Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong learned that the Twelve-petal Green Lotus Platform was Qing Xian, the reborn descendant of the Green Lotus Immortal King, and took it with him. When three Human Ancient Road enforcers confronted him over his crimes, he demanded that their hidden backer appear and threatened to kill them all.

• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to discover the platform's history and identify it as Qing Xian, who had once been saved by Shi Hao and later reborn as the Twelve-petal Green Lotus Platform.
• Zhou Tong put away the platform and concluded that the chaotic Small World held no other treasures worth searching for.
• Three sixth-heaven Saint King enforcers entered after breaking Zhou Tong's Array Patterns and accused him of violating the Human Ancient Road's rules.
• Zhou Tong dismissed their charges, suspected a Great Sage was backing them, and warned that the three enforcers were no match for him.
• Zhou Tong demanded that the enforcers reveal who was behind them and declared that he would wipe out everyone connected to Di Tian.

Zhou Tong confronted three Human Ancient Road enforcers who had come to avenge the Guiding Envoy of the 57th City, then faced their Great Sage backer, Luo Tian. Zhou Tong unleashed the power of the Azure Emperor Weapon and shattered half of Luo Tian's body in a single punch, leaving the witnesses stunned.

• Zhou Tong learned that the silver-armored enforcer was the younger brother of the Guiding Envoy of the 57th City and accused the enforcers of corruption.
• Luo Tian arrived and declared that he would kill Zhou Tong while making his crimes appear undeniable.
• Zhou Tong challenged Luo Tian to attack, and Luo Tian agreed to end him.
• Zhou Tong transformed into a vast purple ocean and struck with the Azure Emperor Weapon's power.
• Zhou Tong shattered half of Luo Tian's body, while imperial aura spread through the chaotic Small World and suppressed those nearby.

Zhou Tong used the Azure Emperor Weapon to kill Luo Tian Great Sage and the three enforcers, then accepted a Divine Light Platform from Great Sage Qinghuang in exchange for handing over the Chaos Small World. The Azure Emperor Weapon’s exposure left Zhou Tong expecting that few on the Human Ancient Road would dare challenge him.

• Luo Tian Great Sage severed his body to flee, but Zhou Tong revealed the Azure Emperor Weapon and destroyed his remaining head.
• Zhou Tong condemned the Ancient Road’s enforcers and killed all three with the Azure Emperor Weapon.
• The cultivators in the Chaos Small World fled, and Zhou Tong let those without killing intent leave.
• Great Sage Qinghuang arrived and said the Fifty-Seventh City Guiding Envoy and Luo Tian Great Sage had deserved their deaths.
• Great Sage Qinghuang offered Zhou Tong a Divine Light Platform for handing the Chaos Small World over to the Human Ancient Road, and Zhou Tong accepted the offer.

After leaving the Chaos Small World, Zhou Tong learned of a Scripture Cave on the God Clan Ancient Road and used the Reincarnation Mirror to send his Thunder Emperor true body away, but still could not determine how the artifact worked. News of his victory over Di Tian, Qingshi the Immortal, and the Guiding Envoy spread across the Human Ancient Road, leaving Zhou Tong its uncontested ruler.

• Great Sage Qinghuang thanked Zhou Tong for adding the Chaos Small World to the Human Race's foundation and suggested he travel to another ancient road.
• Great Sage Qinghuang gave Zhou Tong coordinates for a Scripture Cave near the sixtieth city of the God Clan Ancient Road, believed to hold a Human Race Great Emperor's legacy.
• Zhou Tong sensed that his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true body was rooted somewhere unknown and used the Reincarnation Mirror to send his Thunder Emperor true body away.
• The Reincarnation Mirror consumed all of Zhou Tong's saint power, yet he gained no clearer understanding of its workings and vowed to investigate further as he grew stronger.
• News spread that Zhou Tong had killed Di Tian, Qingshi the Immortal, and the Guiding Envoy of the 57th City in one battle.
• Great Demon God avoided Zhou Tong by taking side paths, and Overlord came to reign supreme over the Human Ancient Road.

