Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan a fragment of the Empress West Scripture before secretly infiltrating the Ji Family’s Northern Region Source Treasury. He emptied the treasury, including its massive stock of Divine Source and a piece of Dragon Pattern Black Gold, just as Ji Family elders arrived.

• Ye Fan asked Zhou Tong for a Dao Palace Realm scripture, and Zhou Tong promised him a fragment of the Empress West Scripture in exchange for a future favor that would not violate his principles.
• Ye Fan entered secluded cultivation with the scripture and his sources, beginning his final transformation in the Sea of Wheels Realm.
• Zhou Tong slipped out of Crane Courtyard and traveled to the Ji Family’s Northern Region mining headquarters after hearing that its mines held vast stores of Source and Divine Source.
• Zhou Tong used the Group Character Secret to bypass the Ji Family’s Void Array Patterns and enter the Source Treasury.
• Zhou Tong spotted a large piece of Dragon Pattern Black Gold and used his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings to strip the entire treasury bare.
• Seventeen elderly Ji Family experts and other disciples rushed toward the Source Treasury and challenged the intruder.

Zhou Tong emptied the Ji Family’s source vault and faced its cultivators as his heavenly tribulation descended. After absorbing the tribulation’s essence and beginning his Dragon Transformation, he confronted eighty-one heavenly dragons and prepared to unleash his full strength against them.

• Zhou Tong broke out of the Ji Family’s source vault after taking all its source, then defied the elders who confronted him.
• Zhou Tong’s heavenly tribulation swept over the mine, killing some Ji Family cultivators and forcing the seventeen mighty cultivators to flee with tribulation clouds pursuing them.
• Zhou Tong absorbed the lightning and its Dao traces with the Thunder Emperor Method, while his Hegemonic Bell and Bodhi Tree aided his comprehension.
• Zhou Tong’s spine began transforming into a Great Dragon, signaling the start of his Dragon Transformation tribulation.
• Eighty-one heavenly dragons attacked Zhou Tong; he fought them, healed his wounds with Phoenix flames, and resolved to challenge the tribulation with his strongest battle power.

Zhou Tong fought through the Great Dragon Tribulation, absorbing heavenly dragon essence and advancing to the third transformation of Dragon Transformation. As the heavenly dragons fled, he fused his Kirin and Nine-Leaf Sword Grass forms and severed one dragon’s horn, but his body exploded from the attack.

• Zhou Tong met the first heavenly dragon with the Kirin Fist, healed his shattered arm with the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art, and absorbed the dragon essence shaken loose by his strike.
• Zhou Tong used the Hegemonic Bell and fought all eighty-one heavenly dragons, growing stronger with each collision until he reached the third transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• Zhou Tong followed the descending dragons and True Dragon Ancient Platform into the final wave of the tribulation, then pursued the dragons as they fled toward the sea of lightning.
• Zhou Tong alternated between his Kirin and Nine-Leaf Sword Grass forms, fused them, and activated the All Character Secret for a tenfold critical strike.
• Zhou Tong slashed at a heavenly dragon with his transformed body, severed its horn despite its defense, and then burst apart as purple blood sprayed everywhere.

Zhou Tong severed a Heavenly Dragon’s horn during his tribulation, escaped the pursuing Ji Family by killing Ji Fengyun with a prepared trap, and returned to Crane Courtyard. He began refining the horn’s Heavenly Dragon Source, deciding to prioritize stable combat power over rapid cultivation.

• Zhou Tong used the True Phoenix Undying Art to recover from his injuries and severed a Heavenly Dragon’s horn, then absorbed its shattered remains and discovered their powerful source energy.
• Zhou Tong fled the approaching Ji Family cultivators through the void, where Ji Fengyun pursued him and was killed by Zhou Tong’s concealed sword qi and Vajra Ring.
• The remaining Ji Family half-step great powers found Ji Fengyun reduced to dust and hesitated to pursue, fearing Zhou Tong had prepared more traps.
• Zhou Tong returned to Crane Courtyard unnoticed and entered seclusion to refine the Heavenly Dragon Source.
• After making little progress refining the source overnight, Zhou Tong estimated it would take months and chose to cultivate gradually to preserve his combat power.

