Chapter Summaries

After destroying Silver Moon City, Zhou Shan rose to twelfth on the Heavenly Pride Ranking and traveled alone to the Overlord Heaven Secret Realm. He wounded a Zhu Yan Clan holy son just before the secret realm opened, and the assembled heavenly prides felt their Powers of Law being suppressed by the entrance.

• Zhou Shan and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion killed the fleeing Demon Race heavenly prides in Silver Moon City, raising Zhou Shan’s ranking to twelfth.
• Zhou Shan returned to Dayan City and later set out alone for the Overlord Heaven Secret Realm, expecting the Demon Race to target him there.
• As Zhou Shan approached the secret realm, other heavenly prides kept their distance because the Nine-Headed Lion Clan and Silver Moon Wolf Clan had placed bounties on him.
• At the mist-shrouded mountain forest, Zhou Shan mocked the Demon Race heavenly prides, and a Zhu Yan Clan holy son ranked seventy-third attacked him.
• Zhou Shan severed the Zhu Yan holy son’s fist with a single strike, then stopped when tremors signaled the secret realm’s opening.
• A black passage opened in the mountain, and its ancient aura suppressed the heavenly prides’ Law Seeds before they entered.

Zhou Shan entered the Overlord Heaven Secret Realm, where its rules suppressed everyone’s Power of Law and left them reliant on physical strength. He crushed the first wave of Demon Race Heavenly Prides and killed the Zhu Yan Holy Son, then faced a larger siege that he prepared to evade with Upright Shadowless.

• Ao Tian Holy Son entered the Overlord Heaven Secret Realm, and Zhou Shan followed with the other Heavenly Prides.
• The secret realm suppressed Zhou Shan’s eighteen types of Power of Law, and more than a dozen Demon Race Heavenly Prides attacked him.
• Zhou Shan used Dragon Subduing Tiger Taming to injure the attackers and slap many of them into blood mist.
• The Zhu Yan Holy Son unleashed his bloodline and attacked, but Zhou Shan evaded him with Upright Shadowless, destroyed his head, and crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• The Dragon Elephant Clan’s Holy Son and dozens of other Demon Race Heavenly Prides joined the assault while the Nine-Headed Golden Lion blocked their escape.
• Zhou Shan faced the combined attack without fear and activated Upright Shadowless, which could render the assault ineffective.

Zhou Shan defeated the Demon Race heavenly prides, gathered Overlord Blood Grass, and waited at the Overlord Heaven Secret Realm’s exit to collect it from those leaving. He and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion escaped before the passage closed, while the Demon Race heavenly prides remained trapped inside.

• Zhou Shan killed or wounded the Demon Race heavenly prides, while the Nine-Headed Golden Lion prevented most of them from escaping.
• Zhou Shan found Overlord Blood Grass in canyons guarded by Ancient Fierce Beasts, then decided to wait at the secret realm entrance for more.
• Zhou Shan demanded Overlord Blood Grass from departing heavenly prides, taking it from cooperative humans and beating the Taichu Sacred Land group when they refused.
• Zhou Shan let some Imperial Clan factions leave without surrendering their Overlord Blood Grass after he had gathered enough.
• Zhou Shan and the Nine-Headed Golden Lion left as the secret realm closed, trapping the Demon Race heavenly prides inside.

Zhou Shan refined Overlord Blood Grass to awaken a second-generation Heavenly Overlord Body, then broke through to the peak of the Nascent Soul Second Layer and gained two divine abilities. After entering the Returning Ruins Second Layer, he learned the Demon Race had tracked him and welcomed the arrival of a hundred prodigies who surrounded him.

