Chapter Summaries

An Lan approached the Imperial Pass in his war chariot and overpowered the Primal Imperial City and the Heavenly Abyss’s defenses. As he began to cross, a terrifying aura shattered the Golden-backed Vast Ox’s legs, making An Lan wonder whether an Immortal King still lived in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

• An Lan arrived at the Heavenly Abyss in his war chariot, and the people of the Imperial Pass recognized him and feared the Immortal King’s assault.
• An Lan raised one hand to hold up the Primal Imperial City as its defenders and the city’s sole king unleashed the Heavenly Abyss’s strongest laws against him.
• An Lan summoned five decrees that became enormous hands and helped him hold back the Heavenly Abyss’s power.
• The Golden-backed Vast Ox resumed pulling An Lan’s chariot toward the Heavenly Abyss, while the Imperial Pass’s Immortal Suppressing Stele and First Killing Formation failed to stop him.
• A terrifying aura shattered the Golden-backed Vast Ox’s four limbs, and An Lan asked whether any Immortal Kings remained in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Zhou Tong appeared across spacetime and challenged An Lan, whose mount was nearly torn apart by Zhou Tong’s aura. When Zhou Tong stepped toward An Lan while An Lan held the Primal Imperial City, Yu Tuo intervened to block his battle intent and warned of a spacetime catastrophe.

• Zhou Tong’s sword-like aura wounded the Golden-backed Vast Ox and left it trembling on the ground.
• An Lan recognized that Zhou Tong came from another spacetime and warned him that further action could overturn heaven and earth.
• Zhou Tong declared that he wanted to kill An Lan, and An Lan claimed he remained invincible even while holding the Primal Imperial City.
• Zhou Tong stepped toward An Lan, and his battle intent shattered celestial bodies above the Heavenly Abyss.
• Yu Tuo appeared before An Lan and blocked Zhou Tong’s battle intent, warning that their fight could collapse heaven and earth and disrupt time.

Zhou Tong revealed himself as a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass from the Ten Fiends, forcing An Lan and Yu Tuo to withdraw their army before he attacked. He unleashed the sword art All Beings' Extinction, and Yu Tuo struck back as their clash began.

• Zhou Tong broke through the constraints of time with his sword aura, startling An Lan, Yu Tuo, Shi Hao, and the Imperial Pass defenders.
• Yu Tuo and An Lan recognized Zhou Tong as a surviving descendant of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass clan, which they had attacked during the Immortal Ancient Era.
• An Lan ordered the Foreign Realm army to retreat while he and Yu Tuo shielded their people from Zhou Tong.
• After the army withdrew, Zhou Tong warned An Lan and Yu Tuo of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass's unmatched offense and raised his hand to attack.
• Zhou Tong formed the divine sword All Beings' Extinction, and Yu Tuo countered with a massive hand as stars exploded around them.

Zhou Tong’s sword strike severed Yu Tuo’s arm and damaged An Lan’s golden spear, shocking both armies. He revealed that he was waiting for Wushang, who sensed Zhou Tong’s gaze and began approaching.

• Zhou Tong’s sword light severed Yu Tuo’s arm and redirected toward An Lan.
• An Lan blocked the strike with his golden spear, but Zhou Tong’s sword chipped it despite the five decrees’ aid.
• The Foreign Realm army was shaken by the damage to Yu Tuo and An Lan, while Imperial Pass’s defenders cheered.
• An Lan claimed Zhou Tong’s strike had been his limit, but Zhou Tong challenged him to test that claim again.
• Zhou Tong told the last surviving final king that Wushang was the true threat, then fixed his gaze on Wushang across the world barrier.
• Wushang sensed Zhou Tong watching him, met his gaze, and strode toward him.

Zhou Tong waited on the battlefield for Wushang and realized that even his interference could not change the past. Wushang arrived, intent on fighting him, and the chapter ended as the two prepared to clash.

• Zhou Tong noticed that Shi Hao still carried a drop of future Emperor Blood and reasoned that time had counterbalanced his changes to the past.
• Zhou Tong recalled Wushang's history and his peerless Divine Ability Immunity as he prepared to fight him.
• Wushang's overwhelming aura crossed the Heavenly Abyss and terrified the cultivators at the Imperial Pass.
• Wushang announced that he had come to face Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong challenged him to withstand his attacks.
• The Immortal King atop the Primal Imperial City warned Zhou Tong and anticipated a clash between offense and defense.

Zhou Tong's Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true body fought Wushang at the Imperial Pass, and their clash shook both realms. The two continued attacking each other at full strength, with neither giving ground.

