Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue chose Clumsy Peak to seek the All Character Secret, and Zhou Tong began cultivating its inheritance. Ji Ziyue’s successful ascent of the Nine-Colored Heavenly Ladder awakened strange phenomena and left the old man wondering whether Clumsy Peak’s inheritance was about to appear.

• Zhou Tong led Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue up Clumsy Peak, where an old man warned them that its inheritance had not appeared for five hundred years.
• Zhou Tong spotted Li Xiaoman flying toward another main peak and feared she would become Hua Yunfei’s ally.
• Disciples from the flourishing main peak mocked the group, but Zhou Tong ignored them and sat down to cultivate.
• Zhou Tong sensed the All Character Secret and found that it strengthened the other Nine Secrets, especially the Front Character Secret.
• Ji Ziyue climbed Clumsy Peak’s Nine-Colored Heavenly Ladder, triggering radiant phenomena that interrupted the old man’s near-enlightenment.
• The old man calmly considered Zhou Tong’s composure and wondered whether Clumsy Peak’s inheritance was about to appear.

After Ji Ziyue’s talent drew the attention of other peaks, Zhou Tong and Ye Fan stayed on Clumsy Peak with Li Ruoyu, where Zhou Tong recited the Tao Te Ching and explained what he knew about the Nine Secrets. Zhou Tong then immersed himself in comprehending the Kirin Treasure Art, entering a deep state of Dao realization.

• Ji Ziyue’s talent attracted elders from other peaks, while Ye Fan and Zhou Tong sealed their Seas of Bitterness and failed to climb the Ninth Heaven ladder.
• Li Ruoyu asked Zhou Tong about a saying associated with Clumsy Peak, and Zhou Tong recited the Tao Te Ching, prompting Li Ruoyu to contemplate its Dao.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that he knew four of the Nine Secrets, described their effects, and promised to give Ye Fan another secret when the time was right.
• Zhou Tong comprehended the Kirin Treasure Art as its runes transformed into a Kirin and merged with the light of his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong entered a deep state of Dao comprehension, cut off from the outside world.

Zhou Tong comprehended the Natural Great Dao as Clumsy Peak’s inheritance opened, strengthening his foundation and linking the scriptures of three cultivation realms. He broke through his bottleneck and became able to trigger the Dragon Transformation tribulation, but chose to suppress it and continue comprehending the Dao.

• After more than ten days of studying the Kirin Treasure Art, Zhou Tong noticed Clumsy Peak’s inheritance opening around Li Ruoyu and the Nine-Tier Heavenly Ladder.
• Zhou Tong immersed himself in Clumsy Peak’s Dao Rhyme as the peak’s cycles of flourishing and decline drew the attention of cultivators across Taixuan Sect.
• The Natural Great Dao transformed Zhou Tong’s Sea of Bitterness, Dao Palace, Four Extremities, and Hegemonic Bell, while his scriptures began to connect.
• Zhou Tong received Clumsy Peak’s fundamental cultivation method and realized the Natural Great Dao had broken his bottleneck, allowing him to trigger the Dragon Transformation tribulation.
• Zhou Tong decided to suppress the tribulation for now and resumed comprehending the great Dao.

Li Ruoyu welcomed Ye Fan and Zhou Tong to Clumsy Peak, but Zhou Tong declined to make its Dao his main cultivation path. At a gathering arranged by Hua Yunfei, Zhou Tong challenged him to a fight in exchange for information about their homeland.

• Li Ruoyu praised Ye Fan and Zhou Tong's physiques and invited them to join Clumsy Peak, but Zhou Tong declined the invitation.
• Disciples, including Ji Ziyue, returned to their peaks, while Ye Fan began looking for a Gate to the Northern Region and Zhou Tong continued studying the Kirin Treasure Art.
• Hua Yunfei invited Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue to a gathering and apologized for friction between Star Peak and Clumsy Peak.
• Zhou Tong confronted Li Xiaoman, then claimed that she knew little about their homeland and challenged Hua Yunfei to defeat him for more information.

