Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong and the others completed the Heavenly Emperor Son’s Cave Heaven Nurturing Divine Embryo method, linking his 1,296 Heavenly Cave worlds into a whole. As the worlds began to harmonize, Zhou Tong’s Blood Phoenix Incarnation confirmed that planted immortal gold could grow, increasing a hundredfold over a thousand years.

• Ye Fan learned that immortal gold could be cultivated and hoped it might help strengthen his tripod.
• Zhou Tong ordered the Heavenly Emperor Son’s divine soul to split among his 1,296 worlds, where the souls were nurtured by the laws of heaven and earth.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and the Azure Emperor recognized that the process resembled the nurturing of Holy Spirits, and the Azure Emperor considered using it to cultivate Dao Fruits.
• Zhou Tong and the others arranged an array linking the Heavenly Cave worlds, then spent a thousand years completing the Cave Heaven Nurturing Divine Embryo step.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son’s Heavenly Caves became nearly unified, while Zhou Tong’s Blood Phoenix Incarnation found that the immortal gold it had planted had grown about a hundredfold.

Zhou Tong completed the creation of Heavenly Emperor Son’s Inner World path, merging his Heavenly Cave worlds and primordial spirits into a real inner world. A Law Creation Tribulation then descended in the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier, leaving Zhou Tong and the others facing a catastrophe that shook the universe.

• Zhou Tong completed the final Array Patterns, causing Heavenly Emperor Son’s Heavenly Cave worlds to merge and his 1,296 primordial spirits to unite.
• Zhou Tong declared that the Inner World path had taken shape, and Azure Emperor wondered whether its world could produce a Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Zhou Tong sensed danger, seized Heavenly Emperor Son, and brought him to the Chaos Sea at the Cosmic Frontier, where Ruthless Great Emperor, Ye Fan, Azure Emperor, and Blood Phoenix joined him.
• Zhou Tong explained that creating a Cultivation System brought a Law Creation Tribulation, and the others realized that a calamity was approaching.
• A terrifying Heavenly Tribulation of black lightning and the crimson Blade of Heavenly Will struck, awakening sealed geniuses across the universe and worrying Yan Ruyu.

Zhou Tong, Heavenly Emperor Son, Azure Emperor, and their companions endured a years-long Law Creation Tribulation as they forged a new Cultivation System. Their paths advanced under the lightning, while a hidden observer decided to accelerate his plans because their success could create an unprecedented threat.

• Zhou Tong bore sixty percent of the tribulation, Heavenly Emperor Son twenty percent, Azure Emperor ten percent, and Blood Phoenix, Ruthless Great Emperor, and Ye Fan shared the rest.
• Yan Ruyu explained the new Cultivation System to the prodigies at the Cosmic Frontier, while news of the five Great Emperors’ work spread across the universe.
• A hidden figure watched from the Chaos Immortal Soil and decided to begin preparations ahead of schedule because the new system could produce more Mortal Immortals than his plan allowed.
• The Law Creation Tribulation battered the group for several years, inflicting horrific wounds as they fought to survive.
• Heavenly Emperor Son drew lightning into his Inner World to temper it, Azure Emperor used the tribulation to open his path and condense a Unique World, and Zhou Tong’s body and Gate of Potential began to transform.
• Zhou Tong sensed that surviving the tribulation could let him begin his Battle Immortal Path ahead of schedule.

After surviving the seven-year Law Creation Tribulation, Zhou Tong and the others absorbed its immense fortune and made major advances in their cultivation. Zhou Tong resolved to help restore his world and pursue the Immortal King realm, but a strange aura suddenly began refining the entire world like a tripod.

