Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong fought the fully sublimated Lord of Divine Ruins inside the Lingbao Sword Formation and awakened his third taboo secret art, the Furnace of Battle Intent. The Lord of Divine Ruins was ultimately shattered by Zhou Tong's punch, ending the final Supreme's resistance in the Dark Turmoil.

• The Lord of Divine Ruins fully sublimated, while Zhou Tong prepared to face him with the Lingbao Sword Formation.
• Zhou Tong burned his stored resources and fought the Lord of Divine Ruins with the Hegemon Body Ancestral Form, Battle Immortal Art, and the Chaos Green Lotus protecting him.
• As the battle intensified, Zhou Tong's Azure Heaven True Blood rose to ninety-three percent and a new taboo secret art took shape within him.
• Zhou Tong awakened the Furnace of Battle Intent, combining his battle intent with the Hegemon Body Ancestral Form and Battle Immortal Art.
• Zhou Tong rammed into the Lord of Divine Ruins, and the Lingbao Sword Formation pierced him with countless Chaos Sword Qi.
• Zhou Tong struck the Lord of Divine Ruins with a final punch and blasted him into fragments.

Zhou Tong killed the Lord of Divine Ruins after the Supreme underwent sublimation, then survived his own devastating injuries and assessed the laws shackling his cultivation. He reflected on the newly created Battle Intent Furnace and considered how it could transform his Battle Immortal Path.

• The Lord of Divine Ruins exploded, and Zhou Tong killed him within the sealed Lingbao Sword Formation.
• Zhou Tong collapsed after the battle, but the Azure Lotus stabilized his body and his remaining Supreme Life Spring Divine Liquid restored his injuries.
• Zhou Tong discovered he had reached the seventh heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm, though the laws of six Supremes restricted his power.
• Zhou Tong considered ways to remove those laws through repeated Immortal Phoenix Nirvana.
• Zhou Tong examined the Battle Intent Furnace, a technique he had created by combining the demon ape lineage's heavenly merit with the Hegemon Body Ancestral Form.
• Zhou Tong realized the Battle Intent Furnace could sustain and amplify his Battle Immortal Art, and might help his Battle Immortal Path transform further.

After defeating the Supremes and the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, Zhou Tong collected the battle spoils and was hailed across the universe as the Hegemon Heavenly Emperor. He then traveled to the Big Dipper and prepared to attack Undying Mountain, making the Forbidden Zone Supremes wary of him.

• Zhou Tong gathered the immortal-gold weapon fragments after the battle and assessed which materials he still needed.
• Zhou Tong withdrew the Lingbao Sword Formation, revealing that he alone had survived among those inside, and cultivators across the universe celebrated the end of the Dark Turmoil.
• The Hegemon Body lineage and cultivators throughout the starry sky praised Zhou Tong and began calling him the Hegemon Heavenly Emperor.
• Zhou Tong went to the Big Dipper, retrieved his jade box and divine sense from the Sun Star, and spread the Lingbao Array Diagram over Undying Mountain.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes turned their attention to Undying Mountain and grew wary as Zhou Tong appeared ready to challenge them.

Zhou Tong invaded Undying Mountain and forced its last surviving Supreme to abandon it with his descendants. He destroyed the Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit, refined Immortal Gold into his bell, and pulled the entire mountain into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, leaving one of the seven Life Forbidden Zones gone.

• Ye Fan, Big Black Dog, and Purple Haze Fairy watched the Lingbao Array Diagram seal Undying Mountain, and Big Black Dog urged them to see its core.
• Zhou Tong entered Undying Mountain's core, collected the Black Tortoise Divine Medicine, and confronted its sole remaining Supreme.
• The Supreme surrendered Undying Mountain's treasures and left with his descendants after Zhou Tong promised not to harm them.
• Zhou Tong stopped the Supreme from taking the Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit, devoured it with his Hegemonic Bell, and refined Imperial Weapon fragments into the bell.
• Zhou Tong lifted Undying Mountain from the ground and stored it inside his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• The world was shaken as news spread that Zhou Tong had destroyed the Undying Mountain Forbidden Zone.

