Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong used the Three Great Sword Arts to sever the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s wing and shatter the Flying Immortal Waterfall, then defeated the Supremes and eradicated the Forbidden Zones. After recovering from his near-fatal injuries, he stabilized his Chaos Body and completed his first breakthrough into a Battle Immortal.

• Zhou Tong summoned the Peace Calamity Art, Grass Character Sword Art, and Immortal Tribulation Sword Art, severing the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s wing and shattering the Flying Immortal Waterfall.
• The Blood Phoenix Incarnation collected the waterfall’s fragments in the Nine Phoenix Furnace, while Zhou Tong withdrew the broken wing and entered the formation to face the Supremes.
• The Supremes discovered that Zhou Tong had transformed from an Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body into a Chaos Body, and he killed them with his Kunpeng Wings, Sky Horn Ant horn, Thunder Emperor Wings, Nine Netherworld Howler Tail, and Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong used the Willow God Method to stabilize his injuries, then spent half a month recovering as his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form dispersed.
• Vital essence flowed into Zhou Tong from across the universe, and he firmly established his Chaos Body after successfully becoming a Battle Immortal.

After stabilizing his breakthrough to Battle Immortal and becoming a Chaos Body, Zhou Tong assessed his new lifespan and explored two Forbidden Zones before bringing them into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings. He returned to the Divine Domain and explained to Ye Fan and the Holy Imperial Son why true immortals could not appear in the current era.

• Zhou Tong examined his transformed body, estimated that he could live seventy thousand to one hundred thousand years, and resolved to reorganize his Gates of Potential and revise his scriptures.
• Zhou Tong inspected the willow-tree Divine Fetus in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and felt the abundant life essence gained from cultivating the Willow God Method.
• Zhou Tong explored the Immortal Mausoleum, recognized it as the remains of an Immortal Ancient Small World, and studied the Dao recorded on its stone steles.
• Zhou Tong explored High Heaven, identified it as part of Mount Tai, and brought both the Immortal Mausoleum and High Heaven into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong returned to Earth, took Kunlun's Dragon Mountain, and then went back to the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and the Holy Imperial Son that the current world could not support true immortals, then shared his insights with them before they departed.

After more than nine thousand years of decline, Blood Phoenix’s Great Dao suppression vanished, allowing Ye Fan to undergo a Great Emperor Tribulation and attain the Dao. Zhou Tong watched from Divine Domain, assessed his future Battle Immortal preparations, and chose the God-Striking Stone for his next journey through the Reincarnation Mirror.

• More than nine thousand years passed without a Quasi-Emperor appearing, while Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix remained alive in their second lives.
• The Golden Crow Great Emperor emerged from an Immortal Source on Huosang Star, but Ye Fan’s Great Emperor Tribulation began just as he prepared to claim the throne.
• Zhou Tong recognized that Ye Fan had entered his second life through his own power and had created a new scripture after opening another Gate of Potential.
• Zhou Tong considered his remaining lifespan and planned to sever his Chaos Body in his next life to advance his Battle Immortal cultivation.
• Zhou Tong sensed that the Reincarnation Mirror would take him to another world and chose the God-Striking Stone.

A Divine Stone Spirit Fetus matured atop Heaven Pillar Mountain, drawing terrifying blood energy and summer lightning that shattered its stone shell. Zhou Tong emerged in a flawless new body and recognized it as a remarkably powerful God-Striking Stone Fetus.

• The Divine Stone Spirit Fetus unleashed overwhelming blood energy that swept the clouds from Heaven Pillar Mountain and alarmed nearby cultivators.
• Dark clouds gathered, and summer lightning struck the divine stone, with the thunder entering its nine apertures and nourishing the fetus.
• The divine stone cracked and exploded, releasing the fetus as it transformed into a figure identical to Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong opened his eyes and examined his indestructible body, identifying it as a God-Striking Stone Fetus formed after the God-Striking Stone's true life passed through reincarnation via the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Zhou Tong judged the body's potential to surpass even the Stone Emperor and the Immortal Tear Green Gold Holy Spirit Emperor.

Zhou Tong examined the newly born God-Striking Stone Divine Fetus and found a way to return to his true body. After hiding the divine fetus’s valuable fragments, he discovered 108 mysterious acupoints and set out to learn this world’s cultivation system; someone appeared on the mountain just as he was looking for answers.