After reaching the Third Transformation of the Dragon, Zhou Tong stabilized his cultivation with the Indestructible Heavenly Merit and uncovered a possible connection between its Three Thousand Worlds secret art and the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Flying Immortal Art. He concluded that another secret art might bridge the two, but he had not obtained it from Hua Yunfei.

• Zhou Tong recalled entering the Divine Prohibition State during the heavenly tribulation, but could not reproduce it and turned to stabilizing his cultivation.
• He examined the Hegemonic Bell’s new laws and divine patterns, then placed it within his Immortal Platform using his formed divine sense.
• Zhou Tong spent a month studying the Dragon Transformation Scroll of the Indestructible Heavenly Merit and began cultivating its Three Thousand Worlds secret art.
• As his divine sense rode the Human Body Great Dragon through the Small Worlds, Zhou Tong realized that the worlds were formed from the body’s Gates and could eventually converge into great power.
• Zhou Tong theorized that the ultimate evolution of Three Thousand Worlds might lead to the Flying Immortal Art and its Flying Immortal Divine Fetus.
• He suspected that With a Single Thought, Flowers Bloom; You Rule the World was the missing link, but regretted failing to obtain the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art from Hua Yunfei.

Jiang Yun investigated whether Jiang Taixu had taken Fairy Caiyun from the Wan Chu Holy Land and considered keeping Zhou Tong and Ye Fan in Crane Courtyard. Zhou Tong used proof of the Jiang Family’s promise and a veiled threat to secure Ye Fan’s cultivation resources, leaving Jiang Yun scrambling to gather the Source.

• Jiang Yun concluded that Jiang Taixu might still be alive and spending his final years with Fairy Caiyun, while another elder urged him to keep Zhou Tong and Ye Fan in Crane Courtyard over suspicions that they had received the Nine Secrets.
• A messenger reported that Ye Fan and Zhou Tong had advanced to the Dao Palace Realm and Dragon Transformation Realm, and that Ye Fan demanded ten million jin of Source.
• Jiang Yun confronted the pair, but Zhou Tong played a recording of the Jiang Family promising to provide Ye Fan’s cultivation resources and revealed Ye Fan’s Primordial Sacred Body.
• After an elder seized Zhou Tong’s recording Array Patterns, Zhou Tong mentioned the mysterious tribulation at the Ji Family mining headquarters, prompting the Jiang Family to fear that their dealings had been exposed.
• Jiang Yun apologized, offered one hundred thousand jin of Source immediately, and led the Jiang Family cultivators away to prepare the rest.

Jiang Yun ordered the Jiang Family to investigate Zhou Tong while rationing resources to Ye Fan, and Zhou Tong prepared for a confrontation as he refined his Vajra Ring. After a month of tempering it with Immortal Fire, the ring became vastly more powerful and returned to Zhou Tong on its own.

• Jiang Yun ordered the Crane Courtyard watched and instructed his people to give Ye Fan Source in small installments while investigating Zhou Tong’s background.
• Ye Fan worried that the Jiang Family might bring out a Supreme Emperor Weapon or withhold resources, but Zhou Tong told him to cultivate and said the Jiang Family could not trap him without its hidden power.
• Zhou Tong considered the Jiang Family’s motives and decided to further refine his Vajra Ring using the Hengyu Scripture’s artifact-refining secret method and a rune drawn from the Phoenix Spirit Body’s Immortal Fire.
• Zhou Tong spent a month tempering the Vajra Ring until it was covered in powerful patterns from four techniques and shone with Eternal Blue Gold.
• Zhou Tong sent out the completed Vajra Ring, which unleashed lightning and thunder before withdrawing its power and floating back to him without his control.

Zhou Tong discovered that his Vajra Ring had given birth to four deities and learned that it was a top-grade King's Divine Weapon. After a month of cultivation, he reached the fourth transformation of the Dragon Transformation Realm and suppressed his heavenly tribulation while staying on Jiang Family territory.

