Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong traveled through Luzhou with Yi Qingwu while studying the Fusang Divine Tree’s memories and strengthening his foundations. He awakened the Dao Tribulation Gold in Wang Teng’s sword and grasped its profound meaning of destructive tribulation.

• Zhou Tong continued touring Luzhou with Yi Qingwu, gathering intelligence and seeking Saint-level Great Dao imprints for the Hegemonic Bell.
• Using the Reincarnation Mirror, Zhou Tong explored the Fusang Divine Tree’s memories and gained knowledge of ancient treasure arts and techniques.
• Zhou Tong revealed Wang Teng’s golden sword and explained that he had spent more than seven years removing its Dao patterns inside the Vajra Ring.
• The sword’s Dao Tribulation Gold awakened, spreading its aura of life into the Primordial Stone and beginning to fuse the two materials further.
• By matching the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art with the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique, Zhou Tong comprehended Dao Tribulation Gold’s profound meaning of tribulation and destruction.

Zhou Tong forged the Immortal Tribulation Sword by combining Dao Tribulation Gold, the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art, and the Thunder Emperor Method. After testing its power, he began devising a sword formation with it and the Sacred Spirit Sword.

• Zhou Tong used the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art to imprint its deathly sword intent onto the evolving golden divine sword.
• Zhou Tong activated the Thunder Emperor Method and drew on the storm's lightning to temper the sword and awaken Dao Tribulation Gold's profundities.
• The completed sword gained a trace of weapon-soul mysteries, and Zhou Tong named it the Immortal Tribulation Sword.
• Zhou Tong tested the sword by cleaving and piercing a cliff, while Yi Qingwu marveled at its power and wanted to claim it.
• Zhou Tong placed the Immortal Tribulation Sword with the Sacred Spirit Sword in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and used the Group Character Secret to devise a sword formation.

Zhou Tong completed his collection of the Ten Evils Treasure Arts and began cultivating the Immortal Sutra, discovering its profound resonance with his body and the Sky Shrouding Method. The chapter left him considering how to connect all his secret realms, while noting that the Immortal Sutra resonated weakly with the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.

• Zhou Tong deduced a connection between the Grass Character Sword Art and the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art, but concluded that his planned sword formation needed a third sword based on the Peace Calamity Art.
• Zhou Tong considered using Immortal Tear Green Gold for that sword, then set it aside because awakening its profundity required rare attainments and a sorrowful state of mind.
• Zhou Tong found that the Gu and God-Striking Stone spirit bodies had appeared, completing his collection of the Ten Evils Treasure Arts, and planned to transform them into Divine Forms.
• Zhou Tong began cultivating the Immortal Sutra, strengthening his right hand, five viscera, spine, and Wheel Sea as he entered the Divine Prohibition State.
• Zhou Tong realized that the Sky Shrouding Method already contained some Immortal Sutra profundities, but that the scripture resonated much less with the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.

Yin Tiande emerged from seclusion and declared that he would kill someone after learning of Lu Ya’s death and Yi Qingwu’s abduction. Meanwhile, Zhou Tong took Yi Qingwu across the Western Sea to find a hidden Phoenix Blood Red Gold mine.

• Yin Tiande appeared at the Eight Sceneries Palace, condemned the deaths of Lu Ya and the abduction of Yi Qingwu, and sent out a painting while declaring his intent to kill someone.
• Zhou Tong traveled with Yi Qingwu through He Continent and into the Western Sea while cultivating the Immortal Sutra and deepening his understanding of the Dao.
• Zhou Tong asked Yi Qingwu to compare him with Yin Tiande, recorded her saying Yin Tiande was inferior, and explained that he was using her to challenge Yin Tiande’s reputation.
• Zhou Tong brought Yi Qingwu to a barren island and revealed that he had come to find the Phoenix Blood Red Gold mine hidden there.