• Zhou Tong found a Reincarnation Mirror mark that let him leave the divine fetus and return to his true body at will.
• Zhou Tong examined his body and realized it had enormous potential but no inherent laws or cultivation foundation.
• Zhou Tong wrapped himself in a tree branch and buried the divine fetus’s God-Striking Stone fragments for safekeeping.
• Zhou Tong sensed 108 acupoints with distinct powers but chose not to cultivate using a system from his previous world.
• Zhou Tong decided to find someone who could explain this world’s cultivation path, then spotted a person climbing the mountain.

Zhou Tong discovered that he had reincarnated as the God-Striking Stone Divine Fetus in the Yang God World and learned that he was already a Human Immortal. After mastering the Moro Divine Hammer, he left Heaven Pillar Mountain to find food and seek other kinds of stones to consume.

• Zhou Tong caught a man spying on him, broke his legs, and used the God Striking Stone Treasure Art to seize the man's memories.
• Zhou Tong learned that he was on Heaven Pillar Mountain in the Yang God World and that the dead man had been an Essence Spirit Temple disciple sent to investigate a possible Human Immortal.
• Zhou Tong took the man's clothes and studied the Moro Divine Hammer, then quickly grasped its principles using his Human Immortal body.
• Zhou Tong's practice shook Heaven Pillar Mountain and frightened the remaining cultivators into fleeing.
• After a day of cultivation, Zhou Tong grew hungry, gathered fragments of the Heaven Pillar Divine Stone, and headed down the mountain to hunt and find different stones to eat.

Zhou Tong finished cultivating the Moro Divine Hammer and set out for the Great Gan Dynasty to study the Past Mida Scripture and improve his Daoist arts. Meanwhile, Emperor Gan and Hong Xuanji discussed the Human Immortal at Heaven Pillar Mountain and ordered an investigation.

• Zhou Tong ate the purple-scaled cow he had hunted and reflected on the strength of the world's advanced cultivation realms.
• Zhou Tong decided to seek the Past Mida Scripture and left Heaven Pillar Mountain for the Great Gan Dynasty.
• Emperor Gan visited Hong Xuanji in the Imperial City and asked about the Human Immortal who had appeared at Heaven Pillar Mountain.
• Hong Xuanji suggested the Human Immortal might have been searching for a treasure, and Emperor Gan ordered people to investigate the mountain.

Zhou Tong reached West Mountain outside the Imperial Capital and found the Pure Fox Clan while seeking the Past Mida Scripture. After frightening two young foxes with the aura of the Heaven Pillar Divine Stones, he accepted the old fox’s invitation to rest in the clan’s valley.

• After a month of traveling through mountains, Zhou Tong reached West Mountain carrying the Heaven Pillar Divine Stone fragments.
• Zhou Tong spotted a white fox and followed it into a valley, where he found two young foxes and released a trace of his Human Immortal aura to draw out their elder.
• The old fox rushed to protect Little Sang and Little Fei, then revived them after they fainted from Zhou Tong’s aura.
• The old fox explained that the young foxes feared the treasures in Zhou Tong’s bundle and invited him to rest in the West Mountain Secluded Valley.
• Zhou Tong accepted the old fox’s invitation.

Zhou Tong explored the Pure Fox Clan’s enormous library and studied the Martial Scripture and Dao Scripture to deepen his knowledge of the world’s cultivation methods. He also found the Past Mida Scripture hidden inside the Martial Scripture.

• The old fox brought Zhou Tong to the Pure Fox Clan’s library and explained that many of its books had come from the destroyed Great Zen Temple.
• Zhou Tong discussed Great Zen Temple’s downfall with the old fox, then asked to stay and read in exchange for sharing what he knew.
• The old fox welcomed Zhou Tong and left to teach the fox children while Zhou Tong searched the central shelves.
• Zhou Tong read the Martial Scripture and Dao Scripture and gained a systematic understanding of Daoist arts.
• Zhou Tong found the Past Mida Scripture, a thin sheet of dark-golden material concealed within the Martial Scripture.

Zhou Tong found and studied the Mida Scripture, then practiced its visualization method through the night. His divine soul reached Day Roaming and then Object Manipulation by dawn, leaving him eager to experience the rest of the cultivation path step by step.

• Zhou Tong found the hidden Mida Scripture in the Martial Scripture, memorized it, and began comprehending its teachings.
• Zhou Tong watched the old fox teach a group of foxes before returning to the cave to visualize starlight and a golden Buddha.
• Zhou Tong endured the scripture’s illusions and used his Human Immortal blood and qi to strengthen his divine soul.
• Zhou Tong’s divine soul emerged from his body and attained the Day Roaming realm.
• Zhou Tong’s divine soul rapidly advanced to the Object Manipulation realm, though he chose to continue cultivating one realm at a time.