• Zhou Tong sensed four deities within the Vajra Ring, which he suspected had formed from Cave Heaven Nurturing Spirit, the Immortal Fire, and the Hengyu Scripture’s artifact-forging technique.
• Zhou Tong asked the Purple Sun Lamp to assess the Vajra Ring and learned it was a top-grade King's Divine Weapon capable of clashing with Saint Weapons to some extent.
• Zhou Tong put away the Vajra Ring and spent a month comprehending the Indestructible Heavenly Merit and the Three Thousand Worlds while cultivating his Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Zhou Tong broke through to the fourth transformation of the Dragon Transformation Realm.
• Zhou Tong carved Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns onto himself to suppress his heavenly tribulation and planned to keep cultivating on Jiang Family territory before using multiple tribulations as a potential weapon.

Zhou Tong refined part of the Heavenly Dragon Source with the Indestructible Heavenly Merit, enduring a painful bodily transformation that produced a True Dragon Divine Form ahead of schedule. After discovering that the refinement had also stabilized his cultivation and begun linking his secret realms, he decided to postpone advancing and cultivate secret arts first.

• Zhou Tong divided the Heavenly Dragon Source from the dragon horn into five parts and refined one part with the Indestructible Heavenly Merit.
• The Heavenly Dragon Source painfully remade Zhou Tong’s bones, flesh, blood, and organs, leaving a pile of discarded bodily impurities.
• Zhou Tong discovered that a True Dragon Divine Form was forming early in his Wheel Sea and that his Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body had advanced by half a small step.
• Zhou Tong planned to take Ye Fan to the Myriad Dragon Nest to investigate the True Dragon Divine Medicine and learn the True Dragon Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong found that refining the source had connected his four great secret realms and stabilized his fourth Dragon Transformation, but he chose to cultivate secret arts before advancing further.

After the Jiang Family delayed delivering resources, Ye Fan and Zhou Tong escaped their residence and agreed to meet in the Holy City of the Northern Region. Ye Fan set off to search for Pang Bo and the Azure Flood Dragon King, while Zhou Tong went to investigate the Jade Pool Ruins.

• Ye Fan decided to give up waiting for the Jiang Family's promised million jin of Source and asked Zhou Tong to provide the resources he had promised.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan to look for the Azure Flood Dragon King's residence and gather information about the Jade Pool Ruins, then arranged for them to meet in the Holy City of the Northern Region.
• Zhou Tong pointed out valuable stones in the Ji Family Stone Workshop and gave Ye Fan an array platform containing Array Patterns that could be used to collect a debt from the Jiang Family.
• Zhou Tong used his Martial Heavenly Eye and Dao patterns to lead Ye Fan through the Jiang Family's detection arrays, and they left Crane Courtyard safely.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan a rough map of the Northern Region and departed, while Ye Fan set out to search for the Azure Flood Dragon King's residence.

Zhou Tong survived consecutive Dragon Transformation tribulations, then entered the Primordial Ancient Mine to retrieve Phoenix Blood Red Gold from the ruins where Hengyu the Great had tempered weapons. He escaped the forbidden zone and prepared to test his uncertain plan with the treasure.

• Zhou Tong refined the lightning from the fourth and fifth Dragon Transformation tribulations, advancing to the fifth transformation.
• Zhou Tong stabilized his cultivation with Heavenly Dragon Source and traveled to the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Zhou Tong used the Source Heaven Book and Front Character Secret to navigate the twisted, dangerous mine along Hengyu the Great's old route.
• Zhou Tong reached Sun-Falling Ridge and found Phoenix Blood Red Gold in the ruins marked with Hengyu's name.
• Zhou Tong returned safely from the Primordial Ancient Mine and took out the Phoenix Blood Red Gold, hoping his guess was correct.

Zhou Tong used Phoenix Blood Red Gold to help his Phoenix Spirit Body undergo repeated Nirvanas and absorb the Immortal Fire, then reforged his Vajra Ring with the gold. As the ring advanced to a peak Great Sage Weapon, Zhou Tong noticed something was wrong with his Phoenix Spirit Body.

• Zhou Tong exposed the Phoenix Blood Red Gold and placed it inside his Phoenix Spirit Body, which began to suffer under the Immortal Fire.
• Zhou Tong repeatedly activated Nirvana, and the Phoenix Blood Red Gold revealed its profound meaning, helping his Phoenix Spirit Body complete nine Nirvanas and absorb the Immortal Fire.
• The Phoenix Blood Red Gold fused with Zhou Tong's Vajra Ring, greatly increasing its spirituality and power and advancing it into a peak Great Sage Weapon.
• Zhou Tong noticed that the Vajra Ring's Dao patterns had become unbalanced and set aside his unease about its unfamiliar transformation.
• Zhou Tong turned back to his nearly reborn Phoenix Spirit Body and realized that something was wrong.

