Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong spent more than a hundred million years rebuilding the Ten Evils Treasure Art with the laws of the Barbaric Chaos Universe. After completing ten techniques, he received the Stone Fire Bead and the Eternal Heart, which set him the task of deciphering ninety-nine layers of patterns.

• Zhou Tong used the Supreme's Dao Platform to study countless techniques and incorporate their essences into a new Ten Evils Treasure Art.
• After more than a hundred million years, Zhou Tong completed ten jade-slip techniques and summoned the Cave Mansion Spirit.
• The Cave Mansion Spirit examined Zhou Tong's work, confirmed that he had met the requirements, and gave him the Stone Fire Bead.
• Zhou Tong absorbed the Stone Fire Bead and felt its aura enhance his ability to comprehend the Dao.
• The Cave Mansion Spirit gave Zhou Tong the Eternal Heart and explained that deciphering its ninety-nine layers would qualify him to create the supreme tenth layer and claim its hidden treasure.

Zhou Tong deciphered forty-two layers of the Eternal Heart in one Chaos Epoch before deciding to study it while traveling through the universe. He planned to strengthen his Dao of karma and other Daos while preparing for the exceptionally difficult Dao-merger of the Ultimate Dao.

• Zhou Tong broke through the Eternal Heart’s first twenty-one layers and found that its markings drew on principles resembling the Other Shore Dao and sovereign power, while also incorporating Heart Power.
• Zhou Tong continued deciphering the markings under time acceleration, and the Cave Mansion Spirit watched in amazement at his speed.
• After one Chaos Epoch, Zhou Tong stopped at forty-two layers, judging that finishing the remaining layers would take too long for now.
• Zhou Tong told the Cave Mansion Spirit he would travel the universe while comprehending the Eternal Heart and seeking treasures and special Daos to aid his Dao-merger.
• The Cave Mansion Spirit urged Zhou Tong to improve his Dao of karma and warned him that the universe held dangers even for an Ultimate Dao Lord.
• Zhou Tong thanked the Cave Mansion Spirit and departed, confident he could succeed in the Dao-merger where no previous Ultimate Dao Lord had.

Zhou Tong returned to the Three Realms, surveyed the Realm Battlefield, and visited the hidden Nuwa Immortal Realm. He gave Bodhi and the others treasures and a Chaos Universe body-refining technique before departing, while they remained without news of Nuwa.

• Zhou Tong returned to the Three Realms after only ten million years had passed and saw that fierce fighting continued on the Realm Battlefield.
• Zhou Tong observed that the Realm Battlefield had dispersed much of the Three Realms' calamity aura and left Lord of Heart Demons unable to cause trouble.
• Zhou Tong entered the Nuwa Immortal Realm, where Bodhi, Three Pure Ones, Rulai, and Suiren appeared and asked how he had found the hidden place.
• Zhou Tong provided one hundred thousand jade slips and one hundred thousand bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid as Realm Battlefield rewards, and Bodhi asked whether he had heard from Nuwa.
• Zhou Tong said he had no news of Nuwa, then gave Bodhi a Chaos Universe Divine Demon Body Refining Technique to spread through the Three Realms before leaving.

Over a million years of travel and cultivation, Zhou Tong mastered the Dao of karma and used it to identify three flaws in his Ultimate Fire Dao. He continued studying the Dao of formations and the Dao of Refining to repair them, while searching for resources to aid his future Dao Integration.

• Zhou Tong watched a man die in the inheritance site he had once set up in the Qingtian Chaos World, then concluded that his understanding of the Dao of karma was nearly complete.
• Zhou Tong left the Qingtian Chaos World and used his grasp of karma to observe the countless connections among lives and events across the universe.
• Zhou Tong sensed three possible flaws in his Ultimate Fire Dao and decided to keep comprehending other Great Daos to prepare for Dao Integration.
• Zhou Tong traveled through the universe, improved his Dao of formations and Dao of Refining, and gradually repaired the three flaws.
• Zhou Tong visited dangerous regions and alternate universes, killed several powerful Eternal Emperor Lords, and gained renown as a monstrous Dao Lord.
• Zhou Tong searched for Dao Integration treasures but found that the Fragrant Treasure Spirit Fruit and Cloud Realm Jade Ribbon could no longer help him, while the Dao Integration Fire Cloud Flower still needed several Chaos Epochs to mature.

