Recaps

Zhou Tong joined the Yinglong Inner Guard, advanced his cultivation, and killed the Five-Colored Peacock on a mission. After returning to Star Picking Manor, he trained Ji Ning for four months before leaving him to forge his own Sword Dao and awaiting the Yinglong Guard headquarters.

• Zhou Tong entered a hidden Immortal Estate, defeated its guardian puppets, and collected its inheritance, including the second and third volumes of the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram.
• Zhou Tong joined the Yinglong Inner Guard, swore a Heavenly Dao Oath, and learned the Chaos Divine Arrow before spending a year studying techniques and cultivating his powers.
• Zhou Tong broke through to the Primordial Spirit Realm, transformed into a Phoenix, and blood-forged the Calamity Fire Divine Bow.
• Zhou Tong accepted a mission to kill the Five-Colored Peacock, rescued enslaved mortals while searching the Mountain Sea Great Marsh, and later killed the peacock as it broke through to the Void Returning Realm.
• Zhou Tong returned with the peacock’s corpse, spent his mission merit on secret arts, and then went to Star Picking Manor, where he challenged Hong Xue in the War God Hall.
• Zhou Tong cultivated the sixteenth level of the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram and completed the fourth revolution of the Star-Plucking Hand before testing Ji Ning’s strength.
• Zhou Tong gave Ji Ning the completed Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram volumes and the Blackwater True Method, then instructed him for four months before departing.
• Ji Ning entered deep Dao comprehension after Zhou Tong left, while Zhou Tong returned to the Crimson Dragon Mountain Range and awaited the Yinglong Guard headquarters.

Zhou Tong advanced to become a Calamity Fire Heavenly God, then guided Ji Ning through the Immortal Destiny Assembly and the sword worlds. After learning Five Treasures Swordsmanship destabilized his blade and sword powers, Zhou Tong traveled to the Sun Star to develop his Power of Fire.

• Shang Xiang brought Zhou Tong to Great Xia, where the Emperor recognized his extraordinary talent and allowed him to choose a divine ability or secret art.
• Zhou Tong and two other prodigies chose Candle Dragon's Eye, became Yinglong Guards, and received mountain cave residences to cultivate it.
• Zhou Tong advanced to the eighteenth stage of the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram and endured a transformed Heavenly God Tribulation, emerging as a peak Heavenly Deity named the Calamity Fire Heavenly God.
• Zhou Tong took charge of Star Picking Manor, agreed to support Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor in a future war, and received the final volume of the Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram and the lower half of Candle Dragon's Eye.
• Zhou Tong reunited with Ji Ning, taught him the second revolution of the Star-Plucking Hand and his sword insights, then watched him win the Immortal Destiny Assembly before leaving Great Xia with him.
• Zhou Tong guided Ji Ning through Fu Ju's sword worlds, where Zhou Tong advanced his Sword Dao and Blade Dao before studying Five Treasures Swordsmanship at Five Treasures Peak.
• Zhou Tong's blade and sword powers clashed and injured him, so he stabilized them with his Path of Fire Element and sent Ji Ning to gain experience as an Yinglong Guard.
• Zhou Tong traveled to the Sun Star, where he developed a method to control Golden Sun Flame and began separating the Great Dao from the Heavenly Dao in his fire insights.

Zhou Tong completed Moonlit Pool World’s trials, mastered the Fire Element Heavenly Dao, and created the Nirvana Divine Body and an improved Thousand Body Sacred Canon. After returning, he learned Great Xia had fallen to the Abyss Gate, gave Ji Ning powerful cultivation methods, and began tempering his thousand clones’ Golden Cores before fusing them.

• Zhou Tong perfected his Fire Element cultivation, obtained the Thousand Body Sacred Canon and Five Elements Essence from Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor, and completed the fifth turn of the Star-Plucking Hand.
• Zhou Tong refined the Star Gold Beads’ restrictions, then entered Moonlit Pool World and defeated the yaksha and ape guardians while advancing his powers through battle.
• Zhou Tong passed the Purgatory God’s stage, survived a hundred years of slaughter in Demon Ice Valley, and killed Great Dream Heavenly God after seeing through his induced goodwill.
• Zhou Tong cleared the Ten Thousand Blade Road, broke the oath-binding power at Fallen Moon Island, and received Bei Xiu World God’s Desolate World God body-refining technique and Nine Yuan Annihilation method.
• Zhou Tong reached the fifth realm of Power of Fire, became a True God, and comprehended the Fire Element Heavenly Dao after spending four hundred years in Moonlit Pool World.
• Zhou Tong devised the Nirvana Divine Body and an improved Thousand Body Sacred Canon, then created and nurtured one thousand independent incarnations.
• Zhou Tong learned from Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor that Great Xia had fallen to the Abyss Gate, vowed to reclaim it after becoming an Ancestral Immortal, and gave Ji Ning cultivation methods and the Sole True Body secret art.
• Zhou Tong supplied Ji Ning with Ice Heart Marrow and Nine Flame Paste, then tempered the Golden Cores of his thousand clones until they reached second grade.

After uniting his clones, Zhou Tong defeated Old Man Yuan and forced the Three Realms’ powers into a new order built around oaths and military merit. He then left the Three Realms to study the Path of Fire Element across chaos worlds, and his mastery culminated in a World Realm breakthrough in the Great Mo Eternal Realm.

• Zhou Tong fused all one thousand clones, advanced to near World God strength, then entered Great Xia and destroyed Black Dragon Divine Mountain with a single arrow.
• Zhou Tong rejected both the Nuwa Faction and the Abyss Gate, manifested four Heavenly Daos, and urged cultivators to reclaim their own fate.
• Zhou Tong challenged the Three Realms’ powers, defeated the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, exposed Old Man Yuan’s scheme, and burned Old Man Yuan to ashes.
• Zhou Tong established Lifebound Oaths, a Realm Battlefield, and a military merit system, then entrusted Ji Ning with the Oath Stone and Star Picking Manor.
• Zhou Tong broke through to Ancestor God, mastered the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction, and used the Azure Flower to deepen his understanding of the Five Elements and Chaos Heavenly Daos.
• Zhou Tong left the Three Realms, explored chaos worlds and relics, and studied flames while strengthening his Power of Fire and Dao of spacetime.
• Zhou Tong reached the Great Mo Eternal Realm, bought thousands of fire techniques in Yibo City, and studied them alongside the sword intent of Divine Sword Zi Guang Qiong.
• Zhou Tong unified the principles behind countless flames and began breaking through to the World Realm, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Great Mo Eternal Realm.