Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong and the awakened cultivators discussed their cultivation systems, and Wu Shi discovered a possible path to his Sixth Secret Realm through Zhou Tong’s Golden Core Nascent Soul System. Wu Shi, Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, Taiyin Human Emperor, and Sun Emperor left to reflect on their own Dao paths, while Zhou Tong remained in the Divine Domain.

• Zhou Tong, Wu Shi, Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor, and the others discussed the Golden Core Nascent Soul System and the Dark Faction’s Bloodline System.
• Wu Shi told Zhou Tong that he sensed the Golden Core Nascent Soul System could help him develop a Sixth Secret Realm suited to his Dao of no beginning and no end.
• Wu Shi departed the Divine Domain to contemplate his Sixth Secret Realm, and Ye Fan and the Ruthless Great Emperor soon left to reflect on their own Dao paths.
• Taiyin Human Emperor and Sun Emperor said the discussion had benefited them and left the floating island.

Zhou Tong took the Azure Emperor and his Heavenly Emperor Son avatar to the Otherworld so they could fight True Immortals and strengthen their Inner Worlds. After Zhou Tong attacked the Blue-eyed Immortal King’s palace, the king emerged and recognized Zhou Tong, shocked that he had survived the Dark Matter.

• The Azure Emperor asked to fight the darkness, and Zhou Tong agreed to take him to the Otherworld to battle its True Immortals.
• Zhou Tong brought the Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor Son avatar to the North Sea, warning them that an Immortal King lived there and giving the avatar the Moon Shadow Demonic Blade for protection.
• The three reached the Blue-eyed Immortal King’s palace, where Zhou Tong hurled a refined star at its defensive formation and shattered it.
• The Blue-eyed Immortal King emerged with several important figures and recognized Zhou Tong, then wondered how he had survived the Dark Matter’s contamination.

Zhou Tong fought the Blue-eyed Immortal King, driving their battle from the North Sea into the Foreign Realm’s starry sky. After revealing Quasi-Immortal Emperor light, he killed and began refining his opponent, while another Immortal King left to seek help.

• Zhou Tong attacked the Blue-eyed Immortal King, and their clash devastated the North Sea as the Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation fought nearby.
• Zhou Tong forced the Blue-eyed Immortal King into a distant starry expanse, where their battle shook the Foreign Realm and alarmed its Immortal Kings.
• Zhou Tong unleashed Quasi-Immortal Emperor light and revealed that he had touched a realm beyond the Immortal King level.
• Zhou Tong knocked away the Blue-eyed Immortal King's sword, pierced his chest, severed his head, and captured his body and primordial spirit in the Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong began refining the Blue-eyed Immortal King's primordial spirit as the Foreign Realm's Immortal Kings hesitated to intervene.
• A pitch-black Immortal King judged Zhou Tong beyond their realm's power and departed to seek aid.

Zhou Tong searched the Blue-eyed Immortal King's soul and learned that a leader carrying a Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact was in the starry sky with a group of powerful monsters. He pulled the Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation out of the North Sea battle and escaped with them into the chaos beyond the Foreign Realm.

• The Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation fought the True Immortals fiercely while Zhou Tong searched the Blue-eyed Immortal King's memories.
• Zhou Tong learned that the Soul River's leader held a Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact and might be waiting with a group of powerful monsters.
• Zhou Tong told the Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation to leave, but their distraction prompted the remaining True Immortals to attack.
• Zhou Tong appeared beside them, annihilated the attacks, seized the seven remaining True Immortals, and took the group away from the North Sea.
• Zhou Tong split open the Foreign Realm's space and brought everyone into the chaos beyond it.

After leaving the Foreign Realm, Zhou Tong studied how True Immortal corpses strengthened the Inner Worlds of Azure Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation. He then began refining the Blue-eyed Immortal King's memories and Great Dao, using its sword art to develop a sword art of his own.

• Zhou Tong gave Azure Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation two purified True Immortal corpses each to absorb into their Inner Worlds.
• Heavenly Emperor Son's incarnation's Inner World absorbed the corpses, accelerating the growth of its Quasi-World Tree and forming new Eternal Blue Gold and Five Elements Immortal Gold veins.
• Zhou Tong observed that Azure Emperor's Inner World had also grown stronger, then returned to seclusion to study the Blue-eyed Immortal King's Great Dao and memories.
• Zhou Tong analyzed the Blue-eyed Immortal King's emotion-based Sword Dao and compared it with the Grass Character Sword Art, Immortal Tribulation Sword Art, and Peace Calamity Art.
• Zhou Tong contacted his Sky Horn Ant True Fate and began combining insights from its Destruction Sword Dao with the other sword arts, forming the outline of a new supreme sword art.

