Chapter Summaries

Meng Shenji discovered that all nine fire dragons had been killed, while Zhou Tong captured the sect leaders and studied the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion’s Xuantian Dark Record. By fusing its darkness with the Great Zen Temple’s light, Zhou Tong’s thoughts underwent a creation-like transformation and grew stronger.

• Meng Shenji sensed that the Nine Fire Flame Dragons had been killed and watched the Dragon Transformation Pool split apart and explode.
• Zhou Tong suppressed Peacock King Xing Xuan, Heavenly Snake King Xing Mou, Nalan An Huang, Sage Tu Yuan, Bai Fengxian, and Zhao Feier, then took their sects’ scriptures and magic treasures.
• Zhou Tong praised the Mysterious Heaven Pavilion’s Xuantian Dark Record and compared its darkness and ending with the Past Mida Scripture’s light and eternity.
• Zhou Tong formed the Dark Mandala Womb Great Barrier and the Light Mandala Great Barrier, then fused them into a chaotic point of creation.
• Zhou Tong’s thoughts erupted with the fused world and expanded from three zhang to ten zhang across, each containing the refined essence of a Small World.

Zhou Tong quietly devoured magical treasures to open more acupoints while avoiding interference with the sages’ plans. In the Land of Origin, the Bridge of the Other Shore stirred, and the Hundred Sages’ spirit shades departed after Great Emperor Longevity realized an unexpected variable had disrupted their calculations.

• Zhou Tong decided to keep a low profile until he could contend with Great Emperor Longevity and the other ancient powers, then swallowed a magical treasure that stirred more than a dozen unopened acupoints.
• The world believed Peacock King Xing Xuan, Heavenly Snake King Xing Mou, Nalan An Huang, Sage Tu Yuan, Bai Fengxian, and Zhao Feier had pursued Meng Shenji overseas and disappeared, unaware that Zhou Tong had captured them.
• The Bridge of the Other Shore trembled in the Land of Origin, and Great Emperor Longevity suppressed its fluctuations with talismans.
• The Hundred Sages’ spirit shades appeared on the bridge, shattered Great Emperor Longevity’s talismans, and left the Land of Origin.
• Great Emperor Longevity concluded that an unknown variable had disrupted the sages’ plans, suspected Yi Zi’s birth was at risk, and chose to wait for the variable to come to him.

Zhou Tong developed Primordial Chaos True Qi by devouring rare minerals, opening more Acupoints and strengthening his thoughts. Meanwhile, Hong Yi regretted damaging his soul while spying on Hong Xuanji and missing the imperial examination, leaving him despairing over his lost chance to honor his mother.

• Zhou Tong devoured rare minerals and formed Primordial Chaos True Qi, which he shaped into a sword imbued with powerful fist intent.
• Zhou Tong's True Qi opened more Acupoints and manifested worlds within his thoughts, bringing the number of refined Acupoints to 960.
• Zhou Tong reflected that the disappearances of several powerful figures might soon draw notice and decided to secure things in advance before returning to the mainland.
• Hong Yi, lying injured in his room, regretted spying on Hong Xuanji and damaging his soul.
• Hong Yi mourned missing the imperial examination, which he had hoped would help his mother enter the Hong Family ancestral hall.

After a sudden restoration of his soul, Hong Yi wrote of Obstruction and Peace, drawing on the Hundred Sages and advancing from Night Roaming to Day Roaming. The sages’ power struck Hong Xuanji, reviving his inner demon and weakening his Human Immortal cultivation.

• A streak of light descended into Hong Yi, healing his injured soul and filling him with inspiration.
• Hong Yi wrote a poem and then the hexagrams Obstruction and Peace, feeling his understanding of the sages’ principles deepen.
• Hong Yi’s soul left his body before sunset, advancing from Night Roaming to Day Roaming and showing signs of approaching Manifestation.
• Hong Xuanji sensed the sages’ descent and rushed toward Hong Yi’s room.
• The sages’ righteous aura struck Hong Xuanji, making him spit blood, weakening his cultivation, and causing his inner demon to erupt again.