• Zhou Shan refined more than one hundred thousand stalks of Overlord Blood Grass, gained a second-generation Heavenly Overlord Body, and gave the excess grass to Dayan Sacred Land.
• Zhou Shan broke through to the Nascent Soul Second Layer and inscribed all eighteen Powers of Law into his flesh and blood.
• Zhou Shan obtained the Innate Divine Abilities All-Encompassing Will and Extract Primordial Yang, then traveled to the Returning Ruins Second Layer.
• The Holy Son of the Heavenly Secret Clan informed the Demon Race that Zhou Shan had entered the Returning Ruins Second Layer, while Zhou Shan sensed that someone had calculated his location.
• Zhou Shan stopped on his way to Dayan City and confronted a hundred peak Nascent Soul Second Layer Demon Race prodigies who had surrounded him.

Zhou Shan defeated a hundred Demon Race prodigies, absorbed their qi luck, and advanced from the Nascent Soul Second Layer to the Fourth Layer before entering seclusion in Dayan City. Half a year later, he reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Fifth Layer Heavenly Human Realm and gained three more divine abilities.

• A hundred Demon Race prodigies attacked Zhou Shan with a formation that unleashed the Light of Annihilation, but he used Heaven and Earth Manifestation and the Heavenly Overlord Body to withstand it and slaughter them.
• Zhou Shan absorbed the qi luck of the defeated prodigies, and his Qi Luck Token transformed into a third-grade yellow token.
• Zhou Shan fused his eighteen Law Seeds into a divine bridge, advanced to the Nascent Soul Third Layer, and then reached the Fourth Layer with Nine Breaths Assimilation.
• Zhou Shan tore three pages from the golden book and gained Soaring Golden Light, Point to Ground and Forge Steel, and Great Five Elements Escape before going to Dayan City to cultivate.
• After half a year of cultivation, Zhou Shan reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Fifth Layer Heavenly Human Realm and gained Summon Wind and Rain, Shake Mountain and Tremble Earth, and Shift Stars and Change Constellations.

Zhou Shan gained several Innate Divine Abilities, then secretly destroyed Demon Race cities across the third and fourth layers of the Land of Returning Ruins, raising his Qi Luck Token and ranking while resisting attempts to uncover his identity. After injuring the Heavenly Secret Clan’s Holy Son, he reached the fifth layer and headed to Suspended Mountain to find Space Crystals and Void Beasts.

• Zhou Shan gained Summon Wind and Rain, Shake Mountain and Tremble Earth, and Shift Stars and Change Constellations, then set out for the fifth layer to seek Space Power.
• Zhou Shan sealed Nine-Headed City and used Extract Primordial Yang to kill its demon geniuses, raising his Qi Luck Token to fourth grade and concealing his identity on the Heavenly Pride Ranking.
• Zhou Shan destroyed four more Demon Race cities, rose to first place on the ranking, and advanced his Qi Luck Token to fifth grade as the Demon Race began investigating.
• Zhou Shan used the Myriad Thoughts Emperor Art and Shift Stars and Change Constellations to injure the Heavenly Secret Clan’s Holy Son, thwarting the attempt to deduce his identity.
• Zhou Shan entered the fourth layer, destroyed five more Demon Race cities, and advanced his Qi Luck Token to sixth grade before reaching the fifth layer.
• Zhou Shan headed for Suspended Mountain, a secret realm containing Space Crystals and Void Beasts with strength comparable to the Nascent Soul Sixth Layer.

Zhou Shan arrived at Suspended Mountain and seized two Void Beast crystal cores from the prodigies of four great sacred lands. He left the Taichu, Primordial Ancient, and Azure Dragon sacred-land prodigies restrained and challenged them to fight him or leave.

• Zhou Shan used Soaring Golden Light to reach Suspended Mountain, where dozens of prodigies from four sacred lands were besieging two Void Beasts.
• The prodigies’ attacks weakened the Void Beasts, but Zhou Shan’s arrival prompted them to accuse him of trying to steal their prey.
• The Taichu holy son attacked Zhou Shan, but Zhou Shan evaded the strike with Upright Shadowless and restrained the prodigies and Void Beasts with Point to Ground and Forge Steel.
• Zhou Shan killed both Void Beasts with a palm strike and took their crystal cores.
• When the sacred-land prodigies objected, Zhou Shan rejected their appeal to first come, first served and told them to attack him or leave.

