Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong outmaneuvered the seven Imperial Sons and Daughters, then offered precious gifts to the Divine Silkworm Princess and the human Old Woman as Great Sages threatened him. The gifts drew two Great Sages into standoffs with his enemies, leaving the Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage to attack Zhou Tong alone.

• Zhou Tong stood unharmed while the seven Imperial Sons and Daughters lay bloodied, and the assembled spectators realized he had manipulated the entire battle.
• The Great Sages turned their killing intent toward Zhou Tong, who thanked the Divine Silkworm Princess and the human Old Woman and offered them jade boxes.
• Zhou Tong gave the Divine Silkworm Princess three strands of North Pole Immortal Light, persuading her to protect him.
• The human Old Woman received a Fusang Divine Tree branch that could extend her lifespan, then turned her killing intent on Golden King.
• Golden King and the Old Woman faced off as the Divine Silkworm Princess confronted Yan Qi, leaving the Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage free to attack Zhou Tong.

The Divine Silkworm Princess defended Zhou Tong against the Ancient Races, wielding her Ancient Emperor Battle Garment as the confrontation escalated. Zhou Tong seized the opening to strike the recovered Heavenly Emperor Son and sped away with him, while the Princess blocked their pursuers.

• The Divine Silkworm Princess declared that killing Zhou Tong was the same as killing her, then confronted the Ancient Races and their five Saints.
• The Princess donned the Ancient Emperor Battle Garment and intimidated the Silver Moon Heavenly King before the Golden King of Golden Cave intervened with the Golden Mace.
• Zhou Tong suspected the Princess was using the crisis to draw Victorious Fighting Buddha out of Mount Sumeru, and he told her about a gift for him at Mysterious Scholar Mansion.
• Zhou Tong entered the Divine Prohibition State, attacked the Heavenly Emperor Son with the Sacred Spirit Sword, and carried him hundreds of miles away at extreme speed.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess blocked an Ancient Race Saint and erased Zhou Tong's trail as the other Saints tried to locate the fleeing pair.

Zhou Tong defeated the Heavenly Emperor Son, took his treasures and primordial spirit, and sealed his Phoenix body. When the Imperial Weapons began fighting and the ancient clans discovered their homes had been plundered, Zhou Tong realized Big Black Dog and Fatty Duan were being blamed, giving him time to temper his body before setting out on the Ancient Starry Road.

• Zhou Tong overwhelmed the Heavenly Emperor Son, seized his Heavenly Blade and treasures, and sent his primordial spirit into the Vajra Ring to extract its memories.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had already taken the Enlightenment Tea Tree, then sealed the still-living Phoenix body in Divine Source.
• The Golden Mace and Divine Emperor Battle Robe began fighting, while Zhou Tong prepared to leave and pursue the strongest path.
• Yan Qi of Fire Qilin Cave and a Great Sage of Blood Phoenix Mountain roared accusations at a dog demon and a grave robber after discovering their homes had been plundered.
• Zhou Tong suspected Big Black Dog and Fatty Duan had taken the blame, so he decided to stay a few more days and temper his body with the Undying Heavenly Emperor's blood.

Zhou Tong refined his body in the Undying Heavenly Emperor's blood, then used Blood Phoenix essence blood to strengthen the Phoenix Egg. After leaving treasures and a farewell letter for Yan Ruyu, he departed the Sun Star for the Ancient Starry Road.

• Zhou Tong cultivated in the five-colored blood pool and pushed his Blood Movement Realm physique beyond its former limits.
• Zhou Tong decided not to use the Blood Phoenix essence blood on himself and poured it over the Phoenix Egg instead.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the fledgling inside the egg was inherently a Blood Phoenix, and sensed that the Ancient Blood Phoenix Emperor's essence blood had strengthened it.
• Zhou Tong left five-colored blood, the Heavenly Emperor Son's Enlightenment Tea Tree Heart Pendant, a Fusang Divine Tree branch, and a letter for Yan Ruyu.
• Zhou Tong departed from the Sun Star to set out on the Ancient Starry Road.

