Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong raided the Twelve Royal Clans of the Yongheng Star Domain, robbing their treasuries and killing the Saints who guarded them. After breaching all twelve clans and slaughtering twelve Saints, he left the entire star domain in chaos.

• Zhou Tong emptied the Cao Family treasury and killed its remaining Saint and a Great Accomplishment King before escaping.
• Zhou Tong raided the Sun Never Sets Family treasury and refined its Saint to death with the Time-Space Furnace.
• Zhou Tong targeted the Twelve Royal Clans, using secret techniques to bypass their arrays and infiltrate their headquarters.
• Zhou Tong breached all twelve royal clans and killed their twelve guarding Saints, throwing the Yongheng Star Domain into chaos.

Zhou Tong encountered a Saint of the Divine Organization who tried to recruit him, and fought him in a fierce battle. After killing the Saint, Zhou Tong entered the Divine Prohibition, triggered the All Character Secret, and broke through the final barrier of his cultivation realm.

• Zhou Tong sensed an ambush and dodged the Divine Organization Saint’s attack beside the territory of the last Royal Clan.
• The Saint demanded that Zhou Tong join the Divine Organization and excavate divine mineral deposits, but Zhou Tong chose to fight.
• Zhou Tong and the Saint exchanged more than fifteen hundred moves as Zhou Tong’s fighting spirit overwhelmed his opponent.
• Zhou Tong shattered the Saint’s blood-colored saber and pierced his brow with the Sacred Spirit Sword, killing him.
• Zhou Tong entered the Divine Prohibition, triggered the All Character Secret, and broke through the final barrier of his cultivation realm.

Zhou Tong underwent his Saint tribulation near Eternal Star, using its lightning to shatter and reforge the Hegemonic Bell while merging it with his body. The tribulation left him newly transformed and the bell reborn as an immortal Saint Weapon, stunning the Yongheng Star Domain.

• Zhou Tong began his Saint tribulation, and the lightning drew the attention of people throughout the Yongheng Star Domain.
• Zhou Tong tempered himself and the Hegemonic Bell with the tribulation before throwing the bell and Immortal Gold from the twelve royal clans into the lightning.
• Zhou Tong let the Hegemonic Bell shatter, then devoured the lightning and its fragments as they fused into his body and primordial spirit.
• Zhou Tong refined his Wheel Sea and nurtured a new Hegemonic Bell, which formed from Divine Mark Purple Gold, Eternal Blue Gold, and chaos worlds.
• Zhou Tong completed his transformation, and the reborn Hegemonic Bell entered his Immortal Platform as an immortal Saint Weapon.

Zhou Tong passed his Saint-level tribulation, defeated waves of Great Emperor phantoms and the Ancient Heavenly Court, and advanced to the fourth level of the Saint realm. After returning to Wu Shi the Great’s Small World to reclaim the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet, he was confronted by Dao Yi.

• Zhou Tong fought through three waves of Great Emperor phantoms, facing twenty-seven Great Emperors and ancient emperors before the tribulation moved on to the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Zhou Tong broke through the Ancient Heavenly Court and defeated Emperor Venerable’s Immortal Cauldron, completing his tribulation after a day and night.
• Zhou Tong reached the fourth level of the Saint realm and replenished his Saint power as the returning fleet approached the Yongheng Star Domain.
• Zhou Tong avoided the fleet, teleported back to Wu Shi the Great’s Small World, and collected the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet.
• Dao Yi attacked Zhou Tong with a golden spear, but Zhou Tong’s True Dragon Tail Sweep shattered it.

Zhou Tong confronted Dao Yi and overwhelmed him in battle, even as Dao Yi’s Great Sage protector tried to intervene. Dao Yi was left gravely wounded and unable to keep pace with Zhou Tong’s attacks.

• Dao Yi revealed that he had been waiting for Zhou Tong to reclaim the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet and recognized him as a visitor from beyond the Yongheng Star Domain.
• A Great Sage Dao protector arrived wearing the Dao Yan Divine Garment, and Zhou Tong used the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet to suppress him and buy time to attack Dao Yi.
• Zhou Tong and Dao Yi exchanged blows, and Dao Yi staggered back after hundreds of clashes with Zhou Tong’s overwhelming physical strength.
• Dao Yi brought out his Dao Tribulation Gold divine sword, but Zhou Tong’s Kunpeng Wings let him strike too quickly for Dao Yi to use divine arts.
• Zhou Tong pierced Dao Yi through the chest with sword fingers, leaving him severely wounded.

Zhou Tong defeated Dao Yi, took a branch of the Life Ancient Tree, and escaped before Dao Yi’s protector could pursue him. While recovering on the Ancient Starry Road, he discovered a new Reincarnation Mirror ability that might let him travel to other worlds, but decided to test it only with an incarnation.

