Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Holy Imperial Son, Zhou Tong received the Battle Staff on loan and studied the secret techniques used in their fight. He then began planning how to create a new Hegemon Body Ancestral Form by combining the Ten Evils Treasure Art, starting with the demon ape lineage’s Heavenly Merit.

• Zhou Tong sent the Holy Imperial Son flying and claimed the Sacred Spirit Stone Token after three moves.
• The Holy Imperial Son accepted defeat, lent Zhou Tong the Battle Staff for a hundred years, and left the Divine Domain promising to fight again.
• Zhou Tong analyzed the Holy Imperial Son’s techniques and reflected on how Great Emperors’ secret techniques surpassed his own repertoire.
• Zhou Tong recognized that perfecting his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form required harmonizing the laws and runes of the Ten Evils Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong decided to study the demon ape lineage’s Heavenly Merit and use it as a foundation for evolving secret techniques into his ancestral form.

Zhou Tong studied the Chaos Demon Ape lineage’s Heavenly Merit Art, and the Battle Staff released the Battle Saint Emperor’s battle intent to strengthen him. After a month of cultivation, Zhou Tong gave the staff the complete Chaos Demon Ape inheritance in exchange for insights into the Battle Immortal path.

• Zhou Tong began comprehending the Chaos Demon Ape lineage’s Heavenly Merit Art with the Battle Saint Emperor’s Battle Staff beside him.
• The Battle Staff released the Battle Saint Emperor’s remaining battle intent, which resonated with Zhou Tong’s demonic ape manifestation and began perfecting him.
• Zhou Tong cultivated the Hegemon Body Ancestral Form and stacked the Ten Evils Treasure Art within the Heavenly Merit Art, causing his manifestation to nearly fill the Divine Domain.
• After a month, Zhou Tong withdrew his manifestation and realized that only a tenth of the Battle Saint Emperor’s battle intent had been consumed.
• Zhou Tong sent the Battle Staff the Chaos Demon Ape’s complete Heavenly Merit Treasure Technique in exchange for the Battle Saint Emperor’s insights into becoming a Battle Immortal.

Zhou Tong analyzed the Battle Saint Emperor’s understanding of the Battle Immortal Path and connected it to the Sky Shrouding Method’s Gates of Potential. He concluded that the Battle Immortal Path forced a cultivator into immortality by overwhelming those gates with power, explaining why the Battle Saint Emperor had exploded during his transformation.

• Zhou Tong learned that ancient Battle Immortals became immortal through combat, while the present age’s Battle Immortal Path relied on personal strength rather than recognition from the greater world.
• Zhou Tong reasoned that cultivation in the Sky Shrouding Method continually transformed the body’s Gates of Potential, and that Great Emperors could open remaining gates to gain a second life.
• Zhou Tong explained that Great Emperors needed methods such as transforming their physiques to further strengthen their Gates of Potential after reaching their limits.
• Zhou Tong concluded that the Nine-Lifetime Immortalization Method gradually opened and strengthened the Gates of Potential, while the Battle Immortal Path forcibly filled them with power to make a cultivator immortal.
• Zhou Tong determined that the Battle Saint Emperor had exploded mainly because he had forced in too much power he could not control, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s interference was secondary.

Zhou Tong analyzed why the Battle Saint Emperor failed to become a Battle Immortal and concluded that the path would be more feasible across several lives. He explored Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s remains on Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, found the Golden Crow Great Emperor gone, and left with a copy of his scripture.

• Zhou Tong concluded that the Battle Saint Emperor lacked the vitality and foundation to become a Battle Immortal in one leap, and considered attempting the transformation across three or four lives.
• After ending his seclusion, Zhou Tong traveled through nine ruined starfields and discovered they had once formed Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Zhou Tong reached Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star, which had transformed from Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s head, and sensed its powerful Dao aura.
• Zhou Tong searched beneath the mountain range where Lingbao Heavenly Venerate’s Immortal Platform had been, but found that the Golden Crow Great Emperor had already left after living a second life.
• Zhou Tong copied the scripture the Golden Crow Great Emperor had left behind using Divine Mark Purple Gold, then departed.