After destroying Undying Mountain and defeating the Supremes, Zhou Tong set out to explore the universe despite the laws that might have ended his chance to attain the Dao. He reunited with Yan Ruyu, and the two married in a grand ceremony in the Divine Domain.

• Zhou Tong absorbed Undying Mountain and its treasures into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, gaining thirty Holy Spirits that weakened the Supremes’ laws restraining him.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan the Sacred Spirit Stone Book to compensate for the destruction of his Immortal Cauldron and sent Holy Imperial Son the Holy Spirit Stone Token to make up for damaging the Battle Staff.
• Zhou Tong shared coordinates with Ye Fan and left the Big Dipper, while Zi Xia sensed that the Supremes’ Imperial Dao laws had bound him and could prevent his cultivation from advancing.
• Zhou Tong traveled to an azure-blue planet and reunited with Yan Ruyu, telling her he was ready to formally announce their union.
• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu visited friends and family across the universe, then held a grand wedding in the Divine Domain without anyone daring to disrupt it.

After years of rumors that Zhou Tong had vanished and could no longer advance, the chapter revealed that he had been secluded in the Divine Domain, refining his bell and studying countless Dao scriptures. After 120 years, his aura had grown so profound that Yan Ruyu suspected he was nearing Great Accomplishment.

• After Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu's wedding, Zhou Tong disappeared from public view, prompting rumors that the Dark Turmoil had left him unable to attain the Dao.
• While prodigies continued fighting along the Ancient Starry Road, Zhou Tong secluded himself in the Divine Domain's rear garden with his Hegemonic Bell.
• After traveling the starry sky with Yan Ruyu for three years, Zhou Tong had returned to the Divine Domain and spent 120 years refining the bell and comprehending its recorded scriptures.
• As Zhou Tong studied the Great Dao, the Imperial Dao laws within him gradually disintegrated, and his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form and Battle Intent Furnace grew more complete.
• Yan Ruyu listened to the bell's daily chimes and found its Dao-comprehending power surpassed even the Azure Lotus and Tian Yuan Stone Tablet.
• Yan Ruyu sensed that Zhou Tong's aura had become nearly impossible to gauge and suspected he was approaching Great Accomplishment.

After 120 years of meditation, Zhou Tong perfected his scriptures and nearly attained the Dao, but he deliberately stopped his breakthrough to avoid alerting the Forbidden Zone Supremes. He left Yan Ruyu behind while he went to eliminate future threats and prepare for a safer breakthrough.

• Zhou Tong rose from meditation and perfected the Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, and Dragon Transformation scriptures, beginning his advance toward the Immortal Platform.
• Six residual Imperial Dao laws, bearing the forms of ancient emperors and Supremes, restrained Zhou Tong’s Great Dragon and blocked his breakthrough.
• Zhou Tong used his Hegemonic Bell to contain the clash, then told Yan Ruyu that he had deliberately failed to avoid provoking the Forbidden Zone Supremes.
• Zhou Tong explained that leaving the residual Supreme traces unrefined let him control when to trigger Heavenly Tribulations and plan to pass three tribulations in succession.
• Zhou Tong asked Yan Ruyu to stay while he went out to eliminate future troubles.

Zhou Tong entered Yinghuo’s World Mausoleum to find the Undying Heavenly Emperor before his own tribulation. In the palace at its deepest point, he discovered a blood-colored mass of flesh locked in a struggle with Wu Shi the Great’s bell.

• Zhou Tong descended into the sealed North Sea Eye on Yinghuo and found a World Mausoleum beneath its dead sea.
• Zhou Tong traced the mausoleum to the age of Emperor Venerable and concluded that the Undying Heavenly Emperor had recently opened its seals to gather flesh and blood.
• Zhou Tong found corpses whose blood essence had been drained, including a Divine Tiger that had served Longevity Heavenly Venerate and two Quasi-Emperors.
• Zhou Tong reached the palace and found the blood-colored mass of flesh from the Supremes who died on the Path to Immortality.
• Zhou Tong saw Wu Shi Bell trying to pull the demonic mass of flesh through a Gate into another Void.

