Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong devoured the Bridge of the Other Shore and attained the Yang God realm, joining it with his Shattering the Void body. He sensed that the Yang God World’s cultivation system had reached its limit, while powerful beings across the world reacted to his ascension.

• Hong Yi unleashed the Great Liberation Technique twice, but Zhou Tong nullified its power because he had no desire to reach the Other Shore.
• Zhou Tong continued devouring the Bridge of the Other Shore, transforming his body and primordial spirit as Hong Yi’s confidence in his own path wavered.
• After consuming the bridge’s final portion, Zhou Tong’s primordial spirit became a blazing sun and he attained the Yang God realm.
• Meng Shenji, Great Emperor Longevity, and Creator Daoist sensed Zhou Tong’s ascension and recognized that the same person had achieved both the Yang God and Shattering the Void.
• Zhou Tong assessed his combined soul and body, concluded that the Yang God World’s cultivation system had reached its end, and compared it unfavorably with the Sky Shrouding Method.

After reaching the Yang God realm, Zhou Tong left Hong Yi behind and returned to his secluded cultivation to strengthen his Dao Palace. Over the next year, he refined treasures and ancient inheritances, gathered the world’s resources, and greatly deepened his power and understanding.

• Zhou Tong saw that Hong Yi’s Dao Heart had shattered and urged him to devote himself to improving people’s livelihoods through his ideal of Everyone Like a Dragon.
• Zhou Tong left the ruined Imperial Capital and returned to his cultivation grounds, deciding to improve his Dao Palace before visiting the Land of Origin.
• Zhou Tong gathered treasures from the Great Thousand World and Outer Heaven, refined them and the five Divine Kings into his Dao Palace, and expanded its Thunder Pool.
• Zhou Tong used the Thunder Pool to produce vast quantities of Heaven Dew Essence, cultivated Dragon Tooth Rice, and collected distinctive creatures to reproduce in the Dao Palace’s Small Thousand Worlds.
• Zhou Tong spent a year comprehending the Hundred Sages’ and Great Emperor Longevity’s inheritances, gaining deeper insight and power from the Bridge of the Other Shore and Immortal Stele.

After stabilizing his Yang God and Shattering the Void realms, Zhou Tong traveled through the River of Time to the Land of Origin, where he gathered Sand of Light and treasures while growing stronger. He headed toward the highest point, knowing that Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist were waiting there.

• Zhou Tong entered the River of Time and endured its Sand of Light, using it to strengthen his body, thoughts, and Dao Palace while storing vast quantities for study.
• Zhou Tong reached the seed-shaped world at the bottom of the river and entered the Land of Origin.
• Zhou Tong surveyed the transformed stars and floating continents, then collected and consumed the Land of Origin’s treasures.
• Several former leaders of Outer Heaven challenged Zhou Tong, and he suppressed them until they vanished.
• Zhou Tong continued toward the highest point of the Land of Origin, where Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist awaited him.

Zhou Tong met Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist at the River of Time and explained that the destruction of the Bridge of the Other Shore had ended the hope it represented. He revealed that he had resisted the Masters’ Great Liberation Technique by lacking any desire for the Other Shore, then showed them a cultivator pursuing a different path.

• Zhou Tong broke the final barrier into the void, where Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist awaited him beside the River of Time.
• Creator Daoist confronted Zhou Tong over the destruction of the Bridge of the Other Shore, while Great Emperor Longevity urged him to set old grudges aside.
• Zhou Tong explained that the Bridge’s destruction had returned the Land of Origin to its original state and argued that the Masters’ attempt to build a bridge to the Other Shore was misguided.
• Great Emperor Longevity admitted that the Masters, Creator Daoist, and his disciple Pan had all been wrong about reaching the Other Shore, though the Bridge had come closest.
• Creator Daoist asked how Zhou Tong had survived the Masters’ Great Liberation Technique, and Zhou Tong said it could not affect someone with no longing or wish for the Other Shore.
• Zhou Tong brought out an experimental cultivator who was combining the Yang God World’s methods with the Chaotic Ancient Method, revealing a different path that stunned Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist.

Zhou Tong invited Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist to help develop his new Cultivation System, which he hoped would lead directly to the Other Shore. Ancient Saintly Emperors joined their effort, and they began refining the system together in the Land of Origin.

• Great Emperor Longevity and Creator Daoist examined Zhou Tong's new cultivation path and recognized that he had only completed its first step.
• Zhou Tong explained that he wanted their help developing the Cultivation System, beginning with the Heavenly Cave stage after Blood Moving.
• Great Emperor Longevity agreed to help, while Creator Daoist said he would do so to reach the Other Shore himself.
• The imprisoned residual thoughts of the ancient Saintly Emperors gathered and offered to take part in creating the new system.
• Zhou Tong described opening 129,600 Heavenly Caves, and the group began discussing and refining his ideas together.