Zhou Tong discovered that the Heaven Pillar Divine Stone fragments could nourish his soul, then continued cultivating and studying while living with the foxes. After mastering the Daoist arts of the Mida Scripture, he broke through to Ghost Immortal and emerged with a powerful, tangible soul.

• Zhou Tong entered a Heaven Pillar Divine Stone fragment with his soul and felt its pure yang energy nourish him.
• Zhou Tong lived with the foxes, read the secluded valley’s books, taught the little foxes, and hunted for meat.
• Zhou Tong entered a cave and prepared to break through to Ghost Immortal after mastering the Daoist arts in the Mida Scripture.
• Zhou Tong gathered his soul in the acupoint between his brows, formed a Buddha Sacred Embryo, and nourished it with his body’s essence blood and yang energy.
• Zhou Tong broke through to Ghost Immortal, manifesting powerful thoughts and Mida Scripture phenomena before his true form emerged.

Zhou Tong became a Ghost Immortal and explored how the transformation had separated his soul from his body. After replenishing some of his depleted vitality, he returned to Hidden Valley, collected his bundle, and left to deal with the divine stone fragments.

• Zhou Tong separated his soul from his body and reflected on how Ghost Immortals differed from cultivators in the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Zhou Tong used his new Ghost Immortal abilities to capture and roast a black bear, then ate it to restore some of his depleted blood vitality.
• Zhou Tong examined his weakened body and guessed that becoming a Ghost Immortal extracted something deeper than blood vitality and merged it into the soul.
• Zhou Tong hunted a cow and a sheep, ate his fill, and returned to Hidden Valley.
• Zhou Tong collected his bundle of divine stone fragments and told the old fox he was leaving to deal with them, while promising to return soon.

The chapter explained the scale and structure of the Yang God World, distinguishing its Small, Middle, and Great Thousand Worlds. It concluded that recurring eras brought the extinction and renewal of life, rather than the destruction of the world itself.

• The author used a passage about storms crossing vast distances to estimate the scale of the Yang God World's sun-and-moon void.
• The author described Small Thousand Worlds as worlds opened by cultivators, with sizes ranging from a few li to over a thousand li.
• The author explained that Middle Thousand Worlds were stars formed from Yang God experts seeking to prolong their lives.
• The author described the Great Thousand World as a vast floating continent containing regions such as Great Gan Dynasty, Yuan Tu Empire, Yunmeng Empire, Rou Ran, and Huo Luo.
• The author argued that the world did not end every 129,600 years, but instead passed through cycles of life flourishing and vitality declining.

After leaving Imperial Capital, Zhou Tong refined the fragments of the God-Striking Stone into a small palace artifact infused with the Mida Scripture’s true intent of the past. He named it the Dao Palace and returned to West Mountain to continue reading.

• Zhou Tong traveled far from Imperial Capital to avoid drawing the attention of powerful figures.
• Zhou Tong used the Great Sun Buddha Fire to refine the divine stone fragments, forming nine Great Sun Treasure Pearls before melting the fragments into jade-like liquid.
• Zhou Tong decided to refine a palace rather than armor or weapons, reasoning that he himself could absorb stone materials and grow stronger.
• Zhou Tong shaped the molten divine stone into a palace and infused it with his Human Immortal blood and the Mida Scripture’s true intent of the past.
• Zhou Tong named the artifact the Dao Palace and headed back to West Mountain to continue reading.

Zhou Tong met Consort Yuan, the Fragrant Fox King, in the secluded valley and tested her Dao arts in a clash of ice and fire. Impressed by his strength and willingness to exchange teachings, she agreed to trade Dao arts with him.

• Zhou Tong returned to the valley and recognized the woman among the foxes as Consort Yuan, the Fragrant Fox King.
• Zhou Tong swept the foxes away with Yang and Wind and challenged Consort Yuan to exchange insights.
• Consort Yuan discovered that Zhou Tong wielded Dao arts and summoned freezing power against the five Demon Gods he had conjured.
• Zhou Tong dispelled Consort Yuan's icy attacks with the Mida Scripture and Great Sun Buddha Fire, then ended their clash.
• Consort Yuan questioned Zhou Tong's intentions, and he proposed exchanging Dao arts on equal terms.
• Consort Yuan agreed to exchange teachings with Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong negotiated an exchange with Consort Yuan, trading the Past Mida Scripture for her Great Method of Ice Soul Cold Light, the Human Fragrance Volume, and martial arts experience. As they began sharing the arts, Zhou Tong rapidly integrated the ice method with his own cultivation, astonishing Consort Yuan.

