Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong spent a thousand years helping Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate advance toward immortality by having it assimilate weapons and divine sparks from different worlds. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Emperor Son avatar completed its digestion of the monster, matured its World Tree, and broke through to the Immortal King Realm; Zhou Tong then planned to cultivate a new World Tree for the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

• Zhou Tong spent a year in enlightenment but could not comprehend how to merge a third True Fate into his Sixth Secret Realm.
• Zhou Tong refined Saint Artifacts for Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate, which reached the peak of the ultimate path over the next thousand years.
• Zhou Tong gave Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate more than ten thousand divine artifacts and several hundred thousand divine sparks to assimilate, but the resulting laws proved difficult to integrate.
• Zhou Tong sent Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate to Sky Horn Ant True Fate to learn the Mysteries of Law of the Reincarnation World directly.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son avatar finished digesting the monster, and its World Tree matured after absorbing the monster's power and Great Dao fluctuations.
• The Heavenly Emperor Son avatar broke through to the Immortal King Realm without a tribulation, and Zhou Tong decided to cultivate a new World Tree for the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Zhou Tong created a World Tree sapling from the mature tree inside his Heavenly Emperor Son manifestation, modifying it to absorb almost all Longevity Substance produced by the world. He planted it in the Divine Domain, where it sprouted and began to provide a future way for cultivators to live a second life.

• The mature World Tree in Zhou Tong's Heavenly Emperor Son manifestation spent a thousand years nurturing a five-colored seed, weakening the tree slightly in the process.
• Zhou Tong took the seed and inscribed it with laws and safeguards to control how much Longevity Substance the future World Tree would release.
• He planted the modified seed at the core of the Divine Domain and watered it with Divine Spring water, causing it to sprout and spread Life Essence throughout the domain.
• Zhou Tong planned for the World Tree to gather ninety-nine percent of the world's Longevity Substance and eventually bear fruits that could let cultivators live a second life.

Zhou Tong cultivated the World Tree in the Divine Domain, where it gradually gathered the universe’s Myriad Daos and improved the cultivation environment. Ten thousand years later, the tree had transformed the universe, but it still needed Divine Silkworm Daoist’s Heavenly Heart Imprint to become complete.

• Yan Ruyu emerged from seclusion and asked Zhou Tong about the palm-sized World Tree sapling, and he explained how it would make the Divine Domain the universe’s core of the Myriad Daos.
• Zhou Tong told Yan Ruyu that future Great Emperors would still need to suppress the Myriad Daos, but could comprehend the Heavenly Heart Imprint beneath the World Tree.
• The World Tree gradually drew Life Essence from across the universe, prompting Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Azure Emperor, Divine Emperor, and Divine Silkworm Daoist to notice its influence.
• Ten thousand years after it was planted, the World Tree towered over the Divine Domain, strengthened space, enriched the universe’s essence, and became the finest cultivation ground.
• Zhou Tong observed that the World Tree needed Divine Silkworm Daoist to relinquish the Heavenly Heart Imprint before it could become a true World Tree.

The World Tree’s growth continued to improve cultivation across the universe as the Divine Silkworm Daoist relinquished the Heavenly Heart Imprint. Two years after Zhou Tong predicted its imminent completion, the World Tree took shape and briefly sent five-colored roots throughout the universe, stabilizing it with the Myriad Daos.

• As the World Tree neared completion, the share of living beings born able to cultivate rose to half across the universe, while the Divine Domain became enveloped in Dao Sound and abundant spiritual energy.
• Zhou Tong sensed that the Divine Silkworm Daoist had relinquished the Heavenly Heart Imprint and chose to wait for the remaining suppression of his Great Dao to fade rather than interfere.
• Over the next five thousand years, the World Tree’s influence spread across the Divine Domain, and Zhou Tong predicted it would take shape within one to three years.
• Two years later, five-colored roots appeared throughout the universe, briefly stabilizing it as the complete laws of the Great Dao became perceptible to all races.

