Chapter Summaries

After Zhou Tong’s stone-cutting exploits stunned Holy City, he escaped his pursuers and entered seclusion in the Northern Region. There, he used the Reincarnation Mirror to uncover the Luangu Scripture and began preparing to cultivate its Martial Heavenly Eye.

• Holy City learned that the unknown youth had obtained nearly ten million jin of source, two divine medicines, two Ancient Kings, and a Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword, and discovered that he had used a Jiang Family token.
• Zhou Tong escaped people pursuing him after leaving Holy City by changing his route and appearance and deploying Array Patterns with the Group Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong examined the Humanoid Divine Medicine and used the Reincarnation Mirror to reveal that its previous owner had been Great Emperor Luangu.
• Zhou Tong recovered the most complete version of the Luangu Scripture and recognized its chaos-based techniques as a possible counter to the Group Character Secret.
• Zhou Tong decided to cultivate the Martial Heavenly Eye before facing the Four Extremities Realm heavenly tribulation.

Zhou Tong spent weeks engraving Great Emperor Luangu’s nine Emperor Scripts into both eyes and successfully awakened the Martial Heavenly Eye. After discovering its powerful vision and combat perception, he headed to Purple Mountain to seek the Source Heaven Master’s village and its stone gall, which could strengthen him before his dangerous Four Extremities Heavenly Tribulation.

• Zhou Tong chose to cultivate Great Emperor Luangu’s Martial Heavenly Eye rather than his other heavenly eyes.
• Zhou Tong spent half a month engraving the nine Emperor Scripts into his left eye, enduring powerful pain and illusions.
• Zhou Tong engraved the nine Emperor Scripts into his right eye and waited another half a month for the Martial Heavenly Eye to gestate.
• Zhou Tong opened his Martial Heavenly Eye and gained extraordinarily clear vision, seeing through stone and tracking movements across great distances.
• Zhou Tong set out for Purple Mountain to find the Source Heaven Master’s village and obtain the stone gall before his Four Extremities Heavenly Tribulation.

Zhou Tong visited the descendants of the Source Heaven Master near Purple Mountain, gave them the Purple Sun Scripture and protective lamps, then searched the village’s remaining stones. After using a Stone Gall to temper his eyes, he achieved minor completion of the Martial Heavenly Eye and prepared to seek a breakthrough.

• Zhou Tong met Fifth Master Zhang and promised the villagers a legacy in exchange for the stone artifacts left in their village.
• Zhou Tong passed the complete Purple Sun Scripture to Fifth Master Zhang, and the villagers relocated after deciding the legacy made their home a dangerous place to remain.
• Zhou Tong made several lamps modeled after the Purple Sun Lamp for the villagers’ protection and promised the lamp he would later return to leave it as their heirloom sacred weapon.
• Zhou Tong cut open the village stones, found a Human Origin Fruit and a purple Stone Gall, and lamented that a divine medicine had been destroyed.
• Zhou Tong poured the Stone Gall’s liquid into his eyes and used the Luangu Scripture to temper them until his Martial Heavenly Eye reached minor completion.
• Zhou Tong planned to find a place to break through the Four Extremities Realm and face its heavenly tribulation before going out to stir up trouble.

Zhou Tong refined ten million jin of Source and broke through into the Four Extremities Realm, awakening the first Divine Form of his Azure Heaven Hegemonic Blood: the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass. After enduring its destruction and rebirth, he completed his transformation and prepared to face the heavenly tribulation.

• Zhou Tong refined Source within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings while the Bodhi Seed and three divine medicines nourished his body.
• Zhou Tong's Azure Heaven Hegemonic Blood transformed him into the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, establishing his first Divine Form and beginning his breakthrough into the Four Extremities Realm.
• Zhou Tong's Nine-Leaf Sword Grass withered, burned away, and became a grass seed as he underwent its ultimate transformation.
• Zhou Tong's grass seed sprouted with purple leaves, absorbed more Source qi, and transformed back into his human form.
• Zhou Tong completed his breakthrough into the Four Extremities Realm and looked toward the starry sky, anticipating the heavenly tribulation.