Zhou Tong and Yi Qingwu uncovered a vast Red Copper Essence ore vein containing Crimson Dawn Divine Gold and a large piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold. Zhou Tong collected the treasure and a newly formed King-level Holy Spirit, then uprooted the entire mountain range into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

• Zhou Tong activated the Great Sage's formation, revealing a crimson mountain range made of Red Copper Essence and Red Copper Divine Essence.
• Zhou Tong and Yi Qingwu explored the vein and found more than a thousand cubic measures of Crimson Dawn Divine Gold, which had grown under the Great Sage's formation.
• Zhou Tong collected a four-hundred-thousand-jin piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold after stopping Yi Qingwu from trying to seize it.
• Zhou Tong discovered a King-level Holy Spirit formed from Crimson Dawn Divine Gold and collected it into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong uprooted the entire mountain range and stored it in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings before leaving with Yi Qingwu.

Zhou Tong strengthened the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings with a Red Copper Essence mountain range and chose to develop them into a real world rather than an illusory one. When he began refining a World Stone to reshape the rings, its explosive power destabilized the realm, and he prepared to use Nine Li the Great's Heaven Opening Art.

• Zhou Tong returned the Phoenix Blood Red Gold to its place in the Red Copper Essence mountain range and used Source Heavenly Divine Runes to integrate the range into the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong recognized that the immortal metal vein, Holy Spirits, and Immortal Divine Medicines were enriching the rings, and considered adding more substances representing yin, yang, and the Five Elements.
• Zhou Tong chose the path of creating a real world and decided to test whether World Stones could help develop the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong used the Fusang Divine Tree's True Sun Fire to refine a World Stone, causing it to shatter and unleash world-creating power that destabilized the rings.
• Zhou Tong saw the Great Emperor and Source Heaven arrays, along with the Immortal Divine Medicines, Holy Spirits, immortal metal vein, and Profound Yellow Qi, helping to contain the upheaval, then began forming seals to use Nine Li the Great's Heaven Opening Art.

Zhou Tong used the Heaven Opening Art and a World Stone to reshape the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings into a hazy Immortal Domain. He emerged in the Divine Prohibition State, his potential greatly deepened, and wondered what would happen when he fused the other eight World Stones.

• Zhou Tong unleashed the Heaven Opening Art within the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, causing its heavens and earth to shake as the World Creation Qi emerged.
• Zhou Tong released the restrictions on his Profound Yellow Qi and let it settle throughout the divine rings as he reshaped their world.
• Zhou Tong fused Chaos Qi, Profound Yellow, and numerous Great Emperor Array Patterns into the world, astonishing Yi Qingwu with his mastery of arrays and his evolving phenomenon.
• The Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings transformed into a hazy Immortal Domain after fusing with a World Stone, and Zhou Tong completed the reshaping while entering the Divine Prohibition State.
• Zhou Tong sensed the vast reserve of essence and potential within himself, wanted to test his strength against a King, and thought about fusing the remaining eight World Stones.

Zhou Tong refined more World Stones into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, strengthening its world and creating a Blue Jade King Mine Area, before returning to Fuyang City with Yi Qingwu. There he provoked the gathered cultivators and met Yan Yixi, whose Path of Human Desire he praised as a promising route to immortality.

• Zhou Tong refined the remaining World Stones, expanding his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and causing a Blue Jade King Mine Area to form around the Jade Spirit.
• Zhou Tong and Yi Qingwu returned to Luzhou and entered Fuyang City openly, stirring up cultivators who resented him and feared for Yi Qingwu.
• Zhou Tong took a conspicuous seat in Cloud Mist Tea House and claimed he was testing the cultivators so they could understand the form of desire.
• Yan Yixi agreed with Zhou Tong's praise of beautiful women and the human world, and Zhou Tong said Yan Yixi's Path of Human Desire could lead to immortality.
• Yan Yixi was astonished that Zhou Tong understood the essence of his Dao Heart and welcomed him as a true confidant.

Zhou Tong treated Yan Yixi to Enlightenment Tea brewed with Divine Spring water and asked him to explain the Path of Human Desire. As Yan Yixi shared its heart-refining methods, Zhou Tong began developing new techniques and considering how to complete his Self-Slaying Path Proving Art.