Zhou Tong searched beneath Tai Shi Mountain for the Great Zen Temple’s hidden treasure and found the Tathagata Kasaya and its missing sphere. He devoured the mountain’s dragon soul, gaining the Great Zen Temple’s teachings and a surge of power as new Acupoints began to form.

• Zhou Tong used the Past Mida Scripture to locate a hidden chamber beneath Tai Shi Mountain.
• Zhou Tong found the incomplete Tathagata Kasaya beneath a radiant sphere.
• The dragon soul within the sphere attacked Zhou Tong, but he crushed its aura and swallowed it with the Heaven Swallowing Great Dao.
• Zhou Tong retrieved the sphere and scripture page, then absorbed the dragon soul’s vital essence and memories.
• Zhou Tong began forming new Acupoints and incorporating the Great Zen Temple’s methods into his foundation.

Zhou Tong swallowed and refined the Tathagata Kasaya, gaining Saintly Emperor Yuan’s Maha Prajna Paramita of the Diamond and strengthening his Path of Devouring Heavens. He broke the kasaya’s core formation and absorbed its spirituality, opening several dozen more Acupoints.

• After digesting Tai Shi Mountain’s dragon soul, Zhou Tong said it had barely raised his Acupoints to a thousand.
• The Tathagata Kasaya absorbed a crystal sphere and revealed its Other Shore Dao, including Saintly Emperor Yuan’s scriptures.
• Zhou Tong swallowed the Tathagata Kasaya and began refining it, despite its spirituality’s pleas to be released.
• As Zhou Tong refined the kasaya’s layers of formations and Small Thousand Worlds, he gained the Maha Prajna Paramita of the Diamond and advanced his cultivation.
• The kasaya’s spirituality defended its core formation, the Two Realms Ten Directions Vajra Treasury Divine Path, but Zhou Tong’s 110,000 points of light shattered it.
• The God-Striking Stone eroded the kasaya’s core, and its spirituality became pure essence that opened several dozen more Acupoints in Zhou Tong.

After digesting the Tathagata Kasaya, Zhou Tong used its essence to complete his Acupoints and reached the fleshly body's realm of myriad transformations. He discovered that the body’s 480 million particles matched the number of gates in the Sky Shrouding Method, then demonstrated his ability to transform into creatures and other things.

• Zhou Tong used the Tathagata Kasaya's essence to open more Acupoints, forcing hidden ones to manifest until he condensed 1,197 Acupoints.
• Zhou Tong's body disintegrated into 480 million particles, each carrying his thoughts and martial abilities.
• Zhou Tong realized the number of particles matched the roughly 480 million gates in the Sky Shrouding Method and comprehended the body's transformations.
• Zhou Tong transformed into a True Dragon, then an Immortal Phoenix, a Kirin, and other creatures from the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Zhou Tong continued transforming into the Ten Fiends, other exotic beasts, and lifeless things such as the sun, mountains, rivers, and seas.

After recovering from the lightning tribulation, Zhou Tong returned to the Imperial Capital and discovered that Hong Xuanji’s Dao and Hong Yi’s cultivation had changed from what he expected. Suspecting that the sages and Great Emperor Longevity had intervened, Zhou Tong withdrew without confronting Hong Yi.

• Zhou Tong assessed the damage to his Acupoints and returned to the Imperial Capital of Great Qian.
• Zhou Tong sensed that Hong Xuanji’s Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel carried a new intent of transcendence and liberation.
• Zhou Tong entered Marquis Wuwen’s Estate and concluded that Hong Xuanji’s Dao had fundamentally changed.
• Zhou Tong found that Hong Yi had become a Ghost Immortal and sensed an unusual scholarly aura around him.
• Zhou Tong suspected the Bridge of the Other Shore might be with Hong Yi and withdrew, wary of the sages’ intervention and the two King of Divine Artifacts.

