Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong and Ji Zi fought an evenly matched battle in Green Flame Ridge, escalating to their strongest techniques and forms. Ji Zi’s forbidden Void technique wounded Zhou Tong but depleted his own origin, leaving Ji Zi with the greater loss.

• Zhou Tong and Ji Zi exchanged thousands of blows as their battle shattered the mountains of Green Flame Ridge.
• Ji Zi used Nothingness, but Zhou Tong countered with Three Thousand Worlds and broke through the void’s confinement.
• Ji Zi unleashed Void Severing Two Realms, a forbidden technique that risked his life and drew on the Void Great Emperor’s laws.
• Zhou Tong combined his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, True Dragon, and Immortal Phoenix Divine Forms, then used his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword to cut through the Replica Void Mirror’s radiance.
• Ji Zi poured his vital essence into Void Severing Two Realms, while Zhou Tong’s Immortal Phoenix Wings restored his failing defenses.
• The final clash sent Zhou Tong flying with injuries, but Ji Zi had exhausted his origin and suffered the greater loss.

Zhou Tong and Ji Zi fought a brutal battle, each unleashing powerful techniques and suffering grievous injuries. Zhou Tong broke through Ji Zi’s final forbidden art and severed his head, leaving the Ji Family shocked by the Void Great Emperor’s son’s defeat.

• Ji Zi used the Replica Void Mirror to restrain Zhou Tong’s sword and reflect his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass attack, but Zhou Tong wounded him with a sword strike from his palm.
• Ji Zi unleashed the Void Flower, freezing space and time, while Zhou Tong used the Martial Heavenly Eye, Front Character Secret, and Hegemonic Bell to resist.
• Ji Zi’s Void Mirror struck Zhou Tong and damaged his skull, but Zhou Tong’s Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword cut off half of Ji Zi’s head and one arm.
• Zhou Tong recovered with Phoenix Nirvana Divine Fire while Ji Zi launched another forbidden technique that nearly fused him with the Replica Void Mirror.
• Zhou Tong broke free of Ji Zi’s restraints with a dazzling divine halo and severed Ji Zi’s head, stunning the Ji Family.

Zhou Tong defeated Ji Zi with his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, claimed the promised immortal gold, and spared him despite the Ji Family’s objections. He returned to Undying Mountain injured and began recovering while Ye Fan and Pang Bo wondered about the battle and his remaining trump cards.

• Ji Zi admitted defeat after Zhou Tong’s divine rings overwhelmed his Void Scripture techniques, and Zhou Tong demanded the promised immortal gold.
• Zhou Tong explained that he needed time to study his scriptures and secret arts, then spared Ji Zi and warned him to leave before the Assassin Divine Dynasty discovered the battle.
• Ji Zi handed over the immortal gold and silently vowed to defeat Zhou Tong with his own Dao, while the Ji Family’s mighty figures debated whether to pursue Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong returned to Undying Mountain through a domain gate, told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that he had won, and entered a cave to recover from his injuries.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo inferred that Zhou Tong had been badly hurt and speculated that he had kept some trump cards ready for the Void Mirror.

After healing from his battle with Ji Zi, Zhou Tong advanced his cultivation and prepared for the upcoming auction near Undying Mountain. He reassured Ye Fan and Pang Bo that the sacred lands had plentiful immortal material to bid on.

• Zhou Tong healed the void Dao patterns left by Ji Zi's final technique using Sun Sacred Fruits and the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong triggered the heavenly tribulation he had been suppressing, then stabilized his cultivation at the seventh level of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform.
• Zhou Tong returned near Undying Mountain and told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that he was ready for the auction.
• Zhou Tong explained that Big Dipper produced small amounts of immortal gold and that Ancient Great Emperors could obtain Immortal Material more easily than legends suggested.
• Pang Bo remarked that Ruthless Great Emperor had lacked Immortal Material, and Zhou Tong silently disagreed while glancing at Little Nannan.

The Jiang Family, Great Xia Dynasty, Nine Li Imperial Dynasty, and other powers failed to crack Zhou Tong’s booby-trapped Mysterious Jade Platform without destroying it. At the appointed meeting, Zhou Tong connected the platforms into a public video network and demonstrated that they could teleport auction items, leaving the furious sacred lands to hear his threats about spreading their imperial scriptures.