Zhou Tong arrived at Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and reunited with his old classmate Wang Ziwen, who had built a family there. Wang Ziwen recounted how he lost his wealth and territory after his powerful father-in-law died, leaving his family protected but impoverished.

• Zhou Tong swept Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star with his divine sense, alarming its cultivators, then descended into Wang Ziwen's garden.
• Wang Ziwen joyfully introduced Zhou Tong to his wife, daughter, and son, and the old friends shared wine and stories of their years apart.
• Zhou Tong told Wang Ziwen about their classmates and their exploits in Big Dipper, while Wang Ziwen described how he had been transported to the ancient star and obtained fragments of a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had survived a Quasi-Emperor tribulation, shocking Wang Ziwen and his family.
• Wang Ziwen explained that after Lin Han died, rival families tried to seize his possessions, so he surrendered his territory, wealth, and Purple-Gold Gourd to a Great Sage in exchange for protection.

Zhou Tong forged Wang Ziwen a Quasi-Emperor Purple-Gold Gourd from Dao Tribulation Gold, Purple Flame Divine Jade, and a heavenly tribulation. He left Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star with a new insight into studying the Great Dao imprints of ancient stars and resumed his journey toward the Endpoint.

• Wang Ziwen gave Zhou Tong three thousand jin of Dao Tribulation Gold and chose a gourd as the form of his artifact.
• Zhou Tong added Nine Heavens Purple Flame Divine Jade, then forged the Purple-Gold Gourd in a two-month tribulation that revealed Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star's Great Dao imprints.
• Zhou Tong completed a second-level Quasi-Emperor artifact that held a sea of lightning and could be passed down through Wang Ziwen's bloodline.
• Zhou Tong gave the gourd to Wang Ziwen and promised to tell Ye Fan and the others where he was.
• Zhou Tong departed Heavenly Soldier Ancient Star and returned to the Human Ancient Road to continue toward the Endpoint.

Zhou Tong crossed the Human Ancient Road over ten years, refining powerful artifacts and reaching its final checkpoint. He inscribed his name above Taichu’s on the Emperor Venerable’s stele, then left the Ancient Starry Road to visit the Big Dipper and Earth.

• Zhou Tong traveled through the Human Ancient Road’s checkpoints, studying their traces and refining Tengshe’s body and the Sacred Spirit Divine Tiger into Quasi-Emperor weapons.
• Cultivators across the starry sky discussed Zhou Tong’s victories and debated whether Emperor Sons and Imperial Sons might eventually surpass him, while he welcomed the prospect of worthy opponents.
• Zhou Tong spent ten years crossing the desolate final stretch of the Human Ancient Road, using the journey to settle his heart and question his Dao.
• Zhou Tong reached the nameless pass at the road’s Endpoint and examined the Emperor and Great Emperor traces carved upon its pillars.
• Zhou Tong found Taichu ranked first on the Emperor Venerable’s stele and carved his own name onto it, overpowering Taichu’s inscription.
• Zhou Tong declared that no one on the other ancient roads could match him and left for the Big Dipper and Earth.

Zhou Tong returned from the Ancient Starry Road to Big Dipper and found the star embroiled in preparations for the Path to Immortality. He helped Yan Ruyu break through to the Ninth Heaven of the Saint King realm, drove the Golden Crow Clan away from the Sun Star, and reunited with her to share their experiences.

• Zhou Tong used the Divine Light Platform to leave the Ancient Starry Road and returned to Big Dipper, where he sensed its powerful Imperial Dao aura and the Quasi-Emperors gathering for the Path to Immortality.
• Zhou Tong went to the Sun Star, found Golden Crow Saints surrounding it, and entered the Sun Divine Temple to meet Yan Ruyu.
• Zhou Tong gave Yan Ruyu Five-Colored Immortal Liquid, and the Azure Emperor's Heart helped her transform as she advanced toward the Ninth Heaven of the Saint King realm.
• Yan Ruyu left the Sun Star to undergo her tribulation, and Zhou Tong's imperial aura forced the Golden Crow Clan to retreat.
• Yan Ruyu returned after successfully overcoming her tribulation, learned that Zhou Tong had become a Quasi-Emperor, and exchanged stories with him after their century apart.