After the World Tree matured, Zhou Tong’s Divine Domain transcended the world, and the Divine Emperor confronted him about how he had altered the tree. Zhou Tong explained his plans for the Longevity Substance and gave the Divine Emperor a map of the outer realms, prompting him to leave and explore.

• The matured World Tree caused the Divine Domain to vanish from ordinary perception, and Ye Fan, Wu Shi the Great, the Azure Emperor, and the Divine Emperor sensed that it had become an independent space.
• The Divine Emperor entered the Divine Domain and accused Zhou Tong of drawing all the universe’s Longevity Substance into it.
• Zhou Tong explained that the World Tree would retain the Longevity Substance and bear Divine Fruits for those who attained the Dao, while hardship and competition would forge powerful cultivators against the darkness.
• Zhou Tong showed the Divine Emperor the All-Heavens Myriad Realms Diagram and warned him to conceal his aura in the Foreign Realm and never reveal their realm’s coordinates.
• The Divine Emperor left to explore the outside world, and Zhou Tong promised Yan Ruyu that he would teach her the Cultivation Systems he had mastered once she reached the Immortal King realm.

Zhou Tong absorbed the True Dragon Avatar into his Sixth Secret Realm, gaining a powerful transformation that strengthened his cultivation without advancing him beyond the King Realm. He chose the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate as his next target for transformation.

• Zhou Tong merged the True Dragon Avatar, its Dao, abilities, history, and karma into his Sixth Secret Realm, triggering a surge of dragon energy.
• Yan Ruyu witnessed the eruption of power as Zhou Tong’s protective restrictions contained the dragon’s aura.
• Zhou Tong’s dragon energy strengthened his body and especially rebuilt and enhanced his Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Zhou Tong told Yan Ruyu that he had advanced within the King Realm but remained far from breaking through completely.
• Zhou Tong decided to set aside the Sky Horn Ant True Fate and God-Striking Stone True Fate, and chose the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate as his next target.
• Zhou Tong planned to use the Dragon Clan Sacred Sword, Azure Dragon Battle Armor, and other weapons as materials for the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate.

Zhou Tong guided the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate as it fused the laws brought back from the Reincarnation World into its innate treasure art and reached the Mortal Immortal, Quasi-Immortal King level. Its breakthrough triggered the Light of Becoming Immortal and a devastating nine-day tribulation in the Cosmic Frontier, where the Nine Netherworld Howler emerged wreathed in Immortal Qi.

• Zhou Tong summoned the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate and confirmed to Yan Ruyu that it was one of his incarnations and part of his Sixth Secret Realm.
• Yan Ruyu realized that Zhou Tong had made the Cave Heaven Nurturing Divine Embryo into his Sixth Secret Realm, and Zhou Tong warned her not to imitate his path.
• Zhou Tong ordered the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate to fuse its Dharma image with its body, greatly enhancing its innate treasure art and bringing it to the Quasi-Immortal King level.
• The World Tree released the Light of Becoming Immortal, awakening Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and others as a rain of light and auspicious signs spread across the universe.
• The Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate went to the Cosmic Frontier to undergo a nine-day immortal tribulation while the World Tree stabilized the Divine Domain.
• After the lightning destroyed everything in the Cosmic Frontier, the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate remained standing, its mortal flesh washed away and its body wreathed in Immortal Qi.

Zhou Tong strengthened the Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate with more weapons, then focused on refining the universes within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and comprehending the Dao. Ten thousand years later, his Blood Phoenix Incarnation began an Immortal Ascension Tribulation, and Zhou Tong returned to his cultivation, confident it would succeed.