• Dao Yi activated his forbidden artifact, but Zhou Tong blocked it with the Chaos Green Lotus and threatened him with the Azure Emperor Weapon until Dao Yi handed over a branch of the Life Ancient Tree.
• Zhou Tong withdrew the Tian Yuan Stone Tablet and attacked Dao Yi, prompting Dao Yi’s golden-armored protector to intervene while Zhou Tong’s Divine Form vanished.
• Dao Yi’s protector explained Zhou Tong’s tactics, and Dao Yi regained his confidence by resolving to find the complete Life Divine Tree.
• Zhou Tong escaped across the starry sky and stopped on the Ancient Starry Road to examine his seventh Divine Form and his cultivation.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the Reincarnation Mirror had gained a possible true reincarnation ability and decided not to risk using it with his main body.

Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to send his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Life into reincarnation, then entered an illusory reincarnation as a Gu and deepened his mastery of time and space. After five hundred years, he emerged able to tear through space and travel three li.

• Zhou Tong activated the Reincarnation Mirror and sent his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Life into reincarnation, sensing that it had sprouted somewhere nearby in spacetime.
• Zhou Tong replenished his divine power over seven days on a small planet along the Ancient Starry Road.
• Zhou Tong activated the Reincarnation Mirror again and entered an illusory reincarnation as one of the Ten Fiends, Gu.
• As Gu, Zhou Tong spent five hundred years cultivating and comprehending time and space through the Gu Clan Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong emerged with a deep understanding of time and space and demonstrated that he could tear through space and reappear three li away.

Zhou Tong used the Azure Emperor’s sixth-stage evolution fluid to perfect his Heaven-and-Earth Wheel Sea, then spent three years cultivating until seven Ten Fiends Divine Forms fused into one. After ten years on the Human Ancient Road, he reached its first gathering point and encountered Hun Zhan, an Azure Heaven Hegemonic Blood mounted on a Purple Kirin.

• Zhou Tong absorbed the sixth-stage evolution fluid, completed his Heaven-and-Earth Wheel Sea, and placed two Divine Forms within it to fuse gradually.
• Zhou Tong spent three years comprehending the Dao and refining his cultivation, then merged seven Ten Fiends into a new Divine Form that raised his power and prolonged his Divine Prohibition State.
• Zhou Tong resumed the Human Ancient Road and defeated powerful opponents while advancing his Ten Evils Treasure Art through battle.
• Ten years after leaving the Big Dipper, Zhou Tong approached the road’s first gathering point as crowds and powerful mounts converged there.
• Zhou Tong sensed Hun Zhan behind him and turned to face the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Blood riding a Purple Kirin; Hun Zhan also noticed Zhou Tong and met his gaze.

Zhou Tong confronted Hun Zhan, the Hegemon Body from the Ancestral Star, and their clash shook the starry sky. After discovering Hun Zhan wielded a damaged Quasi-Emperor Artifact, Zhou Tong remained determined to defeat him and obtain the Hegemon Body inheritance.

• Hun Zhan's aura and the Purple Kirin's roar terrified the prodigies, but Zhou Tong countered them with the Nine Netherworld Howler's Roar.
• Hun Zhan charged Zhou Tong with his blood-red war spear, and Zhou Tong met him with the Sacred Spirit Sword.
• Zhou Tong and Hun Zhan traded blows, while the collision's aftershocks forced the Purple Kirin to retreat.
• Hun Zhan revealed that his spear was a damaged Quasi-Emperor Artifact from his lineage's treasury and demanded Zhou Tong submit for the promise of the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Blood inheritance.
• Zhou Tong recognized the spear's power but refused to submit, resolving to defeat Hun Zhan and extract the inheritance's secrets.

Zhou Tong battled Hun Zhan, whose Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body inheritance and damaged Quasi-Emperor Artifact failed to give him the upper hand. As the fight continued, Zhou Tong began to understand a new path toward creating his Forbidden Domain, and the chapter left both men gravely wounded with the battle unresolved.

• Zhou Tong and Hun Zhan clashed with their sword and spear, then fought with their Immortal Phoenix and Kunpeng wings until both were driven back.
• Hun Zhan healed his near-fatal chest wound with the Healer Character Secret, while Zhou Tong remained unharmed and demanded the Hegemon Body inheritance.
• Hun Zhan embedded the damaged Quasi-Emperor Artifact in his body and attacked with the Hegemon Fist, while Zhou Tong countered with Ten Evils Treasure Arts and Great Emperor techniques.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the Hegemon Fist’s intent and began forming a new path that combined the momentum of the Ten Fiends with his Heaven Slaying Dao.
• The two battered each other until Zhou Tong tore off Hun Zhan’s arm with the True Dragon Treasure Art and Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique, then challenged him to surrender.