• The Jiang Family’s Array Pattern masters reported that the platform held 108 linked layers, including Imperial Array traces and self-destruction traps, and that cracking it safely would require far more time and strength.
• Great Xia’s Array Pattern master suspected Zhou Tong had obtained the Great Emperor Scripture, while the Nine Li Imperial Lord concluded that Zhou Tong had mastered the Nine Li Scripture and nearly destroyed the platform by testing the Jiu Li Diagram.
• The sacred lands gathered with Zhou Tong, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan for the appointed meeting, and Zhou Tong activated images from more than thirty Mysterious Jade Platforms at once.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had placed fewer than ten platforms outside for spectators and warned the sacred lands that their scriptures could spread across the Big Dipper if they refused to cooperate.
• Zhou Tong demonstrated the platforms’ teleportation function by sending a stone to the Nine Li Imperial Lord, who crushed it in anger as Pang Bo and Ye Fan laughed.

Zhou Tong began auctioning captured Nangong Zheng, revealing his past and the secrets behind his many opportunities as bids rose. Yaoguang Holy Land won him with two thousand jin of Phoenix Blood Red Gold, leaving Zhou Tong to suspect that Yaoguang's treasures came from the Ruthless Great Emperor's legacy.

• Zhou Tong set the auction rules, accepting immortal materials and other rare treasures as payment.
• Zhou Tong presented sealed Nangong Zheng and recounted his cultivation, discoveries, and past encounters, provoking outrage and gossip among the crowd.
• Yaoguang Holy Land opened the bidding, and other buyers raised Nangong Zheng's price as his secrets and scriptures drew interest.
• Yaoguang Holy Land won Nangong Zheng for two thousand jin of Phoenix Blood Red Gold, which Zhou Tong accepted before sending Nangong Zheng to the buyer.
• Zhou Tong examined the Phoenix Blood Red Gold and suspected that Yaoguang's supply came from the Chaos Immortal Land and the Ruthless Great Emperor's legacy.

Zhou Tong used Ye Fan as a shill to drive up the price for Imperial Lord Xia Yun’s Great Emperor Scripture, while the Great Xia Dynasty secretly tried to locate the Mysterious Jade Platform. The auction ended with the sacred lands furious and uncertain whether Ye Fan would really spread their ancient scriptures.

• After the Great Xia Dynasty bid the starting price for Imperial Lord Xia Yun, the other sacred lands stayed silent because they had agreed not to interfere with one another’s people.
• Zhou Tong signaled Ye Fan, who posed as an old man seeking revenge for his grandson and bid two thousand jin of Dragon Pattern Black Gold.
• The Great Xia Dynasty raised its bid and secretly asked a Half-Saint ancestor to locate Zhou Tong through the Mysterious Jade Platform.
• Ye Fan raised his bid to five thousand jin, then claimed he had brought thirty thousand jin of Dragon Pattern Black Gold and threatened to spread the Great Emperor Scripture worldwide.
• Zhou Tong vouched for Ye Fan’s assets, leaving the Great Xia Dynasty and the other sacred lands angry and unsure whether the threat was genuine.

Zhou Tong continued auctioning the captured cultivators, while Ye Fan bid as a plant and the holy lands paid in immortal materials. The auction reached a fierce contest between Yaoguang Holy Land and the Ji Family over a Supreme Elder who had inherited the Ruthless Great Emperor’s arts.

• Great Xia's Imperial Lord was sold for thirty thousand jin of Immortal Tear Green Gold, and Zhou Tong warned Ye Fan that the nine kinds of immortal gold needed awakened profound meanings to forge an Immortal Artifact.
• Ye Fan bid thirty thousand jin of Dragon Pattern Black Gold for Jiang Wenyi, and the Jiang Family bought him back for thirty thousand one hundred jin as its array pattern master struggled to locate Zhou Tong's group.
• Zhou Tong auctioned off more captured cultivators, with Ye Fan calling out bids and lesser holy lands and independent cultivators paying lower prices.
• Zhou Tong presented Yaoguang Holy Land's Supreme Elder as the successor who had taught the Ruthless Great Emperor's arts to the Yaoguang Saint Son and Hua Yunfei, and Ye Fan bid thirty thousand jin of Dragon Pattern Black Gold.
• The Ji Family offered a World Stone for the elder, prompting Yaoguang Holy Land and the Ji Family to escalate their bids amid accusations over attacks on the Ji Family's divine body.
• Yaoguang Holy Land raised its offer to fifty thousand jin of Phoenix Blood Red Gold and one hundred thousand jin of Eternal Blue Gold after the Ji Family bid two World Stones.