• The Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate returned after overcoming its tribulation, and Zhou Tong examined its enhanced treasure art and gave it the Dragon Clan Sacred Sword and more than twenty Stone Weapons to refine.
• Zhou Tong concentrated on helping the Sky Horn Ant True Fate refine three layers of universes and studied the Great Dao runes of the Hong Meng Space.
• Zhou Tong’s body and cultivation transformed as the Gu, Thunder Emperor, True Dragon, and a faint Sky Horn Ant phantom appeared around the seed formed from his body.
• Yan Ruyu comprehended the Dao from Zhou Tong’s aura and advanced her cultivation.
• After another ten thousand years, Zhou Tong’s Blood Phoenix Incarnation began an Immortal Ascension Tribulation, and Zhou Tong resumed comprehending the Dao, confident it would succeed.

After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, Zhou Tong witnessed a new Great Emperor overcome a tribulation beset by powerful rivals and ascend to the throne. The God Emperor entered the Divine Domain to study the new Heavenly Heart Imprint, while Zhou Tong reflected that the golden age had made achieving the Dao harder but opened new paths to longevity.

• Zhou Tong continued cultivating beneath the World Tree and communicating with Sky Horn Ant True Fate as the universe's golden age produced ever more powerful geniuses.
• Zhou Tong sensed a Great Emperor tribulation begin, and Yan Ruyu remarked that the current generation's human tribulations surpassed the dangers of the old Forbidden Zones.
• An Alternative Dao Attainment expert killed seven rivals during the tribulation and became the new Great Emperor.
• The World Tree formed a new Heavenly Heart Imprint and a five-colored fruit of Longevity Substance, and Yan Ruyu gained insight by observing them.
• The God Emperor entered the Divine Domain, paid respects to Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu, and sat beneath the World Tree to comprehend the imprint.
• Zhou Tong told Yan Ruyu that achieving the Dao had become more difficult, but the golden age had also created new opportunities to pursue longevity.

Zhou Tong explained that the World Tree could replenish the universe’s dwindling spiritual energy, and predicted that his Nine Netherworld Howler Avatar would soon trigger an Immortal King Tribulation. After the God Emperor’s Heavenly Heart Imprint began to fade, the Nine Netherworld Howler emerged into the universe, leaving Ye Fan wondering about its cultivation system and his own Sixth Secret Realm.

• Zhou Tong said the World Tree could draw power from chaos to replenish the universe and predicted that the Nine Netherworld Howler would soon become an Immortal King.
• Zhou Tong anticipated that Wu Shi, Ye Fan, and the Ruthless Great Emperor would later follow, ushering in an Immortal King Era.
• The God Emperor studied the Heavenly Heart Imprints in the World Tree, revised his scripture, and left the Divine Domain; fifteen thousand years later, his imprint began to disperse.
• Zhou Tong told the Nine Netherworld Howler that its time had come, and the avatar roared, shattered the boundary wall, and charged toward the Cosmic Frontier.
• Ye Fan recognized that the Nine Netherworld Howler used an unfamiliar cultivation system and lamented that he had not discovered his own Sixth Secret Realm.

Zhou Tong absorbed Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate as his Sixth Secret Realm and discovered that it greatly strengthened his battle intent. He unleashed a terrifying surge of fighting spirit, leaving him poised to burn through any challenge.

• Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate streaked across the sky and triggered an Immortal King Tribulation, confusing those who believed Zhou Tong was already an Immortal King.
• Nine Netherworld Howler True Fate transformed into a secret realm and poured its dark, violent power into Zhou Tong.
• A restriction around Zhou Tong stopped the spreading black mist from harming Yan Ruyu.
• Zhou Tong realized the transformation strengthened his spirit and will, especially the battle intent he had formed on the Battle Immortal Path.
• Zhou Tong circulated his divine power and unleashed a blazing battle intent that surged toward the Ninth Heaven.

Zhou Tong’s battle intent drove him to lead Ye Fan, Wu Shi, the Azure Emperor, and the Ruthless Great Emperor into the Foreign Realm to fight its Immortal Kings. After the Divine Emperor killed a bull-horned Immortal King and joined Zhou Tong, the battle was about to begin in earnest.