Zhou Tong confronted the Yaoguang Saintess at the Tai Xuan Sect and defeated her in three moves, shattering her Jade Bell. When Hua Yunfei intervened, Zhou Tong immediately attacked him, and their fight began.

• Ji Haoyue and the Yaoguang Saintess recognized Zhou Tong, who threatened to expose Yaoguang's secrets and challenged them to act.
• Zhou Tong attacked the Yaoguang Saintess, breaking through her Saint Light Technique and countering her Jade Bell's soundwaves.
• Zhou Tong's Kirin Disk shattered the Jade Bell and wounded the Yaoguang Saintess, who survived because a Star Chart appeared to protect her.
• Hua Yunfei asked Zhou Tong to stop, but Zhou Tong attacked him instead and pressed forward with the Kirin Step.

Zhou Tong overwhelmed Hua Yunfei on Star Peak, forcing him to unleash his supreme treasure and divine arts before Hua Yunfei’s body shattered and revived. The Yaoguang Saintess joined Hua Yunfei against Zhou Tong, and their battle continued as the gathered elders watched.

• Hua Yunfei used Star Peak’s supreme treasure to block Zhou Tong’s attacks, but Zhou Tong wounded him and drove Li Xiaoman back.
• The elders and Supreme Elders on Clumsy Peak noticed the treasure’s seal breaking and went to investigate.
• Hua Yunfei attacked Zhou Tong with his zither, but Zhou Tong’s purple blood and qi nullified the music and his fist shattered Hua Yunfei’s body.
• Hua Yunfei revived, and the Yaoguang Saintess intervened to protect him as Zhou Tong prepared to attack again.
• Hua Yunfei summoned a starry divine art while the Yaoguang Saintess unleashed her holy light, and both fought Zhou Tong with all their strength.

Zhou Tong overwhelmed Hua Yunfei and Yaoguang Saintess, then drew Ji Haoyue into the battle and fought all three at once. He remained in control as hidden Saint Lord experts concluded that he had to be killed.

• Hua Yunfei and Yaoguang Saintess combined Ten Directions Annihilation with the Primordial Holy Light Technique, but Zhou Tong countered with a herd of Purple Kirins and severely wounded them.
• Zhou Tong sent Purple Kirins after Ji Haoyue and challenged him to join the fight, shattering his bright moon and wounding his palm.
• Ji Haoyue unleashed Nine Revolutions of the Bright Moon, but Zhou Tong formed Kirin Armor and shattered Ji Haoyue’s phenomenon, sending him flying and making him cough blood.
• Yaoguang Saintess and Hua Yunfei resumed their attacks, while Zhou Tong charged them and kept both under pressure.
• Hidden Saint Lord Great Powers watched Zhou Tong dominate the three fighters and agreed that he could not be allowed to live.

Zhou Tong used the combined assault of Ji Haoyue, Hua Yunfei, and the Yaoguang Saintess to awaken and temporarily cultivate his Kirin Divine Form. After escaping the seal and evading a Great Expert’s ambush, he fled Taixuan Sect with Ye Fan on a Mysterious Jade Platform.

• Ji Haoyue, Hua Yunfei, and the Yaoguang Saintess joined forces to suppress Zhou Tong while the watching Saint Lord Great Powers held back.
• Zhou Tong used the pressure of their attacks to comprehend the Battle Secret and form the Kirin Divine Form.
• The Purple Kirin fused with Zhou Tong, and he shattered the seal with a Qilin Roar that wounded the three prodigies.
• A Star Peak Great Expert struck at Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong dodged and summoned a Mysterious Jade Platform to escape with Ye Fan.
• A Ji Family Great Expert reached into the void to seize Zhou Tong, but a secret treasure burned off his arm before Zhou Tong and Ye Fan vanished.

Zhou Tong and Ye Fan escaped Tai Xuan Sect, where the witnesses debated Zhou Tong’s Kirin Divine Form and his attack on the younger generation. As Hua Yunfei’s Dao Protector ambushed them, Zhou Tong used talismans to trap and exile him into the chaotic void.

