Chapter Summaries

Linley and Zhou Tong exchanged insights into Earth Law after Linley mastered Life Force and Zhou Tong remained stuck on the Earth Walking Technique. After three years of training together, Zhou Tong made a breakthrough and decided to stay with Linley to test whether people with uncertain fates accelerated each other’s cultivation.

• Linley mastered Life Force and found points of compatibility with Earth Pulse and the Power Profound Meaning, while Zhou Tong explained that he was still stuck on the Earth Walking Technique.
• Linley taught Zhou Tong his insights into the Earth Walking Technique, and Zhou Tong shared his Earth Law fusion techniques and derived moves with Linley.
• Beirut arrived at the Heavenly Sacrifice Mountain Range without Danlington, then publicly established Beibei’s status and left soon afterward.
• After three years of training with Linley, Zhou Tong gained an initial understanding of the Earth Walking Technique and found a point of compatibility with the Earth Element Profundity.
• Zhou Tong chose to stay beside Linley to test whether their uncertain fates accelerated their progress, and he challenged Linley to see who would reach the Highgod level first.

After a hundred years of cultivation, Zhou Tong became a highgod and prepared to travel to Purgatory with Linley and Beibei. Before they left, Zhou Tong proposed using the Eight Great Families’ fear of Linley’s growing power to lure their experts into a trap, and Linley agreed to the plan.

• Zhou Tong’s Earth Law advanced until the Laws of the World transformed his midgod spark into a highgod spark.
• Zhou Tong announced that he would travel to Purgatory and challenge Commanders, and Beibei urged Linley to come along.
• Zhou Tong explained that the Eight Great Families believed Linley was approaching a breakthrough and had intensified their attacks out of fear.
• Zhou Tong suggested that Linley leak his whereabouts so the Eight Great Families would send elites to intercept them.
• Zhou Tong agreed to act once for the Four Divine Beast Families, while warning Linley that he would not become deeply involved in their conflict.

Linley left the clan with his family to lure the Eight Great Families into an ambush by Paragon Kahn. Gaisreisen secretly investigated the leak and discovered an informant who passed along Linley’s route, leaving the traitor’s identity unknown.

• Linley told Gaisreisen that Kahn had offered to help the Four Divine Beast Families ambush the Eight Great Families, and Gaisreisen agreed to use Linley as bait.
• Linley, Zhou Tong, Dilia, Beibei, Weidi, and Nis departed aboard a black sword-shaped Metal Life.
• Gaisreisen disguised himself as a silver-haired young man and traveled alone to investigate the ambush route, suspecting a traitor within the clan.
• Gaisreisen gave a hidden agent the false impression that Linley was traveling toward Azure City and dropped a Floating Images crystal sphere into the river.
• A green-haired intelligence agent emerged after Gaisreisen left and sent the information to the Eight Great Families, believing Linley would be killed.

The Eight Great Families organized an ambush to stop Linley from reaching Azure City, while Linley and Zhou Tong traveled onward in a Metal Life. The ambush began when the four eastern family patriarchs and eight Seven-star Demons surrounded them and launched their attacks.

• The Eight Great Families assigned the mission to the Bolin Family, and the four eastern patriarchs agreed to lead an attack against Linley before he could reach the Azure Mansion Lord.
• Zhou Tong warned Linley that a traitor in the Four Divine Beast Families might have revealed their plans, while Beibei looked forward to fighting the Eight Great Families.
• After tracking the Metal Life for half a month, the Bolin forces identified its route and rushed to prepare an ambush.
• The attackers struck the Metal Life, and Zhou Tong put it away before Linley and his companions were surrounded by twelve members of the Eight Great Families.
• Bolin, Ashcroft, and Babari attacked Linley with Lord God power, while Saintnal and the eight Seven-star Demons also launched attacks.

Zhou Tong defended Linley by destroying the Eight Great Families’ coordinated attack and killing their eight Seven-star Demons. He then demonstrated his material-attack strength by killing Saintnal, the Babali Family Patriarch, and Nether Serpent, leaving Bolin as the only patriarch still standing.

• The twelve attackers launched Sovereign-powered attacks, but Zhou Tong stopped them with a kick and shattered their Soul Attacks with a glance.
• When the patriarchs ordered another attack, Zhou Tong killed the eight Seven-star Demons with twelve Soul Attacks, while the four patriarchs survived.
• Zhou Tong vanished and split Saintnal and the Babali Family Patriarch apart with material attacks.
• Zhou Tong struck Nether Serpent through his Material Defense Master Divine Artifact and killed him by crushing his brain.
• Bolin remained alive as Zhou Tong continued his assault.

