Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong discovered that the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s Divine Thought had been hiding on the Sun Star and tempering its soul with Yang Qi. After the Divine Thought entered a damaged Nine Aperture Stone Man and injured Zhou Tong, he chose to fight it directly to sharpen his battle intent.

• Zhou Tong followed a powerful Yin Qi to the Sun Star’s interior and recognized the black shadow as the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s Divine Thought from Mars.
• Zhou Tong activated the Sun Star’s Array Patterns through three Sun Temples, and True Sun Fire shattered half of the Divine Thought’s Soul Blood Stones.
• The Divine Thought evaded the formation, attacked Zhou Tong, and then entered a damaged Nine Aperture Stone Man to resist the flames.
• The possessed Stone Man fought through the formation and struck Zhou Tong with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, injuring his fist.
• Zhou Tong welcomed the powerful opponent and decided to use the fight to temper his battle intent.

Zhou Tong fought the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's Divine Thought on the Sun Star and, after advancing his Heaven Slaying Dao, captured and sealed it in a Jade Pagoda. He planned to use the Divine Thought as a reusable sparring partner and returned to a Sun Temple to comprehend his gains.

• Zhou Tong fought the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's Divine Thought, which suppressed him with its Supreme-level combat instincts and Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• Zhou Tong pushed his Heaven Slaying Dao to new heights, blending in traces of the Kunpeng Treasure Art and nearly cleaving the stone man's body in half.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body's Divine Thought tried to awaken the memories and Dao Fruit of its past life, but Zhou Tong used a seven-story Jade Pagoda to interrupt the process and capture it.
• Zhou Tong used the God Striking Stone Treasure Art and Self-Slaying Path Proving Art to cut away the Divine Thought's intention to awaken its past-life memories, then sealed it for future battles.
• Zhou Tong returned to a Sun Temple to comprehend how the Kunpeng Treasure Art could further merge with the Heaven Slaying Dao.

Zhou Tong used repeated life-and-de-death battles with the Divine Thought of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body to refine his Ten Evils Treasure Art and develop his Heaven Slaying Dao. After suppressing the Divine Thought again, he received an urgent signal from Ye Fan and left the Sun Star.

• Zhou Tong repeatedly fought the Divine Thought of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, using the battles to improve his techniques and integrate the Kunpeng Method into his Heaven Slaying Dao.
• Zhou Tong discovered a new way to balance the Kunpeng Method with the other treasure arts and forced the Divine Thought back with a sword strike.
• Zhou Tong used the God Striking Stone Treasure Art and the Self-Slaying Path Proving Art to erase the Divine Thought's memories before suppressing it with his pagoda.
• Zhou Tong worried that the Divine Thought might collapse after roughly a hundred more battles, then returned to the Sun Temple to reflect on his progress.
• Zhou Tong received repeated signals from the divine jade he had given Ye Fan and left the Sun Star to respond.

Ye Fan and Zi Xia told Zhou Tong they planned to return to Earth through the Five-Colored Altar at the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s ancestral temple, and Zhou Tong gave them supplies for the journey and a warning about a powerful demon on Mars. The chapter ended with Zhou Tong giving Zi Xia a box of red dates, peanuts, longans, and lotus seeds, leaving Ye Fan to recognize its implication.

• Ye Fan told Zhou Tong that he, Zi Xia, and Little Nannan had found the Five-Colored Altar in the Central Plains and planned to return to Earth, while fearing the Ancient Races might discover Earth’s location.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan a jade box containing letters, cultivation resources, a scripture, a Saint Weapon, and an Array Diagram to take to his parents.
• Zhou Tong warned Ye Fan and Zi Xia that a Demon Saint, possibly stronger, was suppressed beneath the Great Thunder Sound Temple on Mars, and lent Ye Fan the Human Demon sealed in Divine Source as protection.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan a branch of the Fusang Divine Tree and gave Zi Xia a Fusang Divine Branch and a small box.
• Zi Xia opened the box and found red dates, peanuts, longans, and lotus seeds, prompting Ye Fan to recognize the gift’s meaning.

