Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong met Qing Qing after escaping the Bewildering Flower Sea, and she brought him to a secluded village where the Black Dragon King attacked him. After Zhou Tong effortlessly defeated the Black Dragon King, he questioned a little fat boy about who had left him, Xiao Chen, and Lan Nuo behind on Dragon Island.

• Zhou Tong encountered Qing Qing at the edge of the Bewildering Flower Sea and revealed that he was the Azure Dragon King.
• Qing Qing led Zhou Tong to her village, where her grandfather noticed his dragon horns.
• The Black Dragon King attacked Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong broke its divine ability, restrained it, and knocked it unconscious.
• A little fat boy rushed to check on the Black Dragon King, and Zhou Tong asked him who had planned to abandon Xiao Chen, Lan Nuo, and Zhou Tong on Dragon Island.

Zhou Tong learned that the Immortal Gate and Devil had persuaded the Dragon Kings to abandon him on Dragon Island, then accepted the old man’s offer to seek Ancestral Dragon Qi at the Sacred Mountain. He left after overpowering the Black Dragon King, while Qing Qing learned how far Zhou Tong had advanced.

• The little fat boy told Zhou Tong that the Immortal Gate proposed leaving him behind on Dragon Island and that Devil threatened the clans into agreeing.
• The old man offered Zhou Tong a chance to seek the Ancestral Dragon Qi at the Sacred Mountain as compensation and explained its dangers and legends.
• The Black Dragon King woke and challenged Zhou Tong to compete for the Ancestral Dragon Qi, but Zhou Tong’s dragon might knocked him and the little fat boy unconscious.
• Zhou Tong departed, and the old man told Qing Qing that the Black Dragon King could avoid a fight by giving up his claim to the Ancestral Dragon position.
• The old man assessed Zhou Tong’s cultivation as far beyond Qing Qing’s and praised his speed, dragon might, and solid foundation.

Zhou Tong reached Suiren Shi’s Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace and searched its barren slopes for the Dragon King’s remains. He recovered the Dragon Clan Sacred Sword and resolved to complete its legacy as a true Ancestral Dragon.

• Zhou Tong arrived at the sacred mountain and climbed through its dangerous mists to an oasis forest.
• Zhou Tong followed traces of dragon qi and found the remains of a Dragon King who had nearly become an Ancestral Dragon.
• Zhou Tong burned the Dragon Bones with blue flames, restoring and transforming them until they became the Dragon Clan Sacred Sword.
• Zhou Tong recognized the sword’s history and weakness, then made a wooden scabbard and strapped it to his back.

Zhou Tong absorbed the Earth Bloodline and completed his seventh transformation before cutting through the soul-devouring forest on the Sacred Mountain. He reached the ruined altar and began summoning the Dragon King's soul to obtain the Ancestral Dragon qi hidden within it.

• Zhou Tong drew in the Earth Bloodline, underwent his sixth and seventh death tribulations, and transformed further toward an Ancestral Dragon body.
• Zhou Tong refined two pieces of Dragon Skin into his armor after exhausting the Earth Bloodline.
• The awakened trees attacked Zhou Tong, and he cut down the forest around him with the Dragon Clan Sacred Sword.
• Zhou Tong harvested the trees' calming heartwood and continued through the Sacred Mountain, killing the holy souls that blocked his path.
• Zhou Tong found the ruined altar and used Qing Qing's grandfather's method to summon the Dragon King's soul.

Zhou Tong summoned the White Dragon King's soul at the Sacred Mountain and fought it in a battle of wills to claim its power. After defeating the dragon, he began suppressing the power in his body as his eighth and ninth death tribulations descended together.

• Zhou Tong performed the soul-summoning ritual with the Dragon Clan Sacred Sword and drew hostile sacred souls to the altar.
• Zhou Tong cut down the attacking soul shadows with the sword intent of the Peace Calamity Art.
• The White Dragon King's soul arrived, and Zhou Tong accepted its challenge to fight for its power.
• Zhou Tong and the white dragon battled fiercely in his sea of consciousness for two hours before Zhou Tong won.
• Zhou Tong suppressed the chaos in his body and absorbed the White Dragon King's Dragon Yuan and Ancestral Dragon Essence, triggering his eighth and ninth death tribulations at once.

Xiao Chen, Niu Ren, and the Black Dragon King found Zhou Tong apparently dead on an altar, guarded by a Dragon Clan holy sword. Zhou Tong emerged from nirvana with his vitality restored and his Ancestral Dragon body nearly complete.