After mastering the Dao of two True Immortals, Azure Emperor grasped the impartial nature of Inner World cultivation and prepared for his ultimate Law Creation Tribulation. Zhou Tong returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and used five purified True Immortal corpses to expand the Divine Domain into a continent spanning an entire starfield.

• Azure Emperor explained that an Inner World must remain impartial and contain all Daos, while Zhou Tong said he was close to becoming a Mortal Immortal or Immortal King.
• Azure Emperor realized Zhou Tong had used Enlightenment Tea Banquets to gather the Daos of prodigies and wondered whether Zhou Tong's Sixth Secret Realm was a world.
• Zhou Tong returned with Azure Emperor and the Heavenly Emperor Son's true self, then gave them two purified True Immortal corpses to study at the Cosmic Frontier.
• Zhou Tong purified and refined five more True Immortal corpses, transforming them into mountains, dragon veins, Five Elements qi, and mineral veins throughout the Divine Domain.
• Ye Fan and others witnessed the Divine Domain's expansion and wondered what Zhou Tong was trying to create.
• After a year, the five corpses had merged into the Divine Domain, leaving it as a continent stretching across an entire starfield.

Zhou Tong reviewed the Divine Domain’s reconstruction and the progress of his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, then decided to focus on perfecting the Divine Emperor Scripture. He brought out the Nine-Layered Coffin, hoping the sealed Divine Emperor had completed his transformation and could help him refine the scripture.

• Zhou Tong observed that his reconstructed Divine Domain had become more stable after gaining vast continents across its sea of stars.
• Zhou Tong assessed how the Sky Horn Ant True Fate was refining the God Realm into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, bringing them from collapse to a deadlock and toward eventual reversal.
• Zhou Tong decided to perfect the Divine Emperor Scripture and cultivate a tenth True Fate before advancing the Thunder Emperor True Fate further.
• Zhou Tong took out the Nine-Layered Coffin containing the Divine Emperor and hoped he had transformed into an Immortal King.
• Zhou Tong prepared to bring the Divine Emperor out of the coffin so they could discuss the scripture.

Zhou Tong opened the Nine-Layered Coffin and awakened the Divine Emperor, who was nearing completion of his Eleven Transformations. After they exchanged a blow, Zhou Tong explained his ideas for a different tenth transformation, leaving the Divine Emperor intrigued but uncertain.

• Zhou Tong used True Immortal blood to open all nine layers of the Nine-Layered Coffin and suppress the Emperor Sha within.
• Zhou Tong called to the Divine Emperor, awakening him as ten-colored immortal light revealed his ongoing nirvana.
• The Divine Emperor struck Zhou Tong, but their clash ended with both men seated opposite one another.
• Zhou Tong introduced himself and offered to help the Divine Emperor complete his transformations.
• Zhou Tong outlined a new approach to the tenth transformation, and the Divine Emperor reacted with interest, confusion, and doubt.

Zhou Tong and the Divine Emperor exchanged insights on their transformation methods, refining both scriptures over centuries. Their discussion was interrupted when the Azure Emperor and Zhou Tong’s Heavenly Emperor Son incarnation faced a Law Creation Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier.

• The Divine Emperor explained his incomplete Eleven Transformations, a path that sought life within death through an intangible transformation of the Dao.
• Zhou Tong identified flaws in the Divine Emperor’s method, and the Divine Emperor explained the ideas behind its creation in return.
• Zhou Tong and the Divine Emperor continued discussing their cultivation paths, refining their scriptures and developing new insights over several centuries.
• A terrifying tribulation erupted at the Cosmic Frontier, and the Divine Emperor realized it was not a Great Emperor tribulation.
• Zhou Tong identified the tribulation as a Law Creation Tribulation faced by the Azure Emperor and his Heavenly Emperor Son incarnation, and predicted it could last a hundred years.

After Divine Emperor completed his Divine Silkworm transformations, he underwent and survived an Immortal King Tribulation, becoming the second Immortal King in the world after Zhou Tong. Zhou Tong considered how to restore the world’s World Tree and planned to seek an Immortal King corpse for Heavenly Emperor Son’s avatar.

• Zhou Tong and Divine Emperor continued discussing Divine Silkworm transformations after their avatars easily passed the Law Creation Tribulation.
• Three thousand years after Zhou Tong opened Divine Emperor’s coffin, Divine Emperor completed his Eleven Transformations and revealed that he had drafted the scripture for the Twelve Transformations.
• Divine Emperor’s transformation triggered an Immortal King Tribulation, which drew the attention of Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Azure Emperor, Ruthless Great Emperor, Yan Ruyu, and the Divine Silkworm Ridge lineage.
• Divine Emperor endured the tribulation and became the world’s second Immortal King, while Zhou Tong observed that the resulting blessings would help the world prosper.
• Zhou Tong considered using the World Tree in Heavenly Emperor Son’s avatar to cultivate a new World Tree and decided he needed an Immortal King corpse for the avatar’s Inner World.