Zhou Tong received the God-Striking Stone incarnation’s memories after it returned from the Yang God World, where it had spent thirty thousand years helping develop a new Cultivation System. The chapter ended with Zhou Tong contemplating the completed system and the different flow of time between the two worlds.

• Zhou Tong spent ten thousand years studying the Daos and methods he had gathered through the Reincarnation Mirror, but had comprehended only a fraction of them.
• The Reincarnation Mirror showed Zhou Tong’s God-Striking Stone incarnation returning from another world and sent it into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong connected with the incarnation and spent three months absorbing its memories and insights.
• Zhou Tong learned that the incarnation had entered the Yang God World, cultivated to the Yang God realm, and traveled to the Land of Origin.
• Zhou Tong and Great Emperor Longevity, Creator Daoist, and ancient Saintly Emperors had spent thirty thousand years combining the Chaotic Ancient Method’s first five realms with Yang God cultivation to complete a new Cultivation System.

Zhou Tong studied a new cultivation system that combined the Chaotic Ancient Method with the Yang God World’s methods, tracing how it developed into Inner World cultivation through Heavenly Caves, nurtured deities, and formations. He identified the system’s missing final step—unifying its worlds and deities—while acknowledging that Great Emperor Longevity and the others might reach the Other Shore by a different path.

• Zhou Tong examined the Blood Movement Realm and found it retained the Chaotic Ancient Method’s fundamentals while avoiding the Yang God World’s unity of spirit and flesh drawback.
• He studied the Cave Heaven Scripture, which opened as many as 1,296 Heavenly Caves by reorganizing the body’s Acupoints and began the path of Inner World cultivation.
• Zhou Tong learned that the Spirit Transformation Realm nurtured thoughts as deities within the Heavenly Caves, while formations combined the Inscription and Array Formation realms to mobilize their power.
• He concluded that the system still lacked a method to unite all Heavenly Caves and their deities into a single world and soul.
• Zhou Tong recalled that Great Emperor Longevity and the others had disagreed with his Return to One Path, and he wished them success on their own paths to the Other Shore.

Zhou Tong inspected the Dao Palace and the resources he had brought back from the Yang God World, then tested how its Dragon Tooth Rice changed under lightning from the Shrouding the Heavens World. After harvesting rice that could remake a cultivator’s body, he planted a larger crop and began cultivating it with Saint Realm lightning.

• Zhou Tong found that his Dao Palace and its contents had returned intact, while the sword and armor he had carried were gone.
• Zhou Tong planted Dragon Tooth Rice in Five-Colored Soil and struck it with lightning, causing the rice to absorb tribulation patterns and grow into a tree.
• Zhou Tong increased the lightning’s power over the rice’s half-month maturation period, but it reached only the level of a peak King.
• Zhou Tong harvested a thousand grains and determined that each could remake a person’s body, making the rice a potent foundation-building supplement.
• Zhou Tong planted the harvested Dragon Tooth Rice across one hundred mu of Five-Colored Soil and began nourishing it with Saint Realm lightning.

Zhou Tong harvested transformed Dragon Tooth Rice and sent most of it to the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star before using Origin Seeds and Sand of Light to strengthen the Hegemonic Bell. The bell’s transformation gave him a glimpse of an immortal-level evolution of Wu Shi Art, though he noted the Yang God World had nothing representing “ending.”

• Zhou Tong concluded that Great Sage-level lightning was the limit for transforming Dragon Tooth Rice and collected several million grains.
• Zhou Tong judged the transformed Dragon Tooth Rice useful for nurturing subordinates but of little use to himself, then sent most of it to the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.
• Zhou Tong dismissed the Heavenly Dew and the Yang God World’s Thunder Pool as largely unsuitable for the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Zhou Tong fed Origin Seeds and Sand of Light into the Hegemonic Bell, causing it to become more ancient and mysterious.
• Zhou Tong glimpsed a higher, potentially immortal level of Wu Shi Art through the bell’s transformation and lamented that the Yang God World lacked anything representing “ending.”

Zhou Tong realized his Ten Fiends true lives might form his personal Sixth Secret Realm, and resolved to cultivate the missing Nine Netherworld Howler true life before merging all ten. He left the Divine Emperor sealed in the Nine-Layered Coffin and turned his attention back to the urgent matter of his third life.

• Zhou Tong examined his living God-Striking Stone true life and considered how it might relate to the Sky Shrouding Method’s Sixth Secret Realm.
• Zhou Tong concluded that his Ten Fiends true lives could be his unique Sixth Secret Realm, but that they needed to fuse and return to one.
• Zhou Tong decided to derive a tenth transformation of the Divine Emperor Scripture to cultivate the missing Nine Netherworld Howler true life, then create an eleventh transformation to fuse all ten.
• Zhou Tong examined his Vajra Ring and the Nine-Layered Coffin, reasoning that the Divine Emperor was likely undergoing an eleventh transformation.
• Zhou Tong chose not to awaken the Divine Emperor and returned his focus to the urgent issue of his third life.