Zhou Tong left the Big Dipper through Mysterious Scholar Mansion’s Five-Colored Altar after receiving the route to cross the starry sky. As he vanished, the Big Black Dog and Fatty Duan were still fleeing pursuers from the Ancient Races.

• Zhou Tong arrived at Mysterious Scholar Mansion, where the Old Mansion Lord told him the Ji Family had been given a place on the route after the Yaoguang Saint Son’s death.
• Zhou Tong realized the Ji Family’s candidate was the son of the Void Great Emperor, whom he had nearly crippled twenty years earlier, and the Old Mansion Lord learned Zhou Tong had caused those injuries.
• The Old Mansion Lord led Zhou Tong through Mysterious Scholar Mansion’s forbidden formations and shared the starry sky coordinates with him.
• Zhou Tong gave the Old Mansion Lord a jade box containing an eighty-thousand-year Medicine King for the Divine Silkworm Princess, and the Old Mansion Lord agreed to deliver it.
• The Old Mansion Lord activated the Five-Colored Altar, and Zhou Tong entered the star gate and left the Big Dipper.
• The Big Black Dog fled Fire Qilin Cave while Fatty Duan escaped Blood Phoenix Mountain by heading overseas.

After six months traveling alone through the starry sky, Zhou Tong reached the true trial road and entered a world of death. By studying a king-level skeleton’s life-and-death Dao patterns, he found a possible foundation for creating his own Sea of Wheels Scroll.

• Zhou Tong spent six months traveling between ancient stars, cultivating and comprehending his Dao in solitude.
• Zhou Tong found a skeleton marked with a warning that the Trial Gate began the true hardships, then discovered a one-way Five-Colored Altar.
• Zhou Tong stepped through the altar and was attacked by a snow-white skeleton as soon as he emerged into a dim world filled with bones and black mist.
• Zhou Tong killed a nearby king-level skeleton and examined the Dao patterns forming the flame inside its skull.
• Zhou Tong connected the patterns of life and death to the Thunder Emperor Method, Kunpeng Method, Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art, and Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art, and considered using them to create his Sea of Wheels Scroll.

While creating his own scripture, Zhou Tong entered the depths of the White Bone Sea and killed a Saint-level ancient beast with the Hegemonic Bell. He comprehended the beast’s life-and-death profundities, and his own Dao began to take shape.

• Zhou Tong triggered the Divine Prohibition State and used his insight into the body’s Gates of Potential to clarify his Battle Immortal Path and ideas for a personal scripture.
• Zhou Tong flew into the depths of the White Bone Sea, where a black sun rose and its guardian demanded to know who had entered its kingdom.
• Zhou Tong summoned the Hegemonic Bell, which shattered the black sun and killed the Saint-level ancient beast in a single strike.
• Zhou Tong protected his Dao with the Vajra Ring, Chaos Green Lotus, and Sun Sacred Emperor Array Diagram, then comprehended the profundity of life born from death in the beast’s shattered primordial spirit.
• The Thunder Emperor, Kunpeng, Immortal Phoenix, and Nine Netherworld Howler’s treasure arts fused into a divine diagram as Zhou Tong’s secret realms and scriptures converged toward a new Dao lineage.
• Zhou Tong’s personal Dao and ancient scripture began taking shape, causing the ancient star’s bone creatures to flee in terror.

Zhou Tong created the foundation of a scripture based on his own Dao and began reforging his Wheel Sea into a world that could support the Battle Immortal Path. As his methods merged into the newly formed Wheel Sea, a faint strand of Primal Qi appeared.

• Zhou Tong drew the mysteries of his secret arts into a Divine Diagram as heavenly phenomena heralded the creation of his scripture.
• Zhou Tong explained his view that cultivators should balance life and death in the Wheel Sea rather than flee it by advancing to the Other Shore.
• Zhou Tong began reforging his Wheel Sea into a Heaven-and-Earth Wheel Sea, dissolving the Divine Bridge and Other Shore and reversing the Life Wheel and Sea of Bitterness.
• The Divine Diagram formed from the Thunder Emperor Method, Kunpeng Method, Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art, and Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art merged into Zhou Tong's Wheel Sea.
• Zhou Tong saw a faint strand of Primal Qi rise within his Wheel Sea.