Zhou Tong revealed that the Forbidden Zone Supremes would cause a Dark Turmoil when the Path to Immortality opened in more than two hundred years, and explained why an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo could help oppose them. He agreed to help Ye Fan return to Earth through the Central Plains Ancestral Temple, but suspected the expedition’s connection to crossing the starry sky was a trap.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Zi Xia that ancient Emperors and Great Emperors survived in the Forbidden Zones by cutting themselves down from their realms.
• Zhou Tong explained that the Supremes would emerge for the Path to Immortality and consume the life force of living beings, causing a Dark Turmoil.
• Zhou Tong said Wu Shi the Great’s arrangements could fight the weakened Supremes and called an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo a trump card against the coming darkness.
• Ye Fan and Zi Xia accepted that the future was uncertain, and Zhou Tong agreed to help Ye Fan return to Earth through the Central Plains Ancestral Temple.
• Zhou Tong told Zi Xia to hide inside Ye Fan’s tripod and prepare to stay out of sight for the expedition.
• Zhou Tong resolved to prepare for Supreme Emperor Weapons and suspected someone had linked the Ancestral Temple to crossing the starry sky to lure Ye Fan into a trap.

News of the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s Central Plains Ancestral Temple drew factions across the Big Dipper, and Zhou Tong saw its Feather Transformation Scripture as a chance to master Feathered Green Gold’s profound meaning. After destroying more than a dozen Human World and Hell strongholds, he was confronted by the Big Black Dog and enlisted it to help refine Great Emperor array platforms for the coming struggle over the temple.

• The Central Plains Ancestral Temple reappeared, and rumors spread that it held ancient sages’ insights, the Feather Transformation Scripture, and rare immortal materials.
• Zhou Tong hoped to use the Feather Transformation Scripture, the Flying Immortal Art, and his three strands of Immortal Qi to reveal Feathered Green Gold’s profound meaning.
• Zhou Tong destroyed more than a dozen Small Worlds belonging to Human World and Hell after locating them with the Divine Emperor’s secret art.
• The Big Black Dog emerged from an Array Pattern, accused Zhou Tong of abandoning it, and demanded to know where the Primordial Sacred Body and the Innate Dao Embryo were.
• Zhou Tong promised the Big Black Dog would see them when the Central Plains Ancestral Temple opened and told it to help refine Great Emperor array platforms using his divine materials.

Zhou Tong visited Azure Flood Dragon King's Small World to ask Yan Ruyu to lend him the Azure Emperor Weapon. He offered her a Suanni inherited technique in exchange, leaving her intrigued by its potential to help her understand the Azure Emperor Method.

• Zhou Tong arrived at Azure Flood Dragon King's Small World with Big Black Dog and told Red Dragon Daoist he wanted to meet Yan Ruyu.
• Big Black Dog guessed Zhou Tong wanted the Azure Emperor Weapon, and Zhou Tong exposed that it had secretly pocketed four of their imperial formations.
• Zhou Tong presented Yan Ruyu with an Ageless Immortal Flower, which she happily accepted.
• Yan Ruyu asked why Zhou Tong had come, and he openly requested to borrow the Azure Emperor Weapon.
• Zhou Tong demonstrated a Suanni technique from the Chaotic Ancient Years, and Yan Ruyu recognized its potential to help her comprehend the Azure Emperor Method.

Yan Ruyu was shaken by Zhou Tong’s Chaotic Ancient method and asked for time to consider his offer. That night, she summoned him to her bedchamber and began speaking about the Hegemon Body lineage, leaving Zhou Tong unsure what she meant.

• Yan Ruyu recognized the Suanni Method as a Chaotic Ancient method that could aid her cultivation of the Azure Lotus Scripture’s final forbidden secret art, and asked Zhou Tong for time to consider his proposal.
• Zhou Tong agreed to wait two days, while the Big Black Dog questioned him about the method and he refused to reveal more.
• Yan Ruyu summoned Zhou Tong at night, and her maidservants stopped the Big Black Dog from following him to her bedchamber.
• Yan Ruyu warned Zhou Tong that ancient Emperor bloodlines and their clans could make this era especially difficult for him to reach the end of the Emperor’s Path.
• Yan Ruyu said her ancestor had recorded accounts concerning the Hegemon Body lineage, leaving Zhou Tong waiting to hear what they revealed.

