Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong continued up the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps and confronted Wolf Fang, an ancient Stone Man King. After Wolf Fang attacked, Zhou Tong revealed his complete Supreme Ancestral God power and shattered Wolf Fang’s body with a single Dragon Fist, stunning the witnesses.

• Wolf Fang spoke from the eighty-first step, while Zhou Tong ignored him and continued climbing.
• Wolf Fang warned Zhou Tong that he was only a Supreme Ancestral God and urged him to wait until he became an unparalleled king.
• Zhou Tong stopped Wolf Fang’s pointing finger with his divine consciousness, revealing that he had reached complete perfection.
• Wolf Fang summoned his stone wolf-tooth club and attacked Zhou Tong, declaring that a king from the Nine Provinces could not be allowed to live.
• Zhou Tong struck with his Dragon Fist, sent Wolf Fang’s club flying, and smashed Wolf Fang’s body into pieces.

Zhou Tong refined Wolf Fang after defeating him, then confronted the Otherworld’s surviving Stone Man Kings. As Ge Qian attacked the Primordial Prison, Zhou Tong struck one of the three newly emerged kings with World Shattering.

• Zhou Tong seized and refined Wolf Fang’s divine soul and shattered body, using his Essence Blood to nourish Life-Returning Grass in his Inner World.
• Onlookers from the Nine Provinces and Heaven Realm recognized Zhou Tong as a Supreme Ancestral God at Great Perfection with a Flesh and Blood Body, while the Otherworld mourned Wolf Fang.
• A sigh from another Otherworld ancestor spread terror, but Zhou Tong dispelled its eerie effects and finished refining Wolf Fang.
• Lu Zhan and two other Stone Man Kings appeared, revealing that four Otherworld kings had survived the battle in the Chaotic Lands, including Wolf Fang before his defeat.
• Ge Qian attacked the Otherworld’s Primordial Prison, and when one Stone Man King moved to kill him, Zhou Tong struck the king with World Shattering and severely wounded him.

Zhou Tong fought three Stone Man Kings on the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps while Ge Qian worked to break the Primordial Prison. Zhou Tong overwhelmed the kings, leaving the other Stone Man Kings shaken and considering him a threat that could not be allowed to live.

• A Stone Man King recovered from his injuries as Zhou Tong revealed that he understood the kings’ purpose, while Ge Qian continued his task.
• A saber-wielding Stone Man King attacked Ge Qian, but Zhou Tong blocked him with the Ancestral Dragon Sword and pierced his chest, shattering the lower thirty-six layers of the steps.
• Lu Zhan and the other two kings joined forces against Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong split Lu Zhan’s palm and struck the hammer-wielding king with the True Dragon Seal.
• Zhou Tong unleashed his dragon roar, cracking the saber-wielding king’s body before he could attack.
• Heaven Realm Giants and Stone Man Kings watched Zhou Tong’s display, and some Stone Man Kings began to regard him as a threat who had to be eliminated.

Zhou Tong battled the Otherworld’s three Stone Man Kings and confronted the Emperor-tier Demonic Shadow summoned from beyond the Ninety-Nine Layered Stone Steps. After the clash sealed the gate and left Zhou Tong seemingly fallen, he revealed that Lu Zhan was the true target of his journey and touched his brow.

• Ge Qian rampaged through the Primordial Prison, freeing prisoners as chaos spread across the region.
• Lu Zhan and the other two Stone Man Kings joined forces against Zhou Tong, then performed a ritual to summon the Emperor-tier Demonic Shadow.
• The Demonic Shadow emerged through the stone gate, and Zhou Tong countered its black mist with the nine-colored light of the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree.
• The collision shook the myriad heavens and worlds; afterward Zhou Tong fell from the steps and the stone gate shut completely.
• Lu Zhan rushed toward Zhou Tong, who opened his eyes and revealed that Lu Zhan was the true target of his journey.
• Zhou Tong touched Lu Zhan’s brow before he could understand what Zhou Tong wanted from him.

