Chapter Summaries

After awakening memories of his past life, Zhou Tong discovered that the Reincarnation Mirror had brought his True Spirit into the world of Shrouding the Heavens and infused his new body with his former life’s essence, qi, and spirit. The mirror then revealed that it could provide him with a way to protect himself, leaving him eager to learn more.

• Zhou Tong woke in his university dorm after a graduation party and learned from Zhou Yi that Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Li Changqing had also drunk too much.
• Hearing their names made Zhou Tong realize he had been reincarnated as an otherwise unknown classmate of Ye Fan in Shrouding the Heavens.
• Zhou Tong discovered the Reincarnation Mirror inside his body and learned that his so-called transmigration was his True Spirit awakening in a new life.
• The mirror returned some of Zhou Tong’s past-life essence, qi, and spirit, greatly strengthening and sharpening him.
• Zhou Tong tested his strength by bending his bed’s iron railing, then resolved to cultivate so he could survive in a world of cultivators.
• Zhou Tong asked the Reincarnation Mirror for a means of self-defense, and it sent information into his mind that delighted him.

Zhou Tong considered the Reincarnation Mirror’s power, suspected he might possess a Primordial Sacred Body, and decided he needed the Chaotic Ancient Method to begin cultivation on Earth. After talking with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, he gave up a basketball career and committed himself to pursuing eternal life.

• Zhou Tong wondered whether the Reincarnation Mirror had given him a Primordial Sacred Body and worried that its curse could prevent him from cultivating.
• Zhou Tong considered using the Reincarnation Mirror to view someone’s past life and concluded that he should save its remaining use for an ancient being.
• Zhou Tong decided the Sky Shrouding Method was impractical on Earth and that he needed the Chaotic Ancient Method to lay a foundation.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo entered Zhou Tong’s dormitory, and Zhou Tong sensed that Ye Fan had a past life while Pang Bo did not.
• Pang Bo said he planned to return home, Ye Fan said he would start a business, and Zhou Tong refused basketball offers to pursue a new path.
• After Ye Fan and Pang Bo left, Zhou Tong vowed to attain eternal life with the Reincarnation Mirror.

Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to search for an ancient reincarnator and discovered a man whose past life had been connected to the Desolate Heaven Emperor. He obtained records of the man’s cultivation, but the Mirror ran out of energy before revealing the final realms.

• Zhou Tong noticed that many people were reincarnators and decided to search crowded places for someone from an ancient era.
• At train stations, Zhou Tong sensed a man whose previous life dated back millions or possibly tens of millions of years.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror on the man and saw a figure he recognized as the Desolate Heaven Emperor.
• Zhou Tong realized the man had been the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s grand-disciple and instructed the Mirror to show his cultivation records.
• The Mirror revealed the Chaotic Ancient cultivation realms and treasure techniques before its remaining energy was exhausted.

Zhou Tong left the city to cultivate the Chaotic Ancient Method in Kunlun Mountain, where he used the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique as his first Bone Text. After a month, he imprinted its first rune and gained great strength, then began cultivating the second rune.

• Zhou Tong decided to seek a remote place to cultivate and chose Kunlun Mountain, where he hoped to avoid the sect that controlled the area.
• Zhou Tong traveled to Kunlun, found a shelter among three boulders, and studied the Chaotic Ancient Method and the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique.
• Zhou Tong cut his finger and used his blood to draw the Thunder Emperor Method’s first rune, spending a month trying to imprint it.
• Zhou Tong imprinted the first rune and used its power to kill a wild buffalo with a wooden javelin.
• Zhou Tong carried the buffalo back to his shelter, ate some beef to replenish his blood and vitality, and began cultivating the second rune.

After a year and a half of secluded cultivation in Kunlun Mountain, Zhou Tong mastered the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique well enough to attack without harming himself and used the Reincarnation Mirror again. He reunited with Ye Fan, who noticed how much he had changed, but Zhou Tong kept the details of his secret path to himself.

• Zhou Tong refined the Thunder Emperor Bone Text throughout his body and learned to use the treasure technique without injuring himself.
• Zhou Tong spent another half year cultivating in Kunlun Mountain, growing stronger as the surrounding essence of heaven and earth gathered around him.
• Zhou Tong carried a massive boulder to the mountaintop and said he could use the Reincarnation Mirror again.
• Zhou Tong visited Ye Fan, and the two discussed their lives since graduation, including Ye Fan's ended relationship with Li Xiaoman.
• Zhou Tong declined to explain his mysterious absence and different path, and he and Ye Fan talked late into the night before parting.

Zhou Tong followed the route from Ye Fan's memories into the depths of the true Kunlun Mountain, cultivating as he traveled through its dangerous wilderness. After consuming a Minor Medicine King, he tested his growing strength by killing a strange fish with the Thunder Emperor Finger.