Zhou Tong killed Bolin after stopping him from escaping into spatial turbulence, then recovered the Nine Spirit Pearls and Supreme God Mirror. He realized the Supreme God mission had begun and resumed the journey with Linley and Beibei.

• Bolin tried to escape into spatial turbulence, but Zhou Tong used his Innate Ultimate Move to pull him back and kill him.
• The Nine Spirit Pearls and Supreme God Mirror shot out of the spatial turbulence, and Zhou Tong caught and hid them.
• Zhou Tong recognized the items as part of the Supreme God mission and considered how their arrival could lead him to become a Plane Battlefield Commander.
• Zhou Tong crushed the unbound spatial rings, and he told Linley and Beibei that the attackers were dead.
• Zhou Tong warned Beibei not to take the scattered Master Divine Artifacts, then the three continued their journey aboard the Metal Life.

Zhou Tong’s defeat of four patriarchs forced the Eight Great Families to reconsider their siege of the Four Divine Beast Families. After explaining his power to Linley and Beibei, he reunited with Beirut and prepared to take Tarosha, Dillin, and Olivia to Purgatory.

• The Babali, Bolin, Sanar, and Ashcroft Patriarchs revealed that Zhou Tong had killed their strongest Divine Avatars, and the remaining families debated whether to abandon the siege.
• The patriarchs described Zhou Tong as a Destruction Rule Paragon whose attacks and control over spatial turbulence had overwhelmed them.
• Zhou Tong told Linley and Beibei that his Distortion Field was an Innate Ultimate Move that could distort spatial turbulence and force opponents to confront him directly.
• The group’s Metal Life reached Azure City, where Zhou Tong and Linley met Beirut again.
• After staying in Azure City for a month, Zhou Tong set off for Purgatory with Tarosha, Dillin, and Olivia.

Zhou Tong's group crossed the dangerous Sea of Chaos and arrived at Purgatory, where he planned to challenge a Commander using his Water Element Law. He intended to fight with his true body despite his Water Law being only at the Midgod level.

• Zhou Tong's group traveled across the Sea of Chaos, encountering deadly gales, freezing rain, eruptions, whirlpools, and other dangers.
• Zhou Tong continued cultivating during the journey, making little progress on his Water Element Law bottleneck and his fusion of Mysteries from different laws.
• Zhou Tong's Metal Life reached Purgatory, a realm of 108 islands where powerful Commanders ruled and defended their positions against challengers.
• Dillin asked which law Zhou Tong would use to challenge a Commander, and Zhou Tong chose the Water Element Law.
• Zhou Tong told Linley and the others that he would fight with his true body, whose physical strength could compensate for the weaknesses of his Water Element Law.

Zhou Tong and his companions arrived in Qingyuan Purgatory, where he planned to challenge its commander, Inos. After entering the Blood Battle Stage, Zhou Tong signed up to fight and was announced as the next challenger against Ena.

• Zhou Tong landed with his companions on the grassland of Qingyuan Purgatory and explained that Inos was its commander, famed for his formidable defenses and master divine artifact.
• Tarosha questioned whether Zhou Tong could withstand Inos's attacks, and Zhou Tong said his Godhead Weapon and techniques would help him prevail.
• Zhou Tong's group entered the Blood Battle Stage, where they watched a fighter kill his opponent and Zhou Tong dismissed the level of the matches as too low.
• Zhou Tong transformed into his Sky Horn Ant form and signed up to fight at the Blood Battle Stage.
• The announcer introduced Kahn as the next challenger against Ena, who had already won three consecutive battles.

Zhou Tong, fighting as Kahn, swept through the Blood Battle Stage and drew the attention of Qingyuan Purgatory’s ruler, Inos. After Kahn reached eighty consecutive victories, Inos dismissed reports of the Water Element Law expert without realizing how powerful he was.

• Zhou Tong killed Ena with one blow after Ena’s sword failed to pierce his icy armor, then warned weaker fighters to concede.
• Zhou Tong won ten matches in a day without needing a second move in any fight.
• Zhou Tong continued winning day after day, defeating four former hundred-victory champions and drawing crowds across Qingyuan Purgatory.
• Anna told Inos that Kahn had won eighty matches and was a powerful Water Element Law expert.
• Inos dismissed Kahn as unworthy of his attention, confident that no water-element expert in Hell could surpass him.