After obtaining the Dao Integration Fire Cloud Flower, Zhou Tong returned to the Supreme Cave Mansion and began a virtual Dao Integration through his Ultimate Fire Dao. He left the Cave Mansion Spirit standing guard as the flower formed an incarnation of him to simulate the process.

• At Icewind Sea, Zhou Tong watched the Dao Integration Fire Cloud Flower bloom, studied its Emperor Lord-level fire power, and stored it in a time-slowing jade box.
• Zhou Tong thanked the Source Walkers and left for the Supreme Cave Mansion, where he told the Cave Mansion Spirit that he had unraveled the Eternal Heart only to its sixty-third layer.
• Zhou Tong entered the octagonal hall to cultivate, and the Cave Mansion Spirit realized he was attempting Dao Integration and quietly stood guard.
• Zhou Tong opened the jade box and used the Dao Integration Fire Cloud Flower and Stone Fire Bead to begin simulating Dao Integration through his Ultimate Fire Dao.
• As Zhou Tong's Divine Crystals began transforming and his Dao radiance lit the flower, its fire clouds formed an incarnation identical to him, and he began the virtual Dao Integration.

Zhou Tong used the Dao Integration Fire Cloud Flower to simulate the early stages of his Ultimate Fire Dao integration, confirming his path and saving six years. He began the real Dao Integration, overcame a difficult point as the Eternal Flower bloomed halfway, and continued cautiously.

• Zhou Tong guided the simulated Dao Integration, forming a Dao-tree whose Eternal Flower contained his insights into the Ultimate Fire Dao.
• After three years, the flower bud reached its limit, and Zhou Tong made it bloom, confirming that his Dao remained flawless through the simulated process.
• Three years later, the Dao Integration Fire Cloud Flower ran out of power and the simulation ended, having saved Zhou Tong six years.
• Zhou Tong began his real Dao Integration, transforming his Divine Crystals and blooming the Eternal Flower as the Cave Mansion Spirit sensed his overwhelming aura.
• Zhou Tong slowed the later stages of Dao Integration, identified a slight mistake at a difficult point, and spent half a year correcting it before continuing.

Zhou Tong completed Dao Fusion and became an Eternal Emperor Lord, then extended his divine sense across Yanlong Domain and discovered Ji Ning in Mangya Kingdom. He asked Mangya Dominator to watch over his disciple while keeping Ji Ning’s treatment mostly within the kingdom’s rules.

• Zhou Tong’s Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao flower bloomed, completing his Dao Fusion and drawing the Chaos Universe’s approving response.
• Zhou Tong decided to delay his Heart World breakthrough until he could enter the Chaos Universe’s origin without alerting the Xis Race and Iyer.
• Zhou Tong’s eternal divine sense passed through the Azure Flower Cave Mansion and covered all of Yanlong Domain.
• Zhou Tong found Ji Ning still in the World Realm in Mangya Kingdom and deduced that his progress had slowed because Zhou Tong’s influence had weakened his fortune.
• Zhou Tong contacted Mangya Dominator, identified Ji Ning as his disciple, and asked him to follow the kingdom’s rules while giving Ji Ning a slight helping hand if needed.
• Mangya Dominator agreed and realized that Ji Ning had the backing of a Supreme Being.

After completing his Daomerge and becoming an Ultimate Emperor Lord, Zhou Tong claimed the Azure Flower Cave Mansion and entered the origin of the Chaos Universe. There, he began refining his techniques as he comprehended the universe’s many Daos.

• Zhou Tong emerged from seclusion as an Eternal Emperor Lord, and the Cave Mansion Spirit congratulated him on becoming the Chaos Universe’s first Ultimate Emperor Lord in countless years.
• Zhou Tong took control of the cave mansion, erased the imprisoned Emperor Lords’ forbidden memories, and released them after they swore Lifebound Oaths to stop committing evil and accumulate virtue.
• Zhou Tong stored the Azure Flower Cave Mansion and opened a passage to the origin of the Chaos Universe.
• Zhou Tong entered the universe’s origin and used his Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao to withstand its crushing pressure.
• As he traveled through the origins of different Daos, Zhou Tong gained insights and began improving his Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique, Sky Horn Ant Treasure Art, Grass Character Sword Art, and Ten Evils Treasure Art.