• Zhou Tong invited Yan Yixi to sit and poured away the tea before them to prepare something more worthy of his guest.
• Zhou Tong brewed Enlightenment Tea with Divine Spring water, astonishing Yan Yixi, Yi Qingwu, and the onlookers.
• Yan Yixi agreed to explain the Six Desires Red Dust Heart Refining path, while Zhou Tong sealed their conversation with Dao patterns.
• Zhou Tong compared Yan Yixi’s method with other heart-refining paths and began combining methods he had learned from the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Zhou Tong considered using the God Striking Stone Treasure Art and the Peace Calamity Art to complete his Self-Slaying Path Proving Art and create a technique that could sever an opponent’s thoughts.

Zhou Tong continued discussing the Dao with Yan Yixi as the Golden Crow Clan and Guanghan Palace arrived to confront him. He suppressed Daoist Chi Yang with one palm while remaining seated, leaving the Golden Crow King and the gathered onlookers to witness the Golden Crow Clan’s humiliation.

• The Golden Crow Clan, Guanghan Palace, and numerous prominent figures arrived in Fuyang City, including Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Zi Xia, and Little Nannan.
• Daoist Chi Yang challenged Zhou Tong, while Guanghan Palace demanded that he release Yi Qingwu.
• Zhou Tong ignored Chi Yang and asked Yan Yixi to continue explaining the Six Desires Red Dust Heart Refining as he entered a state of Unity of Heaven and Man.
• Chi Yang summoned the Golden Crow Clan’s Fusang Divine Tree phenomenon and attacked Zhou Tong.
• Without leaving his seat or setting down his tea, Zhou Tong pressed Chi Yang down with a purple palm until he was forced to kneel.

Zhou Tong sent Yan Yixi away with a Great Emperor array and confronted the Golden Crow King, revealing King-level power through the Vajra Ring. As Zhou Tong drew the Golden Crow King out to fight, Ye Fan and the others speculated about the ring’s origins and Zhou Tong’s cultivation plans.

• Zhou Tong gave Yan Yixi a Dao Scripture, then sent him away using an array platform despite the sealed void.
• Zhou Tong mocked the Golden Crow King and flew out of Fuyang City to fight him away from the city.
• The Golden Crow King tried to crush Zhou Tong with a golden hand, but Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring’s power to shatter the attack and escape into the distance.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Zi Xia discussed whether the Vajra Ring could cultivate on its own and whether Zhou Tong was using Immortal Gold Profound Meaning to nurture it.
• Ye Fan and Purple Haze Fairy speculated that Zhou Tong was testing King-level power and might be using the Golden Crow King to temper himself.

Zhou Tong fought the Golden Crow King at Boulder Mountain, relying on borrowed power while enduring attacks far stronger than his own. He repeatedly healed through the Immortal Sutra and other techniques, but the Golden Crow King continued to batter him, leaving onlookers questioning why he had not used the Undying Wonderful Tree.

• Zhou Tong and the Golden Crow King confronted each other three thousand miles south of Fuyang City, and the Golden Crow King suspected Zhou Tong was borrowing power.
• The Golden Crow King’s Fusang Divine Tree broke through Zhou Tong’s Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art and sent him flying with purple blood spilling from his wounds.
• Zhou Tong met the Golden Crow King’s next attack with the Flying Immortal Art, was badly injured again, and used the Immortal Sutra to heal himself.
• The Golden Crow King summoned an image of the Primordial Desolation and struck at Zhou Tong’s Immortal Platform, but Zhou Tong protected it with the Secret of Fore and healed with the Immortal Sutra and Immortal Phoenix Undying Art.
• The Golden Crow King struck Zhou Tong again with a golden wing, and onlookers called the fight a slaughter while wondering why Zhou Tong had not used the Undying Wonderful Tree.

Zhou Tong endured the Golden Crow King's overwhelming attacks to discover and repair flaws in the Immortal Sutra, growing stronger as he fought. When he unleashed Chaos Lightning and was mistaken for the Ruthless Great Emperor's successor, the factions of the Ziwei Star Domain turned their anger toward him.

• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring's power to fight the Golden Crow King, whose attacks badly damaged his body.
• Zhou Tong studied the places where the Golden Crow King's power broke through his defenses and used the Immortal Sutra and Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art to reinforce them.
• The Golden Crow King trapped Zhou Tong in a furnace of True Sun Fire, but Zhou Tong countered with Taiyin Sacred Power and continued repairing his body.
• Ye Fan, Zi Xia, and Pang Bo saw Zhou Tong's cultivation rise from the Four Restrictions to the Five Restrictions as he endured the assault.
• Zhou Tong released chaotic mist and Chaos Lightning, forcing the Golden Crow King back for the first time.
• The onlookers suspected Zhou Tong was becoming a Chaos Body through the Ruthless Great Emperor's arts, and the Ziwei factions vowed to punish him for the Great Emperor's past killings.

Zhou Tong’s Immortal Sutra strengthened the weak Gates of Potential in his body, beginning his transformation from an Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body toward a Chaos Body. After he recovered, Ziwei’s ancient sects mistook him for the Ruthless Great Emperor’s successor and prepared to kill him, leaving Zhou Tong ready to fight back.

• Zhou Tong realized that the Immortal Sutra was repairing weaknesses in his Gates of Potential and advancing his body toward a Chaos Body.
• He recovered with the Immortal Sutra and Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art, believing his new power could help him contend with the Golden Crow King.
• Ancient sects across the Ziwei Star Domain revived their Heirloom Sacred Weapons and accused Zhou Tong of being the Ruthless Great Emperor’s successor.
• Zhou Tong noticed Ye Fan and Little Nannan hiding among the crowd and silently decided to take the blame for Little Nannan’s sake.
• Zhou Tong denied the accusations’ certainty, then declared that he would show no mercy to Ziwei’s cultivators for choosing to attack him.

Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to unleash Great Sage-level pressure across the Ziwei Star Domain, then denounced the sects for their hypocrisy and historical crimes. He announced the founding of the Valley of Sinners at Fushan Mountain in Luzhou, offering refuge to cultivators persecuted by major sects and divine dynasties.

• Zhou Tong recognized that the sects had joined forces to kill him and seize the Fusang Divine Tree.
• Zhou Tong activated the Vajra Ring, and its Great Sage-level might overwhelmed the gathered cultivators and halted the revival of their Saint Weapons.
• Zhou Tong accused the sects of using the Ruthless Great Emperor's successor claim as a pretext to eliminate him and take his Fusang Divine Tree.
• Zhou Tong broadcast a denunciation across the Ziwei Star Domain, condemning the Taiyin Divine Sect for betraying the Taiyin Human Emperor's bloodline and criticizing the sects for abandoning the Sun God Cult.
• Zhou Tong announced the founding of the Valley of Sinners at Fushan Mountain in Luzhou and offered refuge and forgiveness to those pursued by ancient sects or divine dynasties.

Zhou Tong announced that he would establish the Valley of Sinners, and Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Purple Haze Fairy concluded that he was provoking the Ziwei cultivation world to gather karmic force for tempering his body. He captured the sect leaders and their Heirloom Sacred Weapons, then demanded that the sects pay to redeem them, including with treasures for his Dao Proving Artifact.

• Zhou Tong named his new stronghold the Valley of Sinners, leaving the Golden Crow King and the nearby Sect Masters shaken by the Great Sage power behind him.
• Purple Haze Fairy told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that Zhou Tong was deliberately provoking others to cultivate Karma Fire through the Golden Body method in Amitabha Great Emperor's Mida Scripture.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to capture the Sect Masters, sects, and Saint Weapons that had besieged him, while leaving peaceful onlookers unharmed.
• Zhou Tong ordered the onlookers to spread word that the sects could redeem their leaders and Heirloom Sacred Weapons by offering sufficient payment.
• Zhou Tong said he needed a Dao Proving Artifact, prompting onlookers to recognize his demand as extortion of the Ziwei Star Domain's powerful sects.

Zhou Tong forced captured sect leaders, elders, and disciples to build the Valley of Sinners and threatened to reshape their sects unless they cooperated. News of the Valley’s power and Zhou Tong’s battle with the Golden Crow King spread across the Ziwei Star Domain, where people began comparing him with Yin Tiande.