Zhou Tong planned to complete the fusion of his 1,296 Heavenly Caves and prepare to experiment on the Heavenly Emperor Son’s body, but Yan Ruyu’s awakening led him to meet the Azure Emperor. The Azure Emperor discussed his attempt to create an Immortal Domain with Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix, while Yan Ruyu listened and learned.

• Zhou Tong decided to pursue the Heavenly Cave Return to One Path, setting a limit of five thousand years, and turned his attention to the sealed Heavenly Emperor Son’s body.
• Zhou Tong awakened Yan Ruyu from Divine Source and told her that twenty thousand years had passed since her sealing.
• Zhou Tong brought Yan Ruyu to the Big Dipper, where she met her ancestor, the Azure Emperor, beside Zhou Tong’s Blood Phoenix Incarnation.
• The Azure Emperor praised Zhou Tong for defeating the Forbidden Zone Supremes, and Zhou Tong credited the predecessors who had fought before him.
• The Azure Emperor explained his plan to create an Immortal Domain within the Desolate Pagoda, then discussed the Dao and methods of longevity with Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix as Yan Ruyu listened.

Azure Emperor learned Zhou Tong’s Return to One Path for creating an Immortal Realm and realized why his own attempt had failed. He abandoned his impatient approach and began to see how a world could gradually ascend into an Immortal Domain.

• Azure Emperor told Zhou Tong that his world inside the Desolate Pagoda was flawed and that he planned a final gamble when he emerged.
• Zhou Tong and his Blood Phoenix Incarnation offered Azure Emperor other ways to survive, but Azure Emperor refused to give up the path he had chosen.
• Zhou Tong explained his Inner World Cultivation System, including the Cave Heaven Scripture and its 1,296 Heavenly Caves, to Azure Emperor.
• Zhou Tong described his Return to One Path, in which distinct worlds would eventually merge and give birth to a Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Azure Emperor realized that he had failed by trying to create an Immortal Domain all at once and concluded that it had to develop step by step.

Zhou Tong rejected Azure Emperor’s plan to make each of 1,296 inner worlds produce a Heavenly Heart Imprint and invited him to help perfect the Return to One Path. Azure Emperor was tempted but doubted he could revive after sacrificing his body, and Zhou Tong offered to help him be reborn.

• Azure Emperor praised Zhou Tong’s path and suggested raising each inner world to its peak before unifying them into an Immortal Domain.
• Zhou Tong explained why Azure Emperor’s proposal and Great Emperor Longevity’s myriad-world approach were impractical, and rejected Azure Emperor’s plan.
• Zhou Tong invited Azure Emperor to join him in perfecting the unification step of the Inner World path.
• Azure Emperor said he could no longer act freely because he had dismembered himself and transformed his body into the failed world inside the Desolate Pagoda.
• Yan Ruyu pointed out that Azure Emperor’s heart remained, and Zhou Tong offered to help him use it to undergo rebirth and reshape his body.

Ye Fan reunited with Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix on Big Dipper, where they revealed that Azure Emperor had survived his apparent death and needed Ye Fan’s Azure Lotus to revive. Ye Fan willingly handed it over, and Azure Emperor prepared to undergo Nirvana and be reborn.

• Ye Fan left his palace after receiving Zhou Tong’s message summoning him to Big Dipper.
• Blood Phoenix showed Yan Ruyu the Immortal Phoenix Method’s Nirvana art as Ye Fan’s arrival shook the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Ye Fan struck at Zhou Tong, and Blood Phoenix met his attack while Zhou Tong’s Chaos Qi contained the clash’s aftermath.
• Ye Fan recognized Azure Emperor, who explained that he had dismembered himself to survive.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that Azure Emperor needed the Azure Lotus within him to revive, and Ye Fan willingly handed it over.
• Zhou Tong invited Azure Emperor to undergo Nirvana and be reborn.

Azure Emperor used Ye Fan’s Azure Lotus, his heart, and the Immortal Phoenix Lineage’s Nirvana Method to revive after a perilous transformation. He emerged in a new human body, leaving his Azure Lotus true body as his weapon.

• Azure Emperor entered the Azure Lotus Ye Fan gave him, and the lotus absorbed demonic power as his heart began to beat across the universe.
• Ye Fan and Zhou Tong watched as the lotus drew in cosmic energy and Azure Emperor’s Heart, while Ye Fan considered whether the rebirth could reveal a way to live a third life.
• At the height of its power, the Chaos Green Lotus withered, burned down to a single lotus seed, and ignited its remaining life force.
• The lotus seed underwent nirvana and grew into a new Azure Lotus, from which Azure Emperor’s youthful figure emerged.
• Azure Emperor severed his newly reborn Azure Lotus true body and made it his weapon, and Zhou Tong congratulated him on his new life.