Zhou Tong entered the origin of the Barbaric Chaos Universe, comprehended more than a dozen ruler-level Great Daos, and drew on the origin's power to fill his Heart World. He met Tianshi Supreme Being, who realized he was an Ultimate Emperor Lord and hurried to tell the other Supremes.

• Zhou Tong comprehended more than a dozen ruler-level Great Daos while contemplating the traces within the Chaos Universe's origin.
• Zhou Tong absorbed vast power from the origin to forge and fill his Heart World, and the origin willingly flowed into him.
• Tianshi Supreme Being and other Supremes sensed the origin's unusual joy, and Tianshi went to investigate.
• Tianshi Supreme Being met Zhou Tong and was shocked to learn he was an Ultimate Emperor Lord who had successfully merged his Dao.
• Tianshi Supreme Being set out to inform Hongran, Bolin, and the other Supremes about Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong met the five Supreme Beings, who explained that the Xis Race had come from another Chaos Universe and still threatened their civilization. They urged him to become an Ultimate Supreme Being and agreed to share their insights into reaching supremacy.

• Zhou Tong joined Tianshi Supreme Being and the four other Supreme Beings in the wooden hut, where they celebrated his mastery of an Eternal Ultimate Dao.
• Hongran Supreme Being told Zhou Tong that the Xis Race had come from beyond their Chaos Universe and had invaded to seize control of it.
• Hongran Supreme Being explained that the Xis Race could transform the universe if they gained control, endangering all its inhabitants.
• Zhou Tong agreed that the threat was serious but asked the Supreme Beings to share their insights into advancing to supremacy.
• Tianshi Supreme Being and the others agreed to teach Zhou Tong what they had learned so he could become an Ultimate Supreme Being sooner.

Zhou Tong asked the five Supreme Beings about their realm and learned how their individual Daos gave rise to Myriad Daos. Their insights showed him how to advance his Eternal Ultimate Dao toward the Supreme Ultimate Dao, and he realized the process could aid his true body’s future work on the Immortal Emperor Method.

• Hongran Supreme Being asked Zhou Tong to explain his understanding of the Supreme Being realm, and Zhou Tong described it as reaching a level where one Dao gave rise to Myriad Daos.
• Hongran Supreme Being demonstrated how his Dao of karma produced varied manifestations, while Tianshi Supreme Being, Bolin Supreme Being, E'kong Supreme Being, and Dishi Supreme Being explained how personal differences shaped each Supreme Being's Dao.
• Hongran Supreme Being and the other four Supreme Beings gave Zhou Tong divine thoughts containing their paths and insights into the Supreme Being realm.
• Zhou Tong absorbed and digested the five divine thoughts in an hour, gaining a deeper understanding of the Supreme Being realm and the Supreme Ultimate Dao.
• Zhou Tong concluded that he needed to elevate other Daos to the Autarch level and merge them into his Eternal Ultimate Dao, a process that could help his true body deduce the Immortal Emperor Method.

Zhou Tong asked the Supreme Beings to conceal that he had mastered the Eternal Ultimate Dao, fearing the Xis Race might have a second Ultimate Supreme Being. After beginning a secluded study of Qi Supreme Being’s Eternal Heart, he heard Qi’s final message and examined the perfected Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction and two proposed paths to its tenth layer.