Zhou Tong, fighting under the name Kahn, completed one hundred consecutive victories at Qingyuan Purgatory’s Blood Battle Stage. He accepted the champion’s seal and officially declared that he would challenge the Qingyuan Purgatory Commander.

• Zhou Tong defeated powerful Six-star and Seven-star Demons during the ninth day of his winning streak.
• On the tenth day, Zhou Tong swiftly defeated ten more opponents and became Qingyuan Purgatory’s first hundred-victory champion in several centuries.
• The host awarded Zhou Tong a seal honoring his record and asked whether he would challenge the Qingyuan Purgatory Commander.
• Zhou Tong announced that earning the right to challenge the Commander had been his purpose all along.
• Beibei, Olivia, Tarosha, and Linley watched as the crowd erupted in support of Zhou Tong’s challenge.

Zhou Tong prepared to fight Qingyuan Purgatory Commander Inos by refining his water-element techniques, then discovered Water Pressure and achieved a breakthrough in his fire-element cultivation. With the duel now only three days away, Zhou Tong had become far stronger than before.

• Inos accepted Zhou Tong's challenge and announced a duel at Green Wave Lake three months later.
• Zhou Tong returned to the courtyard and spent the following months refining his water-element sword techniques while Linley and the others watched.
• Zhou Tong's sword strike opened a spatial rift, and he realized that the technique connected the Round Soft Mystery with the Mystery of Explosion.
• Zhou Tong comprehended Water Pressure, then broke through a bottleneck in his fire-element cultivation as the Laws of the universe descended.
• Zhou Tong told the others that his six fire-element Mysteries had completely fused and that the duel with Inos would take place in three days.

Zhou Tong and Inos began their battle for the Qingyuan Purgatory commandership before a vast crowd at Green Wave Lake. After Zhou Tong wounded Inos with his opening sword strike, both fighters were driven apart by a clash that tore open the Void.

• Linley and his companions gathered at Green Wave Lake with more than a hundred million spectators to watch the commander challenge.
• Leis Jīng recognized Linley, revealed himself as a Purgatory Commander, and joined the crowd of powerful observers.
• Inos arrived and faced Zhou Tong, refusing to show his Master Divine Artifact unless Zhou Tong forced him to.
• Zhou Tong drew the Void Breaker Sword and trapped Inos in his Deep Sea Space domain, slowing his movements.
• Inos used his whip to deflect Zhou Tong's strike, but Zhou Tong cut a deep wound across Inos's chest.
• Inos's whip and Zhou Tong's punch collided, opening a massive spatial fissure and sending both fighters flying backward.

Zhou Tong and Inos fought over the frozen Green Wave Lake, each testing the other's mastery of the Water Element Law. As their battle threatened to become a prolonged contest of endurance, Zhou Tong proposed settling it with one move.

• Zhou Tong and Inos assessed the damage from their first clash, and Inos recognized the Void Breaker Sword as Beirut's Godhead Weapon.
• Inos drew his Lord God Artifact Whip, revealed his merman form, and moved freely through Zhou Tong's Deep Sea Space.
• Inos attacked with waves of spatial ripples, but Zhou Tong redirected them and endured the whip's force with his own Water Element Law.
• Zhou Tong and Inos recognized that their battle could last more than a day, while Inos hoped to temper himself against Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong called out that they should decide the victor with one move.

Zhou Tong revealed that Destruction was his strongest element and defeated Inos with one strike of his Destruction Sword Dao, then became the new commander of Qingyuan Purgatory. After the spectators and Linley’s group congratulated him, Zhou Tong invited Leis Jīng to his commander’s residence.

• Zhou Tong revealed his Destruction Rule and challenged Inos to end their battle in an instant.
• Inos attacked with his Lord God Power of Destruction and Lord God Artifact Whip, but Zhou Tong evaded him and struck with Destruction Sword Dao—Sword Eleven.
• Zhou Tong’s sword severed Inos’s head and destroyed his body, but he spared Inos’s life, and Inos admitted defeat.
• Inos announced that Kahn was the new commander of Qingyuan Purgatory, then left Green Wave Lake as the spectators cheered.
• Linley and his companions congratulated Zhou Tong, and Leis Jīng praised his Destruction Sword Dao.
• Zhou Tong invited Linley’s group and Leis Jīng to his commander’s residence.