• Zhou Tong entered the true Kunlun Mountain and followed the safe route marked by the Dao patterns in Ye Fan's memories.
• Zhou Tong hid from towering monsters and cultivated while carefully traveling through the mountain's dangerous regions.
• After three months, Zhou Tong's physical strength had neared seventy thousand jin, and he pressed on toward Kunlun Mountain's central region.
• Zhou Tong found and swallowed a Minor Medicine King, whose medicinal power tempered his body over several days.
• Zhou Tong killed a strange fish with the Thunder Emperor Finger after it attacked him at a lake.

Zhou Tong advanced through Kunlun Mountain while trying to find treasures that could open his Wheel Sea, and his cultivation pushed his Blood Movement Realm beyond the human limit. He recalled a method for further strengthening himself and decided to use Thunder Body Tempering.

• Zhou Tong reflected that the Feather Transformation Scripture could not break open his Sea of Bitterness and hoped the White Tiger Divine Medicine or Kunlun Mountain’s immortal liquid might help.
• Zhou Tong cultivated the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique through the night, refining runes into his blood and filling his body with lightning.
• Zhou Tong pressed deeper into Kunlun Mountain, fighting vicious beasts, suffering serious injuries, and using his map and Dao patterns to escape stronger enemies.
• Zhou Tong’s physique grew stronger through repeated battles and ten-thousand-year Spirit Herbs until he reached 106,000 jin of strength in one arm.
• Zhou Tong recalled two methods for surpassing the Blood Movement Realm’s limit and chose Thunder Body Tempering because he had not cultivated Immortal Qi.

Zhou Tong entered the Immortal Ascension Land and used Thunder Body Tempering to raise his strength to the Blood Movement Realm’s limit. He failed again to activate his Wheel Sea and concluded that he would have to continue cultivating by the Chaotic Ancient Method.

• Zhou Tong reached the Immortal Ascension Land after three days of travel and began Thunder Body Tempering with a Treasure Herb.
• Zhou Tong endured three days of lightning tempering, gaining 3,500 jin of divine power.
• Zhou Tong continued tempering himself for two months, increasing his strength to 120,000 jin, the Blood Movement Realm’s limit.
• Zhou Tong tried to activate his Wheel Sea with the Feather Transformation Scripture, but his essence could not penetrate his Sea of Bitterness.
• Zhou Tong suspected he had a Primordial Sacred Body and decided to continue cultivating by the Chaotic Ancient Method.

After more than ten days of contemplation in the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, Zhou Tong comprehended the Heavenly Cave Realm and broke through by opening five Heavenly Caves. As he withdrew them, he sensed his Wheel Sea stirring and began activating it with the Feather Transformation Scripture.

• Zhou Tong studied the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, runes, and the Thunder Emperor Method for more than ten days until he grasped the essence of the Heavenly Cave Realm.
• Zhou Tong opened his first Heavenly Cave, which drew in abundant essence from the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains and formed rolling Life Essence.
• Zhou Tong opened four more Heavenly Caves, completing his breakthrough with five caves of different-colored magma.
• Zhou Tong contemplated his new realm for a day, then withdrew the Heavenly Caves and felt ripples in his lower abdomen.
• Zhou Tong began activating his Wheel Sea according to the Feather Transformation Scripture.

Zhou Tong failed to activate his Wheel Sea and continued cultivating the Thunder Emperor Method in the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains, using ancient Spirit Herbs and the pressure of Great Sage corpses to open more Heavenly Caves. After half a year resisting a terrifying Killing Intent, he opened his ninth Heavenly Cave and gained a rare chance to comprehend the treasure techniques stored in his memories.

• Zhou Tong failed to break through to the Wheel Sea but sensed his Life Wheel more clearly and resolved to keep cultivating.
• Zhou Tong used a Spirit Herb and the pressure of a Great Sage's corpse to open his sixth Heavenly Cave.
• Zhou Tong encountered more Great Sage corpses and stopped before the Immortal Nurturing Valley to withstand its Killing Intent and cultivate.
• Zhou Tong spent half a year cultivating in the Dragon Mountains and opened his ninth Heavenly Cave.
• Zhou Tong manifested nine Divine Bird and ferocious beast treasure techniques, experienced their mysteries, and absorbed their runes into his body.

Zhou Tong endured the killing aura around a Quasi-Emperor's corpse and found the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda, a perfect artifact embryo. After using lightning and the Great Emperor Array Patterns to remove the Quasi-Emperor blood, he reached the pagoda and examined it, ready to claim the material for his Dao Proving Artifact.