• Zhou Tong warned the Supreme Beings that the Xis Race might possess a second Ultimate Supreme Being and asked them to keep his Eternal Ultimate Dao secret.
• The Supreme Beings agreed to conceal the Eternal Ultimate Dao from all but Four-step Dao Lords, and Tianshi Supreme Being established a thousandfold time acceleration around Zhou Tong’s cave mansion.
• Zhou Tong entered seclusion in Qi Supreme Being’s Azure Flower Cave Mansion and spent a Chaos Epoch deciphering the Eternal Heart’s final restriction.
• The Eternal Heart opened and revealed Qi Supreme Being’s final words, explaining why he created the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction and left flawed versions throughout the universe.
• Qi Supreme Being’s message revealed a perfected Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction and his ideas for a tenth layer, Boundless Immortality and Void Immortality.
• Zhou Tong began studying the two tenth-layer methods, whose core was True Spirit Immortality.

Zhou Tong compared Boundless Immortality and Void Immortality with the Immortal Emperors of Shrouding the Heavens World, then traveled to the Blazing Sun Domain to study the imprisoned Xis Race Honored Lords. He arrived at Earthfire Continent and ordered the cultivators there to leave.

• Zhou Tong considered how Immortal Emperors might combine traits of Boundless Immortality and Void Immortality, while questioning whether both paths could be perfected.
• Tianshi Supreme Being shared her insights into Qi Supreme Being's Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction, revealing her deep but incomplete understanding of Boundless Immortality.
• Zhou Tong left the Chaos Universe's origin and traveled to the Blazing Sun Domain, where he sensed that Nuwa was a Three-step Dao Lord.
• Zhou Tong located the imprisoned Xis Race Honored Lord on Earthfire Continent, where cultivators were training amid the flames surrounding it.
• Zhou Tong manifested among the cultivators and ordered everyone to leave Earthfire Continent immediately.

Zhou Tong appeared before the imprisoned Xis Race Honored Lord Duobo'e and asked him to reveal the Xis Race method for making true spirits immortal. Duobo'e refused because of his Lifebound Oaths, while Zhou Tong explained why the cultivator civilization imprisoned and drained Xis captives.

• A Supreme ordered all cultivators to leave Earthfire Continent, then sealed it behind a curtain of flames.
• Zhou Tong appeared before Duobo'e as the blazing formations tortured his body, soul, and true spirit.
• Duobo'e recognized Zhou Tong as an Ultimate Emperor Lord and praised his strength.
• Zhou Tong asked Duobo'e about the Xis Race method for granting True Spirit Immortality, but Duobo'e refused, citing his Lifebound Oaths.
• Zhou Tong refused to kill Duobo'e and explained that the Xis Race stole cultivators' souls and true spirits, prompting the Supremes to imprison Xis captives and drain their power.

Zhou Tong bound Duobo'e with his Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao and tried to persuade the Xis Race Honored Lord to betray his race. After witnessing Zhou Tong break a Lifebound Oath, Duobo'e agreed to cooperate in exchange for a promise that Zhou Tong would spare his life.

• Duobo'e attacked Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong's Fire Dao Origin Domain overwhelmed him and bound him in a fiery dragon.
• Zhou Tong tried to convince Duobo'e to stop suffering for the Xis Race's Ultimate Supreme Being, but Duobo'e said his oath prevented him from revealing more.
• Zhou Tong swore not to attack Duobo'e, then struck him, demonstrating that he could act despite making a Lifebound Oath.
• Duobo'e realized he might escape his own oath's constraints and admitted he feared dying after enduring years of torture.
• Duobo'e offered to cooperate and gamble on Zhou Tong's method if Zhou Tong promised to spare his life.

Zhou Tong used a fragment of the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint to enter Duobo'e's consciousness and obtain a Xis Race True Spirit Immortality technique by breaking through its Lifebound Oath. He left Duobo'e imprisoned and withdrew to digest the memories.

• Zhou Tong split off a fragment of the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint and sent it into Duobo'e's sea of consciousness.
• Zhou Tong examined Duobo'e's memories and discovered that the Xis Race's cultivation system and script resembled the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction.
• Zhou Tong asked Duobo'e to identify the memory containing a True Spirit Immortality technique suited to their civilization.
• Duobo'e recited the oath-protected secret art, triggering the Lifebound Oath's attack on his True Spirit.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint to devour the oath's power and retrieve the technique's memories.
• Zhou Tong returned to his body and withdrew a million kilometers away to digest the memories while Duobo'e remained imprisoned.