Zhou Tong endured an extraordinary nine-layer lightning tribulation, using the Thunder Emperor Method and his other techniques to temper himself and overcome each trial. After breaking free of the final Divine Diagram, he successfully entered the Four Extremities Realm, realizing his tribulation had been at least ten times harder than Ye Fan's.

• Zhou Tong used the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique to turn the early lightning tides into a pagoda and temper his body, but the nine-layer lightning tide badly injured him.
• Zhou Tong used Immortal Phoenix Nirvana to recover, then fought nine phantom deities inside the pagoda and gained insight into the Great Dao of the Four Extremities Realm.
• Zhou Tong endured Chaos Lightning and extracted innate Dao imprints, strengthening his body and primordial spirit as he recognized the tribulation's sixth layer.
• Zhou Tong resisted nine tolls from a lightning bell, shattered the seventh-layer pagoda with his Hegemonic Bell, and escaped the eighth-layer tripod after comprehending its principles.
• Zhou Tong used the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings to contend with the final Divine Diagram, absorbed its lightning essence, and broke through with the Immortal Phoenix Method.
• Zhou Tong completed the tribulation and entered the Four Extremities Realm, concluding that his Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation had been at least ten times harder than Ye Fan's.

Zhou Tong advanced to the great completion of the Four Extremities Realm by cultivating the Hengyu Scripture and drawing on insights from his heavenly tribulations. Unable to break through to the Dragon Transformation Realm, he left seclusion to return to the Southern Region and see his former classmates.

• Zhou Tong discovered that his left leg had reached the first level of the Four Extremities Realm and decided to cultivate the Hengyu Scripture.
• Zhou Tong advanced through the second and third levels, then swallowed a nine-layer lightning tribulation and used it to temper himself and the Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong spent two years cultivating the Hengyu Scripture, organizing scriptures and secret arts, and studying the Source Heaven Book.
• Zhou Tong emerged from seclusion stuck at the great completion stage of the Four Extremities Realm and concluded that he needed more experience and time to consolidate his combat power.
• Zhou Tong decided to return to the Southern Region to visit his former classmates and stir up trouble.

Zhou Tong spent two months living and cultivating in the Wei Capital, where the contrast between mortal life and cultivation deepened his understanding of the Self-Slaying Path Proving Art. After leaving the city, his purple blood reacted to a nearby presence connected to his bloodline, and he pursued it.

• Zhou Tong returned to the Southern Region through a domain gate and arrived in the Wei State.
• Zhou Tong sampled street food and settled in the Wei Capital, where he reflected on mortal life and continued cultivating for two months.
• Zhou Tong connected his state of mind to the Self-Slaying Path Proving Art and considered whether cultivating it could awaken the immortal mysteries of his Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong thought about the Ruthless Great Emperor's obsession and speculated that the God-Crossing Art might sever thoughts in others.
• Zhou Tong left the Wei Capital and headed west, but his purple blood began surging in response to a nearby presence tied to his bloodline, so he chased after it.

Ye Fan reunited with Zhou Tong on a barren battlefield, where Zhou Tong challenged Ji Haoyue after the Ji Family demanded the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon. The chapter ended as Zhou Tong resisted Ji Haoyue's Sea Rises Bright Moon phenomenon and forced its moon upward.

• Zhou Tong arrived and reunited with Ye Fan, then knocked aside a demon woman who tried to stop him.
• Yan Ruyu and the demon race party encountered Ji Haoyue and his cultivators, who demanded the Demon Emperor's Saint Weapon.
• Zhou Tong rebuked the demon race for denying the cultivation world's rule that the strong prey on the weak, then challenged Ji Haoyue.
• Ji Haoyue revealed the Sea Rises Bright Moon phenomenon and trapped Zhou Tong beneath its moonlight.
• Zhou Tong unleashed his purple sea of energy, dispelled the moonlight, and forced Ji Haoyue's bright moon higher.

Zhou Tong fought Ji Haoyue and overpowered the Divine King Body’s phenomenon with his own strength, stunning the Ji Family and everyone watching. After the two were blasted apart by their strongest attacks, Zhou Tong declared the warm-up over and said he was getting serious.