Zhou Tong explained that Yaoguang Holy Land might possess the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Chaos Immortal Land, then sold the captives and destroyed the Mysterious Jade Platforms to escape the holy lands’ pursuit. He left Ye Fan and Pang Bo with hints about the coming Path to Immortality and revealed their auction gains.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that Yaoguang lay atop the Ruthless Great Emperor’s tomb and might hold vast stores of Immortal Material from the Chaos Immortal Land.
• Yaoguang outbid the Ji Family with hundreds of thousands of jin of immortal gold, prompting the Ji Family to suspect that the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inheritor was in Yaoguang.
• Zhou Tong completed the captive auction, delivered a final address, and destroyed his Mysterious Jade Platform, triggering the destruction of the other platforms and erasing the holy lands’ clues to his location.
• The Great Xia ancestor deduced that Zhou Tong was near Undying Mountain, while Zhou Tong traversed the void and reached a desolate place with Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
• Zhou Tong explained that the holy lands were preserving their Saint-level reserves for the coming Path to Immortality, then revealed the group’s auction gains as countless pieces of Immortal Material appeared.

Zhou Tong brought the immortal gold he had gathered to the Sun Star and used it to strengthen his Hegemonic Bell. After a month of insight from his Vajra Ring, he advanced to the eighth level of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform as a sea of lightning descended.

• Zhou Tong gave Pang Bo 200,000 jin of Eternal Blue Gold, and Pang Bo explained that he would forge nine weapons that could combine into one.
• Zhou Tong declined Pang Bo’s request to accompany him and told Ye Fan he would teach him the Nine Secrets after returning from the Sun Star.
• Zhou Tong traveled closer to the Sun Star and refined his Divine Mark Purple Gold in its flames.
• Zhou Tong set aside 10,000 jin of Divine Mark Purple Gold for his Vajra Ring and fused the rest into his Hegemonic Bell, enlarging it to nearly 1.9 meters.
• Zhou Tong studied the Great Dao through his Vajra Ring for a month and advanced to the eighth level of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform as lightning descended.

Zhou Tong examined the Vajra Ring’s evolving Immortal gold and sought a way to awaken Divine Mark Purple Gold’s profound meaning. He advanced into the Inscription Realm, discovering that his Chaotic Ancient Method and Sky Shrouding insights had converged within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

• Zhou Tong realized that the Vajra Ring’s fusion of the True Dragon and Phoenix methods accelerated his cultivation, but he resolved to forge his own path through the Ten Fiends’ Divine Forms.
• Zhou Tong saw that Dragon Pattern Black Gold and Phoenix Blood Red Gold were fusing and could assimilate the other Immortal gold unless their profound meanings awakened.
• Zhou Tong considered what it meant for Divine Mark Purple Gold to be close to immortality and decided to experiment with the Immortal Ancient Method.
• Zhou Tong gave the Vajra Ring Divine Mark Purple Gold, Immortal Tear Green Gold, and Dao Tribulation Gold to refine, then began cultivating toward the Inscription Realm.
• Zhou Tong broke through into the Inscription Realm and found that his Chaotic Ancient Method and Sky Shrouding insights had manifested as runes throughout his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

Zhou Tong advanced through the Inscription and Array Formation Realms, using Source Heavenly Divine Runes to transform the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and trigger a violent awakening of his bodily potential. As he endured the transformation, he saw the gates within his body again and focused on refining his Dao Palace foundation with the Empress West Scripture.

