Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong studied Wu Shi the Great’s Without Beginning, Without End in the Crevice World, then helped him return to the Shrouding the Heavens World after Wu Shi settled an old score. Wu Shi’s return stirred the universe, while Zhou Tong departed again for the Immortal Domain.

• Zhou Tong spent over half a year discussing the Dao with Wu Shi the Great and concluded that the Gu Clan Treasure Art might restrain Without Beginning, Without End.
• Zhou Tong asked Wu Shi the Great to return to his homeland, and Wu Shi agreed before leaving to settle an old score.
• Wu Shi the Great fought a Great Emperor nearing Mortal Immortality and killed him after more than a thousand exchanges.
• Zhou Tong punched open a passage, and he and Wu Shi the Great returned to the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Wu Shi the Great’s reappearance stirred the universe, drawing reactions from Azure Emperor, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog.
• Zhou Tong left the Shrouding the Heavens World again and headed for the Immortal Domain.

Zhou Tong entered a fragment of the Immortal Domain and discovered that its abundant resources and leisurely cultivation culture had left its strongest inhabitants at the peak of the human realm. He reunited with his younger siblings, Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya, and told them he had become an immortal, leaving them stunned.

• Zhou Tong entered the Immortal Domain, spotted a fleeing divine medicine, and found a sect whose members practiced both the Chaotic Ancient Method and the Sky Shrouding Method.
• Zhou Tong surveyed the fragment with his divine sense and discovered that no True Immortals remained, while Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya had become some of its strongest inhabitants.
• Zhou Tong appeared in Zhou Qing's city lord's manor and reunited with him as Zhou Qing played chess with his son, Zhou Ye.
• Zhou Qing introduced Zhou Ye to Zhou Tong, who gave his nephew an Emperor-grade jade pendant, and Zhou Ya arrived soon afterward.
• Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya recounted their years in the Immortal Domain, and Zhou Tong shared news from the Shrouding the Heavens universe.
• Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya were astonished when Zhou Tong revealed that he had become an immortal.

Zhou Tong reunited with Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya in the Immortal Domain, answered their questions, and gave them pills that could make them immortals. He then spent more than a century traveling the domain as a Supreme, studying its people and history before reflecting on how its peaceful stagnation had affected its cultivators.

• Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya told Zhou Tong the legend that the Immortal Domain had been shattered in an ancient war, and Zhou Tong confirmed that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had quelled it.
• Zhou Tong explained that many legendary figures from their homeland had become powerful Immortal Kings in the Immortal Domain, and Zhou Qing said the domain had become his and Zhou Ya's true home.
• Zhou Tong gave Zhou Qing and Zhou Ya pills made from Flat Peach Immortal Medicine, which could make them immortals, and stayed with their families for half a month before leaving.
• Zhou Tong traveled through the Immortal Domain for more than a hundred years as a Supreme, visiting cities, sects, and remote places while learning about its inhabitants.
• Zhou Tong concluded that the Immortal Domain's prolonged peace had weakened its cultivators, while its unfamiliar laws and culture could provide Ye Fan and the others with the foundations they needed to advance.

Zhou Tong reached the place where the Sea of Worlds had been, only to find it vanished and the region tainted by an ominous aura. When a frenzied Immortal King attacked him, Zhou Tong fought back, beginning his first battle since entering the Immortal King realm.

• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to learn the Sea of Worlds' location and hurried there, but found only chaos where it should have been.
• Zhou Tong suspected the Desolate Heaven Emperor had hidden the Sea of Worlds and sensed an ominous presence in the region.
• A powerful, seemingly corrupted Immortal King extinguished part of Zhou Tong's divine sense and lunged at him.
• Zhou Tong pierced the creature's black claw with a sword strike, shattering the blood sea contained within it.
• The lion-like beast attacked with its full power, and Zhou Tong met it with his Hegemon Body Ancestral Form.
• Zhou Tong and the beast clashed in a fierce battle, marking Zhou Tong's first fight as an Immortal King.

Zhou Tong fought a powerful, unknown Immortal King and used his Hegemonic Bell and Ancestral Dragon Sword to defeat it. He suppressed the enemy’s fleeing primordial spirit inside the bell, leaving the Immortal King captured but not yet described as destroyed.

