Chapter Summaries

After escaping Sacred Cliff, Zhou Tong took Ye Fan and Pang Bo to the Central Plains to avoid the Assassin Divine Dynasty, and they entered seclusion. By refining the Undying Daoist’s soul fragments, Zhou Tong learned the Lin Character Secret’s power and wondered whether it had helped create the ancient Supremes’ Longevity Method.

• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to begin searching the Undying Daoist’s soul fragments while the group left Sacred Cliff.
• Zhou Tong learned that Wu Shi the Great’s backup measures had activated, then led the group away as Ye Fan and Pang Bo endured their concealed tribulations.
• Zhou Tong took the group through a domain gate to the Central Plains, where Ye Fan and Pang Bo secluded themselves to study the Xing Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong refined the Undying Daoist’s soul fragments and discovered that they contained the Front Character Secret and the Lin Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong comprehended that the Lin Character Secret could draw the world’s energy and Dao into its user, and suspected it was connected to the Supremes’ Longevity Method.

Zhou Tong tested Annihilation Heavenly Venerate’s Lin Character Secret on the Heavenly Court Assassin Saint’s corpse and drew the Saint’s Way of Slaughter into his consciousness. He battled the Assassin Saint’s lingering presence with his techniques and the Hegemonic Bell, and the fight continued as their attacks collided.

• Zhou Tong conjectured that Annihilation Heavenly Venerate and Longevity Heavenly Venerate had created the Longevity Method by combining the Great Daos of annihilation and longevity.
• Zhou Tong brought out the Heavenly Court Assassin Saint’s corpse and used the Lin Character Secret as it transformed into the Dao.
• The Assassin Saint’s Way of Slaughter flooded Zhou Tong’s consciousness, where the Saint repeatedly attacked him with Heavenly Court’s killing techniques.
• Zhou Tong countered the Assassin Saint’s attacks with purple battle energy, the Phoenix Cry, and the Hegemonic Bell infused with the Great Void Technique.
• The Assassin Saint summoned a golden scepter as Zhou Tong continued striking the Hegemonic Bell, and their powers clashed within the consciousness space.

Zhou Tong defeated the Assassin Saint’s remnant in the space of consciousness, then endured the saint’s accumulated Killing Intent and survived through Phoenix Nirvana. By comprehending Dao Severance through the ordeal, he advanced to the Ninth Heaven of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform and brought his cultivation close to great completion.

• Zhou Tong fought the Assassin Saint’s remnant, learned the mysteries of the Heavenly Court’s “Slaughter Scripture,” and finally pierced the remnant’s forehead to defeat it.
• The Assassin Saint dissolved into the Dao, and his laws and Killing Intent flooded Zhou Tong’s body, leaving him on the brink of destruction.
• Zhou Tong used the Immortal Phoenix Method, lightning, the Ten Evils Treasure Art, the Nine Secrets, and Great Emperor secret arts to endure the Killing Intent and undergo Phoenix Nirvana.
• Zhou Tong survived a vast lightning tribulation and advanced to the great completion of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform.
• Zhou Tong comprehended Dao Severance through the ordeal and reached the Ninth Heaven of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform, approaching great completion.
• Zhou Tong’s primordial spirit emerged with nine undying divine halos before returning to his Immortal Platform.

Zhou Tong discovered the Soldier Character Secret at the Qin Sect and used it to refine his Hegemonic Bell. He left with the secret’s first stage complete, but planned to seek a better place to forge the weapon fully.

• Zhou Tong waited until moonrise at the Qin Sect’s cliff, where the weapon carvings revealed the Soldier Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong understood that the secret could forge, nurture, and control weapons, filling a gap in the Ten Evils Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong used the Soldier Character Secret to refine his Hegemonic Bell and strengthen its ability to suppress time.
• Zhou Tong stopped refining because the area lacked sufficient Dao fire and decided to seek a better place, one he considered better than the Sun Star.

Zhou Tong entered Falling Eagle Cliff’s Primordial Battlefield to temper himself and refine the Hegemonic Bell amid the lingering Divine Laws of ancient saints. After half a year of enduring the battlefield’s attacks, he reached its core region.

• Zhou Tong descended into Falling Eagle Cliff and made his way toward the core of the Primordial Battlefield.
• Zhou Tong used Great Emperor Array Patterns and Source Heavenly Divine Runes to push through the battlefield’s lingering laws, choosing to endure their attacks without the Vajra Ring.
• Zhou Tong broke through to great perfection of the Array Formation Realm and examined the Gates of Potential in his Four Extremities Realm.
• Zhou Tong continued weakening his protective array so the Divine Laws could temper his body, primordial spirit, and Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong spent half a year crossing the battlefield and reached its core, where he roared into the ocean of Divine Laws.

