Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong advanced his Ki Refining path to Chaos Immortal, forming a perfected Fire Dao Tree and expanding his golden core into a chaos space. He then broke through in Divine Demon Body Refining, condensing thirty-six thousand Divine Crystals in his renewed body.

• Zhou Tong destroyed his golden core space and returned it to chaos as he advanced from Ancestral Immortal to Chaos Immortal.
• Zhou Tong formed a Fire Dao Tree from his insights into the Path of Fire Element, and it grew to the perfected height of one hundred and eight thousand meters.
• Zhou Tong's golden core chaos space absorbed Chaos Power, strengthening his Chaos Immortal Power and nourishing his divine soul.
• Zhou Tong entered the chaosworld within his Immortal Estate and used the Flame of Destruction and Life Fire to destroy and renew his colossal Phoenix body.
• Zhou Tong condensed thirty-six thousand Divine Crystals, completing a perfect breakthrough in Divine Demon Body Refining.

Zhou Tong completed his breakthrough to the World Realm, creating seven hundred and twenty Azure Flower droplets and deciding to build the foundation for his future as a Life and Death Dao Lord. He left the Great Mo Eternal Realm for the Myriad Gods Chaos World, where he planned to study the Path of Fire Element at the Myriad Gods Mansion.

• Zhou Tong condensed his Heart Power, Chaos Immortal Power, and divine power into Azure Flower Mist and droplets during his breakthrough.
• The Great Mo Dao Lord examined Zhou Tong and concluded that another powerful force stood behind him, so he did not invite him to join the Great Mo Academy.
• Zhou Tong reflected on how cultivators created or deepened their Daos to advance to the Life and Death Dao Lord level and chose to pursue the Ultimate Fire Dao.
• Zhou Tong left the Great Mo Eternal Realm through its teleportation array and traveled to the Myriad Gods Chaos World.
• Zhou Tong saw the Myriad Gods Mansion and recognized it as a prime opportunity to study the Path of Fire Element.

Zhou Tong explored Myriad Layers Mountain, the outermost region of Myriad Gods Mansion, and found an unclaimed treasure site after crossing three thousand peaks. Unable to break its ten thunder restrictions through insight, he shattered them with a second explosive punch, leaving the treasure within reach.

• Zhou Tong entered Myriad Gods Mansion and began searching Myriad Layers Mountain on foot, wary of the dangers of flying.
• After crossing three thousand peaks, Zhou Tong found a half-open treasure gate and entered an intact treasure space containing a Stone Coffin and a sphere of light.
• Zhou Tong discovered that ten thunder-based restrictions guarded the treasure and broke the first eight through his understanding of the Path of Thunder.
• When he could not pass the ninth restriction through insight, Zhou Tong used force to shatter the first nine layers with a punch.
• Zhou Tong struck again with a second eruption of power and broke the tenth restriction, leaving the treasure within reach.

Zhou Tong met Myriad Layers Mountain’s Formation Spirit, who gave him the Nine Fire Divine Furnace and a lightning secret art in exchange for a verbal promise to kill Emperor Merop if he grew strong enough. After leaving the collapsing treasure space, Zhou Tong studied the furnace’s flames and clarified two paths toward the Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao.

• Zhou Tong met the Formation Spirit Myriad Mountains, who explained that it chose rewards for those who passed Myriad Layers Mountain’s trials.
• Myriad Mountains told Zhou Tong that his master, Myriad Gods Dao Lord, had pursued Emperor Merop, and asked Zhou Tong to kill him if he gained sufficient strength.
• Zhou Tong chose an Eternal Divine Weapon related to fire, and Myriad Mountains gave him the Nine Fire Divine Furnace along with the trial’s lightning secret art.
• The treasure space collapsed after Zhou Tong left, and he entered his Immortal Estate to examine his gains.
• Zhou Tong quickly comprehended the lightning secret art, then studied the Nine Fire Divine Furnace and identified two approaches to reaching the Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao.

Zhou Tong entered the Mist Sea and advanced in a straight line, defeating its dangers and collecting treasures along the way. After three years, he emerged at the ruins’ true core, Myriad Gods Mansion.

• Zhou Tong entered the Mist Sea, determined to travel straight through despite its disorienting mists and dangers.
• Zhou Tong crossed a tranquil lake and killed a concealed monster with a fiery strike.
• Zhou Tong obtained a Hundred Rivers Converge into the Sea Diagram, but set it aside because it followed the Path of Water Element.
• Zhou Tong continued through lakes, swamps, palaces, and other dangerous places, defeating threats and collecting treasures and Divine Abilities and Secret Arts.
• Three years after entering the Mist Sea, Zhou Tong reached Myriad Gods Mansion.