• The Ji Family Great Expert called Zhou Tong’s weapon a king-level forbidden artifact, while Li Ruoyu defended Zhou Tong and Ye Fan as human disciples of Clumsy Peak.
• Li Ruoyu identified Zhou Tong’s Kirin form as a Divine Form, astonishing the gathered Great Powers and drawing killing intent from the Ji Family and Yaoguang representatives.
• Zhou Tong and Ye Fan emerged from the void; Zhou Tong explained that he had used his opponents’ strength to cultivate the Kirin Divine Form and had suffered an injury to his Hegemon Body’s origin.
• A half-step Great Power identified as Hua Yunfei’s Dao Protector ambushed Zhou Tong and Ye Fan, but Zhou Tong distracted him by naming secrets of the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inheritors.
• Zhou Tong used a talisman bearing Luangu’s Sacred Art to trap the Dao Protector, then activated another talisman to send him into the chaotic currents of the void.

Zhou Tong brought Ye Fan to the Fire Domain to recover from his injuries and cultivate while Ye Fan prepared to temper the Profound Yellow Mother Qi into a tripod. They entered the eighth layer under the protection of Zhou Tong’s Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and cautiously avoided a Fire Crow great power.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that the half-step great power was nearly dead, then escaped with him using Illusionary Destruction and a Mysterious Jade Platform.
• Zhou Tong explained that the Fire Domain would let him heal and cultivate while helping Ye Fan temper the Profound Yellow Mother Qi faster.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that his Green Copper Fragment matched part of a damaged Mythological Era tripod he had seen on Earth, and described Earth’s cultivation world as weak in the End of Dharma era.
• Zhou Tong used his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings to shield Ye Fan as they crossed the sixth and seventh layers of the Fire Domain.
• The pair heard a crow in the eighth layer and learned a Fire Crow great power was inside, so they entered from another direction and carefully navigated the stone forest.

Zhou Tong and Ye Fan cultivated on the eighth level of the Fire Domain while Zhou Tong healed his damaged origin and tempered the Hegemonic Bell. By deciphering seven ancient characters that strengthened the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art, Zhou Tong recovered completely in ten days.

• Zhou Tong settled on the eighth level of the Fire Domain and began healing his damaged origin with the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and seven-colored flames.
• Ye Fan drew in seven-colored flames to temper his Profound Yellow Qi while Zhou Tong refined the Hegemonic Bell.
• As the bell imprinted the ancient characters from the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, Zhou Tong heard them as Great Dao Heavenly Sound and discovered that one accelerated his recovery.
• Zhou Tong identified seven characters that enhanced the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and experimented with their order and striking frequency.
• After ten days of using the optimal sequence, Zhou Tong completely healed his origin injury.

After recovering with the scripture from the Three Lives Bronze Coffin, Zhou Tong speculated that its 108 Emperor Scripts embodied the laws of the Immortal Ancient Era and resumed cultivating in the Fire Domain. Meanwhile, news of his victory at the Tai Xuan Sect spread across the Eastern Wasteland, though his enemies blamed a King's Secret Treasure, and public attention eventually shifted elsewhere.

• Zhou Tong recovered and theorized that the scripture's 108 distinct characters represented the fundamental laws of the Immortal Ancient Era.
• Zhou Tong compared the Emperor Scripts he had collected, counted thirty-six distinct characters, and considered reconstructing the Immortal Ancient writing system.
• Zhou Tong resumed his secluded cultivation on the eighth level of the Fire Domain, imprinting scriptures onto the Hegemonic Bell.
• Reports of Zhou Tong defeating Ji Haoyue, Hua Yunfei, and the Yaoguang Saintess at the Tai Xuan Sect spread, while the three factions claimed he had used a King's Secret Treasure.
• Rumors and speculation about Zhou Tong multiplied, but the Ji Family, Yaoguang Holy Land, and Tai Xuan Sect stayed silent and sought to capture him.
• As Zhou Tong remained out of sight, public attention turned to the Peacock King and a cave abode rumored to belong to the Ruthless Great Emperor.