• Zhou Tong blocked Ji Haoyue’s Sea Rises Bright Moon phenomenon without moving, shocking Ji Haoyue and the onlookers.
• Ji Haoyue used Nine Revolutions of the Bright Moon, but Zhou Tong’s purple Wheel Sea broke through the phenomenon and sent the moon crashing into a mountain.
• Zhou Tong attacked with Kirin Palm, and he and Ji Haoyue fought fiercely as their powers devastated the battlefield and killed cultivators caught in the aftermath.
• The Ji Family protectors debated whether to intervene or eliminate Zhou Tong, but chose to watch as the fight continued.
• Ji Haoyue summoned his imitation Void Mirror Dao Proving Artifact to counter Kirin Palm, and the collision blasted both fighters backward.
• Zhou Tong praised Ji Haoyue’s strength, then said the warm-up was over and he was getting serious.

Zhou Tong fought Ji Haoyue until Ji Haoyue summoned the Void Mirror, forcing Zhou Tong to retreat. He escaped the Ji Family protectors after sowing suspicion among them, leaving Ji Haoyue behind.

• Zhou Tong pressed Ji Haoyue with the Kirin Step, and Ji Haoyue fused his Sea Rises Bright Moon phenomenon with the Void Divine Technique to form a Void Divine Stele.
• Zhou Tong's fifth step shattered the stele, but Ji Haoyue rose and brought out the Void Mirror, while Zhou Tong used the Purple Sun Lamp to survive its power.
• Zhou Tong praised the Void Mirror and tried to leave, but the Ji Family protectors surrounded him and threatened to kill him.
• Zhou Tong used True Phoenix Fire and questioned why Ji Haoyue had so few protectors, making them hesitate over the possibility of a family traitor.
• Zhou Tong struck the protectors with True Phoenix Soars Through the Sky and escaped on his Phoenix Wings, while the Ji Family members stayed behind to guard Ji Haoyue.

After escaping Ji Haoyue, Zhou Tong headed toward the Bronze Immortal Palace, then reunited with Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue beneath an underground lake. He revealed that his Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body was the ancient enemy of Ye Fan’s Primordial Sacred Body, leaving their bloodlines instinctively eager to clash.

• Ji Haoyue recovered from his injuries, learned that Zhou Tong might be the wanted man Zhao Hao, and vowed to kill him in their next encounter.
• Zhou Tong escaped the Ji Family and set out for the Bronze Immortal Palace, hoping to find treasures and scriptures that could help him reach the Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue reached a vast underground lake filled with ruins, where Zhou Tong joined them; Ji Ziyue feared for her brother, but Zhou Tong said he had forced Ji Haoyue to use the Void Mirror.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that their constitutions made their blood boil in one another’s presence because the Primordial Sacred Body and Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body were natural enemies.
• Zhou Tong explained that their constitutions gave them an overwhelming advantage over other cultivators of the same realm in the early stages of cultivation.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue were drawn into the Bronze Immortal Palace, where they encountered the remains of countless powerful experts and a surge of Emperor-level power. Ye Fan’s bronze fragment halted the Chaos Qi and moved them to a new area, where they found two gateways beside unusually powerful skeletons.

• Zhou Tong explained that he and Ye Fan could fight over the Emperor's Path without treating each other as enemies because of their opposed physiques.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had tracked Ye Fan using Dao patterns he had secretly left on his clothing.
• The Bronze Immortal Palace appeared, and Profound Yellow Mother Qi sealed the way out before a force dragged Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue inside.
• The three walked through the silent palace among countless ancient bones, while Ji Ziyue and Zhou Tong bickered.
• Emperor-level Chaos Qi surged through the palace, but a bronze fragment flew from Ye Fan's Wheel Sea and stopped it.
• The Chaos mist moved the three to two gateways beside more than a dozen Sacred Bones that Zhou Tong judged to be at least Great Sage Bones.

