Chapter Summaries

Ji Ning studied Zhou Tong’s records of the Ultimate Dao and learned that his master had secretly become an Ultimate Emperor Lord through Dao Merging. Zhou Tong gave Ji Ning his Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao and resources to help him prepare, while warning him to keep the achievement secret because the universe’s crisis remained unresolved.

• Ji Ning studied twelve volumes of Ultimate Dao and gained confidence in Dao Merging, while Zhou Tong explained the strict conditions for success.
• Ji Ning asked whether anyone had ever Dao Merged with the Ultimate Dao, and Zhou Tong revealed that he himself had succeeded.
• Zhou Tong gave Ji Ning a jade slip containing his Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao, which Ji Ning studied and found far more complete than the other Daos.
• Zhou Tong warned Ji Ning to conceal any successful Dao Merge and gave him a Trust Talisman to contact Zhou Tong or the Supremes when preparing to merge.
• Zhou Tong passed Ji Ning an estate containing over a hundred billion manuals, then left him to pursue the Eternal Ultimate Sword Dao on his own.

After a hundred thousand Chaos Epochs of accelerated cultivation, Zhou Tong reached the limit of his Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao but could not find the final insight needed to become an Ultimate Supreme Being. He left seclusion to travel and, at the universe’s boundary, gained a sudden inspiration about all things converging into one.

• Zhou Tong spent a hundred Chaos Epochs in seclusion, integrating countless Great Daos into his Eternal Ultimate Fire Dao.
• Zhou Tong emerged and told Tianshi Supreme Being that he had reached his limit but still lacked the final inspiration for a breakthrough.
• Zhou Tong left the Chaos Universe Origin to travel, observing the universe and experiencing mortal life without meeting other cultivators.
• Zhou Tong reached the Chaos Universe’s invisible boundary and realized that cultivators below the Supreme Being level could never reach it.
• Zhou Tong contemplated the universe converging like a black hole and gained the insight, “One is all things, and all things return to one.”

Zhou Tong comprehended Great Destruction and its opposite, vitality, then combined them to become an Ultimate Supreme Being. He sensed the Chaos Universe’s origin and its countless Eternal Ultimate Daos, while reflecting on how his Supreme Ultimate Fire Dao surpassed them.

• Zhou Tong realized that Great Destruction meant reducing all Daos to one, and his flames blasted a hole into the space beyond the Chaos Universe.
• Zhou Tong recognized that vitality was the other side of destruction and cultivated it within his flames until it erupted into the rebirth of all Daos.
• Zhou Tong completed the cycle of destruction and rebirth, creating a complete world in a thought and becoming an Ultimate Supreme Being.
• Zhou Tong’s Eternal Flower withered and became a Phoenix-shaped fruit that matured as his body and consciousness transformed.
• Zhou Tong resonated with the Chaos Universe’s origin, perceived its countless Eternal Ultimate Daos, and recognized that his Supreme Ultimate Fire Dao stood above them.

Zhou Tong became an Ultimate Supreme Being, refined the Barbaric Chaos Universe, and learned that the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint could not carry the universe back to his true body. He concluded that he needed to raise the Material Foundation of his Yuan Force Space to the level of a Chaos Universe.

• Zhou Tong’s breakthrough drew Supreme Beings from across the universe, who celebrated his rise as their first Ultimate Supreme Being.
• Zhou Tong sensed that he could now defeat Iyer, but refined the Chaos Universe’s origin before confronting him.
• As Zhou Tong refined the universe, its Myriad Daos began revolving around his Supreme Ultimate Fire Dao, which became the foundation of the Chaos Universe.
• A green-robed, ox-horned Xis Race Controller recognized that a second Controller had appeared and feared that Iyer could not be saved.
• Zhou Tong realized the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint could not take the Chaos Universe back with him and decided to elevate his Yuan Force Space’s Material Foundation.

Zhou Tong wiped out the Xis Race and used its stronghold to forge a Natal Divine Weapon. After ten thousand years, he completed the Calamity Fire Divine Furnace, which surpassed the level of a universe treasure.

• Zhou Tong ordered every cultivator near the Xis Race stronghold to retreat, then trapped the stronghold in space-time with Void Furnace.
• Iyer realized a Chaos Universe Controller had appeared, but Zhou Tong's flames destroyed him and the rest of the Xis Race.
• Zhou Tong transformed the stronghold's war machines, fortresses, golems, and materials into a golden furnace while cultivators watched.
• Zhou Tong spent ten thousand years forging the weapon and studying the Xis Race's weapon-forging methods.
• Zhou Tong infused the furnace with half his blood and nourished it with his divine sense and Supreme Ultimate Fire Dao, completing the Calamity Fire Divine Furnace.