• Holy Imperial Son, Huo Qilinzi, Yan Ruyu, Zhang Bairen, and the others watched the Chaos Sea settle and realized Zhou Tong and the others had survived the tribulation.
• Ye Fan, Blood Phoenix, Ruthless Great Emperor, Azure Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Son, and Zhou Tong gained immense strength from the seven-year tribulation, with Azure Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Son reaching the Heavenly Heart Imprint stage.
• Zhou Tong calculated that he had gained nearly 150,000 years of lifespan and was only one or two lifetimes' Dao Fruits away from becoming a Battle Immortal.
• Zhou Tong reasoned that the Law Creation Tribulation drew power from beyond this world and resolved to restore his world's great Dao, setting the goal of undergoing the Immortal King Tribulation there.
• Zhou Tong decided to become a Battle Immortal, but a strange aura appeared and began transforming the world into a tripod to refine everyone inside.

Emperor Venerable appeared and began refining the human realm into a World Tripod, intending to claim everyone’s Dao Fruits. Zhou Tong, Blood Phoenix, and Azure Emperor used arrays and Immortal Artifacts to delay the process, and the chapter ended with Emperor Venerable overpowering Ruthless Great Emperor in their opening clash.

• Ye Fan recognized Emperor Venerable’s aura as he revealed himself and declared that he would refine everyone into his tripod.
• Zhou Tong summoned the Lingbao Array Diagram, the Array Diagram made from Undying Heavenly Emperor’s skin, and his Divine Domain to disrupt the World Tripod’s formation.
• Blood Phoenix stabilized the universe with the Path to Immortality and the Nine Phoenix Furnace, while Azure Emperor used the Desolate Pagoda to anchor the starry sky.
• Emperor Venerable dismissed their preparations and declared that he would kill them and remove the obstacles himself.
• Ruthless Great Emperor attacked Emperor Venerable, but he met her palm with a fist and sent her staggering back through half a star domain.

Emperor Venerable fought Zhou Tong and five other great experts in a battle that shook the universe and exposed his overwhelming strength as a Mortal Immortal. After unleashing the All Character Secret, he devastated their united assault and left them all gravely wounded.

• Emperor Venerable knocked the Empress back, then forced Zhou Tong away when he joined the battle.
• Zhou Tong and the Ruthless Great Emperor fought Emperor Venerable until Ye Fan, Blood Phoenix, the Azure Emperor, and the Heavenly Emperor Son joined them.
• The seven combatants battled through the Cosmic Frontier into the Chaos Sea, where all six opponents suffered serious injuries while Emperor Venerable remained unharmed.
• Zhou Tong unleashed his Chaos Body, Hegemon Body Ancestral Form, and wings to attack Emperor Venerable with his full power.
• Emperor Venerable activated the All Character Secret and shattered Zhou Tong’s attack, then severely injured Zhou Tong and the others when they intervened.

Zhou Tong pushed his Furnace of Battle Intent and other secret arts to new heights as he fought Emperor Venerable, beginning to withstand the Mortal Immortal’s overwhelming power. When Emperor Venerable’s blows forced the celestial phenomena from Zhou Tong’s Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings into his body, Zhou Tong discovered a new path for his Chaos Body: absorbing those phenomena into himself.

• Zhou Tong used his three forbidden secret arts to amplify his combat power and finally blocked one of Emperor Venerable’s attacks with only superficial injuries.
• Emperor Venerable realized Zhou Tong’s combat-strength amplification was approaching or surpassing his own All Character Secret.
• Ye Fan, Azure Emperor, and the others saw Zhou Tong hold his ground and attacked Emperor Venerable even more fiercely.
• Zhou Tong manifested the celestial phenomena within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and took on most of Emperor Venerable’s attacks, though he remained at a disadvantage.
• Emperor Venerable shattered some of Zhou Tong’s phenomena into his body, and Zhou Tong realized his Chaos Body might absorb them as a new path of advancement.

Zhou Tong realized that he had to absorb the power of his phenomena into his body, and began transforming toward the Battle Immortal realm during his fight with Emperor Venerable. His allies held Emperor Venerable back until Zhou Tong completed the transformation and clashed with him directly, while the others remained nearby as a threat.