Yan Ruyu proposed that she and Zhou Tong cultivate together as Dao companions and protect each other’s Dao, offering the Azure Emperor Weapon to help him reach Great Accomplishment. Zhou Tong accepted the weapon, which took root in his Sea of Bitterness and gave him a glimpse of a scripture for his Sea of Wheels Realm.

• Yan Ruyu explained how difficult it was for a Hegemon Body to attain the Dao and asked Zhou Tong to cultivate alongside her and protect her Dao.
• Zhou Tong accepted Yan Ruyu’s wine and considered her motives, realizing she was offering both her resources and the Demon Emperor’s Sacred Heart in pursuit of a chance to attain the Dao.
• Yan Ruyu revealed the Azure Emperor Weapon, the Chaos Green Lotus, and sent it into Zhou Tong’s body.
• The Chaos Green Lotus took root in Zhou Tong’s Sea of Bitterness, strengthened his vitality, and gave him a glimpse of an opportunity to create a Sea of Wheels Realm scripture.
• Yan Ruyu wished Zhou Tong success on the path to Great Accomplishment, and the two shared wine by candlelight.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog traveled to the Feathered Divine Dynasty Ancestral Temple, where Zhou Tong used the demon race’s entry tokens to bring the group inside. There, Huo Qilinzi recognized them and confronted Zhou Tong, but Huo Lin’er prevented her brother from accepting an immediate fight and proposed they avoid killing one another inside.

• Zhou Tong reunited Big Black Dog with Ye Fan and told them the demon race had given him its entry tokens for the Ancestral Temple.
• Zhou Tong concealed the Azure Emperor Weapon with the Sun Sacred Emperor’s complete Array Diagram as the group approached the guarded entrance.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog entered the Ancestral Temple valley and headed toward its market stalls to look for useful materials.
• Huo Qilinzi blocked their path and identified Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog despite their disguised appearances.
• Zhou Tong challenged Huo Qilinzi to fight, but Huo Lin’er restrained her brother and suggested they avoid killing one another inside.

Zhou Tong explained how the Forbidden Domain could enhance combat power beyond the Eight Restrictions and said he would postpone challenging Huo Qilinzi and Huo Lin'er. When the Central Plains Ancestral Temple opened, its entrance proved deadly, and Zhou Tong identified the cause as a reversed profundity of the Feather Transformation Scripture.

• Zhou Tong explained that Huo Qilinzi and Huo Lin'er could amplify their combat power by joining forces, and said he would wait until he was stronger before challenging them.
• Zhou Tong explained that the All Character Secret was a Forbidden Domain that could enhance combat power even within the Eight Restrictions.
• Three days later, Mighty Lords and other cultivators entered the Central Plains Ancestral Temple, where the first group died and left behind drifting human skins.
• Frightened cultivators withdrew as green eyes flickered in the darkness of the Feathered Divine Dynasty's temple.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Big Black Dog that a reversed profundity of the Feather Transformation Scripture was causing victims to undergo a lethal transformation.

Zhou Tong explored the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s vast ancestral temple and recognized its Dao inscriptions as part of Feather Ascension Great Emperor’s longevity experiments. He seized a treasure chest from a giant statue, revealed himself as the Overlord, and left the other cultivators too intimidated to challenge him.

• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and the Big Black Dog entered the temple’s connected Small Worlds and fought off descendants of Yin Gods with Zhou Tong’s lightning.
• At the fifth courtyard, other cultivators vanished after studying dangerous Dao inscriptions, while Zhou Tong recognized that the walls were absorbing their cultivation.
• Zhou Tong understood that the inscriptions described a longevity method combining Feather Ascension profundity with the Lin Character Secret, though he could not determine how Feather Ascension Great Emperor became a Holy Spirit.
• Zhou Tong and his companions crossed more Small Worlds, where he killed powerful creatures, before reaching a radiant thirteenth Small World.
• Zhou Tong took a Five-Colored Iron Essence chest from the giant statue’s mouth and crushed the cultivators who rushed to seize it with a roar.
• The cultivators recognized Zhou Tong as the Overlord and, intimidated by his strength, stopped advancing.

Zhou Tong released God-Slaying Worms to fend off the cultivators pursuing him and Ye Fan, then raced through the temple worlds to the thirty-third Small World. There, he seized Immortal Tear Green Gold and a Nine-Layered Coffin containing the still-transforming Divine Emperor, whom he decided to treat as a potential threat.

