Recaps

Jiang Yantian rallied the city’s survivors and arranged for them to build a golden statue, turning their gratitude into genuine incense offerings. He shared the offerings with Tu Jiuling, whose image was included beside his in the statue.

• Tu Jiuling admired Jiang Yantian’s methods for gaining faith and wondered whether she could imitate them to earn praise from her own people.
• Jiang Yantian reassured the survivors, urged them to rebuild through their own efforts, and promised the Heaven-Serving Divine Sect would stand with them.
• Jiang Yantian pretended to be exhausted, and Tu Jiuling persuaded the survivors to make a golden statue and offer incense to restore him.
• The survivors gathered treasure and craftsmen to build the statue and an offering hall, while Jiang Yantian rested at an inn with Tu Jiuling.
• Jiang Yantian merged his presence with Tu Jiuling’s fox form, and their shared image entered the golden statue so they could both receive its incense offerings.

Tu Jiuling treated Jiang Yantian’s hidden injuries and, believing her heart had chosen him, swore a Fox Race Heavenly Dao Blood Oath to love only him. Jiang Yantian mistook her question about his feelings for a test before she left, while deciding he would keep her with him and eventually accompany her home.

• Jiang Yantian had Tu Jiuling blindfold herself and follow his instructions as he began treating his hidden injuries.
• During the six-hour treatment, Tu Jiuling realized what was happening and accepted that she had chosen Jiang Yantian.
• Tu Jiuling hid at the inn, drank spirit spring, and swore a Heavenly Dao Blood Oath to love only Jiang Yantian for life.
• Tu Jiuling returned and asked Jiang Yantian whether he liked her, but he wrongly assumed she was testing him before returning to her race.
• Jiang Yantian agreed to take Tu Jiuling out to eat and walk with her, privately resolving to keep her by his side and go with her to her maiden home.

Jiang Yantian took Tu Jiuling to inspect the temple under construction, then left the recovering ancient city with her and headed for the divided Canglan Imperial Dynasty. He arrived in the capital eager to find Shengxia and put an end to the conflict between her and the separatists.

• Jiang Yantian and Tu Jiuling saw the temple taking shape, including a huge statue depicting him with Tu Jiuling as a nine-tailed fox on his shoulder.
• Jiang Yantian called himself Tu Jiuling's husband, making her joyful, and she decided to stay by his side rather than return home.
• Jiang Yantian found no delicacies in the devastated city, so he took Tu Jiuling to the Canglan Imperial Dynasty.
• Jiang Yantian and Tu Jiuling reached the Canglan capital, where soldiers patrolled amid the unrest, and he declared that he had come for Shengxia.

Jiang Yantian and Tu Jiuling learned from a street vendor how the Canglan Empress had been weakened by her regent uncle. The vendor revealed that the regent had manipulated the Divine Might General into surrendering his military tally, leaving the empress with little control.

• Jiang Yantian and Tu Jiuling stopped at a street stall, where Jiang Yantian objected to being served vegetarian wontons and paid the vendor a gold ingot to share news about the dynasty.
• The vendor explained that the regent had imposed restrictions that left ordinary people struggling to find food, while the empress faced obstruction from officials who defied her policies.
• The vendor recounted how the regent had promised the Divine Might General that he could marry the empress, then used forged authority and attacks to deepen the general’s misunderstanding of her.
• The Divine Might General returned with eight hundred thousand troops, surrendered his military tally, and handed it to the regent, who now controlled much of the court and army.
• The vendor said the story had been deliberately spread, but most people dismissed it; he believed its details mixed truth with falsehood.

Jiang Yantian discovered that General Divine Might was Li Junmo, the Shadow Sect’s young sect master, whose devotion to Shengxia had inspired a tangled romance script. He arrived at Li Junmo’s courtyard intending to confront him and declared that he had come to collect a dog.