Ye Fan tested the Myriad Mother Qi tripod he had forged, then witnessed Zhou Tong develop a vast, world-like phenomenon while studying the Three Lives Bronze Coffin scripture. Zhou Tong concluded that the change in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings might mark another breakthrough in his Heavenly Cave Realm.

• Ye Fan used his newly forged tripod to destroy a stone forest, but found it too heavy to wield easily.
• While Ye Fan wondered whether he could ever defeat Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong's cultivation caused the void to tremble and revealed an Immortal Realm Pure Land.
• Ye Fan saw many phenomena within the Pure Land, including Sea Rises Bright Moon, Phoenix Dance Across Nine Heavens, and Ten Suns Illuminate Heaven.
• Zhou Tong's Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings absorbed the Pure Land and transformed it into a vivid scene within the rings.
• Zhou Tong examined his stabilized divine rings and considered whether the phenomenon represented a breakthrough to the ultimate limit of the Heavenly Cave Realm.

Zhou Tong and Ye Fan entered the ninth layer of the Fire Domain, where Zhou Tong discovered Immortal Fire at its barren core. Protected by a Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact, Zhou Tong approached the flame and recognized its runes as resembling the Phoenix clan’s Nirvana Divine Fire.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that the Primordial Sacred Body’s phenomenon would likely combine several phenomena, then invited him to explore the ninth layer of the Fire Domain.
• Zhou Tong and Ye Fan entered the ninth layer, where Zhou Tong used his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and Immortal Divine Medicines to shield them from the nine-colored flames.
• Zhou Tong spotted a strange sound and led Ye Fan to the dead region at the Fire Domain’s end, where they found what looked like a small tree.
• Zhou Tong identified the tree as Immortal Fire and told Ye Fan to wait while he approached it with a Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact left by Shakyamuni.
• Zhou Tong saw the flame’s Great Dao runes destroy and restore small worlds, and recognized a resemblance to the Phoenix clan’s Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and Nirvana Divine Fire.

Zhou Tong used the Bodhi Seed against the Phoenix-shaped Immortal Fire, awakening Shakyamuni’s hidden will and triggering a clash between Buddhist power and the flames. As Ye Fan entered enlightenment, Zhou Tong tried to draw out more of the fire’s power, and his Immortal Phoenix confronted the flame’s Phoenix.

• Zhou Tong activated the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and saw a Phoenix manifest within the Immortal Fire.
• Zhou Tong watered the Bodhi Seed, whose Buddhist sounds injured him and manifested the Great Thunder Sound Temple before Phoenix Nirvana healed him.
• The Immortal Fire shattered the Bodhi Seed’s defenses, but the seed sprouted and its life essence sent Ye Fan into enlightenment.
• Zhou Tong sensed Shakyamuni’s will within the Bodhi Tree and advanced toward the Immortal Fire, provoking the Phoenix to attack.
• Shakyamuni’s will clashed with the Immortal Fire as Zhou Tong used the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art to summon his own Phoenix.
• The little Phoenix on the flaming tree pounced toward Zhou Tong’s Immortal Phoenix.

Zhou Tong fused his Phoenix Spirit Body with the Immortal Fire, unleashing enough power to throw the Fire Domain into chaos. He used the flames to destroy the will inside the Bodhi Seed, and a stone statue in the Amitabha Ancient Starfield cracked as a Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng awoke.

• Zhou Tong fused his Phoenix Spirit Body with the Immortal Fire and nearly harmed Ye Fan, so he shielded him with a ring of flames.
• Zhou Tong's power disrupted every level of the Fire Domain, and Crow Daoist mistook the nine-colored flames for a sign that a King or Saint was nearby and fled.
• Zhou Tong directed the Immortal Fire's life-and-death power at the Bodhi Tree and burned away the will within the Bodhi Seed.
• A stone statue in a temple in the Amitabha Ancient Starfield cracked across the forehead, and the Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng perched on it opened its eyes.

Zhou Tong struggled to keep the Immortal Fire from consuming his Phoenix Spirit Body and repeatedly used Phoenix Nirvana to restore it. When a third nirvana began to fail, he branded seven Emperor Scripts onto the flames, allowing the spirit body to survive again.