• Zhou Tong reached major completion in the Inscription Realm and broke through to the Array Formation Realm in a day.
• Zhou Tong arranged Source Heavenly Divine Runes across the mountains and rivers inside his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings for three months.
• The rune formations strengthened the divine rings, and their power surged into Zhou Tong, cracking his body open as it awakened his potential.
• Zhou Tong saw the gates within his body again and found that his Sea of Wheels foundation had no new gates to open.
• Zhou Tong used the Empress West Scripture to regulate unused gates in his Dao Palace Realm while Sun fire essence tempered his body.
• Zhou Tong concentrated his power in the Dao Palace Realm, released its Gate of Potential, and healed his battered body with purple rosy light.

After advancing his Dao Palace Realm, Zhou Tong discovered that he could incorporate arrays into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and transform his phenomena into powerful formations. He failed to contain Great Emperor Array Patterns, resolved to use formations at his own level, and wondered how Cao Yusheng had carved an Immortal King-level array into his body.

• Zhou Tong completed three days of cultivation, strengthened his Dao Palace, and chose to study the Dragon Transformation Realm next.
• Zhou Tong combined Source Heavenly Divine Runes with his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and discovered that his phenomena could form arrays in the void.
• Zhou Tong carved Great Emperor killing-array patterns into a valley, but their killing intent injured him through his connection to the rings.
• Zhou Tong erased the patterns, healed himself, and concluded that his rings could only contain arrays at his level or arrays he had deduced himself.
• Zhou Tong recalled that Cao Yusheng had carved the Third Killing Array into his body and decided to keep developing his own array-filled phenomena gradually.

After refining his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword on the Sun Star for three months, Zhou Tong gained insight into the fusion of three arts and strengthened his cultivation. He returned to find Ye Fan and Pang Bo hunted by the sacred lands, then offered to lead them to the Xing Character Secret before an assassin struck.

• Zhou Tong refined the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword with Phoenix Blood Red Gold, allowing the Grass Character Sword Art, True Dragon Method, and Immortal Phoenix Method to evolve together.
• After three months, Zhou Tong stopped refining when the sword’s Dao exceeded his understanding, and his insights helped consolidate his cultivation.
• Zhou Tong returned from half a year of seclusion and learned from Pang Bo and Ye Fan that the sacred lands had issued wanted notices and were searching the Northern Region.
• Zhou Tong proposed taking Ye Fan and Pang Bo to find the Xing Character Secret, explaining its extraordinary speed and potential to reach the domain of time.
• As Zhou Tong was about to reveal the Xing Character Secret’s location, a Killing Sword burst from the void and aimed for his brow.

Zhou Tong foiled an ambush by an assassin wielding an Heirloom Sacred Weapon and explained the threat posed by the ancient Assassin Divine Dynasties. After warning Ye Fan and Pang Bo that an Assassin Saint could strike next, he led the group toward the Xing Character Secret at Sacred Cliff.

• An assassin in an Azure Gold Battle Robe ambushed Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong blocked the attack with Seven-Colored Divine Light and drove the attacker back.
• Zhou Tong threw his seven-colored Vajra Ring, destroying the Azure Gold Battle Robe and nearly killing the assassin before imprisoning his primordial spirit.
• Ye Fan recognized that Zhou Tong's Vajra Ring contained seven kinds of Immortal Material, and Zhou Tong identified the attacker as a powerful assassin from Human World or Hell.
• Zhou Tong explained the history and danger of the Assassin Divine Dynasties, and warned Ye Fan and Pang Bo that an Assassin Saint might target them next.
• Zhou Tong urged the group to leave and seek the Xing Character Secret, telling Ye Fan that it was at Sacred Cliff.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan into Sacred Cliff to study the array patterns laid by Wu Shi the Great while escaping the assassins of Human World and Hell. After enduring the deadly lightning and deducing the formations, Zhou Tong reconstructed a corner of the Wu Shi Killing Array, advancing his mastery of array patterns.

• Human World and Hell learned their assassination attempts had failed, and their leaders resolved to act against the target themselves.
• Zhou Tong led Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan into Sacred Cliff, carefully following the array patterns with the Group Character Secret.
• As lightning struck him repeatedly, Zhou Tong refined the bolts and used each failure to improve his understanding of Wu Shi the Great's formations.
• The group crossed a valley and entered a deeper mountain, where increasingly powerful lightning forced Zhou Tong to stop and rest.
• Zhou Tong deduced the mountain's patterns into a vast array diagram and reconstructed a corner of the Wu Shi Killing Array.