• Wushang charged Zhou Tong and the Imperial Pass, and the two began exchanging blows.
• Zhou Tong struck Wushang's bronze great halberd with his sword-palm, cracking it despite its Divine Ability Immunity.
• Wushang repaired his halberd with metal essence and charged Zhou Tong again, while Zhou Tong met him head-on at extreme speed.
• An Lan and Yu Tuo watched the battle and realized they could barely follow the two Immortal King giants' movements.
• Wushang pushed his Myriad Laws Immunity to its limit and attacked without defense, while Zhou Tong likewise met each blow with his sword-like palms.
• Zhou Tong and Wushang continued trading devastating attacks in the void, sending destructive light across heaven and earth.

Zhou Tong and Wushang fought a devastating duel, and Zhou Tong’s fused Three Great Sword Arts pierced Wushang’s defenses. Their clash tore open spacetime and brought forth the River of Time, from which a terrifying black-aura monster emerged between them.

• Zhou Tong and Wushang exchanged fierce blows, leaving both badly wounded as Zhou Tong breached Wushang’s magic power immunity.
• Wushang recognized that Zhou Tong had combined the Three Great Sword Arts, and Zhou Tong said the fusion was still imperfect but strong enough to kill him.
• Zhou Tong unleashed the fused sword art, and both fighters suffered grievous wounds in their mutual-destruction clash.
• Their battle tore open spacetime and summoned the River of Time, shocking An Lan and Yu Tuo.
• A monster covered in black aura leaped from the temporal rift and landed between Zhou Tong and Wushang.

A terrifying, half-step-beyond-Immortal-King monster emerged from the River of Time, pursued by a mysterious powerhouse whose strength and fighting style astonished Wushang. The pursuer defeated the monster and sealed it in a Jade Cauldron, while Wushang suspected he was identical to the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.

• A severely wounded monster leaped from the River of Time, and Wushang sensed that it was nearly beyond the King Realm.
• Zhou Tong recognized the monster as the Emperor's Radiance Immortal King and realized his true body was pursuing it.
• A time-shrouded powerhouse emerged from the River of Time and exchanged devastating attacks with the monster.
• Wushang noticed that the powerhouse and the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass had identical physiques and similar fighting styles, and suspected the grass was his incarnation.
• The powerhouse pierced the monster's remaining head, cleaved apart its body and primordial spirit, and sealed the remains in a Jade Cauldron.

Zhou Tong defeated the grotesque monster in the River of Time, then reunited with his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true life. Before leaving, he launched a sword strike at Wushang, piercing through his defenses and brow.

• Zhou Tong gathered the monster’s Black Blood into the Jade Cauldron as the battle’s strange phenomena faded.
• Wushang, An Lan, Yu Tuo, and the others watched Zhou Tong descend and realized he resembled the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• Wushang told Zhou Tong to leave, and Zhou Tong’s gaze confirmed that he and the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass were the same person.
• Zhou Tong and the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass true life recognized their understanding, then the true life merged into Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong said he had time for one last thing, then sent a sword light through Wushang’s defenses and pierced his brow.

Zhou Tong struck Wushang through the River of Time, gravely wounding him and shattering the Foreign Realm’s confidence. After warning An Lan and Yu Tuo away with a feint, Zhou Tong returned through the rift, leaving the King in Primal Imperial City to face what came next.

• Zhou Tong pierced Wushang’s brow with a sword strike, shocking both realms and leaving Wushang gravely wounded.
• An Lan and Yu Tuo stabilized Wushang and realized Zhou Tong could no longer attack repeatedly.
• Zhou Tong told the King in Primal Imperial City that he had helped eliminate Wushang as a threat, and the King thanked him.
• Zhou Tong charged at An Lan and Yu Tuo, frightening them into fleeing with Wushang, then laughed and revealed it was a feint.
• Zhou Tong disappeared through the rift in the River of Time, and the rift and river vanished soon afterward.

After wounding Wushang, Zhou Tong returned to the River of Time and absorbed the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Life’s memories, Inner World, and Dao insights. Their sword arts fused and strengthened Zhou Tong, leaving him with greater Quasi-Immortal Emperor power and a vastly sharper Four Extremities Realm.

• Zhou Tong reflected that his sword strike had only severely wounded Wushang because the power of time had diminished it.
• Zhou Tong connected with the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Life and learned that it had followed the Chaotic Ancient Method while remaining rooted for tens of millions of years.
• Zhou Tong merged the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Life’s Inner World into his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, repairing their cracks and strengthening them.
• Zhou Tong combined his sword Dao insights with those of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, bringing the fusion of three great sword arts close to perfection.
• Zhou Tong absorbed the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass’s power, increasing his Quasi-Immortal Emperor light and sharpening his Four Extremities Realm.