• As Emperor Venerable shattered his phenomena, Zhou Tong realized that his Dao lay within himself and that he needed to integrate all his powers into one true body.
• Zhou Tong shattered his phenomena and absorbed them into his body, forming an Immortal Embryo that made Emperor Venerable fear he would break through to the Battle Immortal realm.
• Emperor Venerable attacked Zhou Tong, but the Blood Phoenix Incarnation, Heavenly Emperor Son, Ye Fan, the Azure Emperor, and the Ruthless Great Emperor moved to stop him.
• Emperor Venerable blasted the Blood Phoenix Incarnation and Heavenly Emperor Son apart, while Ye Fan, the Azure Emperor, and the Ruthless Great Emperor kept him occupied as Zhou Tong absorbed the last of his phenomena.
• Zhou Tong completed his transformation and met Emperor Venerable's all-out punch with his Emperor Fist and Hegemonic Bell, beginning a fierce battle in the Chaos Sea.
• The two fought so intensely that the others could barely intervene, but their presence—especially the Ruthless Great Emperor's—continued to threaten Emperor Venerable.

Zhou Tong completed his transformation into a Mortal Immortal during his desperate battle with Emperor Venerable and returned to the fight at full strength. He defeated Emperor Venerable, whose body and primordial spirit were destroyed by the Hegemonic Bell.

• Emperor Venerable battered Zhou Tong while Ye Fan and the others watched and prepared to intervene.
• Under the pressure of battle, Zhou Tong combined insights from the Yang God World with the Sky Shrouding Method as the Immortal Embryo within him grew stronger.
• Emperor Venerable blasted Zhou Tong's body into four pieces, but Zhou Tong emerged from the River of Time transformed and matched Emperor Venerable's attack.
• Zhou Tong realized he had reached the Mortal Immortal realm, severed the Chaos Body, and began generating Longevity Substance.
• Zhou Tong fought Emperor Venerable again and gained the advantage while Emperor Venerable remained seriously wounded.
• Zhou Tong struck Emperor Venerable with the Hegemonic Bell, destroying his body and primordial spirit.

After Zhou Tong and the others killed Emperor Venerable, Zhou Tong reflected on his breakthrough and arranged to nurture his shattered former body before gathering materials to refine Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs. News of the battle spread across the universe, where the victors were celebrated as its saviors.

• Zhou Tong recalled the Hegemonic Bell, confirmed his Mortal Immortal breakthrough, and sent his shattered Chaos Body to be nurtured in the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Ye Fan said he could use the True Dragon Divine Medicine to extend his life, while Zhou Tong and Blood Phoenix prepared materials and thirty Immortal Divine Medicine fruits for Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs.
• Zhou Tong promised Ruthless Great Emperor, Ye Fan, and Azure Emperor three golden elixirs each, then returned toward the Divine Domain with Heavenly Emperor Son and Yan Ruyu.
• Azure Emperor left to tend his Inner World, Ruthless Great Emperor returned to the Primordial Forbidden Land, and Ye Fan took Little Nannan back to Heavenly Court.
• Heavenly Court and Demon Race Immortal Court announced that Emperor Venerable had tried to refine the human realm and had been slain by the group.
• People across the universe praised Zhou Tong, Blood Phoenix, Ye Fan, Ruthless Great Emperor, and Azure Emperor, restoring Ruthless Great Emperor's reputation and increasing their Power of Faith.

Zhou Tong made Immortal Source for Yan Ruyu to let her remain sealed until she could attain the Dao, then developed the Heavenly Emperor Son’s Inner World by turning a divine tree into the embryonic form of a World Tree. He left the world linked to the tree, which Zhou Tong believed could eventually raise it to the Immortal King level.

• Yan Ruyu told Zhou Tong she could no longer remain sealed, and he used the Heavenly Emperor Son’s Longevity Substance to create Immortal Source for her.
• Zhou Tong gave Yan Ruyu the Immortal Source and told her to attain the Dao after Ye Fan’s Great Dao dissipated, then let Lang'er and Ying'er do the same after she relinquished the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Zhou Tong inspected the Heavenly Emperor Son’s Inner World and found it rich in Phoenix Blood Red Gold but lacking variety, while noting that it needed time to recover from the loss of Longevity Substance.
• Zhou Tong planted the Heavenly Wood in the center of the Inner World and fused its Heavenly Heart Imprint into the tree.
• The tree merged with the world and spread its roots throughout it, becoming the embryonic form of a World Tree.