Zhou Shan broke through to the Sixth Layer of Nascent Soul in Suspended Mountain, though the region’s rules suppressed his cultivation. When the Golden Peng Emperor Son lured him toward Dayan City, Zhou Shan instead attacked the Demon Race’s Space Crystal mine, forcing the Emperor Son to rush back.

• Holy Son Golden Cloud warned Zhou Shan that a Demon Race Imperial Son guarded a Space Crystal mine in Suspended Mountain, then led the Dayan Sacred Land prodigies away.
• Zhou Shan hunted Void Beasts, gathered twenty-five crystal cores, and used them to complete his Space Law Seed and break through to the Sixth Layer of Nascent Soul.
• The Land of Returning Ruins suppressed Zhou Shan’s cultivation to the Nascent Soul Fifth Layer, but he retained his innate abilities.
• After learning that the Golden Peng Emperor Son had arrived outside Dayan City, Zhou Shan chose to attack the Demon Race’s Space Crystal mine instead of returning to the city.
• The Golden Peng Emperor Son learned of Zhou Shan’s attack and flew back toward Suspended Mountain, while the prodigies in Dayan City discussed Zhou Shan’s strategy.

Zhou Shan attacked the Demon Race’s space crystal mine, killed its guards, and extracted its crystals before defeating the Golden Peng Emperor Son. After killing him, Zhou Shan’s Qi Luck Token rose from seventh-rank purple to eighth-rank silver.

• Zhou Shan smashed the space crystal mine’s formation and killed the Demon Race prodigies guarding it.
• Zhou Shan forcibly extracted hundreds of thousands of space crystals from the mine.
• The Golden Peng Emperor Son arrived and attacked Zhou Shan, but Zhou Shan destroyed his Golden Peng manifestation and suppressed him with a giant palm.
• Zhou Shan ground away the Golden Peng Emperor Son’s Power of Law and killed him.
• Zhou Shan absorbed the qi luck from the Golden Peng Emperor Son, raising his Qi Luck Token from sixth-rank blue to seventh-rank purple and then eighth-rank silver.

After killing Golden Peng Emperor Son, Zhou Shan advanced to the Nascent Soul Eighth Layer, gained five Heavenly Spirits Arts, and secured a hidden cave heaven as a safeguard. His rise to ninth-rank gold qi luck triggered a Great Emperor Inheritance, and he entered its site among other qualified heavenly prides.

• Zhou Shan’s rise to first place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking revealed that Golden Peng Emperor Son had died, shocking the races across the Divine Martial Continent.
• Zhou Shan absorbed Space Crystals to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul Seventh Layer, then used Saint Pills and half a year of seclusion to break through to the Eighth Layer.
• Zhou Shan gained Return Heaven Reverse Sun, Soar Through Clouds Ride the Mist, Dredge Rivers Form Land, Turn Stone into Gold, and Reverse Knowledge of the Future from the golden book.
• Zhou Shan concealed his heavenly secrets, imprinted his Primordial Spirit in a hidden cave heaven, and returned to the Land of Returning Ruins to hunt Demon Race heavenly prides and raise his Qi Luck Token to ninth-rank gold.
• Zhou Shan’s golden Qi Luck Token triggered a Great Emperor Inheritance in the eighth-layer region, drawing qualified heavenly prides from across the Land of Returning Ruins.
• A beam of light guided Zhou Shan into the inheritance site, where he recognized the energy filling the region as Sub-Immortal Qi.

Zhou Shan explored the Flying Immortal World, a Great Emperor’s inner world, and discovered a medicine garden containing thousands of Saint Medicines and a hundred-thousand-year Longevity Medicine. He and more than thirty rival prodigies gathered at its restriction, which adjusted to each entrant’s cultivation, and the Phoenix, Golden Crow, and Kunpeng Imperial Sons rushed in first while Zhou Shan remained outside.