• Zhou Tong battled the beastly Immortal King in the Void and grew more adept at Immortal King-level combat.
• The beast transformed into a humanoid warrior clad in black-scale armor and clashed with Zhou Tong and his Hegemonic Bell.
• The Immortal King pierced Zhou Tong’s arm with a hidden eye-beam, but Zhou Tong countered with the Ancestral Dragon Sword and grievously wounded it.
• Zhou Tong rang the Hegemonic Bell, blasted apart the Immortal King’s body, and crushed its head beneath his foot.
• The Immortal King’s primordial spirit tried to escape, but Zhou Tong used the seven Demon Stars in the Hegemonic Bell to bind and suppress it inside the bell.

After discovering that the Dark Era had begun far earlier than he expected, Zhou Tong decided to prepare for the spread of Dark Matter instead of cultivating in ignorance. He created a Dark Body to study and fight, sent out the Sky Horn Ant True Fate, and began the dangerous process of adapting his primordial spirit to darkness.

• Zhou Tong spent half a month expelling Dark Matter from his wounded arm and sealed it in a Jade Cauldron.
• Zhou Tong realized the Desolate Heaven Emperor had left and that darkness had returned hundreds of thousands of years earlier than he had estimated.
• Zhou Tong created and fortified a secluded world, severed an arm, and used Dark Matter from his Jade Cauldron and the Dark Immortal King to cultivate an identical Dark Body.
• After the Dark Immortal King was completely refined, Zhou Tong sent out the Sky Horn Ant True Fate while keeping the Phoenix True Fate nearby as protection.
• Zhou Tong split off part of his primordial spirit to control the Dark Body and began resisting its Dark Matter infection.

A mysterious man sent a drop of tea into a universe, and six years later, Green Lake Town’s guards discovered that the young Kahn had become an extraordinarily powerful warrior. Austin hoped Kahn might attend the newly opening Baruch Magic and Martial Academy and test his magical talent.

• A man on a tiny island in chaos sensed two people of uncertain fate in a universe and sent a drop of tea toward it.
• Six years later, Austin led Green Lake Town’s children through physical training and enforced the town’s tradition of building strength before learning battle-qi.
• The exhausted young children collapsed, but six-year-old Kahn kept holding the Qi Gathering Stance, astonishing Austin with his Level Six strength.
• Austin told Owen that Kahn might surpass Lord Linley and suggested sending him to the Baruch Magic and Martial Academy when it opened in six months.
• Austin said he hoped Kahn would have extraordinary magical talent, while Owen warned him not to speak casually of surpassing Lord Linley.

Zhou Tong, reincarnated as the human child Kahn in Green Lake Town, continued training while his body and battle qi developed traits of his former Sky Horn Ant form. He suspected his bloodline was gradually transforming, then set out to train with a massive hammer.

• Austin ended morning training, and the children asked him to continue telling stories while Kahn went off to cultivate battle qi.
• Kahn reflected that the Reincarnation Mirror had reincarnated him as a human, but his growth and strength still resembled those of a divine beast.
• After training at home, Zhou Tong examined how his Crimson Flame Battle Qi had turned golden and heavy, and noticed gold spreading through his organs and blood.
• Zhou Tong concluded that his body might be transforming into a Sky Horn Ant unique to the Reincarnation World and looked forward to the benefits of its bloodline.
• Zhou Tong picked up a nearly twelve-hundred-jin Ox Horn Great Hammer and headed outside to train.

Zhou Tong trained with his great hammer beneath Great Green Lake, then cultivated battle qi and rested. Austin urged him to test his elemental affinity at Baruch Magic and Martial Academy when enrollment opened in half a year, and Zhou Tong welcomed the chance to explore magic.

• Zhou Tong practiced basic hammer strikes underwater, adapting each blow to the lake’s currents and pursuing harmony between hammer and heaven.
• Zhou Tong considered how his earth, water, fire, and destruction attributes suited his Sky Horn Ant body but set him on a path different from Linley’s.
• After three hours of training, Zhou Tong cultivated battle qi by the lake and strengthened his exhausted body.
• Austin joined Zhou Tong and told him that Baruch Magic and Martial Academy would begin open enrollment in half a year.
• Austin advised Zhou Tong to test his elemental affinity as an additional path to pursue alongside warrior training, and Zhou Tong decided he wanted to learn what magic was like.

Zhou Tong traveled to Baruch City to take the magic aptitude test for Baruch Magic and Martial Academy. He reached the front of the line and watched the academy reject applicants with less than exceptional talent before his own test began.

• Zhou Tong joined a caravan from Green Lake Town and arrived in Baruch City three days later.
• Austin brought Zhou Tong to the academy’s admissions site, where Zhou Tong registered under the name Kahn and joined the long testing line.
• Zhou Tong observed that the academy’s magic test used the same method as the Church of Light’s old test.
• An instructor rejected a boy with average wind affinity, and Zhou Tong inferred that the academy would only admit applicants with superior talent.