Over thousands of years, Zhou Tong nurtured a World Tree and observed the growth of a Holy Spirit, using his insights to complete a fifth Longevity Method. After deciding he had time before the distant threats of the Soul River and others emerged, he chose to leave seclusion and travel.

• Zhou Tong compiled four Longevity Methods into a scripture made from Dao Tribulation Gold while nurturing the World Tree with rare treasures and divine liquid.
• The World Tree flourished, restoring the world’s origin and strengthening its laws, but Zhou Tong concluded that further growth required an extraordinary new world.
• Zhou Tong nourished a Phoenix Blood Red Gold vein with the world’s Great Dao and thunderous true qi until it formed an Immortal Embryo.
• Zhou Tong combined his observations of the Holy Spirit’s birth with the Feather Ascension Great Emperor’s insights and completed the Holy Spirit Transformation Method as the fifth Longevity Method.
• Zhou Tong judged that the Soul River and other distant threats were still far away and decided to travel rather than continue cultivating in seclusion.

After wandering the Mortal Realm for thousands of years, Zhou Tong visited the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star and shared his methods of transformation and immortality. He then taught his descendants in Great Zhou and left the dynasty an Immortal Bell before departing.

• Zhou Tong traveled the universe for thousands of years, living among mortals and leaving behind cultivation methods and insights.
• Zhou Tong visited the Hegemon Body Ancestral Cave, gave the four Great Accomplishment Hegemon Bodies two scriptures, and revealed that he had become a Mortal Immortal.
• Zhou Tong explained his path to immortality and left nine Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs before leaving the Ancestral Cave.
• Zhou Tong descended on Great Zhou, the dynasty founded by his son Zhou Lang, and announced that he would expound the scriptures for three years.
• Zhou Tong taught cultivators from across the ancestral star, distributed refined treasures, and left Great Zhou an Immortal Bell forged from Phoenix Blood Red Gold.

After returning to the Divine Domain, Zhou Tong planned to study the Divine Silkworm Clan’s inheritances and work toward opening the Sixth Secret Realm. He checked on his three True Fates, then used the Reincarnation Mirror on another one and chose True Dragon.

• Zhou Tong returned to the Divine Domain and decided to pursue the Sixth Secret Realm while studying the Divine Silkworm Clan’s scriptures and inheritances.
• Zhou Tong sensed that his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Fate remained rooted in one place, while his Thunder Emperor True Fate seemed unstable and his Kunpeng True Fate seemed safe but distant.
• Zhou Tong considered using the Reincarnation Mirror on his Chaos Body, but realized it would extract the body’s essence, energy, and spirit and rejected the idea.
• Zhou Tong aimed the Reincarnation Mirror at another True Fate and chose True Dragon.

Zhou Tong hatched on an isolated island as a dragon-headed Tyrant Dragon after four surrounding eggs fed their life force into his egg. He discovered that his reincarnated True Dragon fate had given him a body unlike a True Dragon, and his furious roar shattered the nearby rocks and trees.

• A deathly castle appeared above the island, silencing its beasts before vanishing and allowing life to return.
• Four Dragon Eggs poured their radiance into the central egg, weakening their own life fluctuations as its strength surged.
• The central egg cracked, and Zhou Tong emerged as an azure, dragon-headed Tyrant Dragon hatchling.
• Zhou Tong realized that his True Dragon fate had reincarnated him in a Tyrant Dragon body and feared his other true fates might also take unsuitable forms.
• Zhou Tong roared in fury, shattering nearby rocks and trees with the sound waves.

Zhou Tong discovered his body had a powerful True Dragon bloodline and an instinct to leave its nest and grow alone. After revealing his innate control over Wind and Thunder, he encountered his Azure Tyrannosaurus Rex mother, who left him to fend for himself, and he ventured into the forest.