Zhou Tong defeated Hun Zhan despite his awakened weapons and strongest Divine Forms, then extracted the Hegemon Body lineage’s secrets and spared him. Hun Zhan was left clutching a jade marked “Second Under Heaven” as Zhou Tong continued toward the First Pass of the Human Ancient Road.

• Hun Zhan regenerated and unleashed the Phoenix Blood War Spear and Hegemonic Bell, but Zhou Tong struck him down with a single palm.
• Hun Zhan revealed his five fused Divine Forms and charged at Zhou Tong, who shattered them all with one strike.
• Zhou Tong subdued Hun Zhan, extracted the Hegemon Body lineage’s complete legacy and ancestral-star coordinates, and frightened the Purple Kirin into submission.
• Zhou Tong spared Hun Zhan, gave him a piece of purple jade engraved “Second Under Heaven,” and continued toward the First Pass of the Human Ancient Road.
• Hun Zhan gripped the jade and roared in humiliation after Zhou Tong left.

Zhou Tong reached the First Pass of the Human Ancient Road and studied the Hegemon Body lineage’s inheritance while waiting for the city to open. Realizing its traditional Ancestral Form would not suit him, he resolved to create his own path and forge a new Hegemon Body legacy.

• Zhou Tong arrived at the First Pass, where the few gathered prodigies kept their distance after witnessing his battle with Hun Zhan.
• Zhou Tong sat down outside the city and examined the three parts of the Hegemon Body inheritance: Hegemon Fist, collected scriptures, and Divine Forms with the Ancestral Form.
• Zhou Tong learned that the Ancestral Form transformed Divine Forms into living forms filled with laws and runes, and understood how it empowered the Hegemon Body.
• Zhou Tong realized that his own Divine Forms differed from the lineage’s, leaving Hegemon Fist as the only part of its inheritance he could directly cultivate.
• Zhou Tong decided to create an Ancestral Form of his own and consider incorporating the Saint Body’s single-secret-realm cultivation method into his scripture.

Zhou Tong led the geniuses into the First Pass of the Human Race, where the Guiding Envoy announced rules and an upcoming trial. On the fifth day, the group traveled through a space passage to a vast ancient island, while Zhou Tong sensed that the transmission had been deliberately altered.

• The First Pass opened early, and Zhou Tong led the other geniuses through its gates despite a soldier's warning against causing trouble.
• The Guiding Envoy told the newcomers that they would soon face a trial, forbade fighting in the city, and allowed them to defend themselves if attacked.
• Zhou Tong explored the bustling city, found its prices steep, and settled into an inn.
• On the fifth day, the Guiding Envoy explained that the trial would test their comprehension of the Great Dao, and the commander-in-chief led them into a space passage.
• Zhou Tong sensed that the passage's time and space had been tampered with, and the group emerged beside a colossal ancient island.

Zhou Tong entered Saint Demise Island and crossed its regions, using their Dao traces to temper his Hegemon Fist before venturing into the central forbidden zone. He survived a two-day battle against a perfect version of himself in the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool and emerged exhausted but victorious.

• The chief commander explained Saint Demise Island’s regions and warned that its central zone was a deadly forbidden land.
• Zhou Tong entered the first region, then crossed all forty-nine regions while carrying shackles that grew to forty-eight million jin and studying their Dao traces.
• Zhou Tong reached the central forbidden zone and broke through its Saint-level attacks, Dao-transformation flames, sword qi, and twenty-seven layers of traps.
• Zhou Tong entered the blood-red rift above the Ten-Zhang Blood Pool to fight a replica with the same body and techniques.
• After two days and nights, Zhou Tong defeated the replica and emerged from the rift, drawing in spiritual essence from tens of thousands of li.

Zhou Tong escaped Saint Demise Island and used the Heart of the Death Realm and the Life Divine Tree branch to break through to the ninth level of the Saint realm. After killing a soldier who revealed Killing Intent, he confronted the commander-in-chief and then reflected on what he had learned from the trial.

• Zhou Tong decided to end his long suppression of his cultivation and broke through Saint Demise Island's seal to reach the starry universe.
• Zhou Tong endured three days of heavenly tribulation, using the Heart of the Death Realm and the Life Divine Tree branch to advance to the ninth level of the Saint realm.
• A soldier gathered Killing Intent toward Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong killed him with a punch.
• The commander-in-chief accused Zhou Tong of breaking the rules, but Zhou Tong argued that the killing had occurred outside the ancient city and warned that his hand might slip again.
• Zhou Tong stepped aside and contemplated the insights he had gained from fighting his duplicate in the blood lake.