Zhou Tong took the Baruch Kingdom’s mage-admission test and revealed exceptional affinity in earth, water, and fire, along with extraordinary mental strength. The test exhausted its Level Six mage before measuring Zhou Tong’s limit, drawing the kingdom’s attention to his potential.

• A boy failed the elemental-affinity test, and the mage called Zhou Tong forward.
• Zhou Tong’s test showed exceptional affinity in earth, water, and fire, astonishing Austin, the mage, and the crowd.
• Zhou Tong entered the magic formation and endured its escalating mental pressure without visible strain.
• The testing mage exhausted his magical power and estimated Zhou Tong’s mental strength at least three thousand six hundred times that of his peers.
• Zhou Tong concluded the test had measured only a small fraction of his mental strength and considered how to use his talent to gain access to the kingdom’s resources.

After Zhou Tong’s unprecedented affinity test drew the attention of Baruch Magic and Martial Academy, he learned its meditation technique and reorganized his spiritual power and magic power. His cultivation reached the level of a Level Nine Mage, leaving him poised to attract the kingdom’s upper ranks while continuing toward the Sanctuary.

• Zhou Tong’s test exhausted the presiding mage, prompting the mage to report the unprecedented result to Linley and the academy’s leadership.
• Zhou Tong waited at the academy and considered using his talent to gain access to advanced magic and the kingdom’s upper ranks.
• Zhou Tong asked the testing mages to teach him the academy’s meditation technique and began cultivating as soon as he learned it.
• Zhou Tong’s scattered spiritual power gathered into a soul crystal that he estimated was equivalent to a Level Nine Mage.
• Zhou Tong drew in earth, water, and fire elements, refined them into magic power in his middle dantian, and shocked the nearby mages with the visible flow of energy.

Linley learned that six-year-old Zhou Tong had extraordinary magical talent and asked to meet him. While waiting at Baruch Academy, Zhou Tong advanced to Level Seven Warrior and prepared to begin studying magic and the Mysteries of Law; the chapter ended with Linley’s messenger summoning him.

• A Baruch Academy instructor told Linley that Zhou Tong had tested as an unprecedented magical genius, and Linley ordered him brought over.
• After finishing his first meditation, Zhou Tong sensed that his spiritual energy had reached Level Nine Mage strength and that his Bloodline Mutation had accelerated.
• Zhou Tong cultivated his battle qi while waiting and advanced to Level Seven Warrior.
• Zhou Tong planned to begin studying magic and the Mysteries of Law, and the instructor returned to summon him to meet Linley.

Six-year-old Zhou Tong impressed Linley with his magical talent, formidable spiritual force, and warrior strength. Linley appointed him Chief Court Magician and gave him high-level spellbooks, a kingdom token, and an annual salary, while Zhou Tong remained at the academy to study magic.

• Linley summoned Zhou Tong after his talent drew attention at the testing plaza, and Zhou Tong told the escort that he was already a Level Seven Warrior.
• As they approached Black Crow Mountain, Zhou Tong sensed Linley's spiritual force, and Linley realized the boy's spiritual force rivaled his own.
• Linley and Beibei recognized Zhou Tong as an exceptionally powerful young warrior, and Zhou Tong explained that he wanted to learn magic as well as pursue strength.
• Linley offered Zhou Tong the post of Chief Court Magician, and Zhou Tong accepted the appointment while explaining that he still lacked magical training.
• Linley gave Zhou Tong advanced incantation books, a Dragonblood Token granting academy access, and a magic crystal card with one hundred thousand gold coins in annual pay.

Zhou Tong settled into Baruch Magic and Martial Academy, memorized its earth-, water-, and fire-element magic incantations, and tested them in the back mountain. After half a year of studying, practicing, and meditating, he had reached the level of a Level Nine Mage and mastered the three elements’ magic.

• Zhou Tong returned to the Green Lake Town group, celebrated his new title as Court Magician with them, and went alone to Baruch Magic and Martial Academy the next morning.
• Zhou Tong toured the academy and studied its library, where he memorized the incantations in the earth-, water-, and fire-element compendiums.
• Zhou Tong went to the back mountain and tested Level One magic, casting a Fireball and an Ice Arrow before trying earth-element spells.
• Zhou Tong spent the next half year practicing magic, studying in the library, and meditating at night, raising his magical power to Level Nine and becoming highly proficient in the three elements.

