Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong returned from Otherworld after sealing twenty-one Ancestral Gods, giving the Nine Provinces three months to prepare for a stronger invasion. He refined the sealed divine souls and compressed them until he ignited a beam of Eternal Light.

• Zhou Tong told Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan that he had sealed twenty-one Otherworld Ancestral Gods and warned that a stronger invasion could come in three months.
• War God King became a War Ancestor, while Xiao Chen and the Dragon Kings gained strength by absorbing power from an Ancestral God corpse.
• Zhou Tong returned to Dragon Island, revealed that at least ten Otherworld experts were stronger than him, and distributed fifteen Ancestral God corpses to help the Nine Provinces prepare.
• Zhou Tong entered seclusion and spent more than two months erasing the consciousness from the twenty-one sealed divine souls.
• Zhou Tong compressed the purified divine souls until they reached a critical point and ignited a beam of Eternal Light.

Zhou Tong used Eternal Light to strengthen cultivators on Dragon Island, helping Zhuangzi and Chi You become Ancestral Gods. He then prepared the Dragon Clan for the coming Otherworld invasion, merged the Winged Dragon lineage into the clan, and concealed Dragon Island before turning his attention to how to deal with the Otherworld.

• Zhou Tong infused the War Ancestors and Ninth Heaven Half-Ancestors on Dragon Island with Eternal Light, and Zhuangzi and Chi You broke through to become Ancestral Gods.
• Zhou Tong ordered the other cultivators to help Xuanyuan settle the Nine Provinces' living beings instead of resisting the approaching Otherworld invasion.
• Zhou Tong promised the Dragon Clan Eternal Light and rosy radiance, distributed Ancestral God Weapons, and told the Winged Dragon King to unite his lineage with the clan.
• The Winged Dragon King moved Winged Dragon Island beside Dragon Island, and Zhou Tong merged the two islands and gave the Savage Dragons rosy radiance.
• Zhou Tong concealed Dragon Island with formations and the Heavenly Death Bridge, moved it elsewhere, and left a decoy island in its place.

Zhou Tong confronted fifteen supreme Ancestral Gods sent by the Otherworld to invade the emptied Nine Provinces. After killing ten of them, he learned the survivors had sealed the world and were summoning an even stronger expert.

• Zhou Tong found the Nine Provinces nearly empty after the Ancestral Gods and others had evacuated its people.
• Fifteen Otherworld Ancestral Gods descended through spatial gates, including five Ninth Heaven cultivators.
• Zhou Tong killed an Eighth Heaven Ancestral God with one strike and seized another enemy's divine soul.
• The five Ninth Heaven Ancestral Gods formed a formation to block Zhou Tong while he slew four Eighth Heaven Ancestral Gods in one sword strike.
• Zhou Tong pursued and killed more Ancestral Gods as the Ninth Heaven cultivators unveiled a Divine Diagram that sealed the Nine Provinces and summoned their world's supreme expert.

Zhou Tong defeated five Ninth Heaven Ancestral Gods from Otherworld and cracked the Divine Diagram sealing the Nine Provinces. Ge Qian, the Tenth Son of the Primeval Dragon, arrived to challenge him, and Zhou Tong prepared to test his strength against him.

• The five remaining Otherworld Ancestral Gods tried to retreat through the Space Passages, but Zhou Tong blocked them and broke their weapons and armor.
• Zhou Tong killed the five Ancestral Gods before their reinforcements arrived.
• Zhou Tong attacked the Divine Diagram and created a small crack, weakening the seal over the Nine Provinces.
• Ge Qian appeared and invited Zhou Tong to talk, but Zhou Tong recognized him as the Tenth Son of the Primeval Dragon and declared they would fight.
• Zhou Tong believed Ge Qian was secretly an agent of the Nine Provinces and saw their battle as a chance to test his path.

Zhou Tong fought Ge Qian, whose emotional path and stone arm gave him the advantage in their fierce battle. Zhou Tong’s Deep Sea repeatedly healed him and helped him grow stronger, but Ge Qian’s greatest Stone Man Path strike severely wounded him again.