• Zhou Tong’s battle cry stirred Ye Fan, Wu Shi, the Azure Emperor, and the Ruthless Great Emperor, who gathered at his Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong invited the four immortals to join him in battle and led them across the Void into the Foreign Realm.
• Foreign Realm Immortal Kings gathered to confront Zhou Tong, while he told his companions to fight those below the Immortal King realm and claimed the rest for himself.
• The Divine Emperor struck the bull-horned Immortal King, shattered his body, and suppressed his fleeing primordial spirit.
• The Divine Emperor revealed that he was never from the Foreign Realm and joined Zhou Tong, deciding to fight alongside him.

Zhou Tong attacked the Foreign Realm and effortlessly killed three Immortal Kings, prompting Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Ruthless Great Emperor, Azure Emperor, and Divine Emperor to join the battle. A Soul River Immortal King giant arrived with seven Emperor-tainted monsters from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit, and Zhou Tong attacked them.

• Zhou Tong killed three Immortal Kings with overwhelming force, while his Thunder Emperor's Wings shattered another Immortal King's sword.
• Ruthless Great Emperor attacked a True Immortal, and Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and Azure Emperor began fighting their own opponents.
• Divine Emperor fought two Immortal Kings and drove the battle toward the Cosmic Frontier.
• A Soul River Immortal King giant descended with seven grotesque monsters bearing Emperor aura from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit.
• Zhou Tong recognized the monsters as similar to one he had encountered before and unleashed Great Dao symbols to suppress and kill them.

Zhou Tong fought the seven monsters in the Foreign Realm, then faced a growing siege by its Immortal Kings. After nearly killing the pitch-black Immortal King, he was stopped by a claw wreathed in imperial aura as the enemies closed in around him.

• Zhou Tong traded devastating blows with the seven monsters, injuring each of them while suffering wounds himself.
• The pitch-black Immortal King ordered the Immortal Kings in the realm to attack Zhou Tong, and one struck him with a halberd from across the starry sky.
• An Immortal King giant attacked Zhou Tong with a scaled hand, while the pitch-black Immortal King used a Curse Method that made Zhou Tong spit blood.
• Zhou Tong fought back with the Hegemonic Bell and his full strength, but the Immortal King giant struck his shoulder and badly wounded him.
• Zhou Tong clashed directly with the pitch-black Immortal King and nearly shattered his body, then tried to kill him.
• A claw wrapped in imperial aura blocked Zhou Tong, and the seven monsters and more than a dozen Immortal Kings surrounded him.

Zhou Tong fought more than thirty Immortal Kings and drew the Soaring Sky Sword to wound and kill the Emperor-Blood monsters. The Soul River’s dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact awakened after an Immortal King giant sacrificed himself to it, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• Zhou Tong endured the siege, strengthening his Battle Immortal Path through battle while the Hegemonic Bell’s seven Demon Stars repeatedly saved him from danger.
• Zhou Tong drew Emperor Zhuanxu’s Soaring Sky Sword and grievously wounded a monster with its Quasi-Immortal Emperor laws.
• The black Immortal King revealed a dark Jade Ruyi, whose Emperor might halted the battles across the Foreign Realm and blinded Azure Emperor.
• Ruthless Great Emperor identified the Jade Ruyi as an artifact above the Immortal King Realm, and Zhou Tong recognized it as the Soul River’s dark Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact.
• Zhou Tong used the Soaring Sky Sword to kill a wounded monster, and the Hegemonic Bell drew in and suppressed its remains.
• The black Immortal King sacrificed his heart’s blood and life to the Jade Ruyi, whose pitch-black phantom awakened as the Immortal King was drained and disappeared into it.

Zhou Tong used the Soaring Sky Sword, empowered by the Sky Horn Ant True Fate, to shatter the Jade Ruyi while gaining a profound insight into the connections between cultivation systems. He left the Jade Ruyi’s fragments suppressed inside the Hegemonic Bell, though the strain of the fight worsened the cracks in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.