• Zhou Tong brought more than two hundred captured members of various sects to Fushan Mountain and ordered them to build the Valley of Sinners.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had taken their sect scriptures and threatened to replace their orthodox lineages unless their sects reformed and paid a price.
• The captives agreed to cooperate, and Zhou Tong sent them to work on building the Valley of Sinners.
• Word spread that the Valley of Sinners’ leader had captured those who attacked Zhou Tong and demanded the sects offer sincerity in exchange for their leaders and Heirloom Sacred Weapons.
• Reports of Zhou Tong withstanding the Golden Crow King’s attacks reached the Ziwei Star Domain, prompting people to debate whether Zhou Tong or Yin Tiande was stronger.

Zhou Tong completed the Valley of Sinners as a spiritual sanctuary, drawing rogue cultivators from across Ziwei. While discussing Immortal Material and Dao-Proving Artifacts with his friends, he realized Ye Fan had secretly entered the Divine Prohibition State.

• Zhou Tong used the Group Character Secret, Great Emperor Array Patterns, and Source Heaven Divine Array to transform the Valley of Sinners into a sacred cultivation ground.
• Spies from various sects witnessed the valley’s rapid transformation, and hunted rogue cultivators began flocking there for refuge.
• Pang Bo asked Zhou Tong how much Immortal Material he expected to extort from Ziwei, and Zhou Tong estimated around five hundred thousand jin.
• Zhou Tong explained that his planned Dao-Proving Artifact could absorb vast amounts of Immortal Gold, prompting Pang Bo, Ye Fan, and Purple Haze Fairy to ask about his weapon.
• Ye Fan claimed he had never triggered the All Character Secret since entering the Eight Restrictions, but Zhou Tong’s Heavenly Ear Technique revealed that Ye Fan was concealing his Divine Prohibition State.

Zhou Tong opened the Valley of Sinners to cultivators persecuted by the Ancient Sects and divine dynasties, welcoming both the wronged and the wicked. He rallied the gathered cultivators with Buddhist divine arts and gave them a modified scripture that would turn them into his believers and let him draw out their Karma Fire.

• Zhou Tong decided to accept all cultivators seeking refuge, despite Ye Fan and Pang Bo warning that many were genuinely wicked.
• Crowds of human and demon cultivators gathered at the Valley of Sinners, while spies from the Ancient Sects and divine dynasties slipped among them.
• Zhou Tong entered the reception hall in Seven-Colored Divine Light and denounced the Ancient Sects and divine dynasties for oppressing the cultivation world.
• Zhou Tong declared that the Valley of Sinners would embrace its name and wage war on a world that called them sinners, stirring the crowd with Buddhist divine arts.
• Zhou Tong gave the gathered cultivators a modified scripture that could make them his believers and help him draw out their Karma Fire.

The Valley of Sinners’ acceptance of independent cultivators sparked a fierce debate across Ziwei, with many comparing Zhou Tong and Yin Tiande as the era’s likely contenders to attain the Dao. Zhou Tong gave the Ancient Sects and divine dynasties three days to deliver the Immortal Materials he demanded or face having their secrets and inheritances exposed.

• Independent cultivators rallied behind Zhou Tong and the Valley of Sinners, while their opponents praised Yin Tiande and the Ancient Sects and divine dynasties.
• Neutral cultivators predicted that Zhou Tong and Yin Tiande might eventually fight, though Yin Tiande was sealed away in the Eight Sceneries Palace to focus on Dao Severing.
• Envoys from the Ancient Sects and divine dynasties met Zhou Tong, who dismissed their objections and threatened to spread Guanghan Palace’s scriptures and establish a rival branch.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had searched the sect masters’ souls and exposed the Taiyin Divine Sect’s efforts to uncover the Sun God Cult’s True Sun Scripture.
• Zhou Tong ordered Longevity View, Human King Palace, Taiyin Divine Sect, Ziwei Divine Dynasty, and Guanghan Palace to deliver specified Immortal Materials within three days in exchange for their leaders and sacred weapons.
• Zhou Tong warned that failure to comply would lead him to reveal the sects’ secrets and spread their inheritances throughout the world.