Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong rejected the idea that fate required him to choose between Nuwa's camp and the Abyss Gate, then used his power over five Heavenly Daos to address the entire Three Realms. He urged cultivators to resist fate rather than fight a war simply because it seemed destined.

• Bodhi Dao Ancestor and Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor praised Zhou Tong for comprehending four Heavenly Daos in one day, while the Black Robe Divine King tried to persuade him not to join Nuwa's camp.
• Zhou Tong said fate was nonsense and rejected the pressure to take a side in the conflict between Nuwa's camp and the Abyss Gate.
• Zhou Tong drew on the Yin, Yang, Life, Destruction, and Fire Element Heavenly Daos, shaking the Three Realms and drawing the attention of countless cultivators.
• Zhou Tong sent his voice into the souls of immortals and gods across the Three Realms, questioning whether they truly believed fate required them to wage war.
• Zhou Tong reminded cultivators that they had once resisted fate by surviving heavenly tribulations and urged them to reclaim their will, declaring, "Swallow a golden core, and my fate is mine, not Heaven's!"

Zhou Tong declared that cultivators should defy fate and refuse to fight simply because the Heavenly Dao had decreed it, shaking the resolve of both factions. As the Three Realms’ greatest powers gathered to confront him, Zhou Tong challenged them all and vowed to subdue the Three Realms alone.

• Zhou Tong proclaimed that a cultivator’s fate belonged to them, not Heaven, prompting fighters in both the Nuwa Faction and the Abyss Gate to question the war.
• Ji Ning reflected that he still could not forgive the Abyss Gate for killing his friends, even as he understood Zhou Tong’s desire to end the conflict.
• Three Pure Ones, the Buddhist leader, the Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor, and other powerful figures gathered above the Great Xia World to confront Zhou Tong.
• Three Pure Ones and the Buddhist leader questioned Zhou Tong’s sincerity, but Zhou Tong firmly declared that he would defy fate.
• Zhou Tong challenged the gathered experts, including Three Pure Ones, Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, Bodhi, and Old Man Yuan, to test their powers against him.
• Zhou Tong declared that he would challenge every expert in the Three Realms and subdue it by himself.

Zhou Tong challenged the gathered powers of the Three Realms and demonstrated overwhelming strength in battles against Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor and the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons. The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons was left badly wounded after their clash, while the stunned crowd had yet to see the fight conclude.

• Zhou Tong rejected Bodhi's warning and challenged the assembled cultivators to attack him.
• Crimson Bright Dao Ancestor charged Zhou Tong, who severely wounded him with a single palm formed from magic power.
• Old Man Yuan concluded that Zhou Tong made seizing the Heart of the World impossible and decided to flee.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons accepted Zhou Tong's challenge and attacked at speed beyond the Heavenly Dao's limits.
• Zhou Tong met the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons head-on, and their collision sent the demon lord nearly exploding backward into the Abyss Gate cultivators.

Zhou Tong defeated the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons and forced the Nuwa Faction and Abyss Gate to accept his plan to settle grudges in a Blood Battle Arena. He then exposed Old Man Yuan and killed him after resisting his possession attempt.

• Zhou Tong revealed a divine body powerful enough to defeat the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, who conceded and acknowledged the Abyss Gate's defeat.
• Zhou Tong proposed a Blood Battle Arena where tribulation survivors could settle their grudges, and both factions agreed.
• Zhou Tong identified Old Man Yuan as a calamity in the Three Realms, prompting Old Man Yuan to flee while more than thirty figures moved to surround Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong caught up with Old Man Yuan and resisted his Heart Power possession secret art.
• Zhou Tong's flaming blade cleaved Old Man Yuan in half, and the Power of Fire burned him to ashes.

After killing Old Man Yuan, Zhou Tong explained that he had secretly controlled powerful figures on both sides to profit from the final battle. The survivors accepted his account after learning Gonggong had also died, and Zhou Tong suggested the real Old Man Yuan had been possessed by a primordial chaos alien.

• Zhou Tong contemplated Old Man Yuan’s final strike while the controlled True Gods and Dao Ancestors from both factions died with their souls and true spirits scattered.
• Bodhi Dao Ancestor, Shennong Shi, and Suiren Shi questioned Zhou Tong, who revealed that Old Man Yuan had controlled the fallen figures to turn the final battle into a chance to destroy both factions.
• Zhou Tong said Old Man Yuan’s Heart Power had reached the fifth level and that his own soul and third-realm Heart Power had protected him from control.
• Bodhi discovered Gonggong had died, convincing the gathered figures that Zhou Tong had not fabricated Old Man Yuan’s scheme.
• When Lord of Ten Thousand Demons asked about Old Man Yuan’s origins, Zhou Tong proposed that a primordial chaos alien had possessed him and worn his body.