• Zhou Tong realized the Immortal Fire was burning away the divine consciousness in his Phoenix Spirit Body and tried to preserve it with the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and his own divine consciousness.
• The flames threatened to spread into Zhou Tong, so he cut off the Front Character Secret and relied on his will as the spirit body continued to weaken.
• Zhou Tong awakened to a deeper understanding of the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and used Phoenix Nirvana to revive the spirit body, which emerged stronger but remained bound to the Immortal Fire.
• As the spirit body faced annihilation again, Zhou Tong used Phoenix Nirvana a second time, then realized the fire would eventually consume it once more.
• A month later, Zhou Tong began a third nirvana and branded seven Emperor Scripts onto its dying flames, successfully reviving the Phoenix Spirit Body.

After completing his Phoenix Spirit Body’s third nirvana, Zhou Tong gained profound insights into Phoenix Nirvana and forged a ring to protect the spirit body and conceal its tribulation. Ye Fan broke through to the Other Shore realm, then discovered Zhou Tong had left him behind in the Fire Domain.

• Zhou Tong connected with his Phoenix Spirit Body and absorbed its insights into the ultimate mystery of Phoenix Nirvana.
• Zhou Tong noticed Ye Fan cultivating toward the Other Shore realm and went to retrieve Mutton-Fat Jade Iron left by Crow Daoist’s failed artifact refinement.
• Zhou Tong melted the divine metal and carved Heaven-Deceiving, concealment, and fire-resistant Array Patterns into a ring for his Phoenix Spirit Body.
• Ye Fan broke through to the Other Shore realm and tested the Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tripod, which pulverized a massive boulder.
• Ye Fan realized Zhou Tong had disappeared and complained that he had been left in the Fire Domain without a way out.

Zhou Tong took Ye Fan to the Northern Region through the Jiang Family’s domain gate, where Jiang Yun and other elders questioned him about the Jiang Family token and the missing Divine King. When the elders tried to keep them there, Zhou Tong secured their promise to provide Ye Fan’s cultivation resources before agreeing to stay.

• Zhou Tong reunited with Ye Fan and proposed traveling to the Northern Region to find the source Ye Fan needed for cultivation.
• Zhou Tong used his Jiang Family token to open a domain gate, but it brought them to a garden where Jiang Yun and several elders were waiting.
• Zhou Tong told Jiang Yun that he had rescued Jiang Taixu years earlier and suggested the Divine King might have gone to see Fairy Caiyun at the Wan Chu Holy Land.
• After an elder blocked their departure, Zhou Tong challenged the Jiang Family’s attempt to detain them and recorded Jiang Yun’s offer of support.
• Zhou Tong had Jiang Yun promise to provide Ye Fan’s Dao Palace cultivation resources and the resources for his future breakthrough into the Four Extremities Realm.

Zhou Tong negotiated cultivation resources from the Jiang Family for himself and Ye Fan in exchange for helping them find news of Jiang Taixu, then led Ye Fan to Crane Courtyard. He revealed that the treasure he had already given the family was worth far more than their promised resources, while Ye Fan wondered how Zhou Tong planned to obtain the Source he needed.

• Ye Fan accepted the Jiang Family's promise to provide his cultivation resources, while Zhou Tong negotiated three drops of supreme-grade dragon marrow for his own cultivation.
• Zhou Tong recorded Jiang Yun and the elders promising resources for both men, and Jiang Yun delivered jade bottles containing the dragon marrow and two thousand jin of Source.
• Jiang Yun escorted Zhou Tong and Ye Fan to Crane Courtyard, where they could cultivate without disturbance.
• Ye Fan asked whether Zhou Tong feared the Jiang Family would retaliate for being tricked, and Zhou Tong said their deal was fair and that his treasure was worth far more than the resources they gave.
• Ye Fan asked how Zhou Tong had planned to obtain more than ten million jin of Source for him, and Zhou Tong clarified that he had promised at most one and a half million jin for the Dao Palace Realm.