• Xiao Chen and Niu Ren approached an altar with the Black Dragon King, seeking to summon the little snow-white beast’s soul.
• The Black Dragon King sensed another dragon and led them to Zhou Tong, whom Xiao Chen and Niu Ren recognized as the Azure Dragon King.
• When Niu Ren approached Zhou Tong’s body, a divine sword appeared and threatened him, then returned to guard Zhou Tong.
• The Black Dragon King tried unsuccessfully for a day to claim the holy sword, which acknowledged only Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong’s apparent corpse split open, and he emerged from nirvana with renewed vitality and an almost complete Ancestral Dragon body.

After completing his ninth nirvana, Zhou Tong emerged in the Longevity Realm and learned from Xiao Chen how the Tiger Family and others had brought about his current suffering. He defeated the Black Dragon King in a battle of wills and received its Ancestral Dragon Essence, leaving the Black Dragon King unable to evolve into an Ancestral Dragon without taking another’s essence.

• Zhou Tong emerged from nirvana, reached the Longevity Realm, and refined his shed dragon skin with his Dragon Scale Armor.
• Zhou Tong reunited with Xiao Chen, asked about Keke and the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree, and heard how the Tiger Family and Southern Wasteland Dragon Clan had targeted them.
• Zhou Tong told Xiao Chen that cultivating the Heavenly Tablet Profound Method could restore his life essence and explained that he had adapted its essence into a technique of his own.
• The Black Dragon King challenged Zhou Tong to a battle of wills and wagered its Ancestral Dragon Essence.
• Zhou Tong overwhelmed the Black Dragon King’s will, gained its Ancestral Dragon Essence, and made it submit.

Xiao Chen and his companions were trapped inside the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace and learned that Keke had sent a plea for help from the Underworld. They left Senluo Hall for the Nine Nether Platform, with Zhou Tong eager to explore the dangers ahead.

• The Black Dragon King surrendered its Ancestral Dragon Essence to the Azure Dragon King, and Niu Ren checked on it before helping Xiao Chen perform a soul-summoning ritual.
• The ritual opened a Space Passage, and the altar sank into the Heaven and Earth Copper Furnace, trapping Xiao Chen, Niu Ren, Zhou Tong, and the others inside.
• A voice from the passage explained that the furnace contained dark domains forged by Ancestral God Suiren Shi, who had failed to unite them and establish order.
• After days of searching, the group found Senluo Hall, where King Chu Jiang gave Xiao Chen a Yin Wood Token marked with Keke's paw prints and directed him to the Nine Nether Platform.
• King Chu Jiang warned them to avoid uncontrolled dead souls and unknown nether palaces, and Xiao Chen's group left Senluo Hall while Zhou Tong refused to carry them and looked forward to exploring.

Zhou Tong swept through the Underworld, defeating powerful Evil Ghosts and advancing to the second layer of the Longevity Realm. After Xiao Chen sensed a disturbance from Suiren Shi's Corpse Wrapping Cloth, Zhou Tong led the group toward it, changing their route.

• Zhou Tong fought and killed the Profound Yin Ghost King, comprehending its Yin lightning and strengthening his own Lightning Law.
• Zhou Tong continued battling the Underworld's Evil Ghosts, suffering injuries but advancing from the first to the second layer of the Longevity Realm.
• Zhou Tong transformed into his dragon form and tore apart a powerful scaled ghost creature.
• Xiao Chen sensed that Suiren Shi's Corpse Wrapping Cloth was reacting to something nearby and asked the group to stop.
• Zhou Tong realized the group had strayed from Xiao Chen's original route and directed the Black Dragon King toward the disturbance.

Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen found three parts of the Stone Man Nine Parts in the Underworld, while Zhou Tong traded dragon blood for access to the Ksitigarbha Temple’s Buddhist scriptures. The chapter left Xiao Chen sensing a seated stone-man phantom forming within his body as its recovered parts joined together.

• Zhou Tong defeated the Evil Ghosts in their path, and Xiao Chen spotted sacred light coming from three ruined temples.
• Suiren Shi's Corpse Wrapping Cloth burst from Xiao Chen and uncovered a stone leg, which Xiao Chen put away.
• The cloth led them to the Immortal Slaying Sword, which broke free and flew away, revealing a second stone leg beneath it.
• At the Ksitigarbha Temple, Zhou Tong offered three drops of dragon blood in exchange for the Buddhist Sect's heritage and entered the Scripture Pavilion to study its scriptures.
• The temple shook as the third Stone Man part returned to Xiao Chen, who sensed the two legs and left arm joining into a cross-legged phantom within him.