• Zhou Tong poured his divine power into the Soaring Sky Sword and split the Demonic Shadow on the Jade Ruyi, alarming the black Immortal King giant.
• Zhou Tong repeatedly struck the Jade Ruyi with the Soaring Sky Sword, suffering severe injuries as he observed the collision of their Great Dao laws and realized that cultivation systems shared a deeper connection.
• The Sky Horn Ant True Fate diverted attention from guarding the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and helped power Zhou Tong’s sword, causing the rings’ cracks to widen as the Jade Ruyi fractured.
• Zhou Tong shattered the Jade Ruyi into thirteen pieces, then used the Hegemonic Bell and thirteen sword strikes to break them into smaller fragments and suppress them inside the bell.

Zhou Tong defeated the Immortal Kings and monsters attacking him in the Foreign Realm, despite their numbers and his own injuries. After killing an Immortal King giant, he recognized its black blood as the source of the contamination he had suffered and sealed it away for study.

• Zhou Tong reflected on how the battle had advanced his Dao path and unified the four cultivation systems in his body.
• The Foreign Realm's Immortal Kings and monsters hesitated to challenge Zhou Tong after he shattered the Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact Jade Ruyi.
• Zhou Tong struck a monster, and the other Immortal Kings and monsters joined the fight, while the World Tree failed to stabilize the Foreign Realm against their clashes.
• Zhou Tong destroyed the monster's body and primordial spirit, though enemy attacks wounded him and an arrow pierced his shoulder.
• Zhou Tong beheaded the last Immortal King giant and recognized its black blood as the substance that had previously contaminated him.
• Zhou Tong collected and sealed the black blood in a Jade Cauldron so he could investigate the Dark Faction's methods.

Zhou Tong defeated the remaining Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm, then faced four monsters from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit after they fused into a humanoid creature with a powerful emperor aura. He charged at the fused monster, beginning their fight.

• Zhou Tong killed and sealed the primordial spirits of the last Immortal Kings of the Foreign Realm.
• The four surviving monsters from the Heavenly Emperor Burial Pit fused into a single humanoid creature.
• Zhou Tong noticed the fused monster's chest bore a face resembling the Heavenly Emperor corpse and suspected the Burial Pit was trying to recreate that figure.
• Zhou Tong dismissed the fused monster as too depleted to threaten him and charged to attack.

Zhou Tong battled the fused monster in the shattered Foreign Realm, but the monster’s desperate attack forced it to flee into the River of Time. Meanwhile, Ye Fan and the others purified the Dark Matter from their bodies and discussed what they had learned before Wu Shi resolved to perfect his Sixth Secret Realm.

• Zhou Tong fought the fused monster until it used a forbidden technique that combined time with Dark Matter, badly injuring him.
• Zhou Tong recovered from the corrosive attack, tracked the fleeing monster, and pursued it into the River of Time.
• Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Ruthless Great Emperor, Azure Emperor, and Divine Emperor finished their battles and spent several days purifying the Dark Matter from their bodies.
• Wu Shi and the others reflected on Dark Matter’s ability to corrupt and nourish the body, while Divine Emperor warned them against trying to use it.
• Wu Shi said the battle had given him new insight into his Sixth Secret Realm, and Ye Fan admitted he had not found his own.

Zhou Tong’s Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true body witnessed the ancient war between the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and sensed a disturbance in the River of Time. As An Lan’s arrival approached, the grass discovered it could finally move.

• Zhou Tong’s Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true body stood on the ancient battlefield as a heavenly halberd tore through the Void.
• Zhou Tong recalled how the power of time had kept the grass rooted and hidden since the Immortal Ancient Era, forcing it to witness the war without intervening.
• Zhou Tong sensed someone was disturbing the River of Time and suspected the Corpse Immortal Emperor was trying to change history and kill the young Desolate Heaven Emperor.
• Zhou Tong realized this was likely the moment An Lan knocked upon the gate.
• Zhou Tong found that the grass’s roots could pull free and that it could move, possibly because his main body was about to arrive through the River of Time.