• Jiang Yantian speculated that General Divine Might had been misunderstood by the empress and might secretly be the Shadow Sect’s young sect master.
• Jiang Yantian and Tu Jiuling flew to the courtyard where the vendor said General Divine Might lived, a place preserved as it had been when the empress hid there.
• Jiang Yantian found the courtyard spotless and learned from a notification that General Divine Might was Li Junmo, an early Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator and the Shadow Sect’s young sect master.
• Jiang Yantian saw Li Junmo’s original script, in which he loved and secretly protected Shengxia while the empress misunderstood him.
• Jiang Yantian called for someone and announced that he had come to collect a dog.

Jiang Yantian visited Li Junmo and told him how the Canglan Princess met and fell in love with a handsome man while fleeing with refugees. Li Junmo struggled to accept the story, especially when Jiang Yantian described the man bathing her and treating her injuries.

• Jiang Yantian and Tu Jiuling met Li Junmo at his home and said they had come to visit after hearing of his reputation.
• Li Junmo began recounting his romance with the Canglan Princess, but Jiang Yantian interrupted to share a story he had witnessed.
• Jiang Yantian said the fleeing princess met a handsome man who helped her up and wiped the grime from her face, causing her to fall in love with him.
• Li Junmo protested that the princess could not have fallen for the man at first sight, then let Jiang Yantian continue.
• Jiang Yantian said the man took the princess to a valley, bathed her, and treated her injuries, prompting Li Junmo to accuse him of making up absurdities.

Jiang Yantian revealed to Li Junmo that he had rescued Shengxia, made her his woman, and came to take Li Junmo to her. After destroying the workshop and unleashing a storm over the imperial city, Jiang Yantian appeared before Shengxia and the dynasty’s experts, while the regent saw a chance to seize the throne.

• Jiang Yantian told Li Junmo how he had named Shengxia and made her his woman, then accused Li Junmo of causing her years of suffering.
• Jiang Yantian engulfed the workshop in fog, suppressed Li Junmo’s Qi, and left the workshop in ruins as a tremendous presence stirred the sky over the city.
• The imperial dynasty’s experts gathered beneath the dark clouds, and the regent urged Shengxia to issue an edict of self-reproach.
• Li Junmo crashed into a crater in the imperial city, and the experts recognized him as the former Divine Might General.
• Jiang Yantian appeared above the city, and Shengxia recognized the young master she had long yearned to see again.
• The regent realized Jiang Yantian could help him take the throne and expected Shengxia to resist him.

Jiang Yantian arrived at the Canglan Imperial Dynasty and forced its officials to choose between Regent Murong Yu and Shengxia. He summoned the ministers and gave them half a cup of tea to declare their allegiance.

• Murong Yu and his faction bowed to Jiang Yantian, while Shengxia silently watched him from the opposite side.
• Jiang Yantian entered the great hall with Tu Jiuling, took the dragon throne, and asked Murong Yu whether he could make decisions for the dynasty.
• Jiang Yantian ordered Murong Yu to summon all the ministers, and Murong Yu quickly brought them to the palace.
• Jiang Yantian told the ministers to choose between the regent and the empress within half a cup of tea.

Jiang Yantian arrived in the Canglan Imperial Dynasty’s hall and revealed his bond with Shengxia, upending Murong Yu’s attempt to seize power. He sealed the hall and slaughtered Murong Yu’s faction, while Murong Yu crawled toward Shengxia begging for his life.

• Murong Yu’s supporters gathered on one side of the hall while Shengxia and a small group of loyalists stood on the other.
• Jiang Yantian summoned the crippled Li Junmo, then turned his attention to Shengxia.
• Shengxia ran into Jiang Yantian’s arms, and they kissed as Murong Yu realized Jiang Yantian had come to support her, not his coup.
• Shengxia agreed when Jiang Yantian offered to kill Murong Yu’s faction, and he sealed the hall to prevent anyone from escaping.
• Jiang Yantian used the Ten Thousand Demons Banner to tear apart Murong Yu’s followers and consume their souls.
• Murong Yu begged Shengxia for mercy as black mist continued devouring him.

Shengxia and Jiang Yantian defeated the regent’s rebellion, and Jiang Yantian prepared to confront the Shadow Sect forces arriving to rescue Li Junmo. The chapter left Shengxia and Tu Jiuling heading out to face them while Jiang Yantian planned to stage a rescue for the people below.

• Jiang Yantian’s black mist devoured Murong Yu, whose soul and Primordial Spirit were drawn into the Ten Thousand Demons Banner.
• Jiang Yantian ordered the ministers to return to their duties and report that the rebellion was over and the million-strong border army was back under Shengxia’s control.
• Jiang Yantian confronted Li Junmo, revealed that he knew Li Junmo belonged to the Shadow Sect, and declared that the sect would pay for the injustice Shengxia had suffered.
• When the Shadow Sect’s people approached, Jiang Yantian had Li Junmo chained up and instructed Shengxia and Tu Jiuling to reflect the attackers’ strikes toward homes without hurting anyone.
• Shengxia and Tu Jiuling went out to face the attackers as Jiang Yantian prepared to appear as a savior to the people.

Shengxia and Tu Jiuling battled the Shadow Sect’s invading forces while protecting the people of the imperial capital. As the terrified commoners prayed to the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord, Jiang Yantian absorbed their faith, transformed it into Devil Qi, and reached the late stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

• Shengxia and Tu Jiuling faced Li Yongliang and the Shadow Sect, who had come to demand the return of Li Junmo.
• Shengxia told Li Yongliang that Li Junmo was dead, and he ordered the Shadow Sect to attack the imperial capital.
• Tu Jiuling wiped out the charging Shadow Sect disciples, then she and Shengxia fought Li Yongliang and the sect’s remaining forces.
• Shengxia shielded fleeing commoners from the battle, but the attacks set the city ablaze and injured and killed people.
• The commoners prayed to the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord, and Jiang Yantian absorbed their faith as Devil Qi, growing stronger and reaching the late stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Jiang Yantian staged a divine arrival, defeated the Shadow Sect, and used the spectacle to strengthen his public image as the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord. The Canglan Imperial Dynasty’s people embraced him and Shengxia, while the Heaven-Serving Divine Sect was set to become the state religion.

• Jiang Yantian created heavenly phenomena and appeared before the people as the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord.
• Jiang Yantian condemned the Shadow Sect, then attacked them with demonic Qi while claiming to offer purification through the Human Emperor Banner.
• Jiang Yantian swallowed the Shadow Sect members into the Ten Thousand Demons Banner, while Li Junmo watched and cursed him in despair.
• Shengxia reassured the people that the national treasury would pay to repair their homes, and they praised her and the Heaven-Serving Divine Lord.
• The Heaven-Serving Divine Sect was set to become Canglan’s state religion, and some factions began aligning themselves with it.

Jiang Yantian captured Li Junmo and reunited with Shengxia, who agreed to leave the throne and follow him. The chapter ended with Jiang Yantian worrying about Yingchun, whose whereabouts he could not sense and who might have gone to the Upper Realm.

• Jiang Yantian had Li Junmo swallowed by the Sun and Moon in the Gourd after mocking and threatening him with torment.
• Tu Jiuling left the great hall, then secretly watched as Jiang Yantian and Shengxia reunited on the dragon throne.
• Jiang Yantian asked Shengxia to leave with him, and she agreed, explaining that she had prepared her nephew to succeed her.
• Shengxia told Jiang Yantian that she and Yingchun had parted ways at the border, and Jiang Yantian worried Yingchun might be in trouble or in the Upper Realm.

Jiang Yantian sent Shengxia and Tu Jiuling to the Chaos Realm when experts from the Nine Heavens arrived to stop his growing influence. He faced them beyond the heavens, summoned powerful weapons and ancient ferocious beasts, and the invaders suspected he was the Imperishable Devil Emperor.

• Jiang Yantian sensed enemies approaching, sent Shengxia and Tu Jiuling to the Chaos Realm, and prepared to meet the Nine Heavens experts.
• The Purple-Templed Thunder Lord and Azure Luan Shadow Lady led the descending experts, who accused Jiang Yantian of deceiving people and absorbing their incense offerings.
• Jiang Yantian appeared and proposed moving their battle beyond the heavens, but the Azure Luan Shadow Lady demanded his surrender.
• Jiang Yantian summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Banner, God-Slaying Spear, World-Destroying Black Lotus, Heaven-Suppressing Pearl, and six ancient ferocious beasts.
• The experts recognized the beasts as contracted Taiyi Golden Immortals and suspected Jiang Yantian was the Imperishable Devil Emperor, prompting them to call for reinforcements.

Jiang Yantian fought eight Daluo Golden Immortals while the ferocious beasts battled their forces, using his Black Lotus and God-Slaying Spear to kill the Azure Luan Shadow Lady. As the fight continued, a gigantic fissure opened above the battlefield and began drawing both sides toward it.

• Jiang Yantian sent the ferocious beasts into battle and confronted the eight Daluo Golden Immortals alone.
• Jiang Yantian summoned a flaming skeleton and blood moon, breaking through the opponents’ attacks before the Black Lotus scattered their combined assault.
• Jiang Yantian charged with the God-Slaying Spear, and the Shadow Legion attacked alongside him.
• Jiang Yantian crippled the Azure Luan Shadow Lady, pierced her, and tore out her heart.
• A gigantic fissure appeared in the sky, and a powerful force reached down to sweep both sides into it.

Emperor Venerable Xuankong descended from the Nine Heavens to confront Jiang Yantian, whom he believed was the reincarnated Imperishable Devil Emperor. After Jiang Yantian mocked him and his wife, Xuankong launched an attack, beginning their battle.

• Emperor Venerable Xuankong arrived amid golden light and overwhelming pressure, prompting the other experts to bow and retreat.
• Jiang Yantian mocked Xuankong’s claim that he was the Imperishable Devil Emperor and refused to go with him.
• Xuankong revealed his personal resentment toward the Devil Emperor, and Jiang Yantian taunted him about his wife until Xuankong grew furious.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong roared that he would suppress and kill Jiang Yantian, and both fighters unleashed their powers.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong sent nine immortal swords into a formation that bore down on Jiang Yantian.

Jiang Yantian fought Emperor Venerable Xuankong in a battle that shattered the surrounding space and devastated the Lower Realm. As Xuankong unleashed his strongest lightning attacks, Jiang Yantian revealed that his Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning was even more powerful, leaving Xuankong stunned.

• Jiang Yantian countered Emperor Venerable Xuankong’s sword formation with the Ten Thousand Demons Banner and his Heaven-Suppressing Pearl.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong attacked with the Hundun Sword, while Jiang Yantian answered with his devil treasures and the God-Slaying Spear.
• Jiang Yantian summoned his Dharma Manifestation of Heaven and Earth and overwhelmed Xuankong’s Thunder Dragon-Imprisoning Formation with devil flames.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong unleashed world-destroying lightning from his tribulation domain, and Jiang Yantian met it with Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong was stunned by Jiang Yantian’s superior lightning as Jiang noted that he had not yet used his spatial abilities or true Heaven and Earth Dharma Form.

Jiang Yantian confronted the Nine Heavens powerhouses as ordinary people defended their faith in him, and four more imperial lords arrived to help Emperor Venerable Xuankong. Jiang Yantian unleashed Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, overwhelming the gathered forces, who prepared to attack him together.

• The Purple-Templed Thunder Lord condemned the commoners for worshipping Jiang Yantian, but they insisted he sheltered them when the powerful had not.
• Jiang Yantian mocked Emperor Venerable Xuankong and vowed to kill the Nine Heavens powerhouses and invade the Shattered Void Realm.
• Huankong, Ziji, Xinghan, and Xuanyou arrived and joined Xuankong in planning to suppress Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian invoked Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, transforming into a three-headed, six-armed devil god with ancient ferocious beasts and supreme-grade spiritual treasures.
• Jiang Yantian’s pressure made the Nine Heavens forces falter, and he summoned enormous Nine Nether Fine Steel Chains to sweep toward them.
• Xuankong called for a combined strike, and the imperial lords, Golden Immortals, and Taiyi began forming arrays.

Jiang Yantian fought the Nine Heavens’ experts and their Demon-Slaying Formation, overpowering the five Emperor Venerables with his weapons and demonic powers. When they tried to retreat, he trapped them all inside the Demon Kingdom in the Palm, where he declared that none could escape unless he died.

• Jiang Yantian broke through the experts’ attacks with the World-Destroying Black Lotus, devoured some fighters, and struck others down with the God-Slaying Spear and Heaven-Burning Axe.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong ordered the experts to form the Demon-Slaying Formation, but Jiang Yantian held off its suppression with the Heaven-Suppressing Pearl and forced the five Emperor Venerables back.
• Jiang Yantian attacked the gathered experts with black-light pillars and his weapons, killing dozens and leaving the five Emperor Venerables fearful of his undying body and defenses.
• Emperor Venerable Xinghan and Emperor Venerable Huankong called for a retreat, arguing that Jiang Yantian had to be sealed rather than fought directly.
• Jiang Yantian used Demon Kingdom in the Palm to sweep up everyone from the Nine Heavens and trap them in a strange, mist-shrouded realm, where he said they could not leave unless he died.

Jiang Yantian trapped the Emperor Venerables and their forces in his looping Demon Kingdom, where their attacks turned back on them and drained their vitality. He had the Sea-Rending Mystic Dragon Whale bury the gathered fighters under a massive pile of filth, leaving the five Emperor Venerables watching their people struggle free.

• Jiang Yantian watched as more reinforcements entered his domain and discovered they could neither find an exit nor reach its boundaries.
• Emperor Venerable Xuankong ordered everyone to gather, guessing Jiang Yantian could no longer attack while maintaining his divine ability.
• Jiang Yantian summoned six injured beasts, gave them pills to recover, and told the Sea-Rending Mystic Dragon Whale to drop a huge dump on the gathered fighters.
• The Sea-Rending Mystic Dragon Whale appeared overhead and buried the fighters beneath the pile, while the five Emperor Venerables teleported out of its way.
• The buried fighters cried for help, but the Emperor Venerables hesitated to approach the filth.

Jiang Yantian undermined the five Emperor Venerables’ attempt to calm the trapped cultivators, then revealed two ways to escape his devil kingdom. Outside, Nan Tianxin urged the gathered realm lords to send troops inside, and the Qiankun Realm lord backed the plan.

• Jiang Yantian mocked the Emperor Venerables and suggested that only the last three survivors could escape, prompting Xuankong and Xinghan to call his words a scheme.
• Jiang Yantian appeared, killed several cultivators, and disproved the Emperor Venerables’ claim that he could not act.
• Jiang Yantian told the trapped cultivators they could leave by crippling their cultivation or surviving above the others, then encouraged them to target the weakened Emperor Venerables.
• Nan Tianxin proposed that each realm send elite troops through the void gate, hoping Jiang Yantian would devour them.
• The Qiankun Realm lord supported the plan and proposed sending two thousand elites from each realm.

Nan Tianxin persuaded the gathered realms to send elites into the Imperishable Devil Emperor’s domain, secretly intending to help her husband Jiang Yantian. The realms agreed, and she ordered the Void Spirit Realm to assemble two thousand elites as Qingli Yingyue learned that Nan Tianxin was Jiang Yantian’s wife.

• The gathered realms weighed Nan Tianxin’s proposal and agreed to send elites to suppress the Imperishable Devil Emperor.
• Nan Tianxin teased Qingli Yingyue and revealed that she knew the Imperishable Devil Emperor was the Qiankun Realm’s sixth elder.
• Nan Tianxin showed Qingli Yingyue the Immortal-Ending Sword and explained that Jiang Yantian was her husband and that she planned to help him.
• Nan Tianxin warned Qingli Yingyue to make sure Qiankun Realm’s people identified themselves before entering the domain so Jiang Yantian would not attack them.
• Nan Tianxin commanded the Void Spirit Realm to assemble two thousand elites to enter the domain with the other realms.

Nan Tianxin and Qingli Yingyue sent four thousand powerhouses into the Demon Kingdom, where Jiang Yantian secretly spared them while making everyone else believe he had destroyed them. As tens of thousands of other cultivators began dying under the realm’s pressure, Jiang Yantian let the four thousand relax and resumed tormenting the survivors.

• Nan Tianxin and Qingli Yingyue ordered their four thousand True Immortal and stronger cultivators to enter the Demon Kingdom and challenge Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian watched the incoming army from his seat and let Taotie prepare to feast on the dead.
• The Void Spirit Realm and Qiankun Realm groups announced their challenge, and Jiang Yantian’s black robe swept over them, making them appear to vanish.
• The other cultivators began dying from the Demon Kingdom’s oppressive force as Jiang Yantian told survivors they could leave if they crippled their cultivation.
• Jiang Yantian revealed that he had secretly saved the four thousand and told them to treat their stay as a sightseeing trip.
• Jiang Yantian killed a Golden Immortal with a burnt skewer, terrifying the cultivators below.

Jiang Yantian spared the Moon Spirit Realm’s Ancient Fox Race and used his domain to leave secretly, intending to raid the Emperor Venerables’ homes. Outside, he reunited with Nan Tianxin, and Qingli Yingyue discovered them kissing before Jiang Yantian went to meet her.

• Jiang Yantian called the Moon Spirit Realm’s Ancient Fox Race forward, protected them from Emperor Venerable Xuankong, and swept the two thousand foxes into his domain.
• Jiang Yantian offered to spare anyone who revealed the Emperor Venerables’ families’ whereabouts, but the five Emperor Venerables killed informants before they could finish speaking.
• Jiang Yantian used the Shadow Replacement Technique to leave his presence inside the domain while his real body slipped outside to raid the realms’ homes.
• Jiang Yantian found Nan Tianxin among the Void Spirit Realm’s people and pulled her behind the crowd, where they kissed.
• Qingli Yingyue spotted Jiang Yantian and Nan Tianxin kissing, then turned away and waited as they finished.
• Jiang Yantian and Nan Tianxin approached Qingli Yingyue to meet her.

Jiang Yantian tricked Qingli Yingyue into an unwanted embrace before leaving to raid the Shattered Void Realm. He broke through its defenses and began destroying the realm domain with the God-Slaying Spear.

• Jiang Yantian greeted Qingli Yingyue and used Nan Tianxin as cover after smacking her rear.
• Jiang Yantian maneuvered Nan Tianxin aside and embraced Qingli Yingyue, then blamed Nan Tianxin for making him collide with her.
• Jiang Yantian kissed Nan Tianxin and headed toward the Nine Heavens while Nan Tianxin and Qingli Yingyue went to watch the entrance.
• Jiang Yantian crossed the barriers between realms and searched the Nine Heavens for the Shattered Void Realm.
• Jiang Yantian killed the Shattered Void Realm's gatekeepers, shattered its barriers, and entered the realm domain.
• Jiang Yantian enlarged the God-Slaying Spear and drove it into a heavenly pillar, unleashing destruction across the realm.