Zhou Tong reached the central divine mansion of the Myriad Gods Mansion and met its Golden Eye Puppet, which offered him a choice of one legacy or treasure. He discovered that Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s greatest inheritance was Refining the Dao, a path of limitless potential that could not be completed without becoming a Supreme.

• Zhou Tong climbed the steps to the central divine mansion, where the Golden Eye Puppet appeared and questioned him.
• Zhou Tong identified himself as Tribulation Fire of Heavenly Cang Palace, and the puppet recognized him as an ally of the Dao Alliance.
• Zhou Tong asked to inherit Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s legacy, and the puppet explained that he could choose only one portion from a list of treasures and inheritances.
• Zhou Tong examined the top-ranked options, including the Demon Quelling Pagoda, a formation legacy, a Natal Divine Weapon, a lightning Dao Lord’s inheritance, and Refining the Dao.
• Zhou Tong realized that Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s core path was refinement, whose boundless scope had contributed to his failure to merge with the Dao.

Zhou Tong chose to pursue the Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s core inheritance, so the Golden Eye Puppet summoned nine other World Realm cultivators to join the deadly Two Heavens of Life and Death trial. After four pairs entered the Life and Death Demon Disk and most died, Zhou Tong was called up as part of the final pair.

• Zhou Tong confirmed that he wanted the Refining the Dao inheritance despite the Golden Eye Puppet’s warning that the trial could kill him.
• The Golden Eye Puppet teleported nine World Realm cultivators into Myriad Gods Mansion and explained that they would compete with Zhou Tong for the inheritance.
• The Golden Eye Puppet introduced the Life and Death Demon Disk, where five pairs would fight golden World Realm warriors and each other under strict limits on their accompanying forces.
• The first four pairs entered the disk; only two cultivators survived, while the others were killed by their opponents or the golden warriors.
• The Golden Eye Puppet called Zhou Tong and the last remaining cultivator to enter as the final pair.

Zhou Tong used his liquid flames and Calamity Fire Divine Bow to clear the Life and Death Grinding Mill twice, defeating the final World Realm cultivator and impressing the Golden Eye Puppet. The five battles ended with four World Realm cultivators alive, and they entered Myriad Gods Mansion to seek the Master's core inheritance of Refining the Dao.

• Zhou Tong and the white-haired World Realm cultivator faced tens of thousands of golden warriors on the grinding mill, while the cultivator protected himself with five elemental puppets.
• Zhou Tong unleashed his water-like flames and fired Meteor Arrow Rain, wiping out the golden warriors and destroying the white-haired cultivator's puppets.
• The Golden Eye Puppet praised Zhou Tong's arrow as having power at the Life and Death Dao Lord level, then warned that the grinding mill would keep generating golden warriors.
• Zhou Tong fired another arrow rain, clearing the grinding mill again and killing the World God who had survived behind his puppets.
• The Golden Eye Puppet declared the five battles concluded, opened the gates of Myriad Gods Mansion, and sent the four surviving World Realm cultivators inside to seek the Refining the Dao inheritance.

Zhou Tong received Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s core inheritance, Refining the Dao, and spent a month understanding how it could be used to refine all things into powerful techniques. He realized it could deepen his fire-based cultivation and considered creating a new secret technique of his own.

• Zhou Tong entered Myriad Gods Mansion and was led by the Formation Spirit to the hall containing the Refining the Dao inheritance.
• The Golden Eye Puppet explained that Refining the Dao was Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s fundamental method and that the hall held records of the Myriad Daos he had encountered.
• Zhou Tong swore the Lifebound Oath, studied the inheritance, and found it deepened his understanding of the Path of Fire Element and other Daos.
• After a month of study, Zhou Tong understood that Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s Dao refined everything in heaven and earth into Divine Abilities and Secret Arts.
• Zhou Tong connected Refining the Dao to his fire cultivation and considered elevating the Seven Fires Secret Technique into a Nine Fires Secret Technique or creating one like Nine Source Divine Fire.

Zhou Tong spent fifteen hundred years studying the Myriad Daos collected by Myriad Gods Dao Lord and used their insights to transform his Path of Fire Element. He emerged into a breakthrough that incorporated Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s Refining the Dao into his own path, but the Formation Spirit said he would need several hundred more years to awaken and forge a truly new path.

• Zhou Tong examined the hundreds of thousands of Dao insights and spent fifteen hundred years comprehending them.
• Zhou Tong drew on the Myriad Daos to refine and strengthen his Path of Fire Element rather than imitate the insights directly.
• Zhou Tong dismantled Myriad Gods Dao Lord’s Refining the Dao and reenacted its fragments through his own Path of Fire Element.
• Zhou Tong erupted with more than a thousand kinds of flame, so the Formation Spirit transferred him to an open area.
• The Formation Spirit and Golden Eye Puppet recognized that Zhou Tong had begun combining Refining the Dao with his Path of Fire Element, but said he needed several hundred more years to awaken.