Zhou Tong studied the Xis Race’s methods and insights to create a True Spirit Immortality method, ultimately choosing the more attainable path of Void Immortality. After a Chaos Epoch, he completed his deduction and left Earthfire Continent to test the method, promising Duobo'e he would free him once he became an Ultimate Supreme Being.

• Duobo'e survived the breaking of one Lifebound Oath, made another oath to keep Zhou Tong’s identity and actions secret, and gave him access to his memories.
• Zhou Tong studied the nine methods created by the controller of the Xisi Chaos Universe and the Xis Race’s True Spirit Immortality method.
• Zhou Tong concluded that Void Immortality was more practical than Boundless Immortality and suited the laws of his Chaos Universe.
• With Duobo'e’s knowledge and other insights, Zhou Tong spent a Chaos Epoch deducing a Void Immortality method for cultivators.
• Zhou Tong lifted the seal on Earthfire Continent, promised to free Duobo'e after becoming an Ultimate Supreme Being, and departed through a spacetime passage to test his method.

Zhou Tong experimented on Dao Lords whose Dao Fusion had failed and developed a technique that perfectly restored their True Spirits. With True Spirit Immortality established, he began planning a new cultivation system integrating qi refining, body refining, and Heart Power.

• Zhou Tong found a Dao Lord whose Dao Fusion had failed and gave him a technique to restore his collapsing True Spirit, requiring him to swear secrecy.
• After several days, the Dao Lord's True Spirit returned, though Zhou Tong identified flaws that left some damage and limited the number of future failures he could survive.
• Zhou Tong spent a hundred years refining the technique, then tested it on more failed Dao Lords over the following thousand years.
• After the final test subject recovered perfectly, Zhou Tong concluded that he had created True Spirit Immortality, allowing cultivators to restore their True Spirits and retry Dao Fusion without limit.
• Zhou Tong planned to improve the Nine-Layered Chaos Restriction and create a cultivation system that integrated qi refining, body refining, and Heart Power.

Zhou Tong entered seclusion in the source of the Chaos Universe and created a new cultivation system centered on the perfected Tenth-Layered Chaos Restriction. After destroying and rebuilding his cultivation, he named its new power Origin Power and the system the Origin Power System.

• Zhou Tong returned to the source of the Chaos Universe and told Tianshi Supreme Being he planned to perfect the Tenth-Layered Chaos Restriction.
• Tianshi Supreme Being accelerated time around Zhou Tong’s Azure Flower Cave Mansion as Zhou Tong devised a system uniting the Qi Refining, Body Refining, and Heart Power paths.
• After half a Chaos Epoch, Zhou Tong completed the new system, surpassing the Cave Mansion Spirit’s expectations.
• Zhou Tong destroyed his Azure Flower Space, golden core, Divine Crystals, and Heart World, then used the ten perfected Chaos Restriction layers to form a golden seed and flower.
• Zhou Tong’s new space expanded, his Dao tree took root within it, and Origin Power rebuilt his body as he named the system the Origin Power System.

After learning that Ji Ning had become a Four-step Dao Lord who mastered the Ultimate Sword Dao, Zhou Tong left seclusion to visit his former disciple. He gave Ji Ning twelve annotated Ultimate Dao records to help him prepare for Dao Merge and revealed that he could contact the Supreme Beings.

• After several Chaos Epochs of secluded cultivation, Zhou Tong was told by Hongran Supreme Being that Ji Ning had mastered an Ultimate Dao and reached the Four-step Dao Lord level.
• Zhou Tong recognized Ji Ning as the disciple he had taken in before reaching the World Realm and left seclusion to find him at Heavenly Cang Palace.
• Zhou Tong arrived as Ji Ning and Tianyi Emperor Lord discussed the difficulty of completing Dao Merge through an Ultimate Dao.
• Zhou Tong gave Ji Ning twelve annotated records left by Four-step Dao Lords who had mastered Ultimate Daos, none of whom had succeeded in Dao Merge.
• Zhou Tong asked Tianyi Emperor Lord to leave because the Supreme Beings had ordered certain information kept secret, and Tianyi departed after learning Zhou Tong could contact them.