Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong broke Yuan Gu’s Emperor Yuan Forbidden Technique with Yin Yang Reversal and Chaos Power, leaving Yuan Gu helpless before him. As the Ancient Races rallied behind Yuan Gu, the battle remained unresolved.

• Zhou Tong repeatedly killed Yuan Gu after allowing the Yuan Guang Reincarnation Wheel to revive him, while the onlookers reacted to his overwhelming confidence.
• Yuan Gu unleashed the Emperor Yuan Forbidden Technique, trapping spectators and creating the Yuan Void Realm to suppress Zhou Tong.
• Wei Yi of Tianxuan, the Divine Silkworm Princess, and several Ancient Race saints carried the immobilized spectators away from the technique’s range.
• Zhou Tong activated the nine characters of the True Sun Scripture and Taiyin True Scripture, reversed yin and yang, and used Chaos Power and Chaos Lightning to shatter the Yuan Void Realm.
• Yuan Gu watched Zhou Tong approach in helpless shock as members of Primordial Lake and the other Ancient Races shouted encouragement for him.

Yuan Gu used the forbidden bloodline art to summon the Emperor Yuan’s phantom, but Zhou Tong tore it apart after hundreds of clashes and killed him. The defeat shattered the Ancient Races’ belief that imperial bloodlines were invincible.

• Yuan Gu awakened the Emperor Yuan’s bloodline despite the cost of exhausting his vitality and ruining his bloodline power.
• Zhou Tong fought the Emperor Yuan phantom with the Thunder Emperor Method and Chaos power, gaining insight into the Emperor Yuan’s Great Dao.
• After three hundred exchanges, Zhou Tong seized the fading phantom and tore it apart with his bare hands.
• Yuan Gu, drained of his essence and strength, mourned the loss of his hope to prove his Dao before his body exploded into radiant rain.
• The Ancient Races watched their confidence in the invincibility of imperial bloodlines collapse.

After defeating Yuan Gu, Zhou Tong stopped Primordial Lake’s retaliation and confronted the Heavenly Emperor Son, accusing him of exploiting the conflict. He killed the Son’s guardian and issued a challenge for a fair duel after the Heavenly Emperor Son completed Dao Severing.

• Zhou Tong evaded a hidden dagger attack, pinned its attacker with a thunder spear, and blasted Primordial Lake’s charging followers back with the Thunderous Sound.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess, Queen Mother of the West, and Wei Yi helped prevent Primordial Lake from escalating the fight, and its Ancestor King withdrew while vowing the matter was not over.
• Zhou Tong accused the Heavenly Emperor Son of provoking Primordial Lake and challenged him to face the consequences of Yuan Gu’s death.
• When the Heavenly Emperor Son’s guardian stepped in to block Zhou Tong’s sword strike, Zhou Tong cut through the guardian’s bronze lamp and killed him.
• Zhou Tong planted his bloodstained sword before the Heavenly Emperor Son and challenged him to a fair battle after he completed Dao Severing.

At the Jade Pool gathering, Zhou Tong’s victory over Yuan Gu and his challenge swords stirred conflict between the Heavenly Emperor Son and the Holy Imperial Son. As the assembly began, the Divine Silkworm Princess warned Wei Yi that the Human Race might face powerful Ancient Race kings, while the Heavenly Emperor Son’s faction prepared to suppress the Human Race.

• The Holy Imperial Son accepted Zhou Tong’s challenge and taunted the hesitant Heavenly Emperor Son, prompting the Heavenly Emperor Son to take up his own challenge and threaten both rivals.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son and the Holy Imperial Son confronted each other as the crowd recognized Zhou Tong’s victory over Yuan Gu as a major triumph for the Human Race.
• Queen Mother of the West invited everyone into Jade Pool, and Wei Yi praised Zhou Tong for his battle.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess warned Wei Yi that ancient kings who doubted Wu Shi the Great’s survival would attend the assembly, but Wei Yi expressed confidence in the Human Race’s foundation.
• Ancient Race leaders discussed Zhou Tong as a threat, while a servant advised the Heavenly Emperor Son to rally other races against the Human Race.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son said a supreme existence would arrive and noted that many believed Wu Shi was dead, as his faction anticipated conflict with the Human Race’s saints.