After the kings sealed Otherworld, King Pangu helped the Nine Provinces establish themselves in the Primordial Heaven Realm. A hundred years later, Zhou Tong awoke from his healing and learned what had happened since the battle, while King Pangu warned him against pursuing the Emperor Tier mysteries he had touched.

• The kings of the Heaven Realm and Death World sealed Otherworld’s gate, then fought its Stone Man Kings alongside Lu Zhan until imperial might ended the battle.
• King Pangu split the Primordial Heaven Realm’s barrier, allowing the Nine Provinces’ people and Dragon Island to enter and establish the Nine Provinces as the realm’s strongest faction.
• Zhou Tong awoke from a hundred years of seclusion and spoke with King Pangu and Keke's Profound Ancestor about the battle’s aftermath.
• King Pangu explained that Ge Qian was suppressing his father Yinglong and trying to restore his consciousness.
• King Pangu realized Zhou Tong had touched the Emperor Tier mysteries and warned him not to pursue that inauspicious realm too deeply.

Zhou Tong visited Ge Qian, learned that Ge Qian was trying to restore his father, a Stone Dragon transformed by Otherworld, and reflected on his own progress toward Emperor Tier. He then used Lu Zhan to investigate Little Stone Emperor’s Tomb and concealed himself within him as the search for the tomb stirred the Primordial Heaven Realm.

• Zhou Tong found Ge Qian suppressing the crimson-eyed Stone Dragon and learned that restoring his father’s consciousness could take one or two Civilization Eras.
• Zhou Tong returned to Dragon Island, where the Dragon Clan had gained nine Ancestral Gods and three new War Ancestors over the past hundred years.
• Zhou Tong considered King Pangu’s warning about Emperor Tier and decided Little Stone Emperor’s Tomb might reveal how to reach it.
• Zhou Tong met Lu Zhan, whose body and Dao Imprint he controlled, and asked for news about the tomb.
• Lu Zhan reported that Little Stone Emperor’s Tomb had vanished after an expert discovered it, prompting powerful figures across the Primordial Heaven Realm to search for it.
• Zhou Tong concealed himself within Lu Zhan and told him to act according to the circumstances.

Zhou Tong followed the cultivators into Little Stone Emperor's Tomb, where Little Stone Emperor summoned Stone Man Kings and their Dao imprints for a discourse on the Great Dao. As the debate began, Zhou Tong listened and gained new insights, seemingly entering the Land of Origin of the Dao.

• The seven Demon Stars appeared above Sky-Splitting Valley and formed a powerful formation around Little Stone Emperor's Tomb.
• Five Stone Man Kings fixed the tomb in place, allowing the cultivators to enter its world and pass its tests.
• The cultivators who met Little Stone Emperor's requirements reached the tomb's depths and found seven enormous graves and Little Stone Emperor's imprint.
• Little Stone Emperor summoned seven Stone Man King imprints and invited the Stone Man Kings in the tomb to join a discourse on the Dao.
• Zhou Tong listened to the fifteen Stone Man Kings debate the Dao and began comprehending its boundless profundities.

After a decade-long discussion of the Dao, Little Stone Emperor rewarded Lu Zhan and Shi Ying, then activated his plan to revive himself by refining the seven Kings trapped in his tombs. His reborn body reached seventy percent flesh and blood and touched the Emperor Tier, while Zhou Tong studied the transformation and reflected on his own path.

• Little Stone Emperor praised Lu Zhan's exposition and gave him the Moon Shadow Demonic Blade, then gave Shi Ying a stone seal.
• Little Stone Emperor revealed that he had killed himself to prepare a scheme for breaking through to a higher realm.
• Little Stone Emperor's seven tombs activated their forty-nine formations and trapped the seven Kings as their Dao divine power was refined.
• The old Daoist priest, Little Stone Emperor's newborn body, fused with his ancient half-flesh, half-stone body.
• Little Stone Emperor emerged with a body that was seventy percent flesh and blood, releasing an aura that shook the Heaven Realm.
• Zhou Tong studied Little Stone Emperor's transformation and regretted using the nine Kings too early to aid his own breakthrough.