After the Divine Emperor overcame his tribulation, Zhou Tong gave Divine Silkworm Daoist a perfected scripture and a fruit from the Nine Wonderful Immortal Medicine. Zhou Tong reforged his Vajra Ring to test the Eleven Transformations, but its completion unexpectedly triggered an Immortal King Tribulation.

• The Divine Emperor returned to the Divine Domain with Divine Silkworm Daoist, and Zhou Tong gave the Daoist a new scripture and an immortal fruit.
• After the Divine Emperor departed, Zhou Tong began reforging his Vajra Ring to verify the Eleven Transformations of his scripture.
• Zhou Tong spent three years turning the Vajra Ring into an Immortal King artifact, while Ye Fan and the Divine Emperor watched in astonishment.
• The completed Vajra Ring triggered an Immortal King Tribulation, leaving the Divine Emperor, Ye Fan, and Wu Shi stunned.

Zhou Tong’s Vajra Ring advanced into an Immortal King Artifact, and he used the Reincarnation Mirror to cultivate the Tenth Transformation as a Nine Netherworld Howler. After a million years of slaughter within reincarnation, he perfected his tenth True Fate and completed all Ten Fiends True Fates.

• The Vajra Ring endured an Immortal King Tribulation and returned to Zhou Tong as a powerful Immortal King Artifact.
• Zhou Tong studied the Eleven Transformations scripture, revised its profundities, and began cultivating the Tenth Transformation.
• The Reincarnation Mirror sent Zhou Tong into a ghostly battlefield, where he lived and fought as a young Nine Netherworld Howler.
• Zhou Tong experienced a million years of battle and slaughter in reincarnation, gaining the Nine Netherworld Howler’s combat experience and strengthening his Quasi-Immortal Emperor aura.
• Zhou Tong returned to human form and completed the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate, perfecting all Ten Fiends True Fates.

After perfecting his final true life, Zhou Tong ventured into the Chaos Sea to investigate the former site of the Sea of Worlds and encountered a darkness-eroded Immortal King. The man regained enough clarity to explain his condition, and Zhou Tong discovered that he was one of the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s eight hundred Old Soldiers.

• Zhou Tong completed his last true life, strengthening his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, but postponed further study of his Sixth Secret Realm to pursue the World Tree.
• Zhou Tong traveled through the Chaos Sea toward the former Sea of Worlds and found the region filled with dense Dark Matter and Immortal King blood.
• A darkness-eroded Immortal King attacked Zhou Tong with a fusion of the Thunder Emperor Method and the Grass Character Sword Art, but Zhou Tong defeated him and severed his head.
• Zhou Tong purified the man’s Dark Matter, and the man warned that it would return unless he was killed.
• Zhou Tong explained that Dark Matter was eroding their cultivation system and said opening the Sixth Secret Realm could overcome the corruption.
• The man revealed that the Desolate Heaven Emperor had baptized him with Emperor Blood, and Zhou Tong recognized him as one of the eight hundred Old Soldiers.

Zhou Tong learned that Meng Tianzheng had likely reached the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and gone to High Heaven, then pressed onward through a region saturated with Dark Matter. After surviving a sea of black lightning, he imprinted a Quasi-Immortal Emperor rune and spent three thousand years comprehending it.

• Zhou Tong questioned the Darkness-Eroded Old Soldier and learned that Meng Tianzheng had protected them before going alone to High Heaven.
• When a hostile consciousness took over the Old Soldier, Zhou Tong suppressed it, then killed him at his request and purified the Dark Matter from his body.
• Zhou Tong continued into the chaos and dodged a storm of black Great Dao runes that he suspected came from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor's battle.
• Zhou Tong charged through a vast sea of black lightning, suffered severe wounds, and later purified the Dark Matter within himself.
• After half a month, Zhou Tong imprinted a Quasi-Immortal Emperor rune from the lightning and spent three thousand years studying its mysteries.

Zhou Tong merged the Thunder Emperor True Fate into his Sixth Secret Realm and underwent a profound transformation of his body and innate potential. He realized that merging all ten Ten Fiend True Fates could let him surpass the Ten Fiends themselves, and turned his attention to the True Dragon Avatar as his next Sixth Secret Realm.

• Zhou Tong merged the Thunder Emperor True Fate into his Sixth Secret Realm, causing it to vanish from the River of Time and its power to flow through his body.
• The Thunder Emperor's power strengthened Zhou Tong's body, bones, life force, and Gates of Potential, bringing him closer to breaking through the King Realm.
• Zhou Tong realized that each True Fate would grant him the innate strengths of its Ten Fiend, enhancing his very essence and potentially letting him surpass the Ten Fiends.
• Zhou Tong looked toward his True Dragon Avatar, whose restored great dao laws had made it a powerhouse among Emperor's Radiance Immortal Kings, and anticipated its future transformation.