Zhou Tong explored the ancient star’s Source Heaven Divine Array and used its starry-sky patterns to deepen his Source Technique and strengthen the world inside his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings. After surviving a growing Source Heaven Master’s curse and a heavenly tribulation, he reached the fifth level of the Saint King realm and prepared to visit the God Clan Ancient Road.

• Zhou Tong returned to Human Race Fifty City’s ancient star with the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon and investigated the Source Heaven Divine Array left by the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Zhou Tong studied the array’s starry-sky diagram and deduced that it would activate when the Sun Emperor exploded, illuminating the starfield with immortal divinity.
• Zhou Tong encountered red hair from the Source Heaven Master’s curse and suspected that Emperor Venerable’s arrangements were connected to the curse and the World Tripod plan.
• Zhou Tong comprehended Source Heaven Array Patterns, linking them to his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and causing Chaos Immortal Marrow to begin forming inside.
• Zhou Tong endured a lightning tribulation and advanced to the fifth level of the Saint King realm.
• Zhou Tong decided it was time to visit the God Clan Ancient Road.

Zhou Tong arrived at God Clan City Sixty to investigate a newly revealed Scripture Cave, while a near-Quasi-Emperor Fire Spirit and many powerful contenders gathered nearby. After hearing that Divine Venerable and Golden Cicada had fought and exposed the cave, Zhou Tong began considering how to prepare without relying on the Azure Emperor Weapon.

• Zhou Tong and the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon reached the Vast Continent and headed for the market outside the divine city to avoid the God Race Great Sage’s attention.
• A powerful Fire Spirit appeared near the market, and Zhou Tong refused the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon’s suggestion to rely on the Azure Emperor Weapon.
• Zhou Tong entered a tavern and heard that Divine Venerable and Golden Cicada had fought two months earlier, causing a Scripture Cave to emerge in the Boundless Mountain Range.
• Tavern patrons said the cave bore traces of Amitabha Great Emperor and the Taiyin Human Emperor, drawing contenders from several Ancient Roads.
• Zhou Tong learned that Xin Lan, Blood Beast, the Sky Swallowing Beast, the Gold Devouring Beast, and other powerful figures had gathered, and he considered how to prepare for the Great Sages.

Zhou Tong spent three days preparing the Boundless Mountain Range with Source Heaven techniques before heading to the Scripture Cave, where cultivators from many races had gathered. He declared that he would clear the field, killed a powerful Holy Spirit Stone Man, and again demanded that everyone withdraw.

• Zhou Tong used Source Heavenly Divine Runes to imbue the Boundless Mountain Range with life and establish a Source Heaven Divine Array over three days.
• Zhou Tong arrived at the Scripture Cave and drew the attention of Divine Venerable, a young monk, and other gathered cultivators, including a Holy Spirit Stone Man with an Immortal Tear Green Gold eye.
• Zhou Tong announced that he could suppress everyone present and ordered them to leave, prompting the Stone Man to attack him with a divine beam.
• Zhou Tong countered with his Hegemon Fist, used the Soldier Character Secret to control the Stone Man, and destroyed its body with a punch.
• Zhou Tong killed the Stone Man's primordial spirit with the Death's Eye of the Nine Netherworld Howler, absorbed its Holy Spirit blood, and took its Immortal Tear Green Gold eyeball.
• Zhou Tong demanded that the gathered cultivators withdraw and challenged anyone who dared defy him.

Zhou Tong arrived at the Scripture Cave, killed a Holy Spirit, and forced Xin Lan and Divine Venerable to retreat after they recognized the danger he posed. He then attacked the Blood Beast when it mocked him and threatened to drink his blood.

• Zhou Tong killed the Holy Spirit in two moves and refined its blood, shocking everyone gathered at the Scripture Cave.
• Xin Lan recognized Zhou Tong as the Overlord, and he ordered her to leave; she warned Divine Venerable that Zhou Tong controlled the Azure Emperor Weapon.
• Divine Venerable stood as if preparing to challenge Zhou Tong, but instead retreated without fighting.
• The Blood Beast mocked Divine Venerable and threatened to drink Zhou Tong's blood, so Zhou Tong attacked it with a purple fist.