After Zhou Tong defeated Yuan Gu, he gave Wei Yi the Xing Character Secret to strengthen the human race ahead of the coming Saint-level conflict. The chapter ended as a dragon-headed Ancestor King arrived at Jade Pool and Wei Yi went to face him.

• Wei Yi asked Zhou Tong about his fight with Yuan Gu, and Zhou Tong explained that he had sealed his cultivation and held back his techniques.
• Zhou Tong and Wei Yi discussed Gai Jiuyou, the Investiture of the Gods, and the Hengyu Furnace's role in suppressing Sacred Cliff.
• Zhou Tong gave Wei Yi the complete Xing Character Secret, and Wei Yi quickly mastered its first seven Dao Diagrams.
• Zhou Tong considered how to advance his fusion of the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique and Chaos Qi toward the Kunpeng Method.
• A dragon-headed Ancestor King arrived at Jade Pool and crushed cultivators with his Saint aura as he challenged the human Saint.
• Wei Yi rose and walked toward the Ancestor King to meet him.

Wei Yi killed another Ancient Race Ancestor King, but a gathering of Ancient Race Saints threatened the Human Race until the Investiture of the Gods appeared and destroyed Fallen Sky King. With both sides wary of the weapon and the Human Race’s leaders arriving, the confrontation shifted toward peace talks.

• Wei Yi killed an Ancestor King with a single punch outside Jade Pool, making two Ancestor Kings he had slain in one strike.
• Zhou Tong spoke with Duan De about a possible venture involving a deceased Supreme, but Duan De refused to exchange contact information.
• Purple Lin and other Ancient Race Ancestor Kings gathered to challenge Wei Yi, followed by Fallen Sky King, who offered to make Wei Yi his adopted son.
• The Investiture of the Gods descended, killed a Saint King who denied Wu Shi the Great’s return, and then reduced Fallen Sky King and his chariot to ashes.
• The Human Race and Ancient Race leaders arrived at Jade Pool, and the gathering calmed as both sides prepared for peace talks.

Zhou Tong joined the gathering of Human Race and Ancient Race youths, dismissed most of them as unworthy, and offered divine swords forged from Great Luo Silver Essence as challenges. Yao Yuekong and Xiang Yufei accepted, while the Yaoguang Saint Son declined a duel but quietly drew his sword, revealing that he had hidden strength.

• Zhou Tong left the gathering of the elders with Duan De and joined the younger generation's celebration.
• Zhou Tong insulted the gathered youths, saying fewer than five were true talents, then offered Yao Yuekong a Great Luo Silver Essence sword as a challenge.
• Yao Yuekong steadied himself against the sword's battle intent and accepted Zhou Tong's challenge for a future battle.
• Xiang Yufei immediately took and accepted another divine sword from Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong challenged the Yaoguang Saint Son, who said he was not ready to fight and proposed postponing their duel.
• Yao Yuekong and Xiang Yufei were startled when the Yaoguang Saint Son silently drew the sword, showing he had concealed his strength.

At the Jade Pool, Zhou Tong offered battle swords containing his Supreme Battle Intent as qualifications to challenge him. The Zifu Holy Son was badly injured when he tried to take one, and Ji Haoyue failed as well, leaving with his Dao Heart shattered while the watching holy lands regretted losing their chance to befriend Zhou Tong.

• The Zifu Holy Son volunteered to take Zhou Tong's battle sword, but its battle intent wounded his primordial spirit and sent him unconscious.
• Zhou Tong warned Ji Haoyue that his earlier defeats had left him at a disadvantage, but Ji Haoyue gripped the sword anyway.
• Ji Haoyue endured Zhou Tong's battle intent before coughing blood and failing to pull the sword from the ground.
• Ji Haoyue left the Jade Pool with a broken Dao Heart despite Ji Ziyue's pleas.
• The crowd and gathered Holy Lords fell silent, while the Jiang Family, Ji Family, and other holy lands regretted missing their chance to win Zhou Tong's favor.