• Zhou Tong opened the Five-Colored Iron Essence chest, unleashed a fraction of its God-Slaying Worms against the surrounding cultivators, and escaped with Ye Fan and Big Black Dog.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog sped through the next Small Worlds, bypassing the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals to reach the thirty-third.
• Big Black Dog rushed toward the Immortal Tear Green Gold, awakening four God-Slaying Worms, and Zhou Tong crushed them with the Vajra Ring and took the treasure.
• Zhou Tong shattered the altar, killed two larger God-Slaying Worms with the Vajra Ring, and took the Nine-Layered Coffin they had guarded.
• Zhou Tong recognized that the coffin held the transforming Divine Emperor and resolved to keep him sealed and watch for a chance to eliminate him.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan and Big Black Dog through the Central Plains Ancestral Temple, destroying its guardians and discovering that the Feather Ascension Great Emperor had long since died. In the final palace Small World, Zhou Tong claimed the Immortal Material and scriptures, awakening the Feathered Green Gold in his weapons as the others closed in.

• Zhou Tong led Ye Fan and Big Black Dog into the thirty-fourth heaven and used the Azure Emperor Weapon to destroy a mountain of corpse ghosts and open the way forward.
• In the thirty-fifth Small World, Zhou Tong recognized the Daoist children as yin gods and attacked them, opening the entrance to the final palace Small World.
• Zhou Tong split the Stone Fetus and found it empty, confirming that the Feather Ascension Great Emperor had already died, then destroyed the two Daoist children.
• Zhou Tong entered the thirty-sixth palace Small World and collected five million jin of Divine Mark Purple Gold and Phoenix Blood Red Gold.
• Zhou Tong studied the Feather Transformation Scripture, causing the Vajra Ring to awaken the Feathered Green Gold and develop a stronger life aura.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and the Big Black Dog uncovered a star map containing Earth’s coordinates, then faced Yaoguang Holy Land and its Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron. Ye Fan went deeper to seek the Five-Colored Altar while Zhou Tong stayed behind to confront Yaoguang and demand whether it wanted to live or die.

• Zhou Tong deciphered the shrine’s star-map mechanism and opened a hidden chamber containing coordinates for Earth, Ziwei, Gouchen, and Daling; Ye Fan took Earth’s star, the Big Black Dog took Ziwei’s, and Zhou Tong pocketed the other two.
• Yaoguang Holy Land attacked with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and Zhou Tong defended his companions with the Azure Emperor Weapon and Chaos Green Lotus.
• Yaoguang revealed Li Xiaoman’s image and said she wanted Ye Fan to stay; Ye Fan grew furious, but Zhou Tong and the Big Black Dog stopped him from rushing toward the Imperial Weapon.
• Zhou Tong sent Ye Fan and the Big Black Dog deeper to find the Five-Colored Altar, promising to handle Yaoguang and Li Xiaoman while Ye Fan focused on returning to Earth.
• Zhou Tong concluded that Yaoguang had captured and soul-searched Li Xiaoman, used what it learned to set a trap, and informed Fire Qilin Cave about his Kirin Divine Medicine; he then asked Yaoguang whether it wanted to live or die.

Zhou Tong confronted Yaoguang Holy Land with the Azure Emperor Weapon, demanding that they release Li Xiaoman, but the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron abruptly withdrew and Yaoguang fled. After Zhou Tong gave Yaoguang three days to comply, three other Ancient Emperor Weapons appeared to challenge him.

• Zhou Tong threatened to destroy Yaoguang Holy Land unless it released Li Xiaoman, and the Azure Emperor Weapon and Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron exchanged attacks that devastated a nearby hall.
• Zhou Tong intensified the clash with the Chaos Green Lotus and Qilin Roar as the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron manifested an Immortal-like figure.
• The Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron suddenly retreated, and Zhou Tong realized Ye Fan had entered the Primordial Forbidden Land, possibly stirring the Ruthless Great Emperor through his proximity to Little Nannan.
• Zhou Tong warned Yaoguang to release Li Xiaoman within three days, or he would sink the Holy Land.
• Yaoguang's half-saint elder called for allies to act, and the Primordial Gourd, Phoenix Wing Golden Halberd, and Golden Mace appeared.