Little Stone Emperor completed his transformation and reached the absolute peak, but the world began to break him apart because it would not allow another Emperor to appear. Zhou Tong revealed that he had replaced Lu Zhan and asked Little Stone Emperor to pass on his breakthrough method, ending with a challenge to fight Zhou Tong’s future self.

• Little Stone Emperor drew on the Sun Star and the power of the seven great kings to temper his body while Zhou Tong studied the Dao and refined his own True Dragon Method.
• After ten thousand years, the seven tombs burst open, and Little Stone Emperor emerged with regenerated flesh and an overwhelming aura that subdued the seven kings.
• Little Stone Emperor recognized Lu Zhan’s absence, and Zhou Tong revealed himself, reclaimed Lu Zhan’s soul, and took his stone body into his Inner World.
• Zhou Tong asked Little Stone Emperor to share the Great Dao of his breakthrough, but cracks spread across Little Stone Emperor’s body as the world rejected the birth of another Emperor.
• Little Stone Emperor gathered his scattered Essence Blood and explained that heaven and earth were imperfect, and Zhou Tong urged him to pass on his method so they could face each other in the future.

Little Stone Emperor shared his Emperor Tier breakthrough method with Zhou Tong, then pierced through time to battle figures from the future and before ancient times. After reflecting on his parents and asking about the Three Emperors Mirror’s master, he died, and his corpse and the seven Demon Stars returned to dust and the tombs.

• Little Stone Emperor sent Zhou Tong his insights into a breakthrough method based on an old body, a newborn body, and the fusion of life and death, which Zhou Tong judged unsuitable for his needs.
• Little Stone Emperor pierced through time and fought an enemy from the future, then battled several figures from before ancient times, confirming that others had reached his realm.
• Little Stone Emperor wondered how many people had reached that realm and asked what realm the Three Emperors Mirror’s master had attained.
• Little Stone Emperor remembered the warmth of his parents, dropped the Three Emperors Mirror, and lost his life aura.
• Stone Corpse approached to take the mirror but retreated when Little Stone Emperor’s corpse still seemed to hold light; the corpse then crumbled into ash, and the seven Demon Stars returned to the seven great tombs.

Zhou Tong claimed the Three Emperors Mirror and confronted the Stone Man Kings over Little Stone Emperor’s remaining tombs. After killing Stone Corpse and Old Ancestor Xuankong with ease, he drove the surviving Kings out of the mausoleum.

• A Three-Eyed Clan Stone King tried to seize the Three Emperors Mirror, but it shattered his arm before appearing in Zhou Tong’s hand.
• Zhou Tong refined the mirror and rejected the Stone Man Kings’ proposal to divide the seven tombs, revealing that he intended to take them all.
• Stone Corpse attacked Zhou Tong, who crushed his neck, destroyed his primordial spirit, and warned the other Kings to leave.
• Old Ancestor Xuankong threatened Zhou Tong, who shattered his body with a palm strike and suppressed his divine soul.
• Zhou Tong ordered the remaining four Stone Man Kings to leave, and they withdrew from Little Stone Emperor’s mausoleum.

After the four great kings retreated, Zhou Tong let the remaining Stone Man Kings go to keep them from turning against the Nine Provinces after he left. Xiao Chen and Keke searched Little Stone Emperor’s tomb for treasures, and Zhou Tong collected the tombs and the spoils of the two kings he had killed.

• Zhou Tong explained to Xiao Chen that killing the departing Stone Man Kings could push the neutral ones toward the Otherworld, and he let them leave partly to protect the Nine Provinces and Dragon Clan after his departure.
• Zhou Tong broke the remaining tomb restrictions and allowed Xiao Chen and Keke to choose treasures, keeping Little Stone Emperor’s seven Demon Stars for himself.
• Xiao Chen took the ninth Heavenly Tablet and several valuable objects but left the remaining Stone Weapons, while Keke found the Life-Returning Grass.
• Zhou Tong refined the Stone Corpse and Old Ancestor Xuankong’s bodies, absorbed their Life Essence, and erased their consciousnesses to take their memories and Dao imprints.
• After Xiao Chen and Keke returned, Zhou Tong gathered all seven tombs, including the remaining Stone Weapons and Demon Stars.