At the Jade Pool, Huo Lin'er offered Zhou Tong more than two million jin of Eternal Blue Gold for the Kirin Divine Medicine, but he proposed that she or her brother win it by defeating him. A commotion brought Duan De and Zhou Tong outside, where they met the Big Black Dog, which recognized Zhou Tong with immediate hostility.

• Huo Lin'er drew Zhou Tong's battle sword and praised its battle intent, then asked him to return the Kirin Divine Medicine in exchange for the Qilin Ancient Emperor's Eternal Blue Gold.
• Zhou Tong questioned how Fire Qilin Cave had learned he possessed the medicine and proposed that Huo Lin'er or her brother defeat him to claim it, with their Immortal Material as the wager if they lost.
• Barking and curses outside the Jade Pool prompted Duan De to rush out, and Zhou Tong followed to see the Black Emperor.
• Duan De and the Big Black Dog exchanged insults, with Duan De claiming Wu Shi the Great had adopted the dog in his later years.
• The Big Black Dog saw Zhou Tong and angrily recognized him as an old enemy.

At the Jade Pool Gathering, Big Black Dog presented Wu Shi the Great’s edict, establishing that Saints could not act. After the gathering ended, the Old Mansion Lord of Mysterious Scholar Mansion warned Zhou Tong that the Ancient Starry Road would open in six years and invited him to visit if he chose to take it.

• Big Black Dog confronted Zhou Tong over the missing Primordial Sacred Body and Innate Dao Embryo, then revealed Wu Shi the Great’s edict as the Saints argued inside Jade Pool.
• Great Sage Hun Tuo read the edict as “No Saints Under Heaven,” and Gai Jiuyou supported the restriction on Saints taking action.
• The Jade Pool Gathering concluded, and the Ancient Races and human factions departed or stayed to celebrate the coming period of peace.
• The Old Mansion Lord of Mysterious Scholar Mansion criticized Zhou Tong for challenging Yuan Gu and warned him that the Ancient Starry Road would open in six years.
• Zhou Tong said he understood the danger of the road, and the Old Mansion Lord told him to visit Mysterious Scholar Mansion if he decided to enter.

After leaving Jade Pool, Zhou Tong encountered a Half-Saint summoned by the Heavenly Emperor Son’s lineage, exploiting a loophole in the agreement that barred Saints from fighting. Many Human Race and Ancient Race observers wanted Zhou Tong dead, while the Heavenly Emperor Son arranged to keep Human Race Saints from intervening.

• Zhou Tong rebuffed Big Black Dog’s questions about the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and Ye Fan, then left Jade Pool with the dog following him.
• Zhou Tong saw the major holy lands and Ancient Races carving Array Patterns to leave the region.
• A Half-Saint appeared and released overwhelming holy might, forcing many cultivators to their knees.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son declared that the Half-Saint did not violate the agreement because he had not reached the Saint Realm.
• The Human Race and Ancient Race observers recognized Half-Saints as a loophole in the agreement, and many hoped the Half-Saint would kill Zhou Tong.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son told a Saint-level Ancestor King to prevent Human Race Saints from intervening, and the Ancestor King assured him they were prepared.

Zhou Tong fought an Ancient Races Half-Saint sent by the Heavenly Emperor Son and overwhelmed him with his lightning and Heavenly Dao Will. The Half-Saint’s final spear attack was caught between Zhou Tong’s fingers, while the Heavenly Emperor Son demanded to know why his subordinate had not used the Heirloom Sacred Weapon.

• The Ancient Races Half-Saint attacked Zhou Tong with a black spear, but Zhou Tong shattered his opening strike with a punch.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son and others realized Zhou Tong had reached an exceptionally high cultivation realm, and the Heavenly Emperor Son recalled lending the Half-Saint an Heirloom Sacred Weapon.
• Zhou Tong fought the Half-Saint in the sky and used the Thunder Emperor Method to summon a great thunder tribulation, overpowering and injuring him.
• Zhou Tong mocked the Half-Saint’s strength and Dao, provoking him into a fierce counterattack with the laws of the Saint realm.
• Zhou Tong caught the Half-Saint’s full-force spear thrust between two fingers, and the Heavenly Emperor Son demanded to know why his subordinate had not used the Sacred Weapon.