Zhou Tong returned from the River of Time to find the Foreign Realm shattered, then confirmed that its Immortal Kings had been wiped out. He discussed the battle and the threat of darkness with Ye Fan and the others, leaving the source of darkness unexplained for now.

• Zhou Tong completed the return of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass True Fate to his Sixth Secret Realm, bringing half of the Ten Fiends' True Fates together.
• Zhou Tong traveled back through the River of Time and emerged in the ruined Foreign Realm, where he saw that the World Tree had survived despite severe damage.
• Zhou Tong surveyed the Foreign Realm and decided to leave its surviving races alone, since its Immortal Kings were gone and the remaining True Immortals posed no threat.
• Ye Fan asked Zhou Tong about the Immortal Kings, and Zhou Tong confirmed that he had killed them and the other monsters, though information still needed to be extracted from their souls.
• Wu Shi the Great warned that Dark Matter could corrupt even them, and Zhou Tong said the battle had given them experience for facing darkness again.
• Ruthless Great Emperor asked about the source of darkness, but Zhou Tong withheld what he knew until they had opened their own Sixth Secret Realms.

Ye Fan proposed merging the ruined Foreign Realm into their universe, but Zhou Tong warned that its altered scriptures could spread darkness through their Cultivation System. After confirming that the corruption persisted in living cultivators, the group decided to cleanse the world fragment before considering its integration.

• Ye Fan suggested turning the vast Foreign Realm into a continent in their universe, and Zhou Tong agreed while claiming about one-tenth for the Divine Domain and World Tree.
• Zhou Tong warned the group that the fragment posed a Cultivation System erosion risk, so Ruthless Great Emperor seized a Ninth Heaven Quasi-Emperor for examination.
• Ye Fan and Wu Shi found that the Quasi-Emperor's Immortal Platform and primordial spirit were blackened, and their attempts to purify him failed as darkness kept returning.
• Zhou Tong killed the Quasi-Emperor, after which Ye Fan purified the remaining darkness completely, confirming that the corruption persisted only while its host lived.
• Zhou Tong explained that the cultivators' scriptures had been tampered with and warned that merging the fragment could infect their traditions; Ruthless Great Emperor then swept the world with immortal light to cleanse it.

Zhou Tong and the others purged the Dark Matter from a world fragment and prepared it for integration with their own world. Divine Emperor claimed one-tenth of the purified land, while Zhou Tong refined the entire fragment into a portable realm before leading everyone home.

• Ruthless Great Emperor killed the cultivators who had embraced darkness, and Zhou Tong sent the untainted inhabitants to other Foreign Realm fragments.
• Zhou Tong spent three hundred years forging eighty-one formation flags while Ye Fan, Ruthless Great Emperor, Wu Shi the Great, Azure Emperor, and Divine Emperor destroyed records of dark scriptures and Dao techniques.
• Zhou Tong and the others powered the grand formation for a hundred years, purifying all Dark Matter from the world fragment.
• Divine Emperor separated one-tenth of the purified continent for the Divine Silkworm Clan.
• Zhou Tong used the formation to refine the fragment into a shining, marble-like realm and led Ye Fan and the others back toward the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

After returning to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Zhou Tong and the others watched the Divine Emperor integrate a vast continent into the universe, with the World Tree suppressing the upheaval and absorbing its Longevity Substance. They agreed to wait for the World Tree to digest the continent before adding more fragments, while Ye Fan prepared the Heavenly Court for the universe’s transformation and the Azure Emperor received a piece of the continent.

• The Divine Emperor departed to settle the continent, then released it into the cosmic void, shaking the universe.
• The World Tree spread its roots over the continent, stabilized the universe, expanded its boundaries, and absorbed most of the continent’s Longevity Substance into new fruits.
• Zhou Tong said the World Tree would need at least a thousand years to digest the continent, and Ye Fan agreed not to integrate more world fragments prematurely.
• Wu Shi the Great returned to his home to cultivate, while Ye Fan went back to the Heavenly Court to prepare for the universe’s changes and the Ruthless Great Emperor returned to the Primordial Forbidden Land.
• The Azure Emperor asked for a piece of the continent, and Zhou Tong gave him a portion before he departed.