• Zhou Tong used his Nine Heavenly Caves, the Thunder Emperor Method, and a Spirit Herb to withstand the pressure and killing aura from a Quasi-Emperor's corpse.
• Zhou Tong found the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda but could not approach it because Quasi-Emperor blood clung to it.
• Zhou Tong bombarded the pagoda with lightning and discovered that the strikes loosened the bloodstains.
• Zhou Tong threw dirt balls to shake the Quasi-Emperor blood free and knock it into the Forbidden Zone, where the Great Emperor Array Patterns destroyed it.
• Zhou Tong approached the pagoda and examined its pure Divine Mark Purple Gold body.

Zhou Tong entered the Immortal Ascension Land, harvested Medicine Kings, and approached the valley holding the Immortal Pool and Immortal Ascension Cauldron. He decided the living formations were too dangerous to cross, but the White Tiger Divine Medicine agreed to leave with him and was placed in one of his Heavenly Caves.

• Zhou Tong initially refined the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda with the lightning runes of his Thunder Emperor Heavenly Cave.
• Zhou Tong reached the Dragon Head Peaks and collected eight Medicine Kings, storing them in his Heavenly Caves.
• Zhou Tong saw the Immortal Pool, the Divine Medicines, and the Immortal Ascension Cauldron at the heart of the valley, but chose not to enter its deadly formations.
• The White Tiger Divine Medicine appeared and agreed to leave with Zhou Tong if he could not take away the land’s hope of immortal ascension.
• Zhou Tong placed the White Tiger Divine Medicine into one of his Ten Heavenly Caves.

After the White Tiger Divine Medicine helped Zhou Tong open his Tenth Heavenly Cave, he completed a three-day transformation and stored the medicine and its fruit within the new cave. He left with all Ten Heavenly Caves opened, though he knew they still had to grow to match the Tenth.

• The White Tiger Divine Medicine's power gave Zhou Tong the opportunity to form a Tenth Heavenly Cave, so he fled Dragon Mountain before opening it.
• Zhou Tong opened a vast Tenth Heavenly Cave outside the mountain and underwent a three-day transformation as its Life Essence strengthened his body and Treasure Herbs.
• After completing the transformation, Zhou Tong moved the Thunder Emperor phantom, Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda, White Tiger Divine Medicine, and Treasure Herbs into the Tenth Heavenly Cave.
• Zhou Tong suspected the White Tiger Divine Medicine was using him, plucked its fruit, and stored the fruit in a jade box with the medicine.
• Zhou Tong withdrew all Ten Heavenly Caves and realized the other nine still had to grow until they matched the Tenth.

Zhou Tong opened his Wheel Sea and discovered that the Reincarnation Mirror had given him the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body rather than a Primordial Sacred Body. After reaching the Life Spring Realm, he sensed an alarming change and was left wondering what had happened.

• Zhou Tong used the Feather Transformation Scripture to open his Wheel Sea, releasing a purple Sea of Bitterness surrounded by blazing flames.
• He recognized the signs of the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body and reasoned that the Reincarnation Mirror had reshaped him using Hegemonic Blood as its template.
• Zhou Tong stored his Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda in his Wheel Sea and resolved to reform the Hegemon Body lineage and eventually claim the title of Overlord.
• He swallowed a leaf from a tens-of-thousands-of-years-old Treasure Herb, which expanded his Sea of Bitterness and formed more than a hundred Divine Patterns.
• Zhou Tong broke through into the Life Spring Realm, then abruptly grew alarmed when he sensed something unexpected.

Zhou Tong discovered that his Sea of Wheels Realm resonated with his Ten Heavenly Caves and threatened to destroy them. He repeatedly rebuilt the caves until all ten had transformed into vast worlds capable of resisting the resonance, and he began to suspect they could become a secret technique and a key to his future cultivation.

• Zhou Tong realized that the Sea of Wheels Realm and Ten Heavenly Caves resonated, and that advancing his Wheel Sea could destroy the caves.
• Zhou Tong deliberately let one Heavenly Cave collapse, then repeatedly tried to recreate it while using Treasure Herbs to heal himself.
• After a month of failed attempts, Zhou Tong successfully created a new Heavenly Cave and found that it helped the others withstand the Wheel Sea.
• Zhou Tong rebuilt all the Heavenly Caves over three days, transforming them into vast, radiant worlds.
• Zhou Tong sensed that the Ten Heavenly Caves could still evolve and might become a supreme secret technique and the key to his future cultivation.

Zhou Tong forced open the Gates of Potential in his Sea of Wheels Realm and realized that the Sky Shrouding Method revealed each person’s constitution by unlocking the body’s potential. He advanced through the Divine Bridge realm into the Other Shore and began the Feather Transformation Scripture’s cycle of transformations.