Zhou Tong cultivated Primal Qi and transformed his Wheel Sea into a world where heaven and earth gave birth to all things. The process also awakened Divine Fetuses within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and advanced his Array Formation Realm; afterward, he recognized that he had endured a Calamity of Dao Creation.

• Zhou Tong rooted Primal Qi in his Wheel Sea, and his three strands of Immortal Qi gathered above his crown.
• Zhou Tong’s Wheel Sea formed a purple world as heaven and earth separated and gave birth to all things.
• Dozens of Divine Fetuses appeared in Zhou Tong’s Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, and he realized they were Array Patterns nourished by the Wheel Sea’s essence of heaven and qi of earth.
• Zhou Tong recognized that his Array Formation Realm had advanced and that his Wheel Sea scripture had become compatible with the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong withdrew the Vajra Ring and found the sea of bones replaced by ruins, then understood that he had experienced a Calamity of Dao Creation.

Zhou Tong reached the threshold of sainthood, collected the Heart of the Death Realm, and traveled toward the Yongheng Star Domain. He encountered the ghost fleet carrying the Void Great Emperor’s Nine-Layered Coffin and prepared to intervene in the battle sealed inside it.

• Zhou Tong realized he was about to become a Saint and planned to find a living star domain for his tribulation.
• Zhou Tong retrieved the Heart of the Death Realm from the planet’s core and stored it in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong consulted the Azure Emperor’s Ancient Scroll and continued along the Ancient Starry Road toward the Yongheng Star Domain.
• Zhou Tong encountered a lifeless fleet of warships carrying the Nine-Layered Coffin, the Void Great Emperor’s coffin.
• Zhou Tong saw that eight layers of the coffin had been opened and decided to help the Void Great Emperor with a replica Void Mirror.

Zhou Tong awakened Void Great Emperor’s will in the Nine-Layered Coffin, ending an ancient Emperor-level battle and opening the coffin’s final layer. Void Great Emperor departed to recover, while Zhou Tong claimed the remains of an Eternal Blue Gold shield and destroyed the Supreme consciousness that tried to possess him.

• Zhou Tong reforged a Void Mirror imitation into a King’s Divine Weapon, and its shattered fragments awakened Void Great Emperor’s will within the Nine-Layered Coffin.
• Void Great Emperor’s revived Great Dao suppressed the other two Emperor fluctuations, and Zhou Tong gained insights by observing their ancient clash in the Divine Prohibition State.
• The final coffin layer opened, revealing Void Great Emperor’s body and a shattered Eternal Blue Gold shield, whose surviving fragments Zhou Tong gathered into a damaged shield.
• Two lingering Supreme thoughts acknowledged Void Great Emperor’s trap before dissolving, and Void Great Emperor’s body returned to the coffin as it departed to recover.
• Remnants of an Undying Mountain Supreme tried to possess Zhou Tong, but his Chaos Green Lotus destroyed them and their remaining Imperial Dao laws.
• Zhou Tong took the Eternal Blue Gold shield and calculated that, together with his other supplies, he possessed more than one cubic zhang of the metal.

Zhou Tong refined Eternal Blue Gold into the Hegemonic Bell and spent three months merging its Immortal Gold Profound Meaning with Divine Mark Purple Gold, while forming the Ten Thousand Water Seal. He then followed Azure Emperor’s Array Patterns to the Yongheng Star Domain to seek more Divine Mark Purple Gold.