Zhou Tong and his companions discussed the approaching Plane War before returning to cultivation in Qingyuan Purgatory. Linley and Zhou Tong both broke through to Highgod, and Zhou Tong began transforming his body and Void Breaker Divine Sword with four-element Fusion Divine Power.

• Leis Jīng explained that Highgods could earn merit in the Plane War to exchange for Sovereign power and artifacts, and Zhou Tong said he planned to enter it.
• Zhou Tong deduced the Water Pressure mystery to its limit after three years of secluded cultivation.
• Beibei, Tarosha, and Leis Jīng discussed cultivation when natural Laws descended over Linley and Zhou Tong's residences as they broke through at the same time.
• Linley emerged after reaching Highgod, while Zhou Tong remained in seclusion and confirmed that all four of his Divine Avatars had become Highgods.
• Zhou Tong used four-element Fusion Divine Power to strengthen his true body and begin transforming the Void Breaker Divine Sword.

Decades later, Zhou Tong, Linley, Beibei, Leis Jīng, and Lei Hong entered the Plane Battlefield as representatives of the Dark God Plane. After receiving their badges and learning the battlefield’s rules, they passed through the Space Gate and arrived safely on the battlefield.

• Beibei comprehended the final Mystery of Law and became a Highgod.
• Zhou Tong, Linley, Beibei, Leis Jīng, and Lei Hong entered the black castle, where Marcel explained the Plane Battlefield and its connection to eleven planes.
• Marcel gave Zhou Tong and Leis Jīng Blood Badges as commanders and gave Linley and Beibei Black Badges as soldiers.
• Zhou Tong and the others read the rules for earning and exchanging military badges, then flew into the Space Passage.
• Zhou Tong, Linley, Beibei, Leis Jīng, and Lei Hong emerged safely in the Plane Battlefield.

Zhou Tong entered the Plane Battlefield with Linley and the others, then set off alone to pursue the Crown he expected to find underground. After crossing the Star River to the Light God Realm side, he prepared to search for it.

• Leis Jīng explained that the Dark God Plane and Light God Plane had entered early to arrange their forces, then led the group away from the recruiting crowd.
• Linley tested the Plane Battlefield’s spatial binding, while Zhou Tong effortlessly tore through space with his sword energy.
• Leis Jīng asked Zhou Tong to help him earn Commander badges, but Zhou Tong declined to take an active role and offered help only if the others faced trouble.
• Linley and the others left to explore on their own, and Zhou Tong headed toward the Star River in search of the Crown.
• Zhou Tong crossed the thousand-li-wide Star River through its spatial turbulence and reached the opposite shore.

Zhou Tong searched the Light God Plane camp for the Crown but found nothing, then settled into a mountain cave to cultivate while planning to search again every hundred years. When Luopu ambushed him, Zhou Tong easily defeated and killed him, and a century later Zhou Tong searched for the Crown again without success.

• Zhou Tong searched the underground spatial rifts across the Light God Plane camp but failed to find the Crown, so he decided to cultivate and search once every hundred years.
• Luopu, an Earth God Plane expert hiding as a stone, ambushed Zhou Tong as he approached a mountain.
• Zhou Tong's body withstood Luopu's attack, and Zhou Tong trapped him with Deep Sea Space before killing him with a slash that opened a spatial rift.
• Zhou Tong collected Luopu's spoils, carved out a cave dwelling, and devoted himself to cultivating and fusing his laws.
• A hundred years later, Zhou Tong searched underground for the Crown again but found nothing and returned to cultivation.

After two hundred years on the Plane Battlefield, Zhou Tong completed another fusion in his Destruction and Fire Laws and rushed to the Star River when he sensed Linley and Leis Jīng fighting Bai E. Zhou Tong met Bai E’s attack with overwhelming force and split his body in two.

• Zhou Tong completed the fusion of the material aspect of the Destruction Rule with the Mystery of Explosion and the Burning Mystery, leaving only the Scorching Mystery to perfect his move.
• Zhou Tong sensed Linley’s Azure Dragon phantom and Leis Jīng’s Purple Crystal Divine Beast phantom near the Star River and hurried toward the battle.
• Bai E threatened Linley and Leis Jīng, but waited when he sensed Zhou Tong approaching at a speed greater than his own.
• Zhou Tong arrived and promised that Bai E’s Divine Avatar would not survive the day, while Beibei urged him to kill Bai E.
• Bai E attacked Zhou Tong with his Master Divine Artifact Sword, but Zhou Tong’s counterstrike shattered Bai E’s sword hand and split his body in two.