• Zhou Tong ignited his power and caused his Ten Heavenly Caves to collide, merge, and pour their energy into his Sea of Wheels Realm.
• Zhou Tong saw countless Gates of Potential open in his Wheel Sea, and his wounded body rapidly recovered as their power surged through him.
• Zhou Tong understood that the Sky Shrouding Method opened the body’s Gates of Potential and that scriptures cultivated by arranging those gates.
• Zhou Tong circulated the Feather Transformation Scripture, formed a Divine Bridge, and advanced into the Other Shore without becoming confused.
• Zhou Tong recognized the deathly energy within the Gates of Potential and began the Nine Lives Nine Deaths transformation.
• Zhou Tong underwent repeated cycles of Silent Annihilation and rebirth as spiritual essence poured into his Wheel Sea and crystalline feather patterns grew brighter.

After completing the Sea of Wheels Realm, Zhou Tong discovered that his Ten Heavenly Caves had permanently merged into a Divine Ring and used the Reincarnation Mirror to search the White Tiger Divine Medicine’s memories. He found a fragment of the Fuxi Emperor Scripture but no method for cultivating a single secret realm, so he continued searching for an Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body inheritance.

• Zhou Tong completed the Sea of Wheels Realm and realized he could not use many of its remaining Gates of Potential without a secret method for cultivating a single secret realm.
• Zhou Tong discovered that his Ten Heavenly Caves had permanently joined into a Divine Ring containing a new world and trapping the White Tiger Divine Medicine.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to inspect the White Tiger Divine Medicine’s past-life memories and found that its previous life had also been a White Tiger Divine Medicine.
• Zhou Tong directed the Reincarnation Mirror to show cultivation memories and found a Great Sage studying a fragment of the Fuxi Emperor Scripture.
• Zhou Tong found that the scripture fragment contained only the Immortal Platform Scroll and continued searching the White Tiger Divine Medicine’s memories for an Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body inheritance.

Zhou Tong studied Di Lan's inheritance and discovered that he could wield the Divine Ring formed from his Ten Heavenly Caves as a powerful weapon. With the White Tiger Divine Medicine's help, he obtained the Purple Sun Lamp from a Great Sage's corpse and learned that he was expected to pass down the Purple Sun Scripture in the Big Dipper Star Domain.

• Zhou Tong studied Di Lan's scripture and secret arts, judging the scripture's Wheel Sea section inferior to the Feather Transformation Scripture and setting aside the secret arts as less useful than his Ten Evils Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong discovered that his Divine Ring could move through divine power and pulverized a massive boulder with it.
• Zhou Tong called the White Tiger Divine Medicine back and sent it into the killing formation to retrieve the treasure near a Great Sage's corpse.
• The White Tiger Divine Medicine struck the corpse, causing it to dissolve into the Dao, and brought Zhou Tong the Purple Sun Lamp.
• The Purple Sun Lamp entered Zhou Tong's Wheel Sea, and its Deity told him that the deceased Purple Sun Great Sage wanted him to spread the Purple Sun Scripture in the Big Dipper Star Domain.

Zhou Tong chose to forge his first artifact as a bell suited to the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body lineage and named it the Hegemonic Bell. After testing its destructive power, he decided to melt down his Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda to strengthen it.

• Zhou Tong considered what artifact to forge and rejected a pagoda in favor of a bell that could suppress his enemies.
• He studied bells at Dazhong Temple and used their designs to shape the Hegemonic Bell in his mind.
• Zhou Tong fused and tempered thousands of Divine Patterns in his Wheel Sea into a fist-sized purple bell.
• He named the artifact the Hegemonic Bell and tested it, reducing nearby rocks and plants to ash with a light chime.
• Zhou Tong decided to melt down his Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda and use it to fill his Hegemonic Bell.

Zhou Tong reunited with Ye Fan and their classmates atop Mount Tai, where Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin arrived and carried them away. As the journey began, Zhou Tong worried that Ruthless Great Emperor might target him because he had cultivated the Feather Transformation Scripture.

• Zhou Tong waited on Mount Tai while Ye Fan and their classmates climbed to Jade Emperor Peak for their reunion.
• Zhou Tong explained that he had settled his parents’ affairs by securing their wealth and improving their health with the White Tiger Divine Medicine.
• Liu Yunzhi challenged Zhou Tong about his missing years, but nine black dragon corpses and a bronze coffin crashed onto the summit before he could continue.
• Zhou Tong entered the bronze coffin and examined its carvings, then a powerful force pulled him and his classmates inside as Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin set off.
• Zhou Tong wondered whether Ruthless Great Emperor had drawn them in and feared she might mistake his Feather Transformation Scripture for an inheritance of the Feathered Divine Dynasty.