Zhou Tong explained that the Three Realms' great tribulation arose from the Heavenly Dao's effort to restore balance, while the Lord of Heart Demons had steered the war to strengthen the Heart Demon Heavenly Dao. He warned that the Three Realms could instead face an End of Dharma era, leaving the powerful figures to fear the consequences.

• Zhou Tong told the assembled powers that the Life Heavenly Dao had grown too strong and the Destruction Heavenly Dao was gaining strength as the Three Realms' balance shifted.
• Zhou Tong explained that the great tribulation reduced the Three Realms' population because its living beings and immortal cultivators had multiplied beyond what the Heavenly Dao could balance.
• Zhou Tong revealed that the war between the Nuwa Faction and the Abyss Gate also nourished the Heart Demon Heavenly Dao, and the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons and the other powers realized the Lord of Heart Demons had guided events.
• Zhou Tong warned that the Lord of Heart Demons might break free from the Heavenly Dao if the Heart Demon Dao grew strong enough.
• Zhou Tong described the End of Dharma as the Heavenly Dao's ultimate means of reducing the population, and the powers feared that dwindling essence energy would gradually kill cultivators who had not comprehended the Chaos Heavenly Dao.

Zhou Tong proposed a Realm Battlefield to balance the Three Realms, then demanded that True Gods and Dao Ancestors restrict their disciples and make their top techniques available through it. He overwhelmed the assembled powers with his aura and presented a Lifebound Oath, which the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons was the first to accept.

• Suiren Shi asked Zhou Tong how he planned to restore balance to the Heavenly Dao and stop the war between the Nuwa Faction and the Abyss Gate.
• Zhou Tong outlined a Realm Battlefield where realms would fight and cultivators could earn cultivation methods, treasures, and other rewards.
• Zhou Tong produced Bei Xiu World God's Lifebound Oath Stone and called on the great powers to limit their disciples and the circulation of their techniques.
• Bodhi objected that Zhou Tong's proposal was too harsh, but Zhou Tong warned that the Three Realms faced the End of Dharma if its entrenched lineages remained dominant.
• Zhou Tong released his overwhelming aura, causing the True Gods and Dao Ancestors to submit, then presented the drafted Lifebound Oath.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons agreed to make the oath and placed his palm on the Lifebound Oath Stone.

Zhou Tong made the great powers of the Three Realms swear Lifebound Oaths and contribute Divine Abilities and Secret Arts to the Oath Stone. With hidden experts also brought into the fold, he prepared to replace the old order with a Realm Battlefield system built around military merit.

• After the gathered powers swore Lifebound Oaths, Zhou Tong demanded that every True God and Dao Ancestor in the Three Realms do the same.
• Zhou Tong placed ten of his Divine Abilities and Secret Arts in the Oath Stone as rewards for military merit, prompting the great powers to contribute their own techniques.
• Hidden experts from the Nuwa Faction and the Abyss Gate, including Hou Yi, appeared and swore Lifebound Oaths under Zhou Tong's pressure.
• Every great power in the Three Realms was gathered and bound to the new rules, making military merit the path to obtaining stronger Divine Abilities and Secret Arts.
• Zhou Tong considered how to establish the Realm Battlefield, military merit system, inheritance rules, and Blood Battlefield, anticipating a Three Realms order that favored battle-tested cultivators over inherited advantages.

Zhou Tong entrusted Ji Ning with the Oath Stone and Star Picking Manor before leaving the Three Realms to cultivate. As he advanced his understanding of the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction, he sensed that his divine body was nearing a breakthrough and began developing the Ancestor God stage of his Nirvana Divine Body.

• Zhou Tong gave Ji Ning the Oath Stone and Star Picking Manor, placing the Three Realms' battlefield and rewards under Ji Ning's control.
• Ji Ning accepted the items and reflected on how his values differed from Zhou Tong's approach to guiding the Three Realms.
• Zhou Tong passed Ji Ning the perfected Star-Plucking Hand and Bei Xiu World God's Nameless Sword Art before leaving to cultivate.
• Zhou Tong deduced the fourth through seventh layers of the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction within six months of arriving on a star.
• Zhou Tong unraveled the eighth layer in his second year of cultivation, matching Nuwa's achievement, and sensed that his divine body was nearing an Ancestor God breakthrough.
• Zhou Tong began deducing the Ancestor God volume of his Nirvana Divine Body.

Zhou Tong perfected the Ancestral God Scroll for his Nirvana Divine Body and underwent nirvana in the chaos, breaking through to the Ancestral God realm. After ten years of cultivation, he fully understood the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction and gained the imprint of an azure flower.