• Zhou Tong examined his bloodline and realized his birth had drained the Life Essence from the other four Dragon Eggs.
• Zhou Tong suspected the dragons of this world might struggle to evolve into True Dragons and felt eager for battle.
• Zhou Tong unleashed an innate ability to control Wind and Thunder, destroying a massive boulder.
• Zhou Tong heard a roar and met the Azure Tyrannosaurus Rex he recognized as his mother.
• The Azure Tyrannosaurus Rex turned away, and Zhou Tong headed into the forest alone.

Zhou Tong studied his newborn Dragon body, discovered its inherited cultivation method and a divine ability that could imprison his surroundings, then trained through the night. He concealed his dragon aura with the True Dragon Treasure Art and entered the forest to find food, wary that others might notice his unusual techniques.

• Zhou Tong settled beside a waterfall and sensed the Dragon race's inherited method drawing in the essence of heaven and earth.
• Zhou Tong uncovered an azure imprisonment ability and briefly froze the waterfall, exhausting his newborn body's strength.
• Zhou Tong cultivated through the night, guiding gathered energy into his flesh, bones, and organs.
• Zhou Tong grew hungry and entered the forest, where the animals fell silent beneath his dragon aura.
• Zhou Tong used the Dragon Concealment Secret Art to hide his aura and considered the risk of revealing techniques unknown in this world.

Zhou Tong encountered a purple young dragon at his waterfall pool and began battling it, sensing that killing it could advance his evolution toward becoming a True Dragon. Their roars drew attention across Dragon Island, where an ancient dragon declared that a new contest among Dragon Kings had begun and young people rushed to seize the pair.

• Zhou Tong killed a giant black bear with his divine ability and carried it back to his waterfall pool.
• Zhou Tong found a purple young dragon at his pool and sensed that the two were bound by hostility and a deeper connection to the struggle to become a True Dragon.
• The purple dragon roared at Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong answered with a roar that clashed against it and shook the forest.
• An ancient dragon on a sacred mountain watched the two young dragons and declared that the Dragon Kings had begun contending to determine the Ancestral Dragon of the age.
• Young people across Dragon Island heard the roars, identified the pair as Dragon Kings, and rushed toward their location to capture one.

Zhou Tong defeated the purple Dragon King and absorbed its Ancestral Dragon Qi, strengthening his own dragon qi. The human observers remained nearby, waiting for the two Dragon Kings to weaken each other, but Zhou Tong ended the fight before they could act.

• Zhou Tong struck the purple dragon with his tail, badly injuring it and gaining the advantage in close combat.
• Young people arrived and watched from a distance, hoping to seize a Dragon King after the battle weakened both opponents.
• The purple dragon unleashed a torrent of purple light, but Zhou Tong shattered the attack with lightning from his horns and pierced its neck.
• The dying purple dragon released a powerful divine art, but Zhou Tong froze its attack with green light and destroyed the dragon with lightning.
• The purple dragon's remains turned into Ancestral Dragon Qi, which flowed into Zhou Tong and more than doubled the density of his green dragon qi.

Zhou Tong defeated the Purple Dragon King, escaped human prodigies planning to capture him, and absorbed another strand of Ancestral Dragon Qi. After realizing he was on Dragon Island in the Longevity World, he reflected on the Dragon Clan’s curse that prevented Ancestral Dragons from coexisting.

• An old dragon watched Zhou Tong’s victory and wondered whether he could become the Ancestral Dragon who survived the struggle.
• Human prodigies agreed to combine their elders’ trump cards and capture Zhou Tong after the Purple Dragon King fell.
• Zhou Tong unleashed a powerful roar that stunned the prodigies, then escaped before they could attack.
• Zhou Tong roasted and ate a wild ox, circulated his cultivation technique, and felt his scales and divine abilities grow stronger.
• Zhou Tong recognized the world as the Longevity World and his location as Dragon Island, where he was a young Dragon King competing for the Ancestral Dragon position.
• Zhou Tong recalled that the Dragon Clan was cursed: a new Ancestral Dragon could be born only after the old one died, since two could not coexist.