Zhou Tong returned the Barbaric Chaos Universe’s origin and used the Xis Race’s origin to create a miniature Chaos Universe within himself, discovering a path toward becoming a Chaos Universe Controller. After studying the path for several Chaos Epochs, he sent a powerful Dharma body into endless space to seek more power and compare the great Chaos Universes.

• Zhou Tong returned half the origin power in his furnace to the Barbaric Chaos Universe and absorbed the Xis Race’s origin into his Yuan Force World.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint helped form his internal Yuan Force Chaos Universe and realized it could lead to a realm beyond the Ultimate Supreme Being.
• Zhou Tong studied the imprint for several Chaos Epochs and gained enough insight to advance, though he had not yet arranged the discoveries into a complete path.
• Zhou Tong created an eighty-percent-strength Dharma body and sent it beyond the Chaos Universe to explore endless space.
• Zhou Tong observed the nine largest Chaos Universes and noted that the Xis Race’s Chaos Universe remained slightly stronger than his own despite the origin he had taken.

Zhou Tong reversed time to study the previous epoch’s cultivation civilization and searched the endless expanse for matter to expand his Yuan Force Space. After a million Chaos Epochs, his inner Chaos Universe had reached seventy percent the size of the Barbaric Chaos Universe, and he waited for a chance to claim the matter in the central universe forming at the Origin Continent.

• Zhou Tong reversed time and discovered that the Black Robe Emperor had destroyed the Origin Continent in a final battle against more than a hundred Ultimate Supreme Beings, scattering its matter into universes and celestial bodies.
• Zhou Tong studied the three previous-epoch cultivators of the Ultimate Fire Dao and found their Supreme Ultimate Daos differed only modestly from his own.
• Taichu worried that Zhou Tong’s pursuit of the previous epoch’s knowledge signaled greater ambitions, but decided to leave him alone as long as he did not interfere with the central Chaos Universe.
• Zhou Tong’s incarnation searched the endless expanse, gathering dispersed matter and energy and integrating them into his true body’s Yuan Force Space.
• After a million Chaos Epochs, Zhou Tong’s inner Chaos Universe reached seventy percent the size of the Barbaric Chaos Universe, and he waited for an opportunity to act on the central Chaos Universe.

Taichu realized Zhou Tong had been gathering matter for an attack and devastated smaller universes and plundered others to feed the nearly formed Central Chaos Universe. After Ji Ning became an Ultimate Supreme Being, Zhou Tong confronted Taichu at the Central Chaos Universe and destroyed it with the Calamity Fire Divine Furnace.

• Taichu searched endless space for Zhou Tong and discovered that matter had disappeared from its many dimensions.
• Taichu concluded Zhou Tong was preparing to attack the Xisi Chaos Universe and began destroying smaller Chaos Universes and plundering the origins of giant ones to nourish the Central Chaos Universe.
• After ten thousand Chaos Epochs, Ji Ning became the Barbaric Chaos Universe's second Ultimate Supreme Being, and Zhou Tong gave him an assignment.
• Zhou Tong found the nearly complete Central Chaos Universe and met Taichu, identifying himself as Tribulation Fire, controller of the Barbaric Chaos Universe.
• Zhou Tong revealed his true body and struck Taichu with the Calamity Fire Divine Furnace, tearing apart the incomplete Central Chaos Universe.

Zhou Tong absorbed the remains of the central Chaos Universe into his Yuan Force Space, creating an inner Chaos Universe while turning the Barbaric Chaos Universe over to Ji Ning. He left to pursue a higher realm, and Taichu remained to guard the Xisi Chaos Universe.

• Taichu tried to seize the collapsing central Chaos Universe’s matter, but Zhou Tong’s transformed Barbaric Chaos Universe threatened the Xisi Chaos Universe and forced Taichu to retreat.
• Zhou Tong revealed that he had planned to give the Barbaric Chaos Universe to Ji Ning after his disciple became an Ultimate Supreme Being.
• Zhou Tong absorbed the central Chaos Universe’s remnants into his Yuan Force Space and explained that he had cultivated an inner Chaos Universe because he was special.
• Zhou Tong told Ji Ning that he was leaving to pursue a realm beyond the controller level and entrusted him with protecting the Barbaric Chaos Universe.
• Zhou Tong activated the Reincarnation Mirror Imprint and disappeared into the endless void.