Zhou Tong discovered that his Phoenix Spirit Body had become a fragile Phoenix Egg and began studying how to turn his Heavenly Cave spirits into Divine Fetuses. He found Amitabha Great Emperor’s teachings on faith power, but exhausted himself searching the Bodhi Tree’s older memories before reaching Dao De Tianzun’s era.

• Zhou Tong found his Phoenix Spirit Body transformed into a weak Phoenix Egg, placed it beside the Divine Spring, and fed it source qi.
• Zhou Tong studied the Cave Heaven Nurturing Divine Embryo method and considered using faith power to turn his other Heavenly Cave spirits into Divine Fetuses.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to view the Bodhi Tree’s memories and found Shakyamuni’s Vedic Scripture and Amitabha Great Emperor’s Mida Scripture and faith-power method.
• Zhou Tong recovered memories of an ordinary Quasi-Emperor descendant of the Taiyin Cult and obtained the complete Taiyin True Scripture.
• Zhou Tong searched further back for Dao De Tianzun’s Dao Scripture and One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, but found only empty lives and scenes of the Bodhi Tree’s essence being taken.

Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to investigate the Humanoid Divine Medicine's past and discovered Emperor Venerable's scriptures and a human Immortal King's teachings. He obtained the Nine Netherworld Howler Treasure Art and began comprehending its Path of Destruction.

• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to trace the Humanoid Divine Medicine's past to the Sea of Reincarnation and recognized Emperor Venerable in an earlier life.
• Zhou Tong watched Emperor Venerable pass down scriptures and secret arts, committing them to memory.
• Zhou Tong searched the Humanoid Divine Medicine's earliest life for Ten Evils Treasure Arts and found the teachings of a human Immortal King from the Immortal Ancient Era.
• Zhou Tong obtained the Nine Netherworld Howler Treasure Art through the Reincarnation Mirror, though he had hoped to find the Kunpeng Treasure Art.
• Zhou Tong immersed himself in the Nine Netherworld Howler's symbols and began comprehending its power of destruction.

Zhou Tong formed a Nine Netherworld Howler spiritual body, then refined the Jiang Family’s supreme-grade dragon marrow and broke through to the sixth transformation of the Dragon Transformation Realm. He discovered that the cultivation had slightly strengthened the potential in that secret realm alone, far short of changing his physique toward a Chaos Body.

• Zhou Tong completed his initial comprehension of the Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art and formed a Nine Netherworld Howler within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong decided to pursue the sixth Dragon Transformation Realm transformation before visiting the old grounds of Jade Pool and rescuing Pang Bo, then consumed the Jiang Family’s three drops of supreme-grade Purple Dragon Marrow.
• Zhou Tong spent a month refining the dragon marrow, opened another Gate of Potential, and broke through to the sixth transformation amid a lightning tribulation.
• Zhou Tong refined Heavenly Dragon Source to stabilize his cultivation and sensed that the potential released by some Gates of Potential in his Dragon Transformation Realm had slightly increased.
• Zhou Tong concluded that the minor change affected only the Dragon Transformation Realm and was insufficient to transform his physique toward a Chaos Body.

Zhou Tong returned to Holy City, learned that Ye Fan had made a fortune gambling on stones and left, then went to the Jiang Family Stone Workshop to recover his losses by cutting its treasures. He left the Jiang Family reeling after uncovering a fist-sized piece of Dragon Pattern Black Gold.

• Zhou Tong entered Holy City, discovered Ye Fan was gone, and learned from a vendor that Ye Fan had gambled away stones as Gu Feng and won a fortune.
• Zhou Tong bought refining and array materials across Holy City, spending over a million jin of Source before heading to the Jiang Family Stone Workshop.
• Using his Martial Heavenly Eye and Source Technique, Zhou Tong found and cut valuable stones across the workshop’s gardens, extracting Divine Source, immortal treasures, and medicinal plants.
• As the crowd gathered and the Jiang Family grew furious, Zhou Tong ignored a warning to stop and chose one final scrap stone.
• Zhou Tong cut out a fist-sized piece of Dragon Pattern Black Gold, and a Jiang Family cultivator revealed that the workshop’s elder had unknowingly put the stone there himself.