After a hundred years of cultivation in the Myriad Gods Mansion, Zhou Tong mastered the strongest Path of Fire Control by transforming flames into all five elements. He left the mansion, intending to pursue fire merging and fire refining on his path toward the Ultimate Fire Dao.

• Zhou Tong shaped flames into lifelike plants that flourished and withered through thirty cycles, astonishing the Formation Spirit and Golden Eye Puppet.
• He transformed fire into weapons, mountains, and streams, demonstrating control over all Five Elements and unleashing a devastating flaming sword strike.
• Zhou Tong ended his secluded cultivation, and the Golden Eye Puppet congratulated him on comprehending a strongest Path of Fire Control.
• Zhou Tong explained that his Ultimate Fire Dao encompassed fire control, fire merging, and fire refining, and said he had yet to master the other aspects.
• The Formation Spirit told Zhou Tong that the mansion could no longer help him and asked him not to tarnish its master's reputation; Zhou Tong promised to return with Emperor Merop's head if he succeeded in merging with the Dao.
• Zhou Tong left the Myriad Gods Mansion.

After leaving Myriad Gods Mansion, Zhou Tong recognized A Luoyi as a member of the Eternal Clan who had obtained Eternal Divine Blood. Zhou Tong attacked him and overwhelmed him with his flames.

• Zhou Tong returned to the entrance of Myriad Gods Mansion and reflected on how its Dao of control had strengthened his Path of Fire Element.
• Zhou Tong saw two organized groups enter the mansion, including A Luoyi, a blood-robed youth from the Eternal Kingdom, and suspected they sought Eternal Divine Blood.
• Zhou Tong waited at Myriad Layers Mountain for three years, until A Luoyi emerged with two subordinates and a delighted expression.
• Zhou Tong confronted A Luoyi and deduced that he had obtained Eternal Divine Blood, while A Luoyi denied being a member of the Eternal Clan.
• A Luoyi summoned eighteen golden puppets and attacked with twin blood-red divine sabers, but Zhou Tong crushed the puppets and engulfed A Luoyi in flames.

Zhou Tong killed A Luoyi and his two subordinates, recovering the Eternal Divine Blood from the Myriad Gods Mansion. Warned about its danger, he traveled to the Great Mo Academy to offer it to Great Mo Dao Lord, who had not yet heard why Zhou Tong had come.

• Zhou Tong killed A Luoyi and his two World Realm subordinates, then recovered the Eternal Divine Blood from A Luoyi's treasures.
• The Myriad Gods Mansion's Golden Eye Puppet and Formation Spirit warned Zhou Tong not to expose the Eternal Divine Blood's aura and advised him to sell it to the Dao Alliance through Great Mo Dao Lord.
• The Formation Spirit returned Zhou Tong to the Myriad Gods Mansion's outer region, and Zhou Tong decided to seek Great Mo Dao Lord's help.
• Zhou Tong traveled to the Great Mo Academy and met Great Mo Dao Lord, clarifying that he had not yet formally joined Heavenly Cang Palace.
• Zhou Tong told Great Mo Dao Lord that he had obtained the Eternal Divine Blood and had been directed to seek him out.

Zhou Tong sold the Eternal Divine Blood to Great Mo Dao Lord in exchange for resources and chose the Eternal Emperor Lord inheritance “Eternal Divine Fire.” After studying the inheritance for three years, Zhou Tong began to understand its method of advancing by fusing Dao fires.

• Zhou Tong agreed to sell the Eternal Divine Blood to Great Mo Dao Lord for three million cubic meters of Chaos Spirit Liquid and access to Dao Alliance resources.
• Zhou Tong selected the Eternal Divine Fire inheritance and received the remaining two hundred thousand cubic meters of Chaos Spirit Liquid immediately.
• Great Mo Dao Lord arranged a courtyard for Zhou Tong, who cultivated and sparred with disciples of Great Mo Academy while waiting for the inheritance.
• Three years later, Great Mo Dao Lord gave Zhou Tong the Eternal Divine Fire scroll, and Zhou Tong began studying it.
• Zhou Tong learned that Eternal Divine Fire relied on a natal Dao fire and advanced by fusing additional Dao fires.

Zhou Tong began cultivating the Eternal Divine Fire, choosing Life Fire and Flame of Destruction as his intrinsic Dao Fires. He fused them with Five Elements flames, but neither reached the strongest level, so he continued adding other flames.