Zhou Tong and the Divine Emperor each gave a vast continent to the universe, and Ye Fan unsealed the remaining portion of his continent over ten thousand years. The story left off as an unknown figure, whose aura seemed like that of a Stone Man, faced an Immortal King Tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier.

• The Divine Emperor's continent settled into the starry sky, and Zhou Tong merged another portion into the Divine Domain and sent one to the Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan the remaining sixty percent of the continent, and Ye Fan began unsealing it for the Heavenly Court and the universe's races.
• Ye Fan's continent expanded over ten thousand years, strengthening the universe's spiritual essence as it spread across the stars.
• An Immortal King Tribulation descended at the Cosmic Frontier, astonishing Ye Fan, Wu Shi, and the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Wu Shi the Great suspected the tribulation-taker was connected to the Holy Spirit Lineage but could not identify them.

Yan Ruyu became immortal after enduring a Quasi-Immortal King-level Immortal Ascension Tribulation, while Zhou Tong completed the return of his God-Striking Stone True Fate and grew stronger. After welcoming Yan Ruyu back to the Divine Domain, Zhou Tong suggested they test whether immortals could have descendants.

• After thirty thousand years of cultivation, Yan Ruyu became immortal beneath the Light of Becoming Immortal.
• Zhou Tong used the God-Striking Stone True Fate to complete his Sixth Secret Realm transformation and increase his Quasi-Immortal Emperor radiance to forty percent.
• Zhou Tong tested his enhanced primordial spirit by creating a living Suanni from nothing.
• Yan Ruyu endured the Immortal Ascension Tribulation, recovered, and returned to the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong congratulated Yan Ruyu, then suggested they try to have descendants.

Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu welcomed a son whose birth revealed him to be an Innate Supreme with the Supreme Being Body. Zhou Tong named him Zhou Rui and chose to let him grow and compete in the dangerous current era rather than seal him away.

• As the continent prospered and another hundred thousand years passed, Zhou Tong returned to cultivating, then spent more than a dozen years by Yan Ruyu's side as they awaited their child.
• After an eighteen-year pregnancy, Yan Ruyu gave birth to a boy amid signs of heaven and earth celebrating his arrival.
• Zhou Tong recognized the Azure Lotus forming in the infant's Sea of Wheels as the human Supreme Being Body, not a trait of Yan Ruyu's Demon Clan lineage.
• Zhou Tong explained that the child was an Innate Supreme and sensed that Holy Spirits being nurtured across the universe would also possess immortal Dao Fruits.
• Yan Ruyu noted the dangers of competing for the Great Emperor's Dao in the current era, but Zhou Tong refused to seal the child away and named him Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui became a Great Emperor after defeating the geniuses of his era, and Zhou Tong later sensed the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin and entered the Bronze Coffin to study the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s scripture. He remained there to comprehend its mysteries, while the Hegemonic Bell’s resonance greatly accelerated his refinement of the Jade Ruyi Fragment.

• Zhou Rui attained the Dao at a hundred years old, becoming a Quasi-Emperor, and two centuries later overcame his Emperor Tribulation while killing thirteen Alternative Dao Attainment opponents.
• Zhou Rui returned to the Divine Domain, where Zhou Tong passed down his scriptures and Ten Evils Treasure Art and guided him in studying the Heavenly Heart Imprint.
• Ten thousand years later, Zhou Tong sensed the Bronze Coffin, followed it through a passage, and found that it allowed him to approach.
• Zhou Tong entered the Bronze Coffin and used the Hegemonic Bell’s resonance to deepen his understanding of the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s scripture.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the resonance increased the Jade Ruyi Fragment’s refinement speed tenfold, and decided to remain in seclusion for ten thousand years.

Zhou Tong studied the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s scripture inside the Bronze Coffin while refining the Hegemonic Bell, until Ye Fan arrived and joined him. The two compared their Dao Proving Artifacts, and Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan Blazing Sun Immortal Gold before they discussed the scripture’s meaning.

• After three years of seclusion, Zhou Tong saw Ye Fan enter the Bronze Coffin, and the two greeted each other.
• Ye Fan sensed the Great Dao Heavenly Sound and examined Zhou Tong’s Hegemonic Bell, while Zhou Tong inspected Ye Fan’s cauldron.
• Zhou Tong explained that combining all kinds of immortal gold could form Chaos Gold and gave Ye Fan a piece of Blazing Sun Immortal Gold.
• Ye Fan refined the Blazing Sun Immortal Gold into his cauldron, changing its aura from faintly sinister to imposing and masculine.
• Ye Fan shared his view that the scripture might concern repairing the Immortal Domain, and Zhou Tong shared his own insights with him.