After leaving Saint Demise Island, Zhou Tong continued along the ancient road and arrived at a battlefield where the Source of Dao was born. He announced his overwhelming strength by defeating a Ninth Heaven Saint formed from divine iron in a brutal physical fight.

• The Grand Commander declared the Saint Demise Island trial over, and Zhou Tong reflected on reaching the peak of the Saint realm and needing to build his foundations further.
• Seven days later, several trial-takers chose to stay behind as guardians of the First Pass for a thousand years, while Zhou Tong stepped onto the altar to continue onward.
• Zhou Tong arrived at the ancient battlefield between the First and Second Passes and recognized it as the source of the Source of Dao.
• Several Magic Artifacts attacked Zhou Tong as soon as he appeared, but his dragon roar shattered them and shook the battlefield.
• A Ninth Heaven Saint formed from sentient divine iron charged Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong battered him with fifteen punches and left a bloody hole in his chest.

Zhou Tong faced a coordinated attack from fourteen high-level Saints and killed them all, demonstrating overwhelming strength and revealing his Primordial Spirit Sword. The battlefield fell silent, and the survivors feared to challenge him.

• Fourteen Saints joined forces against Zhou Tong after he killed the metal Saint, but he broke their opening attacks and killed six with his Hegemon Fist, Kirin Step, and roar.
• Zhou Tong slew another Saint with sword light, then used the Group Character Secret to disrupt and tear apart an inherited Star River Array Diagram.
• Zhou Tong killed the two Saints who controlled the Array Diagram with a punch, then split a black arrow and killed its shooter with his Primordial Spirit Sword.
• Four remaining Saints attacked Zhou Tong with powerful weapons, but he fought them until his Hegemon Fist broke through another limit and killed all four.
• The survivors recognized Zhou Tong's feat of slaying fourteen Saints and fell silent, too afraid to continue fighting.

Zhou Tong discovered that the battlefield produced the Source of Dao from the blood, souls, and Daos of the dead, then captured one with his Source Technique. When it declared that the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body could not become Emperor, Zhou Tong defied it and endured Heavenly Punishment while forcing it to submit.

• Zhou Tong realized the battlefield had been arranged to gather the deaths of cultivators and produce the Source of Dao.
• Zhou Tong pursued and captured the Source of Dao with the Gu Clan Treasure Art, then sealed it away.
• The Source of Dao declared that Zhou Tong could not attain the Dao and become Emperor, prompting others to mock the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body lineage.
• Zhou Tong answered that his will was the will of heaven and struck the Source of Dao with his conviction to subdue it.
• Heavenly Punishment descended, but Zhou Tong remained unharmed and absorbed its lightning to temper his body and primordial spirit.

Zhou Tong gathered every Source of Dao after overcoming the land’s Heavenly Punishment, then fought the Spirit King to refine his Hegemon Fist. His Azure Heaven Hegemonic Blood awakened during the battle, and he killed the Saint King with a decisive punch.

• Zhou Tong realized the Heavenly Punishment came from the spirit of the land, which had stopped attacking him.
• Zhou Tong won several battles and slaughtered dozens of Saints to collect every Source of Dao.
• The Spirit King demanded Zhou Tong hand over the Source of Dao, and Zhou Tong offered it in exchange for Immortal Material.
• The Spirit King attacked when Zhou Tong named his price, and the two clashed with fists, divine arts, and the Spirit King's Black-Gold Divine Hammer.
• Zhou Tong's Hegemonic Blood revived and a god-of-war phantom merged into him, strengthening his Hegemon Fist.
• Zhou Tong battered the Spirit King, punched through his chest, and destroyed his body and spirit.

After entering the second ancient city, Zhou Tong secluded himself to study the complete Source of Dao and reshape the Hegemon Fist into a form suited to his own path. He began tempering its newly formed momentum with the Source of Dao’s laws, leaving the fist art growing more unified and powerful.

• Zhou Tong entered the second ancient city as trial participants discussed his killing of a Saint King and acquisition of the Source of Dao.
• Zhou Tong secluded himself and used the Hegemonic Bell, Divine Mark Purple Gold, and his divine medicines to weaken the Source of Dao’s resistance and study its mysteries.
• Zhou Tong broke down the Hegemon Fist’s momentum and combined it with insights from his techniques and the Ten Fiends to create a new version suited to his Divine Form.
• Zhou Tong cracked the Source Technique seal and used the Source of Dao’s fundamental laws to temper his new Hegemon Fist momentum instead of merging with it.
• The Source of Dao’s laws gradually made Zhou Tong’s Hegemon Fist momentum more seamless and unified.