• Zhou Tong completed his Ancestral God Scroll, burned away his body in the chaos, and reconstructed it as a Phoenix amid a vast Chaos Power vortex.
• Bodhi, Suiren Shi, Hou Yi, and other great powers witnessed Zhou Tong's breakthrough and withdrew without disturbing him.
• Zhou Tong sensed that his divine body, soul, and unique divine ability had transformed to surpass ordinary World Gods in power, though his mastery of the Great Dao still fell short.
• Zhou Tong spent ten years seated in the chaos, tempering his new body and comprehending the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction.
• Zhou Tong understood the restriction completely, and an azure flower formed from its Divine Patterns appeared and left its imprint on his brow, soul, and true spirit.

Zhou Tong formed the Azure Flower and discovered that it transformed his divine power, magic power, and Heart Power into a mysterious mist that greatly increased his strength. After comprehending the Chaos Heavenly Dao, he chose to delay breaking through and planned to seek a star map before exploring other chaos worlds.

• Zhou Tong tested the Azure Flower by feeding it his three kinds of power, which it transformed into mist within a boundless inner space.
• He used the mist to strike the chaos with Star-Plucking Hand, gaining a deeper understanding of chaos and fully comprehending the Five Elements Heavenly Dao and Chaos Heavenly Dao.
• Zhou Tong realized he could become a Chaos Immortal and World God, but suppressed the breakthrough to remain on his chosen Fire Element Great Dao path.
• He spent three years infusing the Azure Flower and condensed 108 droplets, reaching the current limit of its space.
• Zhou Tong decided to obtain a star map from Bodhi and the others before leaving the Three Realms to explore other chaos worlds.

Zhou Tong left the Three Realms through its dangerous vortex passage, using the journey to deepen his understanding of space and fire. He arrived in the Great Mo Domain and set out aboard Daoist Sanshou’s Void Boat to explore the wider world.

• Zhou Tong collected the Three Realms’ star maps and flew for half a month to the vortex passage leading toward the Great Mo Domain.
• Zhou Tong entered the vortex and steadily resisted its tearing force while observing its spatial rifts and comprehending the Dao of Space.
• Zhou Tong evaded a golden-red spatial rift with an explosive burst of flame and reflected on the varied principles and types of fire in this world.
• Zhou Tong emerged from the vortex one month later and arrived in the Great Mo Domain.
• Zhou Tong took out Daoist Sanshou’s Void Boat and traveled onward to learn how the outside world understood the Path of Fire Element.

Zhou Tong traveled through the Great Mo Domain and entered a chaosworld whose Heavenly Daos had been devastated by a past invasion. He decided to study its powerful Fire and Destruction Heavenly Daos, leaving the story as he stepped into a sea of black Flame of Destruction to cultivate.

• Zhou Tong used his Sensefire technique to repel a powerful divine sense that scanned him on his journey.
• Zhou Tong entered a chaosworld and destroyed a local man's blade attack before seizing him and searching his memories.
• Zhou Tong learned that the chaosworld had only the Fire, Destruction, and Chaos Heavenly Daos and decided to study its Fire Heavenly Dao.
• Zhou Tong discovered that chaos outsiders had used a Destruction Divine Fire in a battle ten thousand years earlier, causing the world's other Heavenly Daos to fade.
• Zhou Tong found the world's central sea of black Flame of Destruction and stepped into it to comprehend Fire and Destruction and strengthen his Power of Fire.

After spending a century traveling through chaos worlds and deepening his mastery of fire, Zhou Tong reached Earth Dragon Star’s vast spacetime teleportation formation. He chose to wait five years for a cheaper passage to Tianlan Star while continuing to study spacetime.

• Zhou Tong comprehended the Flame of Destruction after five years in a chaos world and gained insight into the sixth realm of the Power of Fire.
• Zhou Tong spent a hundred years traveling through thirty-five chaos worlds, studying their flames and fighting World Gods and Chaos Immortals.
• Zhou Tong reached the spacetime teleportation formation at Earth Dragon Star and studied its spacetime fluctuations for three years.
• Zhou Tong named Tianlan Star as his destination and chose to wait five years for the lower-cost teleportation rather than pay one hundred and twenty bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Zhou Tong established a cave estate near the formation and continued studying the Dao of spacetime.

Zhou Tong refined the Star-Plucking Hand into a body-wide explosive technique, creating a powerful Five Elements Flame before setting out to explore the Azure Thunder Relic. He arrived outside the Azure Thunder Chaos World and found its unusual azure appearance striking.

• Zhou Tong used Nine Yuan Annihilation to study and reconstruct the Star-Plucking Hand’s explosive method for his entire body.
• Near the end of his fifth year of deduction, Zhou Tong formed a Five Elements Flame whose sparks could rival an Ancestor God’s full-force strike, then stored it as an arrow in his armory.
• Zhou Tong left his Immortal Estate, paid to use the teleportation array, and traveled to Tianlan Star.
• Zhou Tong chose to visit the Azure Thunder Relic, an inheritance left across several Chaos Worlds by the Azure Thunder Dao Monarch after his failed Dao-merger.
• Zhou Tong flew to the Azure Thunder Chaos World and saw that the entire world had an eerie azure color.