• Zhou Tong decided he could safely refine Eternal Blue Gold into the Hegemonic Bell while keeping its Dao patterns under his control.
• Zhou Tong refined the Eternal Blue Gold into the Hegemonic Bell, changing its body to blue-violet and increasing its height to four point three meters.
• Zhou Tong used the Immortal Sutra and Immortal Qi to awaken Eternal Blue Gold’s Immortal Gold Profound Meaning and merge it with Divine Mark Purple Gold’s profound meaning.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the fusion for three months, completed the Hegemonic Bell’s transformation, and formed the Ten Thousand Water Seal.
• Zhou Tong found Azure Emperor’s Array Patterns on another desolate ancient star, activated them, and arrived in the Yongheng Star Domain.

Zhou Tong found the Azure Emperor’s hidden coordinate in a Small World and traveled to a barren starfield beyond the Yongheng Star Domain. He found no sign of what the Azure Emperor had left there and was left wondering why the coordinate existed.

• Zhou Tong examined the Azure Emperor’s notes and took the sixth-stage Strongest Evolution Liquid, while studying the notes on Dao evolution.
• Zhou Tong used the Chaos Green Lotus to reveal and memorize a spacetime coordinate hidden in the notes.
• Zhou Tong left the Small World, recognized the lake as Tengxian Pond, and deduced the coordinate’s destination.
• Zhou Tong used the Chessboard Array Patterns to make several jumps and reach a desolate planet in a distant starfield.
• Zhou Tong searched the starfield and tested the Chaos Green Lotus, but found no response or trace of the Azure Emperor’s arrangements.

Zhou Tong failed to find anything left by Azure Emperor on the desolate asteroid, but using Wu Shi the Great's secret technique revealed a hidden Small World. He entered and discovered a vast realm filled with the Daos of three Great Emperors, then found an enormous tomb and wondered who was buried there.

• Zhou Tong searched the asteroid for half a year but found no trace of Azure Emperor's legacy.
• Zhou Tong chose the Gu Clan Treasure Art's spacetime principles for his seventh Divine Form and compared them with the secret techniques he knew.
• Zhou Tong's use of Wu Shi the Great's secret technique caused symbols to appear on the asteroid and form a gateway to a Small World.
• Zhou Tong entered the Small World and sensed the Daos of Wu Shi the Great and two other Great Emperors.
• Zhou Tong came upon a giant stone stele and a mountain that resembled a tomb, then prepared to approach it.

Zhou Tong used the Wu Shi Art to unlock the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet and enter the underground palace within Great Emperor Tian Yuan’s tomb. He opened the coffin on its platform, releasing a curtain of light and an Emperor aura that formed a phantom.

• Zhou Tong recognized the tombstone as belonging to Great Emperor Tian Yuan and used his Martial Heavenly Eye to uncover its hidden Dao patterns.
• Zhou Tong activated the Wu Shi Art and discovered that Wu Shi the Great had sealed the Dao patterns of Great Emperor Tian Yuan, his son, and himself into the stone tablet.
• Zhou Tong used the tablet’s phantom inscription to enter a vast underground palace filled with Immortal Qi.
• Zhou Tong cautiously climbed to the platform, found an ancient coffin, and pushed open its lid.
• A curtain of light and surging Emperor aura burst from the coffin, revealing a phantom standing with its back to all living beings.

Zhou Tong endured the imperial might Wu Shi the Great had left in a secret realm and witnessed the Great Emperor shatter an Imperial Weapon during his Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven tribulation. He claimed the Divine Mark Purple Gold Wu Shi had left for his successor, then returned to the Yongheng Star Domain to temper his Hegemonic Bell.

• Zhou Tong recognized Wu Shi the Great's phantom and survived its imperial might with help from his three strands of Immortal Qi and the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Zhou Tong saw a vision of Wu Shi the Great fighting an Imperial Son clad in purple-gold armor during his tribulation.
• Wu Shi the Great shattered the Imperial Son's purple-gold greatsword and armor with a single palm strike.
• Zhou Tong realized Wu Shi had left the damaged armor and sword, made of Divine Mark Purple Gold, for his successor to use against the Undying Heavenly Emperor's youngest son.
• Zhou Tong collected the Divine Mark Purple Gold, arranged the secret realm, and returned to the Yongheng Star Domain to temper his Hegemonic Bell.