• Zhou Tong recognized that Ge Qian had entered the Supreme Ancestral God realm through emotion, then Ge Qian attacked in alarm and fury.
• Zhou Tong’s Dragon Fist collided with Ge Qian’s stone fist, cracking Zhou Tong’s dragon scales and drawing Ancestral Dragon blood.
• Ge Qian pressed his advantage through dozens of exchanges, while Zhou Tong’s Deep Sea healed his wounds and strengthened him.
• After thousands of clashes, Zhou Tong transformed into his Ancestral Dragon Body and Ge Qian took his draconic form as they fought across the starry sky.
• Zhou Tong’s growing potential brought him closer to Ge Qian’s strength, but Ge Qian unleashed the greatest achievement of his Stone Man Path and severely wounded him.

Zhou Tong continued fighting Ge Qian, using the battle to refine his path, until the Otherworld’s three Supreme Ancestral Gods sent their treasures to kill him. Zhou Tong escaped through a flaw in the Nine Provinces’ seal, and the Ancestral Dragon Platform intervened to block his pursuers, leaving Ge Qian to chase him.

• Zhou Tong absorbed the essence of Ge Qian’s Supreme Ancestral God Path and advanced his own King’s Path during their battle.
• The three Supreme Ancestral Gods of the Otherworld decided Zhou Tong was too dangerous and sent their Demonic Blade, shield, and thirty-three-story pagoda after him.
• Zhou Tong sensed the approaching crisis, redirected Ge Qian’s attack toward a flaw in the seal, and fled beyond the Nine Provinces.
• The three treasures struck empty space, and Ge Qian pursued Zhou Tong as the Supreme Ancestral Gods ordered his capture.
• The Ancestral Dragon Platform emerged from the Yellow River and blocked the three treasures, obscuring Zhou Tong and Ge Qian’s whereabouts before vanishing.

Zhou Tong met Ge Qian in a dying world and shared wine with him while discussing their paths and the Dragon Clan’s history. He revealed that he knew where the Nine Sons of the Primeval Dragon’s Dragon Pearls had gone and showed Ge Qian his own King's Path, proposing to use it to create powerful experts.

• Zhou Tong prepared wine in a lifeless world, and Ge Qian followed him there and sat down to talk.
• Zhou Tong and Ge Qian discussed death, their different lives, and Zhou Tong’s new inheritance for the Dragon Clan.
• Zhou Tong claimed responsibility for Ge Qian’s grievances and revealed that nine Otherworld experts had fused with the Dragon Pearls of the Nine Sons of the Primeval Dragon.
• Zhou Tong explained that Ge Qian could disrupt those experts’ breakthroughs through his connection to the Dragon Pearls, then said he could use them to create experts with his own path.
• Zhou Tong displayed his King's Path, and Ge Qian examined it in shock.

Zhou Tong refined the Nine Sons of the Primeval Dragon’s power and completed his True Dragon Dao Transformation. After stabilizing the sacred tree’s eighth leaf, he set out to attack three Stone Men in the Primordial Heaven Realm.

• Ge Qian nourished Zhou Tong’s Dragon Clan Sacred Tree until its eighth leaf grew, then passed him information about the Nine Dragon Pearls and their bearers.
• Ge Qian left after entrusting Zhou Tong with what he knew, and Zhou Tong concluded that Ge Qian had reached the final step toward becoming a Supreme Ancestral God.
• Zhou Tong integrated the Nine Sons’ Great Dao with the True Dragon Treasure Art and the Heavenly Tablet Profound Method, naming his King's Path True Dragon Dao Transformation.
• Over several years, Zhou Tong cultivated as his world collapsed into chaos, evolving the Nine Sons’ forms and stabilizing the sacred tree’s eighth leaf.
• Zhou Tong donned armor formed from the sacred tree and set out to destroy the three Stone Men in the Primordial Heaven Realm.

Zhou Tong entered the Primordial Heaven Realm and used his connection to the Nine Sons of the Primeval Dragon to infiltrate Stone Man Kings who were undergoing nirvanic transformations. He began replacing BiXi’s Stone Man King and set out to target BiAn and Taotie next.