Ye Fan, Zhou Tong, and Ji Ziyue entered the Bronze Immortal Palace’s door of death and reached a hall marked with an immortal character written in blood. Zhou Tong resisted the blood’s Dao influence, memorized the Indestructible Heavenly Merit and one secret art, Three Thousand Worlds, before Ye Fan’s awakening ended the revelation.

• Ye Fan and Zhou Tong chose the door of death, and Ji Ziyue followed after Ye Fan sealed her.
• Ye Fan’s bronze fragment dispelled the deadly Chaos Qi released by the yin and yang doors.
• The three reached a hall where immortal blood on the wall revealed a powerful Dao and scriptures that drew them toward the Gate of All Wonders.
• Zhou Tong’s Reincarnation Mirror helped him resist the blood’s influence, and he recognized the scripture as the Indestructible Heavenly Merit.
• Zhou Tong memorized the full cultivation method and the secret art Three Thousand Worlds before Ye Fan broke free and the blood’s Dao Rhyme vanished.

After surviving the Great Dao Heavenly Sound, Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue escaped the Bronze Immortal Palace and discovered a vast store of Profound Yellow Qi. Ye Fan’s Green Copper Fragment claimed the Root of Profound Yellow Mother Qi, while Zhou Tong collected a small amount of ordinary Profound Yellow Qi before they continued onward.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue that he had obtained a mysterious scripture by keeping his true heart steady against the Great Dao Heavenly Sound.
• The Gate of All Wonders opened, but the three chose a passage someone had blasted through the Bronze Immortal Palace and escaped to its roof.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue flew toward a weak spot in the dark clouds and discovered that the clouds were Profound Yellow Qi.
• The Green Copper Fragment flew from Ye Fan’s Wheel Sea and seized the dazzling Root of Profound Yellow Mother Qi, shattering Ye Fan’s small tripod when he tried to contain it.
• Zhou Tong used his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings to gather a small patch of ordinary Profound Yellow Qi, then withdrew them after most of the Qi dispersed.

After escaping the lake, Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that the Primordial Sacred Body was cursed and explained the dangerous methods that might break it. Ye Fan learned the curse could strip away his cultivation, but the chapter left him with no reliable cure.

• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue escaped the water and reached the shore, where Zhou Tong decided to save his collected Profound Yellow Qi for later.
• Ji Ziyue asked Ye Fan to share the Profound Yellow Essence, and Ye Fan demanded her Ji Family scripture in return.
• Ye Fan examined his broken tripod and prepared to reforge it with the Profound Yellow Essence.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that the Primordial Sacred Body was cursed by the Underworld using the Nether Emperor's Supreme Treasure, with a deadly assault expected during the Dao Palace or Four Extremities Realm.
• Zhou Tong explained that Saint-level Divine King Blood might break the curse, but the donor would likely die; Immortal Divine Medicine might also help, though the method was uncertain.
• Ji Ziyue recalled that someone had cut out two Immortal Divine Medicines in Holy City and escaped, leaving the sacred lands unable to find them.

Zhou Tong explained ways Ye Fan might overcome the curse on his Primordial Sacred Body, then warned him that advancing would require vast resources. The discussion ended with Zhou Tong proposing to kill Ji Haoyue so Ye Fan could join the Ji Family without competing against its Divine King Body.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that the Holy City's Immortal Divine Medicines would take thousands of years to help, while a Great Emperor or a life Forbidden Zone might offer a solution to his curse.
• Ye Fan thanked Zhou Tong after learning about possible remedies, and Zhou Tong cautioned him that his powerful physique would consume enormous cultivation resources.
• Zhou Tong estimated that Ye Fan would need at least ten million jin of Source to break through the Dao Palace Realm.
• Ji Ziyue offered to recommend Ye Fan to the Ji Family, but Ye Fan doubted she could secure the resources or overcome the family's internal politics.
• Zhou Tong said he could kill Ji Haoyue to make joining the Ji Family worthwhile, leaving Ji Ziyue stunned.

Ye Fan and Zhou Tong discussed the enormous Source needed for Ye Fan to advance, then exchanged scriptures. Zhou Tong studied Ye Fan’s Dao Scripture and found a way to use previously inaccessible Gates in his Sea of Bitterness.