Zhou Tong studied the Immortal Bell’s Dao patterns for three years and absorbed them into his Hegemonic Bell. He then moved the battle away from Earth and attacked the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s nirvana flesh ball.

• Zhou Tong revealed the Immortal Bell runes beneath the burial ground and recognized their connection to Wu Shi’s Dao.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the Immortal Bell laws and absorbed them into his Hegemonic Bell for three years.
• Zhou Tong replaced Yinghuo with a refined star and carried Mars to a remote starfield to protect Earth.
• Zhou Tong returned to Yinghuo and manifested his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form before the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s flesh ball.
• The Undying Heavenly Emperor’s flesh ball resisted Zhou Tong with Five-Colored Immortal Light, and Zhou Tong attacked with the Three Forbidden Secret Arts.

Zhou Tong and the Wu Shi Bell fought the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s awakening flesh sphere on Yinghuo, while the Emperor’s power resisted their attempt to remove it. Zhou Tong imprisoned the Emperor’s five Phoenix feathers and helped the Wu Shi Bell carry the flesh sphere into the Strange World, leaving him with the feathers as spoils.

• Zhou Tong clashed with the Five-Colored Immortal Light as the Wu Shi Bell awakened and tried to take the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s flesh sphere into another world.
• Zhou Tong intensified his attacks with the Hegemon Body Ancestral Form, Battle Intent Furnace, and Battle Immortal Art, but five Phoenix feathers blocked him.
• Zhou Tong used the Gu Clan Treasure Art to trap the five feathers in a time-space swamp, then pushed the flesh sphere toward the Wu Shi Bell.
• The Wu Shi Bell revealed its Deity, and its full power joined Zhou Tong’s force to swallow the flesh sphere and carry it into the Strange World.
• Zhou Tong withdrew his Ancestral Form, judged that the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s true body was no longer a threat in this world, and kept the five feathers as spoils.

Zhou Tong sought out the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s hidden human skin and transformed it into a defensive array diagram, then forged an Immortal Dao killing array from five phoenix feathers. After preparing a Blood Phoenix Egg and a Nine Phoenix Furnace as a contingency, he went to the Cosmic Frontier to face his tribulation.

• Zhou Tong questioned the Old Mansion Lord of Mysterious Scholar Mansion, who revealed that the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s human skin was kept in an ancestral temple within the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Zhou Tong entered the temple, took the frozen human skin, and returned to the Divine Domain without alerting the forbidden-zone Supremes.
• Zhou Tong spent three years refining the skin into an array diagram inscribed with Source Heaven, Hegemon Body, and Group Character Secret patterns.
• Zhou Tong forged five divine swords from the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s five-colored feathers and Chaos Earth, forming an incomplete Third Killing Array.
• Zhou Tong set the Blood Phoenix Egg in the Divine Domain and forged a Nine Phoenix Furnace to serve as its Dao Proving Artifact if it emerged.
• Zhou Tong went to the Cosmic Frontier to undergo his tribulation.

Zhou Tong broke through the Imperial Dao laws binding him and endured the seventh and eighth Quasi-Emperor tribulations in a secluded stretch of the Cosmic Frontier, using the lightning to strengthen himself and his Hegemonic Bell. As he entered the ninth-level tribulation, his aura escaped concealment and shocked the Forbidden Zone Supremes, who recognized him as the Hegemon Body.

• Zhou Tong used the Array Diagram refined from the Undying Heavenly Emperor's skin to conceal his tribulation across more than a dozen star fields.
• Zhou Tong shattered the Imperial Dao laws of six Supremes and began his seventh-level Quasi-Emperor tribulation, absorbing its lightning with the Thunder Emperor Method.
• Zhou Tong faced the eighth-level tribulation, devouring its lightning and using the Hegemonic Bell to shatter and absorb the thunderbolts.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes sensed an oppressive aura in the Cosmic Frontier and discussed investigating the hidden tribulation, fearing Zhou Tong might advance.
• Zhou Tong's ninth-level tribulation began, revealing his aura and shocking the Forbidden Zone Supremes when they realized he was the one undergoing it.