• Zhou Tong reached the Primordial Heaven Realm and traveled to the Primordial Demon City where the Stone Man fused with BiXi’s Dragon Pearl was hiding.
• Zhou Tong disguised his Ancestral Dragon Essence as BiXi and sent it, carrying his divine consciousness, into the decoy Demon City.
• The damaged Stone Man gathered the city’s Life Essence and drew Zhou Tong’s essence and divine consciousness into his body.
• Zhou Tong’s divine consciousness imitated the Stone Man’s and began devouring his original consciousness while the Stone Man slept.
• Zhou Tong confirmed that the replacement was underway, then departed to infiltrate the Stone Men fused with BiAn and Taotie’s Dragon Pearls.

Zhou Tong infiltrated the Otherworld and planted his divine sense in the cultivators who had fused with the Nine Dragon Pearls, preparing to seize their Dao Fruits when they reached the crucial stage of their breakthroughs. Ge Qian, now a Supreme Ancestral God at Great Perfection, incapacitated the cultivator on that path to help Zhou Tong, who left the Otherworld after locating all nine targets.

• Zhou Tong found two more Demon Cities in the Primordial Heaven Realm, planted his divine sense in their stone men, and then headed for the Otherworld.
• Ge Qian, having reached Great Perfection on the Supreme Ancestral God Path, sensed Zhou Tong's arrival and struck the Supreme Ancestral God fused with FuXi's Dragon Pearl unconscious.
• Ge Qian informed Zhou Tong that he had prepared the FuXi Dragon Pearl cultivator for him, and Zhou Tong realized Ge Qian had become the sole Supreme Ancestral God at Great Perfection.
• Over three years, Zhou Tong searched the Otherworld and planted his divine sense in the cultivators fused with the YaZi, Pixiu, Suanni, ChiWen, PuLao, and FuXi Dragon Pearls.
• After locating all nine Dragon Pearl cultivators, Zhou Tong left the Otherworld unnoticed, planning to wait for them to complete their breakthroughs.

Zhou Tong entered the Sinful Chaos Land to cultivate and encountered Xiao Chen in a mysterious palace. Xiao Chen explained how he had reached the Half-Ancestor realm, and Zhou Tong recognized the Divine Diagram beside him as an Emperor Tier artifact.

• Zhou Tong entered the Sinful Chaos Land, endured its deadly forces, and followed a mysterious power to a palace surrounded by blood-red light.
• The palace recognized Zhou Tong as a cultivator of the Nine Provinces and showed him remnants of an ancient battle.
• Zhou Tong found Xiao Chen meditating in the palace, and Xiao Chen was relieved to learn that Zhou Tong had survived his fight against Otherworld.
• Xiao Chen explained that the Keke Clan's spacetime secret realm had let him cultivate rapidly, and that a Stone Man from Otherworld had sent him to the Sinful Chaos Land.
• Zhou Tong explained that the Stone Man was Ge Qian, who had fought him, but kept Ge Qian's infiltration secret from Xiao Chen.
• Zhou Tong examined Xiao Chen's Divine Diagram and recognized it as part of a complete combination with the War Swords that could wield Emperor Tier battle power.

Zhou Tong studied Xiao Chen’s War Swords and urged him to strengthen his fundamental cultivation instead of relying on treasures. At the Five Kings’ inheritance imprint, Zhou Tong uncovered a hidden living Stone Man King beneath the palace foundation.

• Zhou Tong asked to merge a thread of his divine sense into Xiao Chen’s War Swords so he could witness how the Divine Diagram formed.
• Zhou Tong recounted battles he had won against stronger opponents and advised Xiao Chen to cultivate his own methods and abilities rather than depend on external treasures.
• Zhou Tong infused his divine sense into the War Swords, where it began growing rapidly, and noted that Xiao Chen still lacked sixteen swords for a complete Array Diagram.
• Zhou Tong recognized the carved inheritance imprint as the legacy of the Five Kings of the Chaotic Land and warned Xiao Chen that a hidden danger remained.
• Zhou Tong pulled a broken Stone Man from beneath the palace foundation, revealing a living Stone Man King whose killing intent overwhelmed Xiao Chen.