Yaoguang Holy Land joined Primordial Lake, Blood Phoenix Mountain, and Golden Cave to trap Zhou Tong beneath four Imperial Weapons in the Feathered Divine Dynasty Ancestral Temple. Zhou Tong revealed that he had entered the trap to trigger his Heavenly Tribulation, leaving his enemies struggling to survive without letting the lightning strike their weapons.

• The Ji Family and Jiang Family refused to join the attack, choosing to watch rather than risk being drawn into Yaoguang Holy Land's scheme.
• Yaoguang Holy Land, Primordial Lake, Blood Phoenix Mountain, and Golden Cave gathered four Imperial Weapons to suppress Zhou Tong, while he sensed hidden formations and suspected the Heavenly Emperor Son was behind the alliance.
• Zhou Tong put away the Chaos Green Lotus and stood alone before the four Imperial Weapons, then announced that everyone would ascend as immortals with him.
• Zhou Tong triggered his Heavenly Tribulation and charged at the four factions, forcing them into the lightning storm.
• The Half-Saints used Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns to shield the Imperial Weapons from the tribulation, but the Heavenly Punishment disrupted their attack and left them roaring in alarm.

Zhou Tong endured his tribulation while suppressing attacks from the four factions, then challenged the Yaoguang Saint Son to settle their feud. He sealed his cultivation to fight at the Saint Son’s level and transported them away, leaving the watching factions poised to act.

• Zhou Tong used the Thunder Emperor Method to drive his tribulation after the fleeing forces of Yaoguang Holy Land, Primordial Lake, Blood Phoenix Mountain, and Golden Cave, killing many of their Great Powers and Kings.
• Nine crimson banners from the Undying Heavenly Emperor's lineage attacked Zhou Tong, but the Soldier Character Secret wrested four Imperial Weapons from their wielders and sent them to meet the banners.
• Zhou Tong temporarily suppressed the four Imperial Weapons in formation platforms, swallowed the tribulation lightning, and confronted the Yaoguang Saint Son.
• Zhou Tong agreed to fight the Yaoguang Saint Son at the same level, sealing his cultivation with the Azure Emperor Weapon.
• Zhou Tong activated nearby Dao patterns and vanished with the Yaoguang Saint Son as the watching factions considered taking advantage of his sealed cultivation.

Zhou Tong and the Yaoguang Saint Son fought a life-and-death battle on the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s Battle Island, while spectators watched from outside. After hundreds of exchanges, both unleashed terrifying techniques, and the duel continued without a clear winner.

• Zhou Tong and the Yaoguang Saint Son entered the Battle Island, whose restrictions prevented anyone from interfering.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son abandoned plans to attack Zhou Tong and went to search for the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s treasures.
• Yaoguang revealed the Great Dao Treasure Bottle and fought Zhou Tong with the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inherited techniques.
• After five hundred moves, Zhou Tong wounded Yaoguang and sent him flying across the island.
• Yaoguang unleashed the Flying Immortal Art and other supreme techniques, and Zhou Tong met his attacks with a powerful fist strike.
• The battle’s shockwaves and destructive power stunned the spectators as Zhou Tong and Yaoguang continued fighting.

Zhou Tong battled the Yaoguang Saint Son, who transformed himself into a Flying Immortal Divine Fetus by absorbing the origins of those he had devoured. Zhou Tong broke Yaoguang’s Dao Heart and killed him with the Sacred Spirit Sword, ending their duel on Battle Island.

• Zhou Tong sensed Yaoguang’s regret at becoming the Ruthless Great Emperor’s successor as their battle tested both their strength and resolve.
• Yaoguang revealed that he had devoured more than three thousand cultivators, including Huo Qilinzi’s clansmen, Black Wing King, and Hua Yunfei, then fused their origins into himself to create a Chaos Body.
• Yaoguang abandoned the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and transformed his essence, qi, and spirit into a Flying Immortal Divine Fetus to challenge Zhou Tong at full power.
• Zhou Tong countered Yaoguang’s Heaven Slaying Dao with his own version, which he had reenacted through his personal Dao, and struck a devastating blow to Yaoguang’s Dao Heart.
• Yaoguang raged that he would still attain the Chaos Dao Fruit, but Zhou Tong summoned the Sacred Spirit Sword and pierced Yaoguang’s brow, killing him.