• Zhou Shan learned that the Flying Immortal World had been formed from the inner world of the Flying Immortal Great Emperor, then searched it with his Primordial Spirit Heavenly Eye.
• Zhou Shan found a restricted medicine garden filled with Saint Medicines and a Longevity Medicine over a hundred thousand years old.
• More than thirty prodigies from powerful races arrived, including members of the Golden Crow, Kunpeng, Phoenix, Pixiu, and Taotie Clans, and eyed the medicine garden warily.
• The prodigies learned that the restriction adjusted its power to each entrant’s cultivation and that the Longevity Medicine lay deep within the garden.
• Three Phoenix Clan Imperial Sons charged into the medicine garden, followed by the Golden Crow and Kunpeng Imperial Sons, who postponed confronting Zhou Shan to compete for the treasures.

Zhou Shan seized the Longevity Medicine and thousands of sacred medicines, then used a Creation Sacred Medicine to advance to the Ninth Layer of Nascent Soul. He found the Flying Immortal Sword Tomb and began absorbing its sword qi to form the Myriad Dao Sword Body, leaving his Sword Law close to advancing into Sacred Dao Law.

• Zhou Shan evaded the medicine garden’s Great Emperor-level restrictions, used Reverse Knowledge of the Future to reach the Longevity Medicine, and gathered the garden’s sacred medicines.
• The other races’ Imperial Sons attacked Zhou Shan as he tried to leave, but he used Turn Stone into Gold to neutralize their attacks and escaped.
• Zhou Shan consumed a Creation Sacred Medicine, broke through to the Ninth Layer of Nascent Soul, and learned that his improved Nine Breaths Assimilation could speed his cultivation toward the World Realm.
• Zhou Shan deduced the location of the Flying Immortal Sword Tomb, passed through its Emperor-level Illusion Array, and entered the vast sword-filled tomb.
• Zhou Shan absorbed the tomb’s sword qi to condense the origin of the Myriad Dao Sword Body, and his Sword Law neared a breakthrough to Sacred Dao Law.

Zhou Shan mastered the Sacred Dao Sword Law, reached Nine-Star Talent, and claimed the Flying Immortal Emperor Sword by defeating the Flying Immortal Great Emperor’s test. After taking control of the Flying Immortal World, he advanced his cultivation toward the World Realm.

• Zhou Shan absorbed sword qi and Sacred Dao Sword Laws in the Flying Immortal Sword Tomb, raising his Myriad Dao Sword Body to Nine-Star Talent and gaining Saint-level strength.
• Zhou Shan passed the King-tier, Emperor-tier, and Saint weapon regions before the Flying Immortal Emperor Sword approached him.
• Zhou Shan defeated the Flying Immortal Great Emperor at the Ninth Layer of Nascent Soul and gained the Emperor Sword, the Flying Immortal World’s origin power, and control of the world.
• Zhou Shan ordered the Flying Immortal World to teleport all the other geniuses out, ending their trial early.
• Zhou Shan consumed sacred medicines, reached the peak of the Ninth Layer of Nascent Soul, and obtained six more Innate Divine Abilities.
• Zhou Shan used Circulating Creation to turn the Power of Law in his inner heaven toward World Power and began advancing toward the World Realm.

After three years of seclusion, Zhou Shan broke through to the World Realm and mastered all Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Arts, rising to peak Saint King. The Land of Returning Ruins’ qi luck then helped him become a Quasi-Emperor before its rules expelled him, leaving Shi Kuang stunned by his rapid rise.

• Zhou Shan ended his three-year seclusion after breaking through to the first layer of the World Realm.
• Zhou Shan absorbed the golden book and mastered all Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Arts, advancing to the ninth layer of the World Realm and becoming a peak Saint King.
• Zhou Shan returned to the Land of Returning Ruins, where its qi luck transformed his Qi Luck Token into an Emperor Dao qi luck law and raised him to Quasi-Emperor.
• The Land of Returning Ruins expelled Zhou Shan, and he brought the enslaved Nine-Headed Golden Lion out with him.
• Shi Kuang sensed Zhou Shan’s Quasi-Emperor aura and could hardly believe how far Zhou Shan had advanced.