Zhou Tong cultivated his Hegemonic Bell amid the ancient battlefield’s Dao principles, nurturing a Chaos Divine Fetus while contemplating Dao Severing. The bell’s patterns began to resemble a vast world, as Ye Fan and Pang Bo remained under pursuit elsewhere.

• Zhou Tong rejected using the battlefield’s laws to forge an Imperial Weapon through tribulation and instead sent his Hegemonic Bell to absorb the ancient imprints.
• The Hegemonic Bell developed nine chaos patterns that nurtured a Divine Fetus, though Zhou Tong believed its Divine Mark Purple Gold material was inferior to Ye Fan’s Root of Profound Yellow Mother Qi.
• While the bell absorbed Dao principles, Zhou Tong contemplated Dao Severing and deepened his understanding of the stage.
• After a year, Zhou Tong noticed the bell’s increasingly detailed mountains and rivers resembled the scenery in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo, wounded and pursued, worried about Zhou Tong’s absence, and Ye Fan gave them True Dragon Divine Medicine liquid when their pursuers caught up.

Zhou Tong used the Hegemonic Bell to destroy the Primordial Battlefield’s remaining sage powers, then refined the bell with a new secret art. After two years of cultivation, he left Falling Eagle Cliff to check on Ye Fan and Pang Bo.

• Zhou Tong unleashed Bell Suppressing Time, and the Hegemonic Bell’s waves swept away the battlefield’s residual power, black mist, and Killing Intent.
• Zhou Tong began evolving the Golden Ancient Emperor’s Infinite Divine Treasury with the Battle Secret and Soldier Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong used the Purple Gold Divine Treasury to refine the Hegemonic Bell, filling its world with weapons and battle intent.
• Zhou Tong completed the refinement after three days and decided to leave Falling Eagle Cliff to see how Ye Fan and Pang Bo had fared.

Ye Fan and Pang Bo were cornered by several holy lands and imperial forces until Zhou Tong arrived and slaughtered their attackers. Zhou Tong then faced the surviving enemies alone, declaring that without an Imperial Weapon or a Saint, they could not kill them.

• Ye Fan used his Great Emperor Killing Formation fragments to open a path for himself and Pang Bo, but a Nine Li Imperial Dynasty Imperial Lord cut it off.
• Yaoguang, Great Xia, Purple Mansion, Wan Chu, and other powers attacked Ye Fan and Pang Bo, grievously wounding them despite Little Nannan's tears empowering Ye Fan.
• Zhou Tong tore through the sealed void and killed the Great Powers besieging Ye Fan and Pang Bo with a single punch and sword energies.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to suppress the surrounding Saint Weapons, then unleashed his Purple Gold Divine Treasury and killed the remaining attackers.
• Zhou Tong stood alone before the surviving enemies and said they could not kill them without an Imperial Weapon or a Saint.

Zhou Tong faced a Great Xia king who was three realms above him and fought him in a fierce clash of dragon techniques. The two dragons were knocked apart, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Zhou Tong used the Soldier Character Secret to shatter a Jiang Family great power’s armor and behead him with a flying fragment.
• A Great Xia king emerged with a dragon sword, and his presence suppressed Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
• The king attacked Zhou Tong with Imperial Dragon Qi, but Zhou Tong met his strike with the Sacred Spirit Sword and the claw of a Nine Netherworld Howler.
• The king unleashed Nine Transformations Dragon Dance, and Zhou Tong answered with True Dragon Nine Transformations.
• The two transformed into golden and purple dragons and battled until both were thrown backward and separated.

Zhou Tong defeated the Great Xia king in a brutal battle, then destroyed the king’s attempt to take him down with Dao transformation. He escaped with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan after revealing that Assassin Saints from Human World and Hell had been tracking them.

• Zhou Tong and the Great Xia king fought as purple and golden dragons until Zhou Tong knocked the king from the sky and broke his sword.
• The wounded king attempted to drag Zhou Tong into Dao transformation, but Zhou Tong returned to human form and used True Phoenix flames to extinguish it and heal himself.
• The Vajra Ring suddenly enveloped Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan, and Zhou Tong used a Mysterious Jade Platform to flee through the void.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that Assassin Saints from Human World and Hell had been watching them for two years and explained that he had concealed the Vajra Ring during the fight.

After reuniting with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, Zhou Tong explained that his absence had left them vulnerable to divinations and pursuit, then took them and Little Nannan to the Northern Plains. They reached the center of a vast icefield and entered a dangerous vortex, arriving at the immense well where Zhou Tong expected to find an opportunity.