After a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Zhou Tong found that he could not turn the Sky Horn Ant True Fate into his Sixth Secret Realm, while Yan Ruyu still struggled toward the Immortal King realm. Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu left the Divine Domain to travel through the Mortal Realm as ordinary people, recording insights and leaving traces across the universe.

• Zhou Tong concluded that the Sky Horn Ant True Fate and his System Divine Patterns had reached their limits, and worried that his Immortal Phoenix True Fate might be even harder to integrate.
• Yan Ruyu told Zhou Tong that her progress toward understanding the Sixth Secret Realm remained slow, while Zhou Tong saw that their son Zhou Rui had already undergone Supreme Being Body nirvana once.
• Zhou Tong suggested that he and Yan Ruyu seek their breakthroughs by traveling through the Mortal Realm, and Yan Ruyu agreed.
• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu left the Divine Domain disguised as an ordinary young married couple and journeyed through the world for many years.
• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu lived as villagers, merchants, and workers, recording their inspirations and leaving traces across starfields and continents.

Zhou Tong witnessed Wu Shi become an Immortal King giant, followed by the Taiyin Human Emperor, the Sun Sacred Emperor, and Rui'er becoming immortals. As the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands recovered, Zhou Tong sensed the approach of a great calamity—and detected that his Immortal Phoenix True Fate had returned.

• Wu Shi passed his Immortal King Tribulation after discovering his Sixth Secret Realm, becoming an Immortal King giant.
• Zhou Tong sent the fruits grown on the World Tree to Wu Shi after his breakthrough.
• The Taiyin Human Emperor and the Sun Sacred Emperor passed their Immortal Ascension Tribulations and became immortals.
• Rui'er also became immortal, prompting Zhou Tong to recognize that the universe was recovering while a great calamity approached.
• Zhou Tong sensed a powerful presence through his Reincarnation Mirror and realized that his Immortal Phoenix True Fate had returned.

Zhou Tong's Immortal Phoenix True Fate returned with a Chaos Universe and a hundred Eternal Ultimate Daos from the Desolate Era World. After spending twenty thousand years comprehending them, he returned home with Yan Ruyu, who sensed the Dao might have stirred her Sixth Secret Realm.

• Zhou Tong's Immortal Phoenix True Fate returned to the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, suppressing the vast universe it had brought back.
• Zhou Tong recognized the hundred Eternal Ultimate Daos in the True Fate's memories as insights from the Desolate Era World.
• Yan Ruyu sealed off the area while Zhou Tong entered seclusion to comprehend the Daos.
• After twenty thousand years, Zhou Tong finished comprehending the hundred Eternal Ultimate Daos and concluded they could guide him but not transform his own Dao.
• Yan Ruyu told Zhou Tong that his displayed Dao had stirred something mysterious within her, and Zhou Tong wondered if it had revealed her Sixth Secret Realm.
• Zhou Tong and Yan Ruyu decided to return home and discuss what she had sensed.

After returning to the Divine Domain, Zhou Tong examined the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and discovered that they had become a myriad of worlds floating in a Chaos Sea. He found that the World Tree and his twelve artifacts had also advanced dramatically during his seclusion, leaving him with a vast realm whose first newborn creatures were already Immortal King giants.

• Zhou Tong asked Yan Ruyu to wait for Rui'er before they examined the changes in the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the realms had expanded into countless world-bubbles within a Chaos Sea because time flowed a thousand times faster inside.
• Zhou Tong saw that the World Tree had absorbed the Chaos Universe origin and become a convergence of myriad Dao Rules.
• Zhou Tong realized the World Tree was nurturing Golden Crows, Phoenixes, Thunder Emperors, Kunpengs, and other powerful beings at the level of Immortal King giants.
• Zhou Tong found that his twelve Profound Yellow artifacts had changed positions and become Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifacts.

After discovering that the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings had become Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifacts, Zhou Tong used them to accelerate his comprehension of the Supreme Ultimate Fire Dao and the Eternal Ultimate Daos. His primordial spirit continued comprehending within the rings as Yan Ruyu and Zhou Rui suspected he was approaching a breakthrough beyond the King Realm.

• Zhou Tong realized the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings had become Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifacts and concluded that mastering their additional Ultimate Daos could let him attain the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Zhou Tong sent his primordial spirit into the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and summoned insights from his Immortal Phoenix True Fate’s Supreme Ultimate Fire Dao.
• Zhou Tong accelerated time around himself and comprehended countless Eternal Ultimