Chapter Summaries

The Pure Yang True Immortals watched Ji Ning’s progress in the Immortal Fate Assembly while Lu Dongbin fixated on the romance between Ji Ning and Yu Wei. Oriana arrived from the Stygian Blood Sea with a Xiantian Extreme Spirit Treasure and revealed that she had reincarnated into Ji Ning’s clan and would take him away after the assembly.

• Eight Pure Yang True Immortals arrived uninvited at the Great Xia Immortal Fate Assembly, and the Black-Robed Emperor Xia warned them that his master would choose a disciple first.
• Ji Ning saved Yu Wei from three Heavenly Silkworm Sect disciples, while Lu Dongbin noticed the unspoken feelings of a black-clad girl for a black-clad boy and insisted that she was in love.
• During the sixth month of the assembly, Ji Ning fought Cangwu Vulture and Xiamang Zishan while protecting Yu Wei, forcing both opponents to flee before he abandoned the chase to tend to her.
• The Northern Lands Immortal Elder concluded that Ji Ning’s Water-Fire Immortal Robe came from an exceptionally powerful secret technique and that Ji Ning likely already had a master.
• Oriana appeared before the nine Pure Yang True Immortals and presented Dao Ancestor Crimsonbright with a Xiantian Extreme Spirit Treasure sword; Crimsonbright instructed Emperor Xia to find out her intentions.
• Oriana revealed that she had reincarnated into the Ji Clan of Yan Mountain, had made Ji Ning her Registered Disciple, and wanted Emperor Xia to prevent Crimsonbright from choosing him so she could take him away after the assembly.

Oriana revealed herself as Ji Ning’s teacher, arranged for him to face tougher opponents, and gave Lu Dongbin a secret technique and a role in guiding Ji Ning and Yu Wei. After Ji Ning won the Immortal Fate Assembly, Oriana took him away to cultivate and prepare to destroy the Shaoyan Clan.

• Emperor Xia and the other True Immortals agreed to keep Oriana’s relationship with Ji Ning secret and to leave the Ji Clan’s trials undisturbed.
• Oriana gave Lu Dongbin the Water-Fire Source secret technique to study and entrusted him with jade pendants for Ji Ning and Yu Wei, while Lu Dongbin arranged to take Yu Wei as a disciple.
• Xiamang Qi and five other geniuses trapped Ji Ning and Yu Wei in an array, and Xiamang Qi poisoned Yu Wei with his Myriad Poison Sting.
• Ji Ning’s anger raised his sword comprehension, and he killed all six attackers before giving Yu Wei a pill that cured her poison.
• Ji Ning won first place in the Immortal Fate Assembly, then Oriana appeared and took him away to cultivate in the place where the monkey learned the Dao.

After more than seven thousand years of preparation, Jiang Zhe began the pilgrimage up Pilgrim Mountain in the Ancient Saint Realm. He defeated Emperor Lord Lin Wei and Emperor Lord Wanzhi with two different Strongest Paths, leaving the observers to wonder how far his power would go.

• Jiang Zhe ended his meditation and stepped onto Pilgrim Mountain, drawing the attention of the Saint Realm’s cultivators and prompting them to place bets on his first trial.
• Pilgrim Mountain examined Jiang Zhe and drew his consciousness into an illusion that could not recognize his Path of the World.
• Emperor Lord Lin Wei attacked Jiang Zhe with the Path of Thunder, but Jiang Zhe killed his afterimage in one strike with the Strongest Path, Pierce.
• Emperor Lord Ming Yuan praised Jiang Zhe, while Emperor Lord Wanzhi asked Dominator Ming Lan to let him guide the promising cultivator.
• Jiang Zhe pierced Emperor Lord Wanzhi’s afterimage, then used the Strongest Path, Spread, to destroy it with lightning chains.

Jiang Zhe fought Dao Lord Yan Long, whose Curse Killing marks and Sinful Dragon substitutes made him difficult to defeat. Jiang Zhe used Thunder purification and a combined Heavenly Tribulation attack to destroy Yan Long, studied his inheritance, and continued climbing toward the pilgrimage.

• Jiang Zhe faced Dao Lord Yan Long, who filled the battlefield with Sinful Dragons and marked Jiang Zhe with Curse Killing.
• Jiang Zhe used Thunder Purification to erase the curse marks and sever Yan Long’s connection to him.
• Jiang Zhe discovered that Yan Long could substitute Sinful Dragons for himself and that destroying them strengthened his Curse Killing.
• Jiang Zhe combined several Strongest Paths with Heavenly Tribulation to annihilate the Sinful Dragon swarm and kill Yan Long’s projection.
• Jiang Zhe examined Yan Long’s inheritance, found the Yan Long Undying Body and other secret arts, then returned to his body and continued climbing.

Jiang Zhe climbed Pilgrim Mountain, defeated a swift Dao Lord, and gathered ten thousand paths before pausing to absorb what he had learned. In the Three Realms, Ji Ning struggled to advance his swordsmanship until his teacher showed him the Sword Immortals’ distinctive aura and urged him to gain practical experience.

• Jiang Zhe defeated Dao Lord Yellow Wind by creating Chaos Divine Thunder, then claimed Yellow Wind’s legacy and learned a powerful branch of the Path of Wind.
• Jiang Zhe accepted legacies across many Great Daos, reached ten thousand paths after defeating Emperor Lord Xuan Ming, and stopped climbing to study the Eternal Dao legacies he had collected.
• Ji Ning swept Mount Fangcun’s steps while troubled that he could not defeat the sword-path puppet, and Bodhi and Oriana discussed his future and the need for him to leave the mountain for practical experience.
• Ji Ning challenged Sword Twenty-Seven in the Myriad Dao Palace and lost on the 147th move.
• Ji Ning’s teacher explained that he lacked life-and-death tempering and true Sword Immortal Aura, then gave him a scroll depicting famous sword immortals to study.

Ji Ning returned to the Great Xia World, completed his sword Dao, and was banished to the Realm of Annihilation after accidentally killing ten billion mortals. After years of preparation under Oriana, his Second Primordial Spirit began its Celestial Immortal Tribulation in the Stygian Blood Sea, passing the Thunder Tribulation as the Inner Demon Tribulation began.

• Oriana gave Ji Ning the final treasure from the Myriad Dao Palace, while Bodhi Dao Ancestor taught him how to prepare for his tribulation and gave him the Great Thousand Sword Formation.
• Ji Ning returned to the Great Xia World, rescued Muzisuo from a Seamless Gate stronghold, and killed four Celestial Immortals who ambushed him, completing his sword Dao in the fight.
• Ji Ning attacked the Shaoyan Clan, accidentally destroyed the Qiankun Bead containing ten billion mortals, and was struck by Red Karma Fire before Shaoyan Chou banished him beyond the Three Realms with the World Suppressing Pagoda.
• Oriana watched as Ji Ning cultivated in the Realm of Annihilation for more than eighteen years, reaching Dominator Perfected Mind Power and advancing his sword Dao.
• Oriana brought Ji Ning to the Stygian Blood Sea, gave him the Karma Fire Red Lotus, and prepared the Blood Sea for his Second Primordial Spirit's tribulation.
• White-Robed Ji Ning passed the Thunder Tribulation, and the Inner Demon Tribulation began.

Ji Ning endured an intensified Inner Demon Tribulation, broke through it, and became a First Grade Celestial Immortal. Returning to the Great Xia World, he saved Heavenly Immortal Tonghe and annihilated a Seamless Gate force, then shot True Immortal Fuhua dead.

• Ji Ning relived a tragic alternate life in the Inner Demon Tribulation, lost his family and the Three Realms, and broke free by reaching the fourth heartforce level, Mortal World.
• Ji Ning formed a First Grade Golden Core and became a Celestial Immortal; Oriana told him to return to the Great Xia World before crossing his true body's tribulation.
• Oriana sent Ji Ning back to Anchan City with the Karma Fire Red Lotus, Abi, and Yuantu, and told him to prepare for battle.
• Ji Ning arrived during the Seamless Gate's attack on Anchan City and saw eighteen Celestial Immortals trap Heavenly Immortal Tonghe in a Tortoise-Serpent Formation.
• Ji Ning's Second Primordial Spirit broke the formation and killed seventeen Celestial Immortals, then killed the surviving Celestial Immortal Zicao.
• True Immortal Fuhua attacked Ji Ning, who used a greatbow and two blood-colored arrows to destroy Fuhua's Pure Yang Golden Core and kill him.

After Ji Ning’s Second Primordial Spirit killed True Immortal Fuhua, both the Xia Clan and the Seamless Gate recognized him as a major threat. Ji Ning married Yu Wei, learned that she was pregnant, and strengthened his forces, while the Seamless Gate prepared an attack on him and his loved ones.

• Immortal Diancai and Yu Wei learned that Ji Ning’s Second Primordial Spirit had slain True Immortal Fuhua, and Emperor Xia resolved to recruit Ji Ning while the Seamless Gate decided he had to be killed before his tribulation.
• Ji Ning married Yu Wei and postponed his Celestial God Tribulation so they could try to have a child.
• Ji Ning gave the Seven Celestial Gods Chaos Spirit Liquid and secured their pledge to serve him until the Star Plucking Mansion had an official successor.
• Ji Ning merged nine hundred and ninety First Grade Heavenly Immortal clones, gaining the power of a First Grade True Immortal.
• Celestial God Qinghu organized the Three-Headed Heavenly Demon to confront Ji Ning’s Second Primordial Spirit and ordered others to target his true body and family, while forbidding them to harm Yu Wei.

Ji Ning and Yu Wei faced an assassination attempt, which Ji Ning's Seven Celestial Gods allies swiftly crushed. He then brought Yu Wei to Oriana, who revealed the truth about her fate and offered two ways to protect her until the Three Realms' great tribulation ended.

• Shaoyan Chou led powerful attackers to Bright Heart Island, where Ji Ning protected Yu Wei and summoned the Seven Celestial Gods.
• Black Robe Ji Ning sealed Winged Serpent Lake with the Blood God Formation, and the Seven Celestial Gods defeated the attackers.
• Ji Ning brought Yu Wei to the isolated island in the Stygian Blood Sea, where the island suppressed the hidden move planted in her soul.
• Oriana told Ji Ning that Yu Wei's True Spirit had been annihilated in the future shown by his altered Inner Demon Tribulation and explained that only the master of their Chaotic Universe could revive her.
• Oriana offered Yu Wei a choice between remaining on the island until the God King died or having her True Spirit secretly transferred into Ji Ning's Jade pendant after her apparent death.

Ji Ning protected Yu Wei and their unborn daughter in a refuge beneath the Stygian Blood Sea, passed his Celestial God tribulation, and devastated the Seamless Gate’s forces in the Great Xia World. The God King launched the Realm War to eliminate him, and Ji Ning ended the chapter trapped between a giant’s hammer and Evergreen Sword Immortal’s surprise attack.

• Ji Ning persuaded Yu Wei to live with him beneath the Stygian Blood Sea while he sent avatars and his Second Primordial Spirit to fight.
• Ji Ning passed his tribulation, became a Celestial God, and slaughtered the Seamless Gate’s forces in the Great Xia World.
• After Ji Ning rejected the God King’s threat involving Yu Wei, the God King ordered a full assault on the Great Xia World and sent reinforcements.
• Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo descended, and the Realm War began with the armies of both sides charging into battle.
• The Golden-Haired Divine Eagle, Nine-Headed Lion, and Broken-Horned Divine Dragon combined into a Three-Eyed Demonic God and attacked Ji Ning as Evergreen Sword Immortal tried to stab his Golden Core from behind.

Black Robe Ji Ning used Dao Ancestor-level power to annihilate the Boundless Faction forces and win the realmwar, then was ambushed as the formation fell. As he fled the attackers, he recognized the pursuing Wind Demon, the Lord of All Demons.

• Black Robe Ji Ning killed the Evergreen Sword Immortal and three powerful Heavenly Gods with Water-Fire Lotuses and his sword formation.
• Ji Ning trapped the Boundless Faction forces in a Blood God Formation and, with Dao Ancestor Chiming holding off Dao Ancestor Ink Bamboo, slaughtered their army.
• The Three Realms’ major powers debated Ji Ning’s surprising strength, while Old Man Yuan considered how to pursue his plan to enslave him.
• After Ji Ning’s victory, his heartforce broke through to the Fifth Layer, and the Nuwa Faction hailed him as Darknorth Dao Lord.
• When Ji Ning dispersed the Blood God Formation, Darklight Sword Master ambushed him, but Ji Ning survived the blow and fled as Dao Ancestor Chiming fought Ink Bamboo.
• Ji Ning used the Black Annihilation Demonic Vine escape technique, then saw the Wind Demon, the Lord of All Demons, rapidly pursuing him.

Ji Ning escaped Wind Demon, agreed to face the Boundless Faction’s Dao Ancestors in the Contention for Destiny, and pursued an intense course of cultivation while raising his daughter with Yu Wei. At age eight hundred and five, as war erupted in the Yellow Emperor Territory and Cixiu Great Demon God stirred in the Ancient Ruins, Ji Ning volunteered to confront the Ancient Ruins alone.

• Ji Ning used a time-space Dao talisman to escape Wind Demon and returned to the Stygian Blood Sea, while the factions began negotiating over his participation in the Contention for Destiny.
• Oriana arranged an exchange for the Seven Hearts secret art and gave Ji Ning Chaos Spirit Liquid and illusionary treasure swords, while Ji Ning planned separate cultivation paths for his clones.
• Ji Ning and Yu Wei welcomed their daughter Ji Mingyue, and Ji Ning’s clones advanced their sword cultivation as Lu Dongbin returned as a Dao Ancestor.
• Ji Ning’s clones killed Dao Ancestor Xuandu and later Darklight Sword Master, provoking the Boundless Faction to deploy the Myriad Things Emissary.
• At age eight hundred and five, Ji Ning emerged from Moonlit Pool as war spread to the Yellow Emperor Territory and Cixiu Great Demon God moved in the Ancient Ruins.
• Ji Ning volunteered to go alone to the Ancient Ruins and offered the Nuwa Faction a chance to strike the Boundless Faction’s lair if he was ambushed.

Ji Ning cleared the Ancient Ruins World while the Nuwa Faction and the Boundless Faction began the Final Battle earlier than expected. After the Boundless Faction suffered heavy losses, the Cixiu Great Demon God confronted Ji Ning and recognized that his strength came from a Chaos inheritance.

• The Master of Ten Thousand Devils and the Lord of Inner Demons agreed to begin the Final Battle and have the Primal Chaos alien races hold Ji Ning back.
• Patriarch Bodhi warned the Myriad Races Hall that the Boundless Faction was mobilizing, and Suiren told Ji Ning to keep the alien races out of the war.
• The Nuwa Faction and the Boundless Faction clashed in a massive battle, and the Boundless Faction suffered mounting losses as the war continued.
• On the forty-third day, both factions deployed insect beast armies, and Suiren prepared the Nuwa Faction's True God Dao Ancestors to enter the fray.
• Ji Ning killed Imperial Sovereign Fusha, Imperial Sovereign Tumor Eye's attacking body, and ten True God alien races with his sword formation.
• The Cixiu Great Demon God attacked Ji Ning in the Golden River World, watched him defeat the Water Cliff Tribe True Gods, and identified his power as the result of the Thousand Body Scripture of Chaos.

Ji Ning trapped the Cixiu Great Demon God, defeated his attempt to escape, and forced him to submit alongside the Wild Dog Ancestral God after mastering the Mind Sword Style and Killing Sword Style. As the decisive battle between the Nuwa Faction and the Boundless Faction began, Wind Demon attacked the Nuwa Faction’s army, and Ji Ning’s True God clone appeared to face him.

• The Cixiu Great Demon God trapped Black Robe Ji Ning in the Endless Path Formation, but Ji Ning used a time-space cage to block his escape and broke out of the formation.
• The Cixiu Great Demon God offered to become Ji Ning’s follower, then attacked when Ji Ning demanded that he prove himself in battle.
• Ji Ning fought off the Cixiu Great Demon God with the Water-Fire Lotus and Water-Fire Sword Qi while his true body battled the Wild Dog Ancestral God in the World Prison.
• Ji Ning mastered the Mind Sword Style and Killing Sword Style, overwhelming both Ancestor Gods and making the Cixiu Great Demon God and Wild Dog Ancestral God submit as followers.
• Wind Demon rushed toward the Nuwa Faction’s army, and Ji Ning’s Immortal Power Incarnation revealed a True God clone to confront him.

Ji Ning helped the Nuwa Faction overwhelm the Seamless Gate, killing God King Bu Xiu and Dao Ancestor Demonic Hand before the Lord of Inner Demons broke free. As the battle shifted toward a clash between Ji Ning and Inner Demon, a Dao Tree enveloped the Three Realms, and Wind Demon realized that Inner Demon had been possessed by the Master of the Stygian Blood Sea.

• Ji Ning Number One fought Wind Demon while Suiren joined the battle as an Ancestral God, and both factions deployed their great formations across the battlefield.
• Hou Yi, Gonggong, and Jue Ming revealed themselves as Ancestral Gods, while Ji Ning Number Two destroyed God King Bu Xiu and then killed Dao Ancestor Demonic Hand to aid Tathagata Buddha.
• The Seamless Gate’s forces suffered heavy losses, but the Heavenly Dao weakened and the Lord of Inner Demons broke out of the Three Realms and attacked Tathagata.
• Ji Ning’s true body blocked Inner Demon’s attack, revealing that he could rival an Ancestral God, and Tathagata withdrew from the fight.
• A Dao Tree enveloped the Three Realms and severed everyone’s connection to the Heavenly Dao, causing Inner Demon’s aura and appearance to change.
• Wind Demon recognized that the being in Inner Demon’s body was the Master of the Stygian Blood Sea.

Jiang Zhe revealed how he had manipulated the Three Realms’ great calamity, killed Old Man Yuan, and restored the true spirits of the dead. After the factions swore peace, he changed the Heavenly Dao’s rules to limit the Three Realms’ immortal population and arranged for the recovered spirits to be reincarnated or returned to their allies.

• Jiang Zhe killed Old Man Yuan with mind power, and more than thirty enslaved great powers died as well.
• Jiang Zhe used Reboot to restore the true spirits of the dead across the Three Realms and explained that the calamity had purged excess immortals while serving his own plans.
• Jiang Zhe offered resources to help rebuild the Three Realms, and the Seamless Faction swore an oath not to fight the Nuwa Faction again.
• Jiang Zhe arranged memory seals and reincarnation for lesser true spirits, then changed the Heavenly Dao so cultivators of Second Grade or Third Grade Qi Refining Techniques could not become Celestial Immortals.
• Jiang Zhe required immortal sects to relocate away from mortal lands and allowed the great powers to take the remaining true spirits, including those who had been enslaved.

After restoring the Nuwa and Boundless Factions, Jiang Zhe sent Ji Ning toward the wider Chaos with warnings about the Blazing Dragon Domain’s destruction and the invasion of their Chaotic Universe. Meanwhile, Jiang Zhe’s Ancient Cultivator incarnation resumed the Pilgrim’s Path and began defeating the imprints of powerful Emperor Lords.

• Jiang Zhe and the faction leaders restored the enslaved great powers, while Fuxi Clan and others struggled with missing memories and absent true spirits.
• More than three hundred years after the calamity, Ji Ning visited Oriana before leaving the Three Realms, and she gave him an Eternal Divine Weapon and a task to kill Mind General.
• Oriana warned Ji Ning that the Blazing Dragon Domain would be destroyed and their Chaotic Universe was under invasion, and she told him he might become its sixth Supreme-level combatant.
• Oriana gave Ji Ning a Brocade Pouch and advised him to obtain a star map before traveling with Buddha Jue Ming to fulfill his oath to Beixiu World God.
• Three Corpses of Greed wondered about the karma of interfering with Su Youji’s fate, while Jiang Zhe’s Ancient Cultivator incarnation awakened and climbed the Pilgrim’s Path.
• Jiang Zhe killed the imprints of Emperor Lord Xuanyang, Emperor Lord Liexue, and Emperor Lord Taihe before reaching the imprint of Dominator Jianghong.

Jiang Zhe fought Dominator Jianghong's Imprint with his five-Path Thunder fusion, then revealed a greater Dao that the Pilgrim Mountain illusion could not comprehend and collapsed. After the Artifact Spirit warned him not to use that Dao again, Jiang Zhe resumed the trial, determined to defeat the Imprint without it.

• Dominator Jianghong attacked with his Crimson Copper Staff, and Jiang Zhe answered with a Horned Thunder Dragon formed from his Thunder Paths.
• Jiang Zhe added Tribulation Descent to fuse five Strongest Paths, pressing Jianghong's Imprint back but struggling to overcome its resilient Eternal Path of Water.
• Jiang Zhe summoned a dragon arm that embodied a Dao too vast for Pilgrim Mountain's illusion to comprehend, causing the illusion to collapse and expelling him from it.
• The Emperor Lords saw Jiang Zhe's greater Dao on the screen, and Dominator Ming Lan inferred that it surpassed the Strongest Fusion Path before ordering the pilgrimage to continue.
• Pilgrim Mountain's Artifact Spirit warned Jiang Zhe not to use that Dao again and explained that he only needed to endure until the Imprint acknowledged him.
• Jiang Zhe called on Azure Flower's Mist Power to raise his strength to the Three-Step Dao Lord level, then transformed his attack into a Horned Thunder Dragon and charged Jianghong's Imprint.

Jiang Zhe conquered Pilgrim Mountain by defeating four Dominator imprints and reached the Sacred Realm, where he revealed that he had comprehended the Ultimate Path of Thunder. The Thunder Path Source resonated with him, leaving Dominator Ming Lan and the Emperor Lords to reckon with his claim that he was its Lord.

• Jiang Zhe used the Path of Weapons, Azure Flower Mist Power, and the Three Forces Perfect Combination Method to overpower Dominator Jianghong's imprint and destroy it with a storm of tribulation thunder.
• The Emperor Lords discussed Jiang Zhe's techniques, and the Exquisite Dominator explained that his physical enhancement came from a secret force while his weapon skill came from the Path of Weapons inheritance.
• Jiang Zhe defeated Dominator Qing Luo by disrupting his weapons and sword formation, then defeated Dominator Ang Pang by trapping him beneath a storm of lightning.
• After defeating Dominator Ming Lan's imprint, Jiang Zhe reached Pilgrim Mountain's summit and was transported to Dominator Hall.
• Dominator Ming Lan asked Jiang Zhe what Dao had caused the illusory realm to collapse, and he demonstrated a dragon-shaped thunder manifestation that resonated with the Thunder Path Source.
• Jiang Zhe named his Dao the Ultimate Path of Thunder and declared that the Universe Source had acknowledged him as the Lord of the Path of Thunder.

Jiang Zhe explained why he would pursue the Ultimate Path of the World, shared the Supreme secret art and cave mansion’s history with Dominator Ming Lan, and secured access to the Ancient Cultivator clan’s inheritances. After swearing an oath, he received upgraded status and a promise of thirty-six orbs for his Innate Magic Treasure, then left the hall to tour the Sacred Realm.

• Jiang Zhe told Dominator Ming Lan he would rebuild his foundation in the Path of the World and seek its Ultimate Path rather than enter the Dao Lord of Life and Death Realm through the Ultimate Path of Thunder.
• Jiang Zhe presented Dominator Ming Lan with an Innate Extreme Orb bearing the Nine Layered Chaos Restriction and revealed the secret art’s limits, its Supreme cave mansion, and the dangers of Ultimate Path Dao Integration.
• Jiang Zhe requested the clan’s inheritances and promised to leave his created Daos behind if he failed, or share his Dao Integration experience if he succeeded; Dominator Ming Lan opened the clan’s inheritances to him and upgraded his token.
• Dominator Ming Lan promised to fund thirty-six orbs for Jiang Zhe’s Innate Magic Treasure if he pursued the Ultimate Path of the World, and warned him to keep the Ultimate Path and Supreme cave mansion secrets from lower-ranked clan members.
• Dominator Ming Lan sent Jiang Zhe out of the hall, where a black-armored Three-Step Dao Lord greeted him and offered to guide him around the Sacred Realm.