Zhou Tong left the Jiang Family Stone Workshop with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold after displaying the power of the Purple Sun Lamp. He entrusted the lamp to the Source Heaven Master descendants’ village, then reforged his Vajra Ring in the ninth level of the Fire Domain, leaving the Fire Domain’s future in doubt.

• Zhou Tong used the Purple Sun Lamp’s pressure to deter the elders demanding his Dragon Pattern Black Gold, then left the Jiang Family Stone Workshop.
• Zhou Tong visited the village near Purple Mountain, left the Purple Sun Lamp with Fifth Master Zhang, and entrusted it to protect the villagers who cultivated the Purple Sun Scripture.
• Zhou Tong declared the Vajra Ring his sole Saint Weapon and traveled to the ninth level of the Fire Domain.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to clear the nine-colored mist, refine the Dragon Pattern Black Gold, and imprint the Nine Netherworld Ferocious Beast Treasure Art into it.
• Zhou Tong found that the Nine Netherworld Howler within the Vajra Ring remained sluggish, then wondered whether the Fire Domain could survive after losing another level.

Zhou Tong reunited with Ye Fan in the Holy City, and the two set out with Tu Fei to visit the Azure Flood Dragon King. They traveled by Mysterious Jade Platform into the king’s hidden Small World, where Zhou Tong wondered whether his own artifacts could one day contain a true world.

• Zhou Tong found Ye Fan in a small Origin Stone Pavilion and revealed his identity to Ye Fan and his companions, Li Heishui and Tu Fei.
• Zhou Tong agreed to make Mysterious Jade Platforms for Tu Fei and Li Heishui, then learned that demons might covet Ye Fan’s Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron or target them as human talents.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Tu Fei used a Mysterious Jade Platform to reach Yunze Prefecture, while Li Heishui stayed behind.
• Tu Fei used a jade pendant bearing Tu Tian’s imprint to lead Zhou Tong and Ye Fan into the Azure Flood Dragon King’s Small World.
• Zhou Tong marveled at the Small World and considered whether his Vajra Ring or Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings could eventually contain a real world.

At the Young Azure Flood Dragon King's palace, the Golden-Winged Little Peng King attacked Ye Fan, but Zhou Tong stopped him and challenged his strength. The two went outside to fight, with the demon experts gathering to watch.

• The Young Azure Flood Dragon King welcomed Tu Fei, Ye Fan, and Zhou Tong and introduced the Golden-Winged Little Peng King as a guest.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King attacked Ye Fan, but Zhou Tong struck his claw and injured his right arm.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King learned Zhou Tong had reached the Dragon Transformation Realm and challenged him, while Zhou Tong claimed he could defeat him even at the First Layer of the Four Extremities Realm.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King attacked Zhou Tong, and their clash sent lightning through the palace until the Young Azure Flood Dragon King intervened.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King and Zhou Tong moved to a mountain summit, where the gathered demon experts prepared to watch their battle.

Zhou Tong fought the Golden-Winged Little Peng King while keeping his cultivation suppressed and one hand behind his back. He overcame the Peng King's divine arts and killed him with the concealed second form of the Grass Character Sword Art.

• Zhou Tong challenged the Golden-Winged Little Peng King with his left hand tucked behind his back, while Ye Fan reassured Tu Fei that Zhou Tong had many tricks.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King unleashed One Hundred Thousand Eight Thousand Swords, but Zhou Tong countered with the Grass Character Sword Art's first form, Sword Wave.
• Zhou Tong's sword qi overwhelmed the Peng King's attack and wounded him, forcing him to bring out the Great Desolate Halberd.
• Zhou Tong used Cross Slash against the Great Desolate Halberd, shattering the air around them and making the Peng King's grip falter.
• As the Golden-Winged Little Peng King vowed he would not be defeated, Zhou Tong secretly used Sword Shadow to cut him apart.