Zhou Tong refined the dying Stone Man King and spent millennia comprehending its Dao and other Great Dao imprints, strengthening his divine consciousness. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen gathered War Swords until Zhou Tong’s forty-two Supreme Ancestral God-level divine consciousnesses returned to merge with his true body.

• Zhou Tong seized and refined the Stone Man King, taking its divine power, life essence, and complete Stone Man Path, and shared half its power with Xiao Chen.
• Zhou Tong meditated on the Stone Man King’s Great Dao imprint while Xiao Chen studied the Five Kings’ imprints before departing for the Primordial Heaven Realm.
• Over three thousand years, Zhou Tong’s divine consciousness grew nearly as powerful as that of a perfected Stone Man, while Xiao Chen cultivated in the Nine Provinces and found nine more War Swords.
• All forty-two War Swords vibrated as the divine consciousnesses Zhou Tong had placed in them broke through the Ancestral God realm.
• Zhou Tong thanked Xiao Chen, sent his forty-two strands of divine consciousness back to the Land of Sin and Chaos, and merged them with his true body, filling the palace with divine light.

After years of cultivating his divine consciousness, Zhou Tong connected with Stone Men he had secretly influenced and began his own Stone Man King transformation. Their transformations accelerated together, and Zhou Tong’s body remained flesh and blood as his weapons and Dragon City petrified.

• Zhou Tong realized he had gathered forty-two strands of Supreme Ancestral God-level divine consciousness and had comprehended six-sevenths of the Divine Diagram.
• Zhou Tong connected with the Stone Man fused with BiXi’s Dragon Pearl, and that Stone Man received Great Dao imprints that Zhou Tong had arranged.
• Zhou Tong began his transformation in Dragon City, while the power of his Deep Sea Divine Abilities halted the petrification of his body.
• Over the following centuries, Zhou Tong connected with the Stone Men fused with PuLao’s and YaZi’s Dragon Pearls, then with the other Otherworld Stone Men he had influenced.
• After all nine Stone Men connected with Zhou Tong, their transformations accelerated to more than ten times their previous speed.

After more than seven thousand years of secluded cultivation, Xiao Chen returned to the Land of Sin and Chaos and listened to Zhou Tong’s Dao Sound. More than three thousand years later, a new Stone Man King emerged in the Primordial Heaven Realm, only to discover that another consciousness had taken control of his body.

• Xiao Chen awoke as a sixth-heaven Ancestor God and returned to the Land of Sin and Chaos to seek further guidance.
• Xiao Chen found Zhou Tong transforming inside a miniature Dragon City, and Zhou Tong shared the Dao Sound that nourished Xiao Chen’s divine consciousness.
• More than three thousand years later, a Stone Man emerged in the Primordial Heaven Realm, alarming the Heaven Realm’s Stone Man Kings with his rapid transformation.
• The Otherworld faction celebrated the new Stone Man King, who recognized his ancestor among them, but he soon found that he could no longer control his body or power.
• A second consciousness revealed that it had used the man’s Great Dao imprints and BiXi’s Dragon Pearl to seize his body, and the man’s consciousness was extinguished.

Zhou Tong gathered the eight newly matured Stone Man Kings and a newly advanced Supreme Ancestral God in Dragon City, while Wolf Fang discovered they had vanished. The nine offered their power and Dao Fruits to Zhou Tong, beginning a profound transformation that left his next step underway.

• Three Stone Man Kings emerged in the Primordial Heaven Realm, and five more matured safely in Otherworld within a century.
• Wolf Fang held a Feast of Kings, then learned that all eight Stone Man Kings and the newly advanced Supreme Ancestral God had disappeared.
• Wolf Fang searched Otherworld and spotted Ge Qian, who silently celebrated Zhou Tong’s success.
• Nine figures approached Xiao Chen in the Land of Sin and Chaos, and Zhou Tong revealed that they were all his.
• The eight Stone Man Kings and the Supreme Ancestral God sacrificed their power, consciousness, and Dao Fruits to Zhou Tong inside Dragon City.
• Dragon City, the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree, and the Ancestral Dragon Sword radiated nine-colored light as Zhou Tong’s body and consciousness transformed further.