Zhou Tong killed a Half-Saint and suppressed the Great Sage Weapon used against him before turning on the Heavenly Emperor Son. He spared the Son of God but severed and collected one of his Immortal Phoenix wings, leaving him furious and humiliated.

• Zhou Tong snapped the Half-Saint’s spear, killed him, and destroyed his body and soul.
• Zhou Tong caught the Undying Heavenly Blade, severed its connection to its controller with the Soldier Character Secret, and sealed it in the Vajra Ring.
• Zhou Tong attacked the Heavenly Emperor Son, whose protector died shielding him, while Gai Jiuyou deterred the Ancient Race Saints from intervening.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son unleashed Phoenix fire and blade techniques, but Zhou Tong broke through them and severed one of his arms.
• Zhou Tong collected the Heavenly Emperor Son’s wing, feathers, and blood, then mocked him and declared he would spare him until their promised battle.

On the Sun Star, Zhou Tong fused the Kunpeng Method and Thunder Emperor Method into the beginnings of a personal Dao and method, then realized the Battle Immortal Path had to be tempered through real combat. Unable to find a suitable opponent among the Big Dipper’s current prodigies, he decided to stir up trouble and confront Saints if necessary.

• Zhou Tong meditated in the ruined Sun Divine Temple and fused the Kunpeng Method with the Thunder Emperor Method, creating the initial form of a method suited to himself.
• Zhou Tong began combining the profound truths of six Ten Evils Treasure Arts as he sought to develop a Dao and method uniquely his own.
• Zhou Tong realized that the Battle Immortal Path required countless difficult battles to unleash his potential and strengthen his convictions.
• Zhou Tong found no suitable opponent in the Big Dipper: its Saints could crush him, while its promising younger fighters had not yet matured.
• Zhou Tong resolved to stir things up and confront Saints if needed, carved Chessboard Array Patterns, and departed the Sun Star.

Zhou Tong recruited the Big Black Dog with a piece of the Fusang Divine Branch to help locate a hidden base of Human World or Hell. After weeks of searching, they discovered a secret mark and traced a Hell agent into a Small World in the mountains.

• Zhou Tong used the imitation Wu Shi Bell to draw cultivators to Green Ox Ridge and spread a rumor about a Wu Shi inheritance and a Small World.
• Zhou Tong offered the Big Black Dog part of his Fusang Divine Branch in exchange for help finding a Human World or Hell stronghold.
• The Big Black Dog led Zhou Tong through the Northern Region, relying on its old memories but finding no clues for weeks.
• The Big Black Dog found a worn Hell secret mark in an ancient mountain range, while Zhou Tong's Front Character Secret sensed something hidden nearby.
• Zhou Tong and the Big Black Dog watched a black-robed man disappear into a cliff, then rushed to the entrance of what the Big Black Dog identified as an important Hell Small World.

Zhou Tong used Heavenly Court’s supreme scepter to destroy a secret stronghold of Hell in the Eastern Wasteland, killing its assassins and Great Accomplishment King. He publicly declared the attack Heavenly Court’s revenge against Hell and Human World, and the Big Dipper was reminded of Heavenly Court’s former rule.

• Zhou Tong produced Heavenly Court’s Assassin Scepter, sealed the Small World with array platforms, and charged inside while Big Black Dog recognized the scepter and Xing Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong unleashed the scepter’s Killing Intent, slaughtering more than a thousand assassins and injuring the stronghold’s Great Accomplishment King.
• The assassin king from Hell recognized Heavenly Court’s scepter and Slaughter Scripture, then attacked Zhou Tong with a Blood-Colored Sacred Sword.
• Zhou Tong countered with the Heavenly Court Scepter and killed the assassin king as the Small World collapsed into ruins.
• Big Black Dog watched from outside as Zhou Tong destroyed Hell’s stronghold, leaving Hell with one less layer.
• Zhou Tong publicly announced Heavenly Court’s revenge against Human World and Hell, and the Big Dipper recalled Heavenly Court’s former rule.