Zhou Tong revealed that Emperor Tier beings had survived by hiding or cutting down their realms, then used Little Stone Emperor’s treasures to construct a formation with Xiao Chen. The Big Dipper Demon Sealing Great Formation was completed to counter shadows and residual power, though it remained weaker than the true formation.

• Zhou Tong told Xiao Chen that ancient Emperor Tier beings had survived by concealing themselves or cutting down their realms.
• Zhou Tong recognized Xiao Chen’s Stone Pot, took it, and led him to a world nearing collapse.
• Zhou Tong arranged Little Stone Emperor’s seven Demon Stars into the Big Dipper and borrowed Xiao Chen’s War Sword and Divine Diagram.
• Zhou Tong combined the Demon Stars, Stone Weapons, War Swords, and Divine Diagram to form the Big Dipper Demon Sealing Great Formation.
• Zhou Tong placed his battle armor in the formation as an Azure Dragon and explained that it could suppress shadows and residual power, but was not the true complete formation.

Zhou Tong brought Xiao Chen into the Stone Pot, an ancient prison known as the Source of All Evils, using the Three Emperors Mirror to break through its deadly restrictions. They reached the island of palaces and were admitted by a headless guardian, then continued onward alone.

• Zhou Tong placed the Stone Pot inside the Big Dipper Demon Sealing Great Formation and took Xiao Chen into it.
• The Three Emperors Mirror shattered layers of lightning, fire, and blood-pool restrictions, allowing Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen to reach a stone cavern.
• Zhou Tong led Xiao Chen past ghostly flames and a foul swamp to an ocean surrounding an island of palaces and a central stone prison.
• A headless winged monster confronted Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen, then recognized the Three Emperors Mirror as a token and escorted them toward the island.
• Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen followed the guardian onto the island, where it stopped at its Forbidden Zone and left them to proceed alone.

Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen explored an ancient prison island, where Zhou Tong harvested Stone Man King remains and captured the souls of imprisoned Stone Man Kings. By the end, Xiao Chen wondered whether Zhou Tong planned to use the many Great Dao imprints he had collected to undergo a transformation like Little Stone Emperor’s.

• Zhou Tong advanced through the island with Xiao Chen as the Three Emperors Mirror silenced the prisoners’ voices.
• A clam shell attacked from a foul lake, but the Three Emperors Mirror pierced it, and Zhou Tong refined its remains and the floating Stone Man King body parts.
• At the island’s center, Zhou Tong destroyed prison palaces and suppressed the mad Stone Man King souls released from them.
• Zhou Tong captured seventy-eight Stone Man King souls while clearing the outer palaces, and Xiao Chen considered what Zhou Tong might do with their Great Dao imprints.
• Xiao Chen recalled Little Stone Emperor’s transformation and wondered if Zhou Tong intended to pursue an even greater version of that path.

Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen reached the Five Emperors Pagoda, where Zhou Tong claimed the Soaring Sky Sword and both studied the Five Emperors’ Great Dao imprints. After an iron chain attacked from the pagoda’s second level, Zhou Tong warned Xiao Chen away from the Source of All Evils, and they left with the carvings memorized.

• Zhou Tong stopped the Soaring Sky Sword’s attack with the Three Emperors Mirror and identified it as a weapon of the Five Emperors.
• Xiao Chen recognized the stone prison as the Five Emperors Pagoda, and Zhou Tong confirmed it was a damaged ancient divine weapon.
• Zhou Tong used the Three Emperors Mirror to take the Soaring Sky Sword, and a black vortex carried him and Xiao Chen inside the pagoda.
• Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in the Five Emperors’ Great Dao imprints carved into the walls.
• An iron chain attacked from the second level, and Zhou Tong repelled it with the Five Emperors’ seal technique before warning Xiao Chen not to approach the Source of All Evils.
• Zhou Tong and Xiao Chen memorized the carvings and used the Three Emperors Mirror to leave the pagoda.

Zhou Tong left the sealed Stone Pot with Xiao Chen and traveled to Death World to find the eighth Heavenly Tablet. There, he attacked Hongjun’s true body, and their fierce battle drew the attention of Death World’s Stone Man Kings, who suspected Zhou Tong was weakened by old injuries.