After more than ten thousand years of transformation, Zhou Tong emerged from Dragon City as a perfected flesh-and-blood king, far surpassing Stone Man Kings in physical strength and divine consciousness. He refined the weapons of the nine sacrificed kings into his armor and Ancestral Dragon Sword, then realized that his True Dragon Method had become a path uniquely his own.

• After another thousand years passed, Dragon City cracked open and Zhou Tong emerged from his nirvana as an Azure Dragon before returning to human form.
• Zhou Tong confirmed that his perfected body and divine consciousness surpassed those of Stone Man Kings and even Ge Qian, making him invincible in a world without an Emperor.
• Xiao Chen asked how Zhou Tong had transformed so quickly, and Zhou Tong explained that the sacrifices of eight Stone Man Kings and one perfected Supreme Ancestral God had helped him succeed.
• Zhou Tong burned the nine surviving weapons of the sacrificed kings and merged their essence into his armor and Ancestral Dragon Sword, bringing both to the pinnacle of king-level weapons.
• Zhou Tong meditated on his Great Dao and realized that he had transformed the True Dragon Treasure Art into a method uniquely suited to this world's Great Dao system.

Zhou Tong returned to Nine Provinces with Xiao Chen, then went to Dragon Island and reunited with the Dragon Clan. He revealed that he had reached the Stone King Realm and vowed to strengthen the Dragon Clan and prevent its destruction.

• Zhou Tong took Xiao Chen to Nine Provinces, where they saw that a technological civilization had arisen during the more than ten thousand years since the evacuation.
• Zhou Tong gave Xiao Chen a token for Dragon Island, then returned to the island and summoned the dragons with his roar.
• Zhou Tong found that Dragon Island had nine War Ancestors but no new Ancestral Dragons, and the Dragon Clan welcomed his return.
• Zhou Tong told the Dragon Kings that the clan's curse remained but that he had reached the Stone King Realm, opening another Ancestral Dragon position.
• Zhou Tong promised to stay on Dragon Island for five hundred years, advise the dragons in cultivation, and forge Stone Weapons to protect them.

After spending five hundred years strengthening the Dragon Clan and refining his king-level power, Zhou Tong returned to the Otherworld and attacked the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps. His assault drew attention away from the Primordial Prison so Ge Qian could try to rescue his father, while Zhou Tong left the Otherworld’s three Supreme Ancestral Gods dead and began climbing the steps.

• Zhou Tong spent five hundred years guiding the Dragon Clan and forged nine blood-infused stone artifacts for its War Ancestors.
• Zhou Tong retrieved the Heavenly Death Bridge, left the Nine Provinces, and contacted Ge Qian in the Otherworld.
• Zhou Tong deduced that Ge Qian wanted to rescue his father from the Primordial Prison and promised to create an opening for him.
• Zhou Tong attacked the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps, prompting Ge Qian to rush toward the Primordial Prison.
• The Otherworld’s three Supreme Ancestral Gods attacked Zhou Tong, but he killed them with a single step and ascended the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps.

Zhou Tong climbed the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps after killing the three Supreme Ancestral Gods who guarded them. As he continued through the staircase’s terrifying trials without slowing, both the Otherworld and Nine Provinces cultivators wondered whether he had reached the legendary Supreme Ancestral God realm.

• Zhou Tong stepped onto the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps and resisted the waves of destructive power as he climbed.
• Otherworld cultivators were shocked by Zhou Tong’s strength and grew hostile, while Nine Provinces experts questioned why he was challenging the steps alone.
• The Nine Provinces faction learned that Zhou Tong had killed the three Supreme Ancestral Gods guarding the staircase, and its members celebrated their deaths.
• Zhou Tong passed twenty-seven levels as heat and killing light vanished around him, then continued into darkness when a terrifying aura spread across the steps.
• The cultivators heard hollow footsteps and felt overwhelming fear, but Zhou Tong remained unaffected and kept climbing.