After witnessing the Azure Emperor’s rebirth, Zhou Tong considered how the Yang God system could help him revive the Sun Sacred Emperor and agreed to let Ye Fan join his effort to test the new cultivation system. The chapter ended with Zhou Tong awakening the Heavenly Emperor Son’s preserved body by creating a consciousness that became a perfectly matched primordial spirit.

• Zhou Tong reflected on the Azure Emperor’s rebirth and considered using the method to revive the Sun Sacred Emperor.
• The Azure Emperor revealed that he had abandoned his cultivation to pursue Zhou Tong’s new system, and Ye Fan asked to join them.
• Zhou Tong warned that the system was still theoretical and brought out the Heavenly Emperor Son’s preserved body as a test subject.
• Zhou Tong created a consciousness within the corpse, causing a new primordial spirit to awaken and kneel before him as its master.

Zhou Tong and Ye Fan decided to visit the Ruthless Great Emperor in the Primordial Forbidden Land and discuss the new cultivation system with her. Yan Ruyu joined them, and the group entered the abyss as the stone gate opened before them.

• Ye Fan discovered a Reincarnation Seal in Heavenly Emperor Son's body, and Zhou Tong considered its connection to the cultivation systems and sentient corpses.
• Zhou Tong suggested that they invite the Ruthless Great Emperor to study the new cultivation system, and Ye Fan agreed to visit her.
• Yan Ruyu insisted on joining the journey, and Zhou Tong accepted before leading the group toward the Primordial Forbidden Land.
• A Desolate Slave named Xia Feng appeared and guided Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, Yan Ruyu, Blood Phoenix Incarnation, and Azure Emperor into the abyss.
• The group felt the Primordial Forbidden Land's dreadful aura and reached a stone gate, which opened with a rumble.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan, Yan Ruyu, Blood Phoenix, and Azure Emperor into the Primordial Forbidden Land to seek the Ruthless Great Emperor’s guidance on their path to longevity. The meeting left Ye Fan shaken by a revelation about his connection to the Empress, while Zhou Tong focused on studying the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine.

• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu passed the unified Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine as Ye Fan paused to reflect on how it had shaped his life.
• The group crossed the Chaos Dragon Nest and entered the bronze palace, where Zhou Tong recognized Zhang Ziling but said he could not save him.
• Zhou Tong asked the Ruthless Great Emperor for guidance on uniting with her Dao Fruit, and she responded with a probing burst of Nine-Colored Immortal Light before falling silent.
• Ye Fan asked why the Empress did not enter the Immortal Domain, and their gaze left him visibly shaken as Zhou Tong realized he had learned of their relationship.
• Zhou Tong considered how studying the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine could help him elevate the Divine Emperor Scripture and create a unique Sixth Secret Realm.

Zhou Tong persuaded the Ruthless Great Emperor to join the exploration of a new cultivation system by showing her a Yang God method that might answer her questions about the soul. She gave him the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine, and Zhou Tong began presenting the technique he had created.

• Zhou Tong traced the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine to a Divine Silkworm Immortal King whose incomplete tenth transformation resembled Zhou Tong's own ideas.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor told Ye Fan that she had lived life after life while waiting for his return, and Zhou Tong offered her a Yang God thought that might explain how corpses gained sentience.
• Little Nannan flew from Ye Fan's Heavenly Court and merged into the Empress's glabella, awakening her and releasing a terrifying aura.
• The Empress confronted Zhou Tong about how much he knew and agreed to join the exploration of the new system after he shared the Pagoda Meditation Technique.
• The Empress gave Zhou Tong the Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine after withdrawing her will from it, and Zhou Tong began showing everyone his scriptures.

After a thousand years of work, Zhou Tong and the others perfected the first stage of the Cave Heaven Scripture by opening 1,296 cave heavens inside the Heavenly Emperor Son. The Azure Emperor used the method to regain Quasi-Emperor strength, while Blood Phoenix began an experiment to grow immortal gold within the cave heavens.

• Zhou Tong opened the final cave heaven inside the Heavenly Emperor Son, completing all 1,296 worlds and the Cave Heaven Scripture’s first stage.
• The Azure Emperor opened 1,296 cave heavens in his own body and returned to Quasi-Emperor strength.
• The Azure Emperor fused his cave heavens into a makeshift world armor, and Zhou Tong explained that formations were needed to link them properly.
• Blood Phoenix planted 129,600 jin of Phoenix Blood Red Gold, refined into seeds, across the Heavenly Emperor Son’s cave heavens to test whether immortal gold could grow on its own.