Zhou Tong found Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s cultivation methods, reached the Nine Nether Platform, and broke through to the Longevity Realm Triple Heaven. After taking the Old Woman’s directions, he battled the Underworld’s powerful ghostly creatures and gathered a vast forest of Yin Wood before leading Xiao Chen and Niu Ren out of the Underworld.

• Zhou Tong found the Divine Abilities, Cultivation Methods, and Battle Techniques in Ksitigarbha Temple, then traveled with his companions to the Nine Nether Platform.
• Xiao Chen contacted Keke through the sealed gate, while the Old Woman helped Niu Ren merge with the Bull King’s Soul.
• Zhou Tong cultivated at the Nine Nether Platform and broke through to the Longevity Realm Triple Heaven.
• The Old Woman gave Zhou Tong the locations of Purple Diamond Yin Wood groves, and he set out with Xiao Chen and Niu Ren to collect them by fighting the Underworld’s vicious souls and Evil Ghosts.
• After months of battles, Zhou Tong collected nearly four hundred Purple Diamond Yin Wood trees and led Xiao Chen and Niu Ren out of the Underworld.

After more than a year of quiet cultivation in the Pure Land, Zhou Tong reached the Longevity Realm Ninth Heaven and set out for the Central Land. He entered Great Shang and explored its storied landscapes, sensing the traces of ancient powers and longing to test himself against a legendary swordsman.

• Zhou Tong returned to the Pure Land with Xiao Chen, and Qing Qing noticed Xiao Chen’s health and lifespan had improved.
• Zhou Tong stayed in the Pure Land for over a year, cultivating, studying divine abilities, and raising his cultivation from the Longevity Realm Triple Heaven to the Ninth Heaven.
• Zhou Tong expanded his Inner World to one hundred thousand square kilometers and developed Dragon Fist as a technique suited to the Longevity World Cultivation System.
• Zhou Tong said farewell to the Pure Land elders and left for the Central Land.
• Zhou Tong entered Great Shang and explored Crimson Dragon Peak, Mulberry Forest Plain, and Sword Valley, where the ancient sword intent stirred his desire to fight.

Zhou Tong reached the Azure Dragon River and entered a state of unity with heaven and earth, gaining insight that let him break through from the Ninth Heaven of the Longevity Realm to the Third Heaven of the Fish Leap Realm. After refining his dragon armor, he considered whether evolving into an Ancestral Dragon would trigger the Dragon Clan’s curse, and whether the curse could affect him as an outsider.

• Zhou Tong traveled across the Central Land, observing its landscapes and the traces left by ancient battles.
• At the Azure Dragon River, Zhou Tong merged with the rhythms of nature and gained profound insights into heaven and earth.
• Streams from the Yin Yang Sea circulated through Zhou Tong’s Deep Sea, and the Spiritual Treasures within his lone island world nourished his body.
• Zhou Tong broke through three levels in succession, advancing from the Ninth Heaven of the Longevity Realm to the Third Heaven of the Fish Leap Realm.
• Zhou Tong refined his shed dragon skin into armor and calculated that he had gathered enough Ancestral Dragon Essence to evolve after one more shedding.
• Zhou Tong wondered whether becoming an Ancestral Dragon would bring another great extinction upon the Dragon Clan and whether its curse applied to him.

After reaching the Fish Leap Realm, Zhou Tong headed to the Youchao Heavenly Palace to temper his new strength in battle. As the gathered cultivators breached a palace restriction, a legendary Dragon Slaying Blade appeared and left the Dragon Clan stunned.

• Zhou Tong reflected on his Fish Leap Realm transformation and decided that great battles would help him advance further.
• Zhou Tong transformed into an Azure Dragon and flew toward the Youchao Heavenly Palace in the Heavenly Net Kingdom.
• Cultivators of many races gathered at the palace, where human elders identified a weak point in its restrictions.
• The Winged Dragons, Fallen Angels, humans, and other races joined forces to attack the weak point.
• The restriction on a side hall cracked, and a crimson blade emerged with terrifying killing intent.
• A cultivator recognized the weapon as the legendary Dragon Slaying Blade, alarming the Dragon Clan.

The legendary Dragon Slaying Blade let a Fallen Angel wound the Winged Dragon Clan’s leader, but Zhou Tong arrived in a storm and killed the Fallen Angel with lightning. The blade remained embedded in the grassland as Zhou Tong challenged anyone to take it, leaving the gathered experts too frightened to approach.

• The Winged Dragon Clan’s leader claimed the Dragon Slaying Blade, but a Fallen Angel seized it first and used it to sever half of the leader’s claw.
• The Fallen Angel challenged the Winged Dragon Clan, while dark clouds and thunder gathered over the Heavenly Palace.
• Zhou Tong appeared in the clouds as a colossal dragon and unleashed lightning that burned away the Fallen Angel’s aura and killed him.
• The Dragon Slaying Blade fell into the grassland, and Zhou Tong asked who dared take it.
• The gathered experts fell silent and retreated from the blade.

