jiang Yang that Zhu Chongba would become an extraordinary historical figure, but Jiang Yang chose to let the child’s life unfold naturally.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei departed the village, after he distributed his wealth among the villagers; Bai Weiwei gave Zhu Chongba her Lotus Hairpin, and Jiang Yang urged him to remember his roots.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei traveled by sea to Venice and then France, where Nid welcomed Jiang Yang back to the Manor.
• Nid told Jiang Yang that Dante had gone to Hell with Alice a year earlier to avenge his parents.
• Nid introduced Lilith, Dante’s human and blood clan hybrid daughter, and Jiang Yang decided to stay at the Manor for about ten years to protect her.

Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei raised Lilith at their French manor for ten years, helping her awaken the Power of Moonlight. As they prepared to return to the East, Lilith chose to join the Witch Forest and pursue her cultivation.

• Bai Weiwei raised Lilith, who was clever, book-loving, and dreamed of building a library.
• Jiang Yang traveled around Europe while Bai Weiwei cared for Lilith at the manor.
• Jiang Yang obtained a Bloodline Potion for Lilith, and she awakened the rare Power of Moonlight alongside her Blood Clan power.
• After ten years, Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei prepared to leave France, and Lilith tearfully embraced Bai Weiwei before their departure.
• Lilith decided to join the Witch Forest, and Jiang Yang offered to write letters to Angelica and Illya for her.

Jiang Yang conquered the Yuan Dynasty, founded the Great Ming Dynasty, and named Zhu Yuanzhang his crown prince. After sensing that he was nearing the pinnacle of the Ninth Step, Jiang Yang abdicated to Zhu Yuanzhang and disappeared, and Bai Weiwei later left as well.

• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei built a force along the Huai River, and Jiang Yang captured Zhongdu with a thousand elite soldiers.
• Jiang Yang unified the south, became the Ming King, and recruited Zhu Chongba, later known as Zhu Yuanzhang, into his army.
• Jiang Yang defeated the Yuan Dynasty, founded the Great Ming Dynasty, appointed Bai Weiwei chancellor, and named Zhu Yuanzhang crown prince.
• Jiang Yang told Bai Weiwei that he would abdicate in seven days and enter seclusion as his cultivation approached the pinnacle of the Ninth Step.
• Jiang Yang abdicated to Zhu Yuanzhang and vanished, while Bai Weiwei resigned three days later and disappeared.
• Zhu Yuanzhang killed many officials from the preceding reign to stabilize his rule.

After the Great Ming Dynasty stabilized, Jiang Yang entered the Luo River Divine Court with Bai Weiwei and prepared to leave his body there under her guard. His will returned to his main body in the Third Epoch, where he awoke in the Demon Race Imperial Court on Zhou Mountain.

• Zhu Yuanzhang governed the flourishing Great Ming Dynasty, knowing Jiang Yang would eventually pass the throne to him.
• Jiang Yang and Bai Weiwei entered the Luo River Divine Court and awakened a dragon-headed demigod.
• Jiang Yang told the demigod to let the others keep sleeping and introduced Bai Weiwei as his disciple and Luobin's junior martial sister.
• Jiang Yang asked Bai Weiwei to guard his mortal body and use the Divine Clan Magic Formations while he returned his will to his main body.
• Jiang Yang's will reached the Third Epoch, and he opened his eyes in the Demon Race Imperial Court on Zhou Mountain.

Jiang Yang watched the Yao Epoch and its Demon Race civilization dissolve into the River of Time, then used his final authority to give its people a place in the All Heavens Dharma Forms. The civilization vanished as its emperor declared that demons would endure as imprints such as the Golden Crow, Peng, Phoenix, Azure Dragon, and Qilin.

• Jiang Yang’s power rose until he shone like a sun above Earth, and the River of Time began to emerge around the Yao Epoch.
• The Yao Epoch turned illusory, and the Demon Race realized their civilization was destined to disappear into time.
• Demon Race powerhouses and ordinary demons fought against oblivion and begged Jiang Yang to save them, but he watched without intervening.
• Jiang Yang told his subjects farewell and spread his Golden Crow wings over the Earth to hold a final funeral for their civilization.
• Jiang Yang asked the River of Time to let him act, then decreed that the shattered Demon Race civilization would become the source of the All Heavens Dharma Forms.

Jiang Yang and the Imperial Bell watched the Demon Race Civilization fade away as its people faced the end of their world. After it vanished, the river of time swept them away and carried Jiang Yang downstream toward his own era.

• The Imperial Bell joined Jiang Yang, and he told it they would stay to see the Demon Race Civilization through its final journey.
• Demon powerhouses tried to leave Earth for outer space but dissolved, while despair drove many other demons to take their own lives.
• Ordinary demons accepted their fate and lived on as the world grew increasingly illusory.
• After a thousand years, the Demon Race Civilization vanished, and the river of time swept Jiang Yang and the Imperial Bell away.
• Jiang Yang relinquished control and drifted downstream through the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Epochs toward his original time.