Zhou Tong entered the Divine Prohibition State and overwhelmed the Demon Clan’s experts, killing the Gold Devouring Beast and Blood Beast. He dragged the fleeing Sky Swallowing Beast out of the void and prepared to strike it down.

• Zhou Tong blasted off the Blood Beast’s right arm with a domineering punch as the Sky Swallowing Beast and Gold Devouring Beast decided to attack together.
• Zhou Tong used the Xing Character Secret to reach the Gold Devouring Beast, kicked its body apart, and seized its Dragon Pattern Black Gold weapon with the Soldier Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong’s Hegemon Fist destroyed the Gold Devouring Beast’s body and primordial spirit.
• Zhou Tong pursued the fleeing Blood Beast, shattered its weapons and treasures, and killed it with a punch.
• The Sky Swallowing Beast tried to escape through the void, but Zhou Tong severed the passage with the Gu Clan Treasure Art and forced it back out.

Zhou Tong overwhelmed the prodigies gathered in the Boundless Mountain Range, defeating Golden Cicada and slaughtering those who refused to leave. He then turned to confront the Great Sages at the Scripture Cave and demanded that they withdraw.

• After Zhou Tong killed the Sky Swallowing Beast, the onlookers recognized him as an unstoppable Emperor Star, and many fled in fear.
• Zhou Tong ordered everyone to leave, but Golden Cicada challenged him and was swiftly defeated; Zhou Tong spared him for Shakyamuni’s sake.
• Several young Supremes refused to retreat, so Zhou Tong swept through them with his Hegemon Fist and killed everyone remaining in the mountain range.
• Zhou Tong faced the Great Sages at the Scripture Cave and warned them to leave or be killed.

Zhou Tong confronted the Fire Clan Holy Spirit Cang Yan, who attacked him for provoking the Great Sages. Drawing power from the Boundless Mountain Range and revealing his fused Divine Forms, Zhou Tong prepared to test his strength against Cang Yan, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Cang Yan abandoned his attempt to break the Scripture Cave restriction and charged at Zhou Tong in Immortal Fire.
• Zhou Tong met Cang Yan's attack with his palm, and their clash shook the continent despite Zhou Tong being only a Saint King.
• Zhou Tong activated a method resembling the Nether Emperor's, drawing power from the Boundless Mountain Range and forming a Divine Diagram around himself.
• Cang Yan recognized Zhou Tong's unusual cultivation but challenged him to demonstrate how strong the borrowed power made him.
• Zhou Tong transformed by fusing seven Divine Forms, astonishing the Great Sages and shaking Cang Yan.

Zhou Tong fought Fire Spirit Cang Yan, using his Hegemon Body and Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings to overcome the Holy Spirit’s strength. After sealing Cang Yan’s Taiyin Immortal Fire, Zhou Tong defeated him, shattered his primordial spirit, and searched his soul as the Great Sages watched in shock.

• Zhou Tong ambushed Cang Yan, severing one of his flesh-and-blood arms and collecting the precious Holy Spirit blood.
• Zhou Tong and the one-armed Cang Yan clashed in a fierce battle that devastated the surrounding starry sky, with neither gaining an advantage.
• Cang Yan unleashed the Taiyin Immortal Fire, but Zhou Tong used the True Sun Scripture and Taiyin True Scripture to seal and collect it.
• Zhou Tong pressed his advantage and, after a thousand exchanges, shattered Cang Yan’s body and primordial spirit with a punch.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to collect Cang Yan’s primordial spirit fragments and began searching his soul, while the Great Sages watched in terror.

Zhou Tong entered Amitabha Great Emperor’s Scripture Cave and discovered that its secret realm gathered the Taiyin Human Emperor’s Power of Faith. He took the Blood Floating Tu containing the Human Emperor’s Divine Thought, then began preparing to use the fading faith power before the Great Sages outside could enter.