After destroying Hell’s thirteenth level, Zhou Tong used Heavenly Court’s name to draw out its remnants and found Qi Luo, a powerful Heavenly Court Half-Saint. Zhou Tong seized Qi Luo and whisked them away to fight, leaving Big Black Dog behind.

• Zhou Tong and Big Black Dog hid near Hell’s destroyed Small World while rumors spread about Heavenly Court’s return.
• Big Black Dog realized Zhou Tong had attacked Hell under Heavenly Court’s name to lure out the real Heavenly Court and help find Hell and Human World.
• Qi Luo arrived, recognized Heavenly Court’s Killing Life Grand Art and supreme scepter, and declared that Heavenly Court’s inheritance and hope for revenge had survived.
• Zhou Tong identified Qi Luo as Heavenly Court’s Half-Saint closest to the Assassin Saint realm and charged at him to test his skills.
• Zhou Tong used the Xing Character Secret to sweep Qi Luo away with him, disappearing from the battlefield.

Zhou Tong fought Half-Saint Qi Luo to vent the battle intent he had accumulated and test his strength. After defeating Qi Luo, Zhou Tong approached him and said he bore no ill intent.

• Zhou Tong dragged Qi Luo more than five thousand li away and shattered Qi Luo’s primordial essence attack with a Thunder Emperor Method punch.
• Zhou Tong used the Martial Heavenly Eye to expose Qi Luo when he tried to vanish into the void, and Qi Luo suspected an enemy of Heavenly Court had studied its arts.
• Qi Luo unleashed his Half-Saint laws, but Zhou Tong met them with the Ten Evils Treasure Art and broke through the Heavenly Wheel Eye’s attacks with his Martial Heavenly Eye.
• Zhou Tong fought Qi Luo through hundreds of exchanges, growing stronger and refining his Kunpeng Method and Thunder Emperor Method in battle.
• Zhou Tong’s Chaos Lightning became a divine sword and cleaved apart Qi Luo’s Saint Dao laws, leaving the Half-Saint defeated and terrified.
• Zhou Tong approached Qi Luo and said he had no ill intent and had only wanted to test his combat strength.

Zhou Tong tested Qi Luo and obtained 176 locations of Human World and Hell bases, then destroyed them while using their connections to deduce the coordinates of several hidden Small Worlds. He returned to the Sun Palace to recover and prepare, leaving the Assassin Divine Dynasties’ strongholds exposed for future attacks.

• Zhou Tong revealed his identity to Qi Luo and received the locations of 176 Human World and Hell bases, though Qi Luo withheld the coordinates of their Small Worlds.
• Zhou Tong slaughtered more than ten thousand assassins and wiped out all 176 bases within three days, provoking fury from Human World and Hell.
• After searching the base leaders’ souls without finding the Small Worlds, Zhou Tong used Unraveling Cocoon and Drawing Silk to deduce the coordinates of several of them.
• Qi Luo waited for Zhou Tong to return for the hidden coordinates, unaware that Zhou Tong had already found them himself.
• Zhou Tong decided to postpone attacking the Small Worlds, returned to the Sun Palace to rest and gather materials, and planned to strike again later.

Zhou Tong gathered rare materials at the Heavenly Market and restored the Sun Palace’s array across the Sun Star. The array brought the entire star under his control, where he sensed an unexpected yin and evil aura.

• Zhou Tong disguised himself and traveled to the Heavenly Market to find materials for repairing the Sun Palace.
• Zhou Tong secretly gambled on stones, then traded Great Luo Silver Essence for the array materials he lacked.
• Zhou Tong returned to the Sun Star and spent a month connecting its Sun Temples with the repaired array.
• The array increased the Sun Sacred Power across the Sun Star and placed the entire star under Zhou Tong’s control.
• Zhou Tong sensed an utterly yin and evil aura on the Sun Star and wondered what had appeared.