Zhou Tong returned to Big Dipper, reunited with his old classmates at Clumsy Peak, and revisited places tied to his past. His memories and encounters tempered his heart as he prepared for the challenge of becoming a Supreme.

• Zhou Tong visited Clumsy Peak and reunited with Zhang Wenchang, Lin Jia, Liu Yiyi, and Li Xiaoman, who were cultivating slowly through the Natural Great Dao.
• Zhou Tong revealed his great strength, heard that Senior Li had entered the starry sky, and learned about his classmates’ cultivation and plans.
• Zhou Tong told his classmates about Wang Ziwen and Ye Fan, then gave them treasures and medicines from the Ancient Starry Road.
• Zhou Tong wandered Big Dipper, visiting the Fire Domain, Purple Mountain, Sacred Cliff, and sites where he had fought or slain old opponents.
• Zhou Tong’s memories of those places stirred his emotions and tempered his heart, addressing a weakness in his cultivation as he approached the Supreme realm.

After returning to Big Dipper, Zhou Tong visited the Mysterious Scholar Mansion to learn what had happened during his absence, then entered the Immortal Mansion World to explore its depths. He found no insights left by the Desolate Heaven Emperor, but discovered the Great Emperor’s later reflections on the Natural Great Dao.

• Zhou Tong arrived at the Mysterious Scholar Mansion and learned that the Old Mansion Lord had gone into the depths of the starry sky.
• The feather-robed elder told Zhou Tong that Hun Zhan and other powerful outsiders had descended on Big Dipper, and that Hun Zhan had later left.
• Zhou Tong learned that the Golden Crow Crown Prince had left Big Dipper twenty years earlier and heard about the wars and turmoil that had shaken the region.
• Zhou Tong gave the Mysterious Scholar Mansion a drop of Five-Colored Immortal Liquid and entered the Immortal Mansion World.
• Zhou Tong explored the Immortal Mansion World and, at its deepest region, gained insights the Great Emperor had developed about the Natural Great Dao.

Zhou Tong entered the Immortal Mansion World’s ancient battlefield and reached the remains of a Great Emperor. He endured the Emperor Blood’s killing intent for half a month and gained clues for advancing his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form.

• Zhou Tong entered the battlefield, where two Great Sages were cultivating amid demonic flames formed from Emperor Blood.
• Zhou Tong defeated an attack from the flames with his purple hand and Sacred Spirit Sword, then pushed deeper into the battlefield.
• Zhou Tong found the Great Emperor’s blood and remains and decided to temper his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form against their pressure and killing intent.
• Zhou Tong used the Soldier Character Secret to draw Emperor Blood over his body and endured its imprints while shaping his ancestral form with the laws of the Ten Fiends.
• After half a month, the imprints in the Emperor Blood dissipated, and Zhou Tong discovered a direction for combining laws in his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form.

After twenty years refining the Great Emperor’s remains, Zhou Tong left the Immortal Mansion World and traveled with Yan Ruyu to Earth, where he studied its Great Emperor arrays and broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Quasi-Emperor realm. The chapter ended with Zhou Tong warning Yan Ruyu that Earth’s arrays could sense their intentions before they descended together.

• Zhou Tong purified the Great Emperor’s flesh and blood, absorbed the Battle Saint Emperor’s battle intent, and left the Immortal Mansion World after finding the Immortal Path blocked by Chaos.
• Zhou Tong reunited with Yan Ruyu, who had reached the Ninth Heaven of the Saint King realm, and agreed to take her to see his homeland after she asked to visit Earth.
• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu reached Earth and discovered that it was sealed by layered arrays laid by Emperor Venerable, Amitabha Great Emperor, Void Great Emperor, and Hengyu the Great.
• Zhou Tong comprehended Earth’s arrays and broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Quasi-Emperor realm, then survived a day-long tribulation in a nearby desolate star domain.
• Zhou Tong completed the refinement of his Hegemonic Bell through the tribulation and returned to Yan Ruyu, warning her that Earth’s arrays could sense their intentions before they descended together.