Zhou Tong received an invitation to Linley and Dilia’s wedding and the founding of the Baruch Kingdom, then continued cultivating as an attack on Linley’s side was stopped. By comprehending and fusing Earth Law’s Power Profound Meaning and Life Force, Zhou Tong stabilized a powerful physical punch and recognized how this world’s cultivation could help rebuild his foundation.

• Zhou Tong received an invitation to Linley and Dilia’s wedding, which would coincide with the establishment of the Baruch Kingdom.
• After an explosion near the City Lord’s Manor, Zhou Tong saw a brilliant light rise and concluded that Desley’s presence had prevented a battle.
• Zhou Tong continued meditating on Earth Law and stabilized a powerful punch fueled only by his physical body.
• Zhou Tong realized that his punch fused the Power Profound Meaning and Life Force, and reflected on how Hongmeng had divided and veiled the world’s Great Dao.
• Zhou Tong estimated that he could fuse the two Mysteries of Law to their limit in twenty years, leaving him one step from becoming a Middle God.

At Linley and Dilia's wedding and the founding of the Baruch Kingdom, Zhou Tong attracted the attention of God Level expert Hesse before returning to his cultivation. Three years of studying the laws of heaven and earth transformed Zhou Tong, who left the chapter certain he was the strongest person in the Baruch Kingdom.

• Zhou Tong attended Linley and Dilia's wedding and the founding ceremony of the Baruch Kingdom, where powerful guests from across the continent gathered.
• Hesse noticed Zhou Tong and praised his potential, but the Saintess of the Ice Snow Temple interrupted them and made Hesse uneasy.
• After the celebrations, Zhou Tong returned to his courtyard to contemplate the laws of heaven and earth.
• For three years, Zhou Tong cultivated in the rear mountains of Baruch Academy, studying earth, water, flame, ice, and destruction while occasionally training as a warrior and mage.
• Zhou Tong's understanding of the laws improved his magic and inspired him to create new combat techniques.
• At ten years old, Zhou Tong judged himself to be the strongest person in the Baruch Kingdom.

Zhou Tong broke through to Saint-level warrior and Saint Archmage, and his soul transformed into a Sky Horn Ant. He discovered a potential Innate Ultimate Move but found his body could not withstand using it, leaving him to heal and wait for his Bloodline Mutation to complete.

• Zhou Tong's battle qi strengthened his body until his flesh, organs, and bones turned golden.
• Zhou Tong accelerated his spiritual transformation by comprehending the Life Force Profundity and Power Profound Meaning of the Earth Law.
• Zhou Tong's soul crystal vanished, and his soul took the form of a golden-threaded Sky Horn Ant.
• Zhou Tong noticed a pattern of power within his soul and realized it might be his Sky Horn Ant Innate Ultimate Move.
• Zhou Tong tried circulating battle qi according to the pattern, but the power tore his meridians and injured his organs, so he stopped and healed himself.

After recovering from his injuries and reaching the Saint Domain as both a warrior and a mage, Zhou Tong went to Black Crow Mountain to test himself against Linley. He left Linley badly injured with a single strike, revealing the Fire Element Law technique he called Explosive Kill.

• Zhou Tong healed from his injuries, discovered he could fly, and headed to Black Crow Mountain to challenge Linley.
• Linley and Beibei were astonished to learn that Zhou Tong had reached the Saint Domain as both a warrior and a mage at age ten.
• Linley transformed into a Dragonblood Warrior and agreed to spar with Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong used a sudden, powerful punch to shatter Linley's defenses and drive him underground.
• Zhou Tong explained that Explosive Kill drew on a Fire Element Law mystery to multiply his attack power and speed tenfold.

Linley learned that Zhou Tong had mastered Earth Law mysteries involving vitality and Strength, then tested his Earth Profound Meaning against Zhou Tong. Zhou Tong’s defense shattered Linley’s attack and left Linley stunned by how completely his strongest technique had been countered.

• Zhou Tong used Earth-style Revival to heal Linley by concentrating its vitality on him, and Linley asked how Zhou Tong had understood that power.
• Zhou Tong explained that he had also comprehended Strength and invited Linley to test his Black Jade Heavy Sword against him.
• Linley chose to use one hundred layers of his Earth Profound Meaning and charged at Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong struck with a palm, and its force scattered the vibrations in Linley’s attack before blasting him into a cliff.
• Linley flew free, shocked that Zhou Tong had dismantled his strongest technique at its foundation.