• Consort Yuan described her Great Method of Ice Soul Cold Light, and Zhou Tong said its flaws made it insufficient to exchange for his Dao art.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he cultivated the Past Mida Scripture and deduced that Consort Yuan also possessed the Human Fragrance Volume of the Three Volumes of Heavenly Fragrance.
• Zhou Tong offered the Mida Scripture in exchange for the Human Fragrance Volume, the Ice Soul method, and Consort Yuan's martial arts experience, and she agreed.
• Zhou Tong displayed the Past Buddha while Consort Yuan presented her frozen-world scroll and recited the Ice Soul method.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the Ice Soul method and fused it with the Mida Scripture, leaving Consort Yuan shocked by his speed and ability.

Zhou Tong fused the Past Scripture with the Ice Soul Dao and then studied Consort Yuan’s Human Fragrance Volume. Its ideas inspired him to devise a path for his God-Striking Stone to reach the Other Shore by devouring and refining the qualities of all things and the Myriad Daos.

• Zhou Tong completed his cultivation of the Ice Soul Dao, combining its frozen intent with the Past Scripture, and Consort Yuan marveled at his achievement.
• Consort Yuan gave Zhou Tong a silk scarf containing her scripture, while she began studying the Mida Scripture.
• Zhou Tong studied the Human Fragrance Volume and considered how its method of blending scents could inspire a new scripture for the God-Striking Stone.
• Zhou Tong conceived the Heaven Swallowing Great Dao, a path of devouring and refining all things and the Myriad Daos to reach the Other Shore.

Zhou Tong cultivated the Three Volumes of Heavenly Fragrance while Consort Yuan taught him martial arts and shared clues about the missing volumes. After two months, Consort Yuan finished teaching him and planned to find a teacher for the foxes, while Zhou Tong suspected he might soon meet Hong Yi.

• Zhou Tong visualized the fragrance of a hundred flowers, astonishing Consort Yuan with how quickly he mastered it.
• Consort Yuan told Zhou Tong that Meng Shenji might know where to find the Earth Fragrance Volume and Heavenly Fragrance Volume, and promised not to reveal the Mida Scripture.
• Consort Yuan agreed to teach Zhou Tong martial arts from the Yuan Tu imperial family and the True Gang Sect over the next two months.
• Consort Yuan taught Zhou Tong more than a hundred martial arts, strengthening the parts of his body his Moro Divine Hammer had not tempered.
• Consort Yuan said she had given Zhou Tong all her martial arts knowledge and planned to find a teacher for Old Tu and the other foxes after scholars fled from them in fear.
• Zhou Tong suspected he might soon meet Hong Yi.

Zhou Tong reflected on the Yang God world's cultivation limits and trained his 108 Acupoints before encountering Consort Yuan and Hong Yi at the Hidden Valley. He challenged Hong Yi’s claim that reason was the greatest thing in the world by asking whose reason was greatest, leaving Hong Yi stunned.

• Zhou Tong asked Consort Yuan whether Yuan Tu or the True Gang Sect knew Acupoint cultivation methods, and she said she knew nothing about them.
• Consort Yuan left the Hidden Valley, and Zhou Tong anticipated Hong Yi’s arrival and considered how the Other Shore compared with the Yang God and Shattering the Void.
• Zhou Tong hunted a deer, ate, and cultivated, drawing starlight into his 108 Acupoints to replenish his qi and blood.
• Consort Yuan brought Hong Yi to the Hidden Valley and asked what was greatest in the world; Hong Yi answered that reason was greatest.
• Zhou Tong asked whose reason was greatest, leaving Consort Yuan and Hong Yi stunned and Hong Yi unable to reply.

Zhou Tong challenged Hong Yi and Consort Yuan to consider what was greatest, declaring that his own heart surpassed the sages’ principles. The discussion left Consort Yuan impressed by Zhou Tong’s conviction and Hong Yi unable to refute him, while Zhou Tong judged Hong Yi’s ideal of everyone becoming like dragons to be impractical.

• Hong Yi struggled to choose among the conflicting teachings of the Hundred Sages when Consort Yuan asked whose principles were greatest.
• Zhou Tong said his own principles were greatest and explained that his heart contained heaven and earth, making the heart greater than principles.
• Consort Yuan reflected that Zhou Tong’s expansive conviction might explain how he had merged her Great Method of Ice Soul Cold Light with the Mida Scripture.
• Hong Yi searched for an argument against Zhou Tong but lacked the knowledge and confidence to find one.
• Zhou Tong assessed Hong Yi as naturally self-sovereign and pragmatic, and concluded that Hong Yi’s vision of everyone becoming like dragons could not realistically bring everyone to the Other Shore.