• Amitabha Great Emperor’s imperial might shook the Scripture Cave, but the Chaos Green Lotus shielded Zhou Tong and let him enter ahead of the trapped Great Sages.
• Zhou Tong revealed the secret realm’s hidden Power of Faith and traced its origin to the Taiyin Human Emperor.
• Zhou Tong followed the faith power to an ancient blood-red altar and found the Blood Floating Tu containing the Taiyin Human Emperor’s Divine Thought.
• Zhou Tong used the Taiyin True Scripture to withstand the altar’s extreme yin power and took the Blood Floating Tu into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• The Scripture Cave’s chants and gathered faith power began to fade, so Zhou Tong decided to make arrangements before the outside Great Sages could enter.

Zhou Tong found Destiny Orange Gold, completed the nine-colored Vajra Ring, and took several treasures from the Scripture Cave. He trapped the pursuing Great Sages with the Power of Faith and escaped back to the Human Ancient Road.

• Zhou Tong discovered Destiny Orange Gold and used it to complete the Vajra Ring’s nine-colored transformation.
• Zhou Tong collected the thirty-three-page Taiyin True Scripture and a heavy Dragon Pattern Black Gold fragment he identified as part of the Human Emperor Seal.
• Zhou Tong gathered the Blood Floating Tu and the Divine Thought of the Taiyin Human Emperor, then laid formations that unleashed the secret realm’s Power of Faith.
• The Great Sages entered the Scripture Cave and were suppressed by the surging Power of Faith, while Zhou Tong escaped unnoticed.
• Zhou Tong left the Boundless Mountain Range, found the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon near the Divine City, and used the Divine Light Platform to return to the Human Ancient Road.

Zhou Tong traveled to Fire Spirit Cang Yan’s birthplace, where he collected the Chaos Stone and began nurturing a new Fire Spirit within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings. In Cang Yan’s cave abode, he found treasures and gave the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon an Undying Wonderful Tree and a method for cultivating it.

• Zhou Tong returned to the Seventeenth City of the Human Ancient Road and flew into space to find the sun recorded in Fire Spirit Cang Yan’s memories.
• Zhou Tong discovered innate Dao patterns in the Sun Star and imprinted its Array Diagram into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong identified Cang Yan’s birthplace as a Chaos Stone, collected it, and placed it beside the Fusang Divine Tree, which began nourishing a new Fire Spirit within it.
• Zhou Tong entered Cang Yan’s cave abode, gave most of its treasures to the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon, and kept a jar of Fire Spirit Essence.
• Zhou Tong found forty-nine immature Undying Wonderful Trees and gave the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon one, along with Cao Yusheng’s method for nurturing it anew.

After looting Fire Spirit Cang Yan’s cave abode, Zhou Tong and the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon traveled to Star Ruins to find the Demon Emperor’s Tomb. Zhou Tong discovered that the tomb would not emerge for decades, so he set out to improve its ancient arrangement and hasten its appearance.

• Zhou Tong and the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon finished plundering Fire Spirit Cang Yan’s cave abode, then used the Divine Light Platform to leave the starfield.
• Zhou Tong arrived at Ruins City but skipped the city and traveled directly to Misty Continent in search of the Demon Emperor’s Tomb.
• Zhou Tong used Source Technique to deduce that the continents of Star Ruins formed a dragon corpses ascending to heaven configuration that gathered vitality at the tomb’s hidden location.
• Zhou Tong realized the tomb would not emerge for another twenty or thirty years and considered accelerating the arrangement rather than forcing it open with Imperial Weapons.
• Zhou Tong chose to optimize the arrangement using his Source Heaven Master and burial master knowledge, planning to spend four or five years on the task and work on Four Extremities Realm scriptures.