Zhou Tong began his Nine-Layered Immortal Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier, revealing that he had secretly reached the Ninth Heaven. The Underworld attacked him during the tribulation, and he charged at its assembled forces as the Immortal Qi emerged.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes recognized Zhou Tong's Array Diagram and realized he was undergoing the Ninth Heaven tribulation, while the universe watched in shock.
• Zhou Tong absorbed the tribulation's power, turning its punishment into nourishment as the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star celebrated his return.
• The Underworld used the Tribulation Crossing Pattern to shield its attack from the tribulation, and Zhou Tong dispelled its curse with Azure Heaven True Blood before destroying an attacking foot with a punch.
• Source God, Source Ghost, the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure, and the Prison Suppressing Emperor confronted Zhou Tong and learned that he knew their identities.
• When the Nine-Layered Immortal Tribulation began to form, the Prison Suppressing Emperor called for Zhou Tong to be killed before it fully took shape, and Zhou Tong charged the Underworld forces.

Zhou Tong fought Prison Suppressing Emperor, Source God, and Source Ghost, overpowering the Underworld’s forces despite the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure. He killed all three and declared the Underworld erased, leaving the universe shaken by his victory.

• Zhou Tong struck Prison Suppressing Emperor and sent the sublimated ancient emperor flying, then challenged him and the Underworld’s other fighters to attack together.
• Prison Suppressing Emperor and the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure attacked Zhou Tong, who fought back with the Battle Immortal Art and injured Source Ghost with the Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong smashed Source Ghost to pieces with the Hegemonic Bell and crushed Source God with the Gu Clan Claw.
• Zhou Tong clashed three times with Prison Suppressing Emperor, who pierced Zhou Tong’s chest and abdomen before Zhou Tong killed him with a lightning strike.
• Zhou Tong declared the Underworld erased, and news of his victory over three Imperial Dao powerhouses spread through the universe.

Zhou Tong suppressed the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure and began facing the Nine-Layered Immortal Tribulation while the Forbidden Zone Supremes waited for a chance to seize his formations. Seeing their attention fixed on Zhou Tong, the Golden Crow Great Emperor decided to undergo his own tribulation, only to discover that someone else had acted first.

• Zhou Tong used three great formations and the Hegemonic Bell to suppress the Heaven-Piercing Nether Treasure, while the Forbidden Zone Supremes discussed waiting for his tribulation to leave him vulnerable.
• Zhou Tong recovered his injuries and began enduring the Nine-Layered Immortal Tribulation as the Forbidden Zone Supremes watched without attacking.
• Zhou Tong battled the Nine Heavens Venerables manifested by the tribulation and considered guarding against the Golden Crow Great Emperor.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor watched Zhou Tong's tribulation from Huosang Star and decided to undergo a Great Emperor tribulation while the Forbidden Zone Supremes were distracted.
• A sudden Great Emperor tribulation erupted before the Golden Crow Great Emperor could act, and he spat out golden blood in shock.

A Blood Phoenix emerged from an unexpected Great Emperor Tribulation, shocking the universe and threatening to end everyone else’s chance to attain the Dao. As the Blood Phoenix forged its Nine Phoenix Furnace amid the tribulation, observers turned to Zhou Tong, who appeared to have lost his chance.

• The Forbidden Zone Supremes sensed the sudden Great Emperor Tribulation and debated whether to intervene while Zhou Tong continued facing his Nine-Layered Immortal Tribulation.
• Cultivators across the universe despaired that the new Emperor would block anyone else from attaining the Dao for ten thousand years, while Zhou Tong’s enemies mocked him.
• The tribulation revealed a Blood Phoenix, prompting the Blood Phoenix Mountain lineage to celebrate and claim its rise would surpass Zhou Tong.
• The Blood Phoenix forged the Nine Phoenix Furnace from Phoenix Blood Red Gold during the tribulation, and the Forbidden Zone Supremes judged that it would likely succeed.
• Observers looked toward Zhou Tong and reacted with surprise and mockery, believing he had lost his chance to attain the Dao.