After returning to Earth, Zhou Tong used a time secret art to see that his parents had died decades earlier, then went to Kunlun with Yan Ruyu to find his younger siblings. He found Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya living there, and they recognized him.

• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu explored modern Earth, and Zhou Tong explained how cultivation was beginning to spread there.
• Zhou Tong reversed time at his old home and saw his parents’ final years with their younger children, learning they had died fifty years earlier.
• Zhou Tong led Yan Ruyu to Kunlun, where they entered the sealed mountain range and saw the place’s ancient grandeur.
• Zhou Tong found a Chaos waterfall and the Ruthless Great Emperor’s preserved relics and method carved on a stele.
• Zhou Qing came out of a thatched hut and recognized Zhou Tong as his big brother, while Zhou Ya emerged and stared at him in surprise.

Zhou Tong reunited with Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya, tested their combat strength, and taught them a method for balancing yin and yang as they prepared to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture. After equipping them with Chaos Earth and Quasi-Emperor artifacts, he turned his attention toward Ancient Dragon Mountain.

• Zhou Qing told Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu that he and Zhou Ya had scattered their parents’ ashes at sea, and Zhou Tong later tested the siblings’ combat strength.
• Zhou Tong defeated Zhou Qing’s Sun Emperor Fist with one finger and advised Zhou Ya to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture alongside the True Sun Scripture using his method for balancing yin and yang.
• Yan Ruyu grasped the yin-yang method and entered seclusion after finding an opportunity to advance to Great Sage.
• Zhou Tong taught Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya the method’s key points, gave them Chaos Earth to incorporate into their artifacts, and lent them Quasi-Emperor weapons for protection.
• Zhou Tong reforged a Tengshe Sword into an arrow for Zhou Ya, then looked toward Ancient Dragon Mountain at Kunlun Mountain’s core.

Zhou Tong returned to the Dragon Mountains and negotiated with the Formation Spirit to collect the corpses and inheritances there without harming the mountains. He brought the treasures back, then prepared to return to the Big Dipper with Yan Ruyu, leaving Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya supplies and instructions to remain in Kunlun as the Dark Turmoil approached.

• Zhou Tong entered the Dragon Mountains carrying Lingbao Heavenly Venerate's Supreme Great Emperor Formation Diagram and confronted the Formation Spirit.
• The Formation Spirit allowed Zhou Tong half a quarter-hour to collect corpses and inheritances, provided he left the mountains and their plants unharmed.
• Zhou Tong sent three Dao Bodies to retrieve countless corpses and treasures, including large stores of Immortal Materials, then left the Dragon Mountains.
• Zhou Tong returned to find Yan Ruyu awake and learned she needed to return to the Sun Divine Temple to prepare for a breakthrough to the Great Sage realm.
• Zhou Tong left Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya cultivation resources and powerful Sun and Taiyin divine talismans, and told them to stay in Kunlun for three hundred years as the Dark Turmoil neared.

Zhou Tong traveled to the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star, where the awakened Immortal Gold Profound Meaning of Destiny Orange Gold drew him into a vision of a battle with Heavenly Abandonment Supreme. After realizing the scene was illusory, he rejected the fate it depicted and attacked with all his strength.

• Zhou Tong finished refining the Destiny Orange Gold into his Hegemonic Bell and left the Big Dipper for the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.
• Zhou Tong entered an unexplained state of enlightenment as the ancient star's aura resonated with him, then awoke when Heavenly Abandonment Supreme appeared.
• Heavenly Abandonment Supreme attacked Zhou Tong, who fought back with his Vajra Ring and the Lingbao Sword Formation.
• Zhou Tong realized the experience was an illusion caused by the Front Character Secret interacting with the awakening Destiny Orange Gold Profound Meaning.
• Zhou Tong declared that he would break the fate shown to him, then struck Heavenly Abandonment Supreme with the Battle Staff and the Sun Sacred Emperor's Array Diagram.
• Zhou Tong manifested his incomplete Hegemon Body Ancestral Form and continued attacking Heavenly Abandonment Supreme with his full strength.