For five years, Zhou Tong cultivated on Misty Continent while his Three Pure Ones Incarnations fought prodigies across nearby continents, earning him a reputation as an invincible hunter. He finally comprehended the profound meaning of his Four Extremities Scripture, causing his Wheel Sea and Dao Palace to expand.

• Cultivators in Star Cloud Tower discussed the many Young Supremes killed on Misty Continent and the surrounding continents over the past five years.
• Some cultivators speculated that Zhou Tong was the nearly invincible powerhouse hunting prodigies.
• Zhou Tong cultivated in an extraordinary Enlightenment Environment while the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon remained beside him.
• Zhou Tong sent his Three Pure Ones Incarnations to test his insights against prodigies and refine the Demon Emperor's arrangements.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the Four Extremities Scripture Profound Meaning, and his Wheel Sea and Dao Palace expanded under the power of his limbs.

Zhou Tong completed his third scripture volume, broke apart his heavenly tribulation with one punch, and advanced to the Ninth Heaven of the Saint King Realm. As the Demon Emperor's Tomb began to appear, he hurried to secure the results of his five years of effort before others could reach it.

• Zhou Tong's Wheel Sea, Four Extremes, and Dao Palace evolved together as he created the third volume of his scripture and formed the Ultimate Dao Boundless Force.
• Zhou Tong's immense heavenly tribulation descended over Misty Continent, and he shattered its lightning sea with a single punch.
• Observers in Ruins City recognized Zhou Tong as the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body and speculated that he was the fierce figure who had hunted heavenly geniuses near Misty Continent.
• A river of Nine Nether Yellow Springs appeared in the sky, and onlookers concluded that a Great Emperor's tomb had cracked open.
• Zhou Tong recognized the phenomenon as the Demon Emperor's Tomb manifesting, then swallowed and refined his tribulation lightning before advancing to the Ninth Heaven of the Saint King Realm.
• A Great Sage flew from Ruins City toward the tomb, but Zhou Tong had already completed his tribulation by the time the Sage reached its entrance.

Zhou Tong fought Great Sage Qing Ye over the Demon Emperor's Tomb and defeated him despite Qing Ye's higher cultivation. He began finishing Qing Ye off with the Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor as the Great Sage's body and primordial spirit dissolved into the Dao, causing enormous stone gates to appear.

• Zhou Tong revealed that he had spent five years drawing out the Demon Emperor's Tomb, and Qing Ye challenged him for the fortune.
• Zhou Tong entered the Divine Prohibition State and met Qing Ye's divine saber with his Hegemon Fist, breaking through the saber art's attacks.
• Qing Ye unleashed his strongest strike, but Zhou Tong's further-evolved Hegemon Fist severely wounded him and sent him flying.
• Zhou Tong pursued Qing Ye with the Kunpeng Method and Xing Character Secret, then shattered his arms and pulverized his body with successive punches.
• Zhou Tong struck Qing Ye with the Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor, causing his body and primordial spirit to dissolve into the Dao as massive stone gates appeared.

Zhou Tong entered the Demon Emperor's Grand Tomb alone, claimed the Demon Emperor's Ruler fragments, and plundered its treasures. After leaving, he decided to return to the Human Race Tenth City to join the coming battle between the human race and the Holy Spirit race.

• Zhou Tong bowed his way through the tomb gates and used the Azure Emperor Weapon to cross the Yellow Spring, leaving the other cultivators stranded outside.
• Zhou Tong reached Emperor Weapon Mountain, used the Chaos Green Lotus and Demon Emperor Scripture to subdue the Demon Emperor's Ruler fragments, and gathered them into his Wheel Sea.
• Zhou Tong witnessed scenes of the Demon Emperor fighting on the Path to Immortality, and the Hegemonic Bell imprinted the Demon Emperor's aura and complete scripture.
• Zhou Tong and the Nine-tailed Flood Dragon harvested the tomb's Medicine Kings and other valuable herbs, emptying the tomb.
• The Nine-tailed Flood Dragon asked where they would go next, and Zhou Tong ordered it to return to the Human Race Tenth City so he could join the coming battle against the Holy Spirit race.