• Zhou Tong forced the Stone Pot’s curse back inside, resealed it, returned the formation artifacts, and left after Xiao Chen questioned his plans to challenge the Emperor Tier.
• Zhou Tong tore through the great world’s barrier and traveled into Death World to search for the eighth Heavenly Tablet.
• Zhou Tong found Hongjun studying the Heavenly Tablet and launched a Dragon Fist attack, shattering Hongjun’s stone seal and disrupting his work.
• Hongjun blamed Zhou Tong for ruining the Heavenly Tablet’s revealed mysteries and attacked him, beginning a battle that tore through Death World.
• Stone Man Kings sensed the battle, recognized Hongjun’s strength, and speculated that Zhou Tong’s injuries made him vulnerable.

The Purple Firmament Stone King emerged from hiding and fused with Hongjun to confront Zhou Tong in the Death World. Zhou Tong defeated them after using the battle against the Five Emperors Pagoda to comprehend the Dao, while the pagoda fell into an abyss.

• The Purple Firmament Stone King revealed himself in the Primordial Heaven Realm and rushed to the Death World to save Hongjun from Zhou Tong.
• The Purple Firmament Stone King and Hongjun combined their two true bodies into a Taiji Diagram, greatly increasing their power.
• The Purple Firmament Stone King brought out a single-tier Five Emperors Pagoda, and its clash with Zhou Tong's True Dragon Seal shattered the River of Time.
• Zhou Tong fought the Purple Firmament Stone King and Hongjun with his Ancestral Dragon Sword and battle armor, growing stronger as the Five Emperors' Great Dao resonated with him.
• Zhou Tong cleaved Hongjun in two with his sword and shattered the Purple Firmament Stone King with a punch.
• The defeated Purple Firmament Stone King and Hongjun fell, and the uncontrolled Five Emperors Pagoda crashed into the Death World, opening a bottomless abyss.

After killing Hongjun and Purple Firmament Stone King, Zhou Tong secluded himself to study the Dao of the Five Emperors, the Three Sovereigns, and the Heavenly Tablets. Millions of years later, he had steadily strengthened and expanded his True Dragon Method through repeated cultivation and contemplation of the eighth Heavenly Tablet.

• Zhou Tong killed Hongjun and Purple Firmament Stone King, leaving the watching kings afraid to challenge or disturb him.
• Zhou Tong refined the fallen kings’ remains and imprints, then entered the Five Emperors Pagoda to cultivate with the Three Emperors Mirror and Little Stone Emperor’s seven Demon Stars.
• Zhou Tong spent a thousand years comparing the imprints of ninety-five kings and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, deepening his understanding of the Dao and the Heavenly Tablet Profound Method.
• Zhou Tong activated the eighth Heavenly Tablet and realized that its method used one’s innate Dao to generate countless other Daos, then returned to steady cultivation rather than pursuing that transformation too quickly.
• Over the next million years, Zhou Tong repeatedly studied the eighth Heavenly Tablet and cultivated in seclusion, making his True Dragon Method increasingly powerful and distinct from its original form.

After three Civilization Eras of cultivation, Zhou Tong returned to Dragon Island and found three Dragon Kings nearing the end of their transformations into Ancestral Dragons. He gave away two treasures, then refused Ge Qian’s request to join the approaching final battle, though he was willing to kill a few more Stone Man Kings before leaving.

• Zhou Tong left the Eighth Heavenly Tablet after mastering its Dao seals and returned to Dragon Island.
• He discovered Azure Dragon King, Red Dragon King, and Little Stubborn Dragon transforming into Ancestral Dragons inside three Primordial Demon Cities, and left the Five Emperors Pagoda with Azure Dragon King.
• Zhou Tong congratulated Ge Qian on succeeding in his transformation and learned that Yinglong still occasionally lost control while recovering.
• Zhou Tong gave Ge Qian the Three Emperors Mirror in hopes that it would help Yinglong recover completely.
• Ge Qian asked Zhou Tong to join the final battle, but Zhou Tong refused and left, saying he might kill a few more Stone Man Kings before departing.