Zhou Tong defeated the illusory Heavenly Abandonment Supreme and mastered the profound meaning of Destiny Orange Gold. He began a fifth-level Quasi-Emperor tribulation near the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star, and the ancestral cave ordered that he be brought there if he succeeded.

• Zhou Tong fought Heavenly Abandonment Supreme with the Battle Staff and Immortal Slaying Sword Formation until his opponent exploded.
• Zhou Tong rang the Hegemonic Bell, shattered the destiny vision, and realized that Heavenly Abandonment Supreme had only been created by Destiny Orange Gold.
• Zhou Tong mastered Destiny Orange Gold's profound meaning and considered how its power might help him face the seven Supremes of the coming Dark Turmoil.
• Zhou Tong's Azure Heaven True Blood neared ninety percent, and he began his fifth-level Quasi-Emperor tribulation.
• A Hegemon Body in Immortal Source awakened at the Hegemon Body Ancestral Cave, recognized Zhou Tong as a returning Hegemon Body, and ordered that he be brought to the cave after his tribulation.

After surviving a terrifying tribulation, Zhou Tong reached the fifth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm and traveled to the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star. There, a Great Sage escorted him to the ancestral cave at the invitation of the sleeping Great Accomplishment Hegemon Body.

• Zhou Tong survived his tribulation, advanced to the fifth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, and raised his Azure Heaven True Blood to nearly ninety percent.
• Zhou Tong found that his Divine Forbidden Zone could now last two hours with only a fifteen-minute interval, and the Dao Tribulation Gold Quasi-Emperor Artifact had fused into the Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong considered collecting more immortal gold and eyed the weapons of future dark Supremes before setting off for the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.
• A peak Great Sage descended from Hegemon Body blood welcomed Zhou Tong and led him across the ancestral star, where Zhou Tong saw its many Great Sages and powerful cultivation environment.
• The Great Sage brought Zhou Tong to the Hegemon Body Ancestral Cave, and Zhou Tong entered after learning that the ancient ancestor had summoned him.

Zhou Tong entered the Hegemon Body Ancestral Cave and met the three sealed Great Accomplishment Hegemon Bodies, who were astonished by his nearly ninety-percent Azure Heaven True Blood and his use of the Primordial Sacred Body inheritance. After discussing his Battle Immortal method and marriage, they hoped his descendants would remain on the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.

• Cang Lan tested Zhou Tong with a purple hand, and Zhou Tong blocked the strike with the Battle Immortal Art.
• Kun Gu and Xuan Ming praised Zhou Tong’s Battle Immortal method and suggested it could become a supreme Hegemon Body inheritance.
• Xuan Ming discovered that Zhou Tong’s Azure Heaven True Blood was nearly ninety percent, and Zhou Tong confirmed that he had obtained the Primordial Sacred Body inheritance.
• Cang Lan, Kun Gu, and Xuan Ming celebrated the inheritance, while Zhou Tong explained that he had integrated its techniques into his own scripture.
• Xuan Ming proposed a match between Zhou Tong and a daughter of the High Heaven Family, but Zhou Tong said he already had a wife descended from the Azure Emperor.
• Kun Gu accepted Zhou Tong’s marriage and asked that his descendants remain on the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.

Zhou Tong revealed that he possessed ten Divine Forms, prompting the three Great Accomplishment Hegemon Bodies to help him perfect his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form. He chose their aid in tempering his form over their protection during future tribulations, then displayed his incomplete Ancestral Form as the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star stirred.

• Zhou Tong revealed ten Divine Forms, astonishing Cang Lan, Kun Gu, and Xuan Ming with the possibility of advancing the Hegemon Body lineage.
• Cang Lan offered to help Zhou Tong perfect his Ancestral Form, and Zhou Tong agreed to cultivate in seclusion on the Ancestral Star.
• Kun Gu asked whether Zhou Tong wanted the Great Accomplishment Hegemon Bodies to temper his Ancestral Form or protect him during future tribulations, and Zhou Tong chose the tempering.
• Kun Gu promised that each of the three Hegemon Bodies would give Zhou Tong nine chances to challenge them in Supreme Battles.
• Zhou Tong manifested his incomplete Ancestral Form, combining traits of the Ten Fiends, and its power stirred the entire Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.