Zhou Tong destroyed the Dragon Slaying Blade, freeing the dragon spirit trapped inside and absorbing another strand of Ancestral Dragon Essence. He claimed the Heavenly Palace of Youchao Shi for the Dragon Clan, deliberately drawing the attention of rival powers as he prepared to fight.

• Zhou Tong transformed into human form and revealed himself as a young Azure Dragon King, surprising the crowd and the Winged Dragon Clan.
• Zhou Tong struck the Dragon Slaying Blade with his Dragon Clan Sacred Sword and broke it in two.
• A dragon spirit escaped the shattered blade and dispersed, while Ancestral Dragon Essence flowed into Zhou Tong; he resolved to return to Dragon Island before reaching the Supreme Being Realm.
• Zhou Tong claimed Youchao Shi's Heavenly Palace for the Dragon Clan, prompting people in the crowd to consider summoning their patriarchs and ancestors.
• Zhou Tong ignored the Winged Dragon Clan's confusion and waited by the Heavenly Palace, intending to attract opponents for battle.

Zhou Tong broke another restriction in the Youchao Shi Heavenly Palace and obtained the Demon Sealing Scroll. When a Buddhist great Buddha tried to suppress and convert him, Zhou Tong killed it and challenged all experts under heaven.

• Zhou Tong shattered a side hall of the Youchao Shi Heavenly Palace and seized the Demon Sealing Scroll.
• A great Buddha appeared and demanded that Zhou Tong submit and become its guardian Heavenly Dragon.
• The Buddhist great Buddha trapped Zhou Tong in its palm and tried to subdue him with Buddhist chants and Divine Laws.
• Zhou Tong broke free, wounded the great Buddha with his sword, and then beheaded it.
• Zhou Tong challenged all experts under heaven, and no one dared meet his gaze.

Zhou Tong defeated several Fish Leap Realm experts and then fought seven Ninth Heaven opponents at once, establishing his overwhelming strength. He spared the seven and challenged the crowd, prompting more powerful experts to step forward.

• Zhou Tong crushed an attacker’s secret treasure and killed him with a Dragon Fist.
• Zhou Tong broke free of an elderly man’s ice-based divine abilities and killed him with another Dragon Fist.
• Seven Ninth Heaven Fish Leap Realm experts attacked Zhou Tong together, and he fought them in a prolonged battle.
• Zhou Tong defeated all seven, spared their lives, and told them to train for another two hundred years.
• Zhou Tong called for more challengers, and several powerful experts stepped out from the crowd.

After winning his 976th consecutive battle while guarding the Youchao Shi Heavenly Palace, Zhou Tong decided that the increasingly dangerous opponents made it time to leave. He flew back toward Dragon Island, leaving the gathered factions to argue over the palace and the treasures inside.

• Zhou Tong defeated a peak Supreme Being Realm expert, then meditated to heal while spectators marveled at his year of undefeated battles.
• The spectators discussed Zhou Tong’s control of the Youchao Shi Heavenly Palace and the treasures he had seized, while Zhou Tong reflected on his progress to the Ninth Heaven of the Fish Leap Realm and the dangers of advancing further.
• Zhou Tong decided to return to Dragon Island before even stronger enemies arrived, transformed into an azure dragon, and departed after mocking the gathered fighters.
• After Zhou Tong left, the crowd erupted into complaints, while Dragon Clan members and rival factions privately reacted with relief or frustration.

Zhou Tong killed the three Immortal Gate elders who had betrayed him, then summoned the Ancestral Dragon Ship from the South Sea. He boarded the ship, which set sail for Dragon Island.

• The three elders at the Immortal Gate learned that Zhou Tong was the Azure Dragon King and worried that he might seek revenge.
• Zhou Tong appeared beside the elders, dismissed their mountain-protecting formation as no obstacle, and killed all three before leaving the Immortal Gate.
• At the South Sea shore, Zhou Tong transformed into his Ancestral Dragon form and roared toward Dragon Island, summoning the Ancestral Dragon Ship.
• The Ancestral Dragon Ship answered Zhou Tong’s call, and he realized his Ancestral Dragon Qi allowed him to summon it alone.
• Zhou Tong boarded the ship and felt the sorrowful thoughts preserved in its Ancestral Dragon Bone.
• The Ancestral Dragon Ship left the shore and sailed toward Dragon Island.