News of a Small World left by Wu Shi and linked to Great Emperor Tian Yuan spread across the Yongheng Star Domain, drawing powerful clans into a frenzy over its tomb and rumored treasures. Zhou Tong gathered information, finished tempering the Hegemonic Bell with Divine Mark Purple Gold, and prepared to fight before becoming a Saint.

• The Fan Family and Qi Family found ancient jade on Xianyu Star and discovered it pointed to a Small World left by Wu Shi, but they could not break its restrictions.
• The families revealed that the Small World bore Great Emperor Tian Yuan's aura and contained a tomb marked with his name, prompting clans across Yongheng to seek information and press the Fan Family and Qi Family.
• Cultivators speculated that the tomb held fragments of Tian Yuan's Deity Mech and a divine sword forged by his descendant.
• Zhou Tong monitored the uproar through his Three Pure Ones Dao Bodies while sitting beside Tengxian Pond.
• Zhou Tong refined more Divine Mark Purple Gold into the Hegemonic Bell and decided to seek a fierce battle as the finale of his King stage.

Zhou Tong spread the coordinates to Wu Shi the Great’s Small World and discovered that Dao Yi had joined the Sacred Light Mercenary Group. He killed the Great Accomplishment King Luo Xin, took control of his body, and entered the mercenary group’s territory.

• The Fan Family and Qi Family sold coordinates to Wu Shi’s Small World, and the Divine Organization stole the final set at an auction.
• Zhou Tong learned that Dao Yi and the Divine Organization were interested in the Small World, then sent incarnations to spread the coordinates and provoke an expedition frenzy.
• Zhou Tong found Dao Yi at the Sacred Light Mercenary Group, where the Imperial Son had joined its recruiting force.
• Zhou Tong killed the thoughts within the Great Accomplishment King’s primordial spirit, possessed his body, and learned that he was named Luo Xin.
• Zhou Tong took Luo Xin’s belongings and entered the Sacred Light Mercenary Group’s territory under his identity.

Zhou Tong watched the Yongheng Star Domain’s forces enter Wu Shi the Great’s Small World, waiting for the right moment to advance his plan. After Cao Tianjun used the Cao Family’s secret art on the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet, everyone was transported into the world inside the tomb.

• Zhou Tong joined Dao Yi’s mercenary group under the alias Luo Xin and observed the arriving forces, including the Divine Organization’s mothership.
• The mercenaries entered Wu Shi the Great’s Small World and discovered that Wu Shi’s Dao was clashing with the Daos of Great Emperor Tian Yuan and his son.
• While the others rushed toward the central tomb, Zhou Tong stayed behind and closed the Small World’s entrance after the powerful figures had gathered at the tomb.
• Dao Yi recalled that the Cao Family had obtained a secret art from Wu Shi the Great, and Cao Tianjun used it on the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet.
• The stone tablet blazed with light and transported everyone into the Small World inside the tomb.

Cao Tianjun tried to use the group’s entrapment in Wu Shi’s Small World to demand half the treasure, but his secret technique failed and the coffin proved empty. Zhou Tong revealed that he had trapped the major powers to gain time to seal the secret realm, then hurried to act before the Divine Organization or Dao Yi could break them out.

• The major powers and mercenaries entered the underground palace and gathered around a coffin they believed might hold a Supreme’s remains.
• Cao Tianjun demanded that the Cao Family receive fifty percent of any treasure and argued that the rogue cultivators had no right to share in it.
• The people discovered that the underground palace had no exit, and Dao Yi and his Dao Protector suspected that Wu Shi’s power had sealed the Small World.
• Cao Tianjun failed to send one of his juniors out with Wu Shi’s secret technique and realized that he was trapped too.
• Someone opened the coffin and found it empty, leaving the trapped groups despairing over the lack of treasure.
• Zhou Tong used the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet to prepare to seal the secret realm and hurried to act before the Divine Organization or Dao Yi could break the Small World.