Zhou Tong explored the Azure Thunder Relic, discovered the Azure Thunder Dao Monarch’s wind-and-thunder cultivation insights, and defeated three World Gods who ambushed him. After continuing his search for inheritances and Divine Fire, he reached the Great Mo Eternal Realm two hundred years later.

• Zhou Tong entered the Azure Thunder Relic and found a dead World God carrying a large amount of Chaos Spirit Liquid and magical treasure fragments.
• Three World Gods ambushed Zhou Tong, but he countered their attacks with rivers of flame and hidden arrows, killing all three.
• Zhou Tong explored the relic for three years, fought powerful World Gods, and learned that it contained the Azure Thunder Dao Monarch’s insights into wind and thunder.
• Zhou Tong left the relic and continued exploring chaos worlds and relics in search of inheritances and Divine Fire.
• Two hundred years later, Zhou Tong arrived at the Great Mo Eternal Realm.

Zhou Tong entered the Great Mo Eternal Realm and traveled to Yibo City, where he tested his limits against the power left by an Eternal Emperor Lord. He left the city gate without gaining the insight he sought and headed for the Myriad Treasures Palace to trade his weapons for Chaos Spirit Liquid before visiting the dangerous Myriad Gods Mansion.

• Zhou Tong arrived in the Great Mo Eternal Realm, sensed its strange aura, and set out on foot for Yibo City because flight was forbidden.
• Zhou Tong rode a beast carriage up the mountain to Yibo City and studied the characters on its gate, briefly entering a mysterious state without being harmed.
• A World God praised Zhou Tong for surviving a gaze at the characters, while Zhou Tong reflected that the Eternal Emperor Lord's power had failed to stir his heart or grant him insight.
• Zhou Tong entered Yibo City and walked toward the Myriad Treasures Palace, planning to sell his unused Divine Weapons of Dao for Chaos Spirit Liquid.

Zhou Tong used three thousand measures of Chaos Spirit Liquid to buy secret techniques in Yibo City, focusing on the Path of Fire Element as he prepared for a breakthrough and an expedition into Myriad Gods Mansion. He ended the day with several thousand techniques, while the Lifebound Oaths protecting them posed no obstacle to him.

• Zhou Tong left Myriad Treasures Palace with three thousand measures of Chaos Spirit Liquid and decided to seek cultivation methods and secret techniques.
• He spent a month visiting Yibo City’s shops under different identities and cataloged the techniques available for sale.
• Zhou Tong chose Qing Yun Pavilion’s Seven Fires Secret Technique and purchased its inheritance jade slip after making a Lifebound Oath.
• He visited more shops, including Seven Killings Hall, and spent all three thousand measures of Chaos Spirit Liquid on several thousand Path of Fire Element techniques.

Zhou Tong repaired the Divine Sword Zi Guang Qiong, awakened the sword intent left by an Eternal Emperor Lord, and began studying the Divine Abilities and Secret Techniques he had bought. The sword intent deepened his understanding of the Path of Fire Element, but his Heart Power remained stuck in the fourth realm.

• Zhou Tong used fragments of magical treasures to restore the Divine Sword Zi Guang Qiong in his Immortal Estate.
• The restored sword released a terrifying aura and showed Zhou Tong the sword intent of its former owner, an Eternal Emperor Lord.
• Zhou Tong spent three months comprehending the sword intent, which tempered his Path of Fire Element but did not advance his Heart Power.
• Zhou Tong repaired the restrictions in his Immortal Estate and began studying the Divine Abilities and Secret Techniques he had purchased, including the Seven Fires Secret Technique, Flaming Blade, and Nine-Nine Fire Array.

Zhou Tong comprehended thousands of Path of Fire secret arts and fused their insights, breaking through his limits in the Power of Fire. Confident that he could eventually master the Ultimate Fire Dao, he began a breakthrough to the World Realm that shook the Great Mo Eternal Realm and the surrounding chaos.

• Zhou Tong studied thousands of fire-based Divine Abilities and Secret Techniques, learning the distinct principles and characteristics behind each flame.
• As the flames merged in his mind, Zhou Tong’s understanding of the Path of Fire Element deepened until he felt he could cultivate any World Realm flame.
• Zhou Tong recognized that this sense of mastery did not extend to every flame in chaos, but believed he could control all World Realm flames and eventually reach the Ultimate Fire Dao.
• Zhou Tong began breaking through to the World Realm, unleashing a vast surge of Chaos Power and a chaos vortex spanning several chaosworlds.
• Cultivators across the Great Mo Eternal Realm and travelers in the surrounding chaos sensed the extraordinary phenomenon and wondered who was breaking through.