• Pang Bo and Ye Fan recovered from their injuries with pills Zhou Tong gave them, then asked where he had been.
• Zhou Tong explained that Heavenly Mystery Divine Calculation had exposed their whereabouts while he was away and warned that the Assassin Divine Dynasty still threatened them.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo agreed to join Zhou Tong on his dangerous trip to the Northern Plains, and he opened a Gate to take them and Little Nannan there.
• Zhou Tong led the group across the desolate Northern Plains to a snowfield filled with enormous ancient temples and then toward its distorted, mist-covered center.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to shield the group as they entered the vortex and reached the gigantic well at its eye.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan through the Demon Well to an ancient Path to Immortality beneath the Arctic Icefield. At the chaos wall, he collected thousands of strands of North Pole Immortal Light, while the group remained in the ruined underground world.

• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to carry Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan down the Demon Well, where they passed ancient Saints’ corpses and reached the underground world.
• Zhou Tong explained that they had entered an ancient Path to Immortality and led the others through ruins to a gate marked Immortal Estate.
• The group entered a desolate land scarred by ancient Supremes and followed Zhou Tong to a vast expanse of chaos that blocked the way.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to break through the chaos and drew in more than twenty strands of North Pole Immortal Light.
• Zhou Tong searched along the chaos wall and collected several thousand strands of North Pole Immortal Light in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

Zhou Tong refined the North Pole Immortal Light, strengthening his primordial spirit and stirring faint sentience in the Hegemonic Bell, but realized the light alone could not awaken the mysteries of Divine Mark Purple Gold. He decided to cultivate in seclusion on the ancient Path to Immortality with Ye Fan and Pang Bo, and learned that Ye Fan was advancing through the Immortal Platform Secret Realm with the Great Emperor Scripture.

• Zhou Tong refined the North Pole Immortal Light, which nourished his primordial spirit and made the Hegemonic Bell show faint signs of sentience.
• Zhou Tong concluded that the North Pole Immortal Light could not awaken the immortal-gold mysteries and wondered whether he needed to cultivate Immortal Qi himself.
• Zhou Tong considered entering the Chaos Immortal Soil to seek an Immortal Ancient environment, but rejected the plan because he might be unable to escape.
• Zhou Tong asked Ye Fan and Pang Bo whether they would remain while he cultivated in seclusion, and both agreed to stay and cultivate too.
• Zhou Tong asked what scripture Ye Fan used in the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, and Ye Fan said he was continuing with the Great Emperor Scripture.

Zhou Tong studied the Immortal Ancient Method’s Primordial Immortal Scripture and began cultivating it with North Pole Immortal Light on the ancient Path to Immortality. After refining the immortal substances, he underwent a profound bodily transformation, though he still sensed impurities remaining within him.

• Zhou Tong warned Ye Fan and Pang Bo to keep their distance from him and gave them a map marking dangerous locations on the Path to Immortality.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to find an Immortal King’s Primordial Immortal Scripture and learned that its cultivation required true Immortal Qi and a suitable foundation.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the million divine characters of the Immortal Ancient Method, producing powerful phenomena that startled Pang Bo while Ye Fan continued consolidating his insights.
• After mastering the characters, Zhou Tong refined North Pole Immortal Light and advanced his Chaotic Ancient Method to the Venerable Realm.
• Zhou Tong absorbed the aura and substances of the Immortal Domain, expelled impurities, and emerged with a radiant, transformed body, though he recognized that some impurities remained.

Zhou Tong decided to pursue the Battle Immortal path by fusing his Hegemonic Body’s Divine Forms into an unprecedented tenth form, then used the Vedic Scripture to draw the evil karma directed at him into Karma Fire. He endured the flames to temper his body, primordial spirit, and Hegemonic Bell, but found the accumulated Karma Fire insufficient and began supplementing it with Dao Fire.

• Zhou Tong concluded that his Dao was the path of the Battle Immortal and planned to unify the Ten Fiends Divine Forms into a single essence.
• Zhou Tong drew inspiration from the Divine Emperor’s tenth transformation to devise a path beyond the Hegemonic Body’s nine Divine Forms.
• Zhou Tong studied the Vedic Scripture’s All Beings’ Evil Karma method and gathered the resentment and evil karma people held against him.
• Zhou Tong resisted the resulting Karma Fire with his scriptures and nine-colored light, then used the flames to temper his body, primordial spirit, and Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong judged that the Karma Fire was insufficient and began producing Dao Fire from within himself.

Zhou Tong used Karma Fire, Dao fire, and North Pole Immortal Light to temper his three Hegemon Body Divine Forms, seeking to forge a path and art of his own. After three months, the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, True Dragon, and Immortal Phoenix began truly fusing into one, and a faint wisp of Immortal Qi appeared around him.