• Zhou Tong decided to cultivate Life Fire and Flame of Destruction as his two intrinsic Dao Fires.
• He brought the flames into his Golden Core space, where Divine Patterns merged into them and his Dao tree absorbed them.
• Zhou Tong split his collected Five Elements chaos fires into life-aligned and destruction-aligned flames.
• He fused the life-aligned flames into Life Fire and the destruction-aligned flames into Flame of Destruction, strengthening his Dao tree.
• When neither flame reached the strongest level, Zhou Tong resolved to add yin and yang, then Wind and Thunder, and continued refining both fires.

Zhou Tong completed his insights into Life Fire and Flame of Destruction, then traveled to Star Tower Space seeking opportunities to advance his cultivation. He paid the entry fee and stood ready to enter the enormous pagoda.

• Zhou Tong integrated his insights into fire, life, and destruction, forming the complete Daos of Life Fire and Flame of Destruction.
• Zhou Tong left the Great Mo Domain, traveled through the Tianqing Domain, and continued to White Wave Star.
• Zhou Tong flew through Chaos for several hundred years before reaching the seventeen-level Star Tower Space.
• Three World Realm cultivators demanded one hundred bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid to enter, and Zhou Tong paid them.

Zhou Tong explored the Star Tower’s first eight levels, comprehending their Dao formations and defeating their attackers and puppets with his Flame of Destruction. After realizing the battles were no longer helping him improve, he considered refining flames into puppets.

• Zhou Tong entered the first level, found his divine sense and Heart Power suppressed, and deduced that its desert maze combined the Paths of Void, Fire Element, and Earth Element.
• A cultivator ambushed Zhou Tong with a sword strike, but Zhou Tong destroyed the attack and the cultivator with his Flame of Destruction, then collected the spoils.
• After half a year of study, Zhou Tong understood the first level and passed through the next six levels, which tested combinations of the Path of Void with other paths.
• Zhou Tong entered the eighth level and burned through increasingly powerful puppets, including puppets at the Life and Death Dao Lord level.
• Zhou Tong decided that fighting more puppets would not help his cultivation and wondered whether he could refine his Flame of Destruction into puppets.

Zhou Tong refined his flame puppet through battles in the Star Tower Space, deepening his understanding of fire refining. On the eleventh floor, a golden-armored puppet destroyed his creation, forcing Zhou Tong to fight personally as he considered cultivating a third supreme flame.

• Zhou Tong improved his flame puppet with Divine Patterns, sensing that it had begun to show signs of life.
• Zhou Tong tested and strengthened the puppet through battles, bringing it close to Life and Death Dao Lord strength while studying the balance of Life Fire and the Flame of Destruction.
• Zhou Tong found few treasures on the first ten floors and entered the eleventh floor alone.
• A golden-armored warrior destroyed Zhou Tong's flame puppet with a saber strike, and Zhou Tong analyzed its combined powers.
• Zhou Tong killed the golden-armored puppet with the Calamity Fire Divine Bow and continued onward, intending to cultivate a third supreme flame.

Zhou Tong realized that the Ultimate Fire Dao required him to gather five strongest flames and began developing Explosive Fire while fighting an ambushing archer puppet. He succeeded in creating the third flame, leaving Heart Fire and Sky Burning Flame as his next goals.

• Zhou Tong concluded that his Ultimate Fire Dao needed Life Fire, Flame of Destruction, Explosive Fire, Sky Burning Flame, and Heart Fire, combined with fire control and fire refining.
• An archer puppet ambushed Zhou Tong, and he tried to counterattack with the Calamity Fire Divine Bow before switching to a white flaming sword.
• Zhou Tong studied the archer's explosive attacks and incorporated principles from archery into his flame, refining it through the fire-merging method of Eternal Divine Fire.
• Zhou Tong's white flaming sword shattered an incoming arrow, and he named the completed flame Explosive Fire.
• A new Dao Tree branch representing Explosive Fire appeared alongside Life Fire and Flame of Destruction, and Zhou Tong set his sights on Heart Fire and Sky Burning Flame.

Zhou Tong used his Explosive Fire to break through spacetime, kill the golden-armored archer who had been ambushing him, and advance his understanding of the Path of Fire Element. The Star Tower’s spirit told him he could not inherit the tower because he followed the wrong path, then offered him the Fire Source Chapter before he withdrew.

• Zhou Tong’s Explosive Fire tore open a passage into another spacetime dimension, where he found and killed the golden-armored archer who had been ambushing him.
• Zhou Tong realized his flames could destroy spatial laws and force entry into another dimension, marking further progress toward the Ultimate Fire Dao.
• The Star Tower appeared and introduced himself as the tower’s spirit, congratulating Zhou Tong on comprehending another supreme Dao.
• Star Tower explained that Zhou Tong could not refine the tower because the Thousand Star Dominator’s successor had to follow the Path of Void, and offered him a gift if he withdrew.
• Zhou Tong agreed to leave, and Star Tower gave him the Fire Source Chapter, left behind by a renowned Dao Lord of the Path of Fire Element.