• Zhou Tong estimated that Ye Fan would need at least fifteen million jin of Source to cultivate safely to the Four Extremities Realm, and said he had only around three million jin left.
• Zhou Tong deduced that Ye Fan cultivated the Dao Scripture in the Sea of Wheels Realm, and explained how different Great Emperor scriptures excelled in different realms and fields.
• Zhou Tong offered Ye Fan a powerful scripture in exchange for seeing the Dao Scripture and secretly transmitted him the Four Extremities Scroll of the Hengyu Scripture.
• Ye Fan memorized the Hengyu Scripture scroll and handed Zhou Tong a sheet of golden paper containing the Dao Scripture.
• Zhou Tong studied the Dao Scripture, expanded his Sea of Bitterness by about one percent, and began using Gates that the Feather Transformation Scripture had not reached.

Ye Fan gave Zhou Tong a section of the Root of Profound Yellow Mother Qi in exchange for resources and an artifact-control method. Zhou Tong nurtured the root inside his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, then turned his attention to studying his Sea of Wheels Realm.

• Ye Fan lamented that he lacked the Dao Palace Realm scripture, and Zhou Tong offered him resources to cultivate through its fifth level in exchange for a strand of his Root of Profound Yellow Mother Qi.
• Zhou Tong suggested Ye Fan could sell his Dao Scripture for more resources, and Ye Fan agreed to consider it if he ran out of options.
• Ye Fan explained that he could not control the root without the Green Copper Fragment, so Zhou Tong taught him an artifact-control method that let him control it.
• Ye Fan cut off a section of the root far larger than Zhou Tong had requested, and Zhou Tong accepted it despite worrying that the Ruthless Great Emperor might object.
• Zhou Tong's Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings absorbed the section, drawing in the surrounding Profound Yellow Mother Qi and nurturing the root as it released more qi.
• Zhou Tong decided to let the root grow and began studying how to connect the Dao Scripture and Feather Transformation Scripture in his Sea of Wheels Realm.

Zhou Tong studied his Wheel Sea and used the Sacred Body lineage’s single-realm cultivation method to begin reconciling the Dao Scripture with the Feather Transformation Scripture. As his Sea of Wheels unified and his body transformed, he sensed a second Divine Form beginning to form and planned to cultivate the Kirin Method before challenging Taixuan Sect.

• Zhou Tong studied the conflicting droplets in his Wheel Sea while Ji Ziyue watched his strength shake the nearby lake.
• Zhou Tong saw Ye Fan drive Azure Emperor’s heart out of his Wheel Sea and flee beyond the horizon.
• Zhou Tong used the Sacred Body lineage’s single-realm cultivation method to begin connecting the Dao Scripture and Feather Transformation Scripture within his Sea of Wheels.
• Zhou Tong unified his Sea of Wheels, transformed again, and sensed that his second Divine Form was taking shape.
• Zhou Tong chose to cultivate the Kirin Treasure Art and planned to prepare materials before learning the All Character Secret and challenging Taixuan Sect.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue entered the Tai Xuan Sect seeking the Nine Secrets and a place to hide, then chose its deserted Clumsy Peak. Zhou Tong sensed that his Dao Palace scripture might let him obtain the All Character Secret before the inheritance opened.

• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue entered the Tai Xuan Sect among a crowd of prospective disciples, and Zhou Tong spotted Li Xiaoman there.
• Li Xiaoman told Zhou Tong that the Yaoguang Holy Land had changed its wanted notice from Zhao Hao to Zhou Tong, leading him to suspect that Li Changqing, Liu Yunzhi, and the others had exposed him.
• Zhou Tong warned Li Xiaoman to avoid Star Peak, and he clarified that Ye Fan could cultivate despite what the Yan Kingdom's Heavenly Caves had believed.
• The three passed the sect's test of having an activated Sea of Bitterness and chose the deserted Clumsy Peak.
• Upon stepping onto Clumsy Peak, Zhou Tong sensed a reaction in his five Dao Palaces and suspected that Emperor Venerable's scripture could help him obtain the All Character Secret.