• Zhou Tong realized that the sages’ Dao fire and the Divine Emperor’s path could only serve as references, not his own Dao.
• Zhou Tong separated his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, True Dragon, and Immortal Phoenix Divine Forms from his body and placed them in a void furnace.
• Zhou Tong tempered the three Divine Forms for three months with Karma Fire, Dao fire, and North Pole Immortal Light, studying their runes and the ancient sages’ laws.
• Zhou Tong saw the endpoint of his years of study and began truly fusing the three Divine Forms and their Treasure Art runes into one.
• Zhou Tong’s three Divine Forms intertwined in brilliant light, and a faint wisp of Immortal Qi appeared around him.

Zhou Tong refined North Pole Immortal Light until he manifested a strand of Immortal Qi, which fused with his three-in-one Divine Form and enabled its three Ten Fiend forms to transform freely. After his Hegemonic Bell began developing sentience, he decided to use a reincarnation opportunity to cultivate the Thunder Emperor method before facing the tribulation of severing the Dao.

• Zhou Tong refined North Pole Immortal Light with Dao Fire and Karma Fire until his first strand of Immortal Qi appeared, then watched it fuse with his three-in-one Divine Form as Primal Qi.
• Zhou Tong continued tempering his Divine Form until he could freely transform and combine the forms of the True Dragon, Immortal Phoenix, and Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• Zhou Tong concluded that uniting the three Divine Forms qualified him to pursue the Hegemon Body Ancestral Form, provided he studied their methods and laws more deeply.
• Zhou Tong saw his Hegemonic Bell begin to develop sentience and realized it would need more Immortal Qi and refinement to awaken fully.
• Zhou Tong chose to use a reincarnation opportunity to build his foundation in the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique ahead of the tribulation of severing the Dao.

Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to experience the Thunder Emperor’s birth and comprehend the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique over five hundred years. He sacrificed his Reincarnation Seals to advance the fusion of his Divine Forms, leaving them on the verge of merging into one.

• Zhou Tong experienced the Thunder Emperor’s life in the lightning sea and comprehended how the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique developed over five hundred years.
• Zhou Tong awakened with the Thunder Emperor Divine Form’s nature and used his insights to attempt to fuse his Divine Forms.
• Zhou Tong’s Divine Forms nearly collapsed under the North Pole Immortal Light and Great Dao Karma Fire, so he sacrificed the Reincarnation Seal formed as a Kunpeng to restore them and advance their fusion.
• Zhou Tong resolved to sacrifice his Reincarnation Seals for his ultimate Divine Form and fed the Reincarnation Seal formed as Nine-Leaf Sword Grass into the cauldron.
• The second Reincarnation Seal drove the fusion forward, and all of Zhou Tong’s Divine Forms showed signs of merging into one.

Zhou Tong used two Reincarnation Seals to push the fusion of his Divine Forms to ninety percent, then realized he needed stronger Dao Fire and Karma Fire to complete it. After refining his Hegemonic Bell and awakening its Divine Mark Purple Gold, he prepared to leave the ancient Path to Immortality and stir up trouble.

• Zhou Tong sacrificed his third Reincarnation Seal to sustain the Divine Forms’ fusion, stopping when it reached ninety percent.
• Zhou Tong decided he needed to reawaken Karma Fire by showing himself before the sacred lands, while he planned to draw on his Hegemonic Bell for more Dao Fire.
• Zhou Tong spent three months refining the Hegemonic Bell, awakening its Divine Mark Purple Gold and imprinting it with Emperor Scriptures and the sages’ Great Dao.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring’s Seven-Colored Divine Light on the Ancient Heavenly Court Scepter, revealing seventeen Great Sage-level Assassin Saints whose law imprints he transferred to his bell.
• Zhou Tong judged the seventeen imprints insufficient and rose to leave the ancient Path to Immortality to stir up trouble.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan and Pang Bo out of the ancient Path to Immortality, where they crossed their tribulations and prepared to settle accounts with the sacred lands. After returning to the Eastern Wasteland, they learned that Wang Teng was courting Ji Ziyue, while a tavern conversation revealed that Zhou Tong had become a taboo figure.

• Zhou Tong took Ye Fan and Pang Bo out of the ancient Path to Immortality, and both men crossed their heavenly tribulations after reaching safety.
• Zhou Tong judged that Ye Fan had grown powerful but still could not match him, then gave Ye Fan and Pang Bo jade pendants that concealed their identities and blocked detection.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan returned to the Eastern Wasteland and gathered news at a tavern.
• Tavern patrons discussed Wang Teng proposing to Ji Ziyue and receiving a fragment of a star from the Void Hall.
• When a young man claimed the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body could challenge Wang Teng, the tavern fell silent and a half-step mighty expert warned him not to mention the taboo figure.