Zhou Tong battled the Nine Heavens Venerables as his Dao and techniques transformed, then underwent a complete rebirth while crossing the Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation. The Blood Phoenix attained the Dao first, but Zhou Tong survived his even longer tribulation and became a peak Great Accomplishment Hegemon Body with Alternative Dao Attainment.

• Zhou Tong refined his Dao and techniques while fighting the Nine Heavens Venerables, and his perfected scriptures transformed into an Immortal Embryo.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes realized Zhou Tong was trying to become a Great Emperor and believed the Blood Phoenix’s appearance had thwarted his plans.
• Zhou Tong broke through to the Immortal Platform and underwent a profound transformation of his body, primordial spirit, and Hegemon Body Ancestral Form.
• The Blood Phoenix’s Great Emperor Tribulation ended after a day, and the Blood Phoenix attained the Dao before disappearing to stabilize his cultivation.
• Zhou Tong’s Nine-Layered Heavenly Tribulation continued for nine days before he became a peak Great Accomplishment Hegemon Body with Alternative Dao Attainment.

After completing his tribulation and tempering himself in the Chaos Sea, Zhou Tong returned to the Divine Domain as the strongest Hegemonic Body in history. He revealed to Yan Ruyu that the Blood Phoenix Great Emperor was his incarnation, then entered seclusion to study the Heavenly Heart Imprint.

• Zhou Tong recovered from his tribulation, spent a month tempering himself in the Chaos Sea, and reached a new peak of strength.
• Zhou Tong returned to the world, causing the universe to fear a possible war between him and the Blood Phoenix Great Emperor.
• Zhou Tong told Yan Ruyu that the Blood Phoenix was his incarnation, and the Blood Phoenix appeared before her.
• Zhou Tong explained how his incarnation had nurtured a Divine Fetus and attained the Dao to prevent the Golden Crow of Huosang Star from taking the opportunity.
• Zhou Tong told Yan Ruyu to keep the Blood Phoenix secret, then entered seclusion with his incarnation to study the Heavenly Heart Imprint.

Zhou Tong and his Blood Phoenix Incarnation studied the Heavenly Heart Imprint for three hundred years, deepening their understanding of the Great Dao. Zhou Tong perfected the Vajra Ring into an Immortal Artifact and prepared to wage war against the Forbidden Zones.

• The Blood Phoenix revealed his Heavenly Heart Imprint, allowing Zhou Tong and his incarnation to study the laws and Daos within it.
• After three hundred years of comprehension, Zhou Tong revised his scriptures, while the Blood Phoenix created a new scripture and was named the Phoenix Heavenly Emperor.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to evolve the Vajra Ring through the Immortal Gold Profound Meanings, completing its tenth transformation and turning it into an Immortal Artifact.
• The Phoenix Heavenly Emperor withdrew the Heavenly Heart Imprint after reaching the level of a peak Great Emperor, and Zhou Tong declared that they were ready for war against the Forbidden Zones.

Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix set out to destroy several of Big Dipper’s Forbidden Zones, beginning by uprooting Divine Ruins and trapping it inside the Lingbao Sword Formation. After revealing their alliance, they split up to attack the Forbidden Zones, with Zhou Tong heading to finish off Divine Ruins.

• Zhou Tong emerged from seclusion and told Yan Ruyu he planned to pacify several Forbidden Zones with Blood Phoenix.
• Zhou Tong returned the Chaos Green Lotus to Yan Ruyu to protect the Divine Domain, then set out with Blood Phoenix for Big Dipper.
• Zhou Tong uprooted Divine Ruins and used the Nine-Color Great Bell to suppress its Supremes and keep them from taking the Peach Tree.
• Zhou Tong hurled Divine Ruins into the Lingbao Sword Formation, where its Supremes’ attempts to investigate were destroyed by a sword gleam.
• Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix revealed they had joined forces, then agreed that Blood Phoenix would attack the Sea of Reincarnation while Zhou Tong went to the sword formation to destroy Divine Ruins.