Zhou Tong explored a chaotic region saturated with Dark Matter and encountered a grotesque monster cultivated with Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood. After a fierce battle, he destroyed the creature and absorbed its body and primordial spirit with the Hegemonic Bell.

• Zhou Tong avoided the pitch-black lightning and continued searching the Dark Matter-filled region for strange creatures.
• A grotesque monster emerged from a black marsh, and Zhou Tong sensed Quasi-Immortal Emperor blood in it.
• The monster attacked Zhou Tong with dark blood, soul fire, lightning, and beams from its many eyes.
• Zhou Tong fought back with lightning, the Thunder Emperor Method, and the Hegemonic Bell, eventually piercing the monster with a Thunder Divine Sword.
• Zhou Tong used the Hegemonic Bell to shred the monster, take its primordial spirit, and swallow everything.

Zhou Tong subdued a monster inside the Hegemonic Bell and searched its memories, discovering that it had been shaped by Dark Matter and had devoured part of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s corpse in the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit. He learned that the monster had been thrown from Above High Heaven along with more than a hundred others, leaving him wary of how many such creatures might remain.

• Zhou Tong suppressed the monster with the seven Demon Stars and recovered from the injuries he suffered capturing it.
• Zhou Tong refined the monster’s primordial spirit and uncovered memories filled with fused souls and negative emotions.
• Zhou Tong saw a ruined universe in the monster’s memories, including a colossal corpse that he suspected belonged to a Heavenly Emperor.
• Zhou Tong realized the monster had gained its strength by devouring part of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor’s corpse in the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.
• Zhou Tong discovered that great figures from Above High Heaven had cast the monster and more than a hundred others down, and only this one had survived.

Zhou Tong learned the Weapon-Fusing Body Refinement system from a Dark Creature, purified it, and returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. He discovered that the Divine Silkworm Daoist had become a Great Emperor, then fed the monster’s corpse to the Heavenly Emperor Son avatar’s Inner World, strengthening its World Tree and the avatar.

• Zhou Tong examined the Dark Creature’s memories and learned that it had altered the Weapon-Fusing Body Refinement system into Life Merging Body Refining.
• Zhou Tong studied the Immortal King’s scripture and comprehended the weapon-refining Cultivation System, deciding it would suit one of his true lives.
• Zhou Tong purified the Dark Matter contaminating the monster and took its corpse back to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the Divine Silkworm Daoist had attained the Great Emperor’s Dao and returned to the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong placed the monster’s corpse in the Heavenly Emperor Son avatar’s Inner World, where its energy expanded the world and nourished the World Tree as the avatar grew stronger.

Zhou Tong revived the Nine Netherworld Howler as a living True Fate and began cultivating it in the Weapon Merging Body Refining system. After merging a Darkness Immortal Gold Tripod into its body, it also fused a Dragon Pattern Black Gold Saber, and Zhou Tong observed its weapon-tempering flames evolving.

• Zhou Tong revived the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate, which took form at the Alternative Dao Attainment realm.
• Zhou Tong drained its existing cultivation and used it to nourish the Heavenly Emperor Son avatar’s Inner World.
• Zhou Tong forged a Darkness Immortal Gold Tripod, and the Nine Netherworld Howler tempered it for half a month before merging it into a scale.
• The fused tripod released strange black energy that nourished the Nine Netherworld Howler’s body and gave its flesh a metallic luster.
• Zhou Tong forged a Dragon Pattern Black Gold Saber, and the Nine Netherworld Howler’s changed crimson flames tempered it before it merged into a sharp tooth on its tail.

Zhou Tong advanced the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate’s Weapon Merging Body Refining system by feeding it Immortal Metal weapons, a Chaos Cauldron, and replicas of other cultivators’ Saint Weapons. The True Fate integrated their runes and foreign Daos into its own Treasure Art, leaving Zhou Tong to recognize a connection to the Heaven-Shrouding Immortal Burning Art.

• Zhou Tong discovered that the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Saber’s energy reacted with the Dark Immortal Gold Cauldron’s energy and strengthened the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate.
• Zhou Tong forged weapons from various Immortal Metals, and the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate refined forty-eight of them over two years, imprinting their Great Dao runes into its body.
• Zhou Tong forged a Chaos Cauldron from Chaos Earth, and the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate spent half a year refining it and merging its Deity into its primordial spirit.
• The Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate transformed by recombining its weapon runes, integrating them with its own Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong copied the Dao Marks and Deities of other Saint Weapons into stronger replicas, which the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate refined and incorporated into its Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong realized that the system’s fusion of weapon runes resembled the Heaven-Shrouding Immortal Burning Art’s fusion of other Great Daos and Treasure Arts.