After spending more than half a year traversing Sacred Cliff, Zhou Tong reached its central region with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, then carved a fragment of the Wu Shi Killing Array into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings. He realized he could imprint other Great Emperor Array Patterns as well and continued toward the summit.

• Zhou Tong awakened after a month of deducing the Wu Shi Killing Array and led Ye Fan and Pang Bo onward through the lightning-filled path.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to destroy a black strange wind and conceal the group from a demon Saint in a scorching valley.
• Zhou Tong slowly crossed the dangerous mountains, relying on the Vajra Ring as the Wu Shi Array Patterns grew more complex and severe.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo reached Sacred Cliff's central region and spotted a Stone Coffin on the blood-red mountain.
• Zhou Tong asked the others to wait while he deduced the summit's Array Patterns, then carved a fragment of the Wu Shi Killing Array into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong understood how to imprint killing arrays and resumed moving, planning to carve other Great Emperor Array Patterns.

Zhou Tong strengthened his Dragon Transformation Realm and incorporated fragments of Great Emperor killing arrays into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, but found that using them drained too much power. After half a month studying Sacred Cliff’s symbols, he found a safe route toward its peak and prepared to lead Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan upward.

• Zhou Tong used the spiritual essence absorbed by his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings to cultivate, combining the Indestructible Heavenly Merit with the Great Emperor Scripture and further tempering his spine and marrow.
• Zhou Tong tested a Taiyin Killing Array fragment in his Snow Dance Under Heaven phenomenon, then realized that activating Great Emperor Array Patterns consumed more divine power than he could afford.
• Zhou Tong considered using Source Heavenly Divine Runes and arrays to draw on external dragon veins and reduce the cost of activating his array fragments.
• Zhou Tong studied Sacred Cliff’s array patterns for half a month and finally found a safe path to the peak.
• Zhou Tong warned Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan to follow him exactly, explaining that one wrong step could be like taking a palm strike from Wu Shi the Great.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan through Wu Shi the Great’s array to the summit of Sacred Cliff, where they opened the Stone Coffin and encountered the Traversal Character Secret. The group began memorizing its Dao Diagram under the Bodhi Tree.

• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring’s Dragon Concealment art to guide the group past people on the mountain without being detected.
• After a month of carefully navigating Wu Shi’s Killing Array, Zhou Tong and the others reached the summit and found the Stone Coffin of a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body.
• Ye Fan pointed out images of Tathagata Buddha and Laozi, and Zhou Tong examined their inscriptions and star maps beside the coffin.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to burn the green fur from the coffin, then Wu Shi’s array and Investiture of the Gods suppressed the violent aura when the coffin opened.
• A Dao Diagram revealed the Traversal Character Secret, and Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo began studying it beneath the Bodhi Tree while Little Nannan stayed back.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo encountered the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body on Sacred Cliff, where Ye Fan explored the Saint Body lineage’s single-secret-realm method and Zhou Tong secured a saint’s corpse and Heavenly Court Scepter. They then fought the Undying Daoist, whose remnant soul was crushed after Wu Shi the Great’s backup plan weakened him.

• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body emerged from its coffin, and Ye Fan used the green lotus to control its corpse and explore the Saint Body lineage’s single-secret-realm method.
• Ye Fan made the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body retrieve the Heavenly Court assassin saint’s corpse and scepter, which Zhou Tong stored in the Vajra Ring.
• Wu Shi the Great’s Investiture of the Gods struck the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body back into its coffin and later appeared to confront the group on their way down Sacred Cliff.
• The Undying Daoist tried to tempt the group with the Nine Secrets, but Zhou Tong attacked him with the Vajra Ring.
• The Undying Daoist unleashed Emperor might, prompting Wu Shi the Great’s backup plan to strike and severely injure him.
• Zhou Tong’s Vajra Ring smashed the weakened Undying Daoist’s remnant soul, causing it to collapse.