Zhou Tong realized Hong Yi had united with the Hundred Sages and that Hong Xuanji had become his Dao protector, so he went to confront Yang Pan. He revealed that Hong Xuanji’s Dao had changed in a way that threatened Yang Pan’s plan to inherit Hong Xuanji’s body, leaving the emperor shaken.

• Zhou Tong sensed that Hong Yi had united with the Hundred Sages and suspected Hong Xuanji had become Hong Yi’s Dao protector.
• Zhou Tong decided to target Yang Pan because Hong Xuanji was absent from the Imperial Palace, then entered the palace by ripping open the void.
• Yang Pan recognized Zhou Tong as a six-tribulation Ghost Immortal and asked him to explain why he had come.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he knew Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji planned to join paths so Yang Pan could reach the Yang God realm.
• Zhou Tong told Yang Pan that Hong Xuanji’s Dao had changed from Myriad Gods of the Rotating Heavens to the Great Dao of Rotating Heavens, and Yang Pan was deeply shaken by the implications for their plan.

Zhou Tong told Yang Pan that the Hundred Sages had altered Hong Xuanji, then used a treasure art to mark Yang Pan’s divine soul and make him obey. After demonstrating his Human Immortal power, Zhou Tong forced Yang Pan to take him to the Boat of Creation and Great Qian’s treasures.

• Zhou Tong explained that the Hundred Sages’ lingering will had changed Hong Xuanji and would eventually separate him from Yang Pan.
• Zhou Tong branded Yang Pan’s divine soul with unfamiliar runes, declaring that he would turn the Emperor into his tool.
• A Human Immortal ambushed Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong froze and destroyed him with divine lightning.
• Zhou Tong demanded that Yang Pan show him the Boat of Creation and Great Qian’s treasure vaults.
• Yang Pan’s divine-soul mark struck him with an unfamiliar force, and he agreed to take Zhou Tong to the Boat of Creation.

Emperor Gan brought Zhou Tong to the Boat of Creation, where Zhou Tong studied its damaged Thunder Pools and recovered from his injuries. The ship helped him sense forty-seven of the earth’s ninety-nine Acupoints, giving him his first glimpse of the path to Shattering the Void, though he suspected he needed to strengthen his soul to perceive the rest.

• Emperor Gan brought Zhou Tong into the Great Qian imperial family’s Small Thousand World and showed him the Boat of Creation.
• Zhou Tong sent Yang Pan away and boarded the ship to study its three damaged Thunder Pools and the Book of Creation.
• The Myriad Transformation Lightning Pool flooded Zhou Tong with lightning true energy, healing his damaged Acupoints and strengthening his body.
• Zhou Tong sensed the locations of forty-seven of the ninety-nine Acupoints hidden within the earth and briefly grasped the profundity of Shattering the Void.
• Zhou Tong wondered whether his separated soul needed to reach the Creator realm before he could clearly sense the remaining Acupoints.

Zhou Tong consumed most of the Boat of Creation, gaining power and sensing more Acupoints before turning his attention to Great Qian’s treasury. Yang Pan realized the Boat had been destroyed and feared Zhou Tong’s control, but Zhou Tong appeared and demanded the dynasty’s treasures and its Lord of the Future.

• Zhou Tong devoured nearly half the Boat of Creation and its divine materials, strengthening his Primordial Chaos True Qi and sensing seventy-nine Acupoints.
• Zhou Tong concluded that consuming treasures from different regions could help him sense more Acupoints, then left the collapsing Small Thousand World and abandoned plans to build a Thunder Pool for now.
• Yang Pan learned through the Boat of Creation’s control hub that the divine artifact had been destroyed and feared Zhou Tong was using him as a disposable tool.
• Yang Pan ordered the Lord of the Future to find a way to remove Zhou Tong’s imprints from his soul, but Zhou Tong appeared before he could act.
• Zhou Tong demanded that Yang Pan show him Great Qian’s collected treasures and hand over the Lord of the Future, while warning Yang Pan not to worry or he would not casually kill him.

After leaving the Great Gan capital, Zhou Tong traveled to the Heavenly Dragon Sect to speak with its Dragon Lord about the changing state of the world. He began to reveal that upheaval in the Great Gan Dynasty had transformed the world, but the Dragon Lord had yet to hear the details.

• Zhou Tong left the Great Gan capital, suspecting that the Hundred Sages planned to use Hong Xuanji and Yang Pan to claim Creator Daoist's contingencies.
• Zhou Tong found the Heavenly Dragon Sect in the Yunmeng mountains and released his aura to summon its Dragon Lord.
• The Dragon Lord appeared before Zhou Tong and asked why he had come to her sect.
• Zhou Tong asked the Dragon Lord what she thought of the state of the world, and she refused to join any bid for power.
• Zhou Tong told the Dragon Lord that the world had changed and clarified that Meng Shenji had only passed the eighth Lightning Tribulation.
• Zhou Tong attributed the upheaval to events in the Great Gan Dynasty.

Zhou Tong explained how the Hundred Sages’ legacy had changed Hong Xuanji and widened the rift between him and Yang Pan, while warning Dragon Lord that Hong Xuanji’s ambitions had grown even more dangerous. He then sought Dragon Lord’s help finding the ancient Dragon’s Tomb, and she gave him a compass needle to locate it.

• Zhou Tong told Dragon Lord that the Hundred Sages’ influence had changed Hong Xuanji’s Dao and driven him apart from Yang Pan.
• Zhou Tong warned Dragon Lord that Hong Xuanji’s transformed fist intent meant he sought to control the Great Dao and could threaten everyone’s path to the Yang God.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had come to find the ancient Dragon’s Tomb and proposed that he and Dragon Lord work together.
• Dragon Lord admitted she knew the tomb’s location and gave Zhou Tong a compass needle that could lead him there.
• Dragon Lord said the tomb’s defenses were too strong for her to break, and Zhou Tong promised to handle them.

Hong Yi attended a gathering at Scattered Flowers Tower with Princess Luo Yun and faced nobles who tried to humiliate him over his birth and scholarship. He answered boldly, and the gathering’s host, Su Mu, praised his words as she arrived.

• Hong Yi went to Scattered Flowers Tower using an invitation from Princess Luo Yun and met her among the young nobles.
• Princess Luo Yun introduced Hong Yi as her friend, and the nobles’ respect for him shifted when they learned he was Marquis Wuwen’s illegitimate son.
• Two young men challenged Hong Yi to discuss profound principles, hoping to embarrass him with questions about his father’s scholarship.
• Hong Yi argued that inheriting a father’s legacy meant matching his spirit of struggle, not merely inheriting his learning or wealth, unsettling the gathered heirs.
• Princess Luo Yun warned Hong Yi that his remarks were dangerous, but Su Mu arrived and praised his words.

Hong Yi wrote the opening of the Book of Changes in Scattered Flowers Tower, astonishing Su Mu and the gathered nobles with its profound meaning and powerful human-culture essence. His writing stirred the statues and tablets of the Sages across the Imperial Capital, drawing the attention of Emperor Gan Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji.

• Su Mu approached Hong Yi and found that he remained composed despite her beauty and charm.
• Hong Yi declared that he was composing a classic and wrote the title Book of Changes, drawing ridicule from the nobles.
• Hong Yi wrote passages including “The soaring dragon has regrets” and “Heaven moves with strength; the noble man strives tirelessly for self-improvement,” leaving Su Mu convinced of the work’s significance.
• Hong Yi continued writing the hexagrams, and a vast essence of human culture surged into the heavens.
• The Sages’ tablets and statues across the Imperial Capital trembled in resonance, and Emperor Gan Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji reacted to the disturbance.

Zhou Tong and Dragon Lord Ao Luan found the Primordial Dragon Clan’s burial ground and entered the Yanfu Great Formation. After Ao Luan revealed its formation eyes, Zhou Tong broke the formation and swallowed its turtle-shell foundation into his Dao Palace.

• Zhou Tong took Ao Luan through the Void, and they followed her blood-guided needle to the Primordial Dragon Clan’s burial ground.
• Ao Luan explained that the Yanfu Great Formation had stopped her before and warned that even powerful experts could not force their way through it.
• Zhou Tong entered the formation with Ao Luan and gave her the Past Mida Scripture in exchange for her help locating its formation eyes.
• Ao Luan burned ten thousand thoughts to reveal the formation’s nine eyes, while Zhou Tong deduced how the formation worked.
• Zhou Tong struck all nine formation eyes, dispersed the formation’s black currents, and swallowed its turtle-shell foundation into his Dao Palace.

Zhou Tong refined the Yanfu Great Formation into his Dao Palace and entered the Primordial Dragon's Tomb with Dragon Lord Ao Luan. They found an icy palace filled with True Dragons frozen in Primordial Water Essence Yuan Ice, including the Ancestral Dragon.

• Dragon Lord Ao Luan recognized Zhou Tong's Dao Palace and was shocked that it contained Langxiao Myriad Spirits Qi.
• Zhou Tong took control of the Yanfu Great Formation, fused part of it into his Dao Palace, and discovered the Small Thousand World containing the Dragon's Tomb.
• Zhou Tong brought Dragon Lord Ao Luan through the Void onto the planet and explained that it was not a Middle Thousand World.
• Zhou Tong and Dragon Lord Ao Luan crossed the planet's frozen wasteland and found an icy palace surrounded by pillars holding over a thousand True Dragons.
• Dragon Lord Ao Luan examined the frozen dragons, including the Ancestral Dragon, and recognized them as her ancestors.

Zhou Tong collected the frozen dragon pillars and most of the Dragon Tooth Rice from the Dragon's Tomb, then revealed his overwhelming power by shattering the star that held it. He returned to the Great Thousand World with his Dao Palace filled with valuable minerals gathered from the star and the spatial turbulence.

• Zhou Tong rejected Ao Luan's suggestion to forge the True Dragons into armor and stored the frozen dragon pillars in his Dao Palace.
• Ao Luan failed to lift the heavy pillars, while Zhou Tong took them all, including the Ancestral Dragon's pillar.
• Removing the final pillar exposed stores of Dragon Tooth Rice, and Zhou Tong took most of it while leaving some for Ao Luan.
• Zhou Tong brought Ao Luan into the sky and shattered the star with a punch, shocking her with his strength.
• Zhou Tong's Dao Palace absorbed the star's valuable materials, and he gathered more minerals while traveling back to the Great Thousand World.

Zhou Tong and Dragon Lord Ao Luan prepared a field in his Dao Palace to grow Dragon Tooth Rice, agreeing to wait for spring thunder to provide the needed vitality. After two months of cultivation and refining, Zhou Tong sensed eighty-seven of the earth’s ninety-nine acupoints and set out to face the first spring thunderstorm, aiming to pass the eighth thunder tribulation.

• Dragon Lord Ao Luan explained that growing Dragon Tooth Rice required Five-Colored Soil, Jade Spring Water, and thunder vitality, and proposed that they refine a Thunder Pool together.
• Zhou Tong and Ao Luan spent a month refining Five-Colored Soil and Jade Spring Water and completed a thirty-mu field with a pond and a sunlike Fire Pill inside his Dao Palace.
• Zhou Tong invited Ao Luan to stay and cultivate in his Dao Palace, and they discussed the Dao while waiting for spring.
• Over the next two months, Ao Luan deepened Zhou Tong’s knowledge, while Zhou Tong devoured divine materials and sensed the locations of eighty-seven of the ninety-nine acupoints.
• As the first spring thunderstorm arrived, Zhou Tong sent his divine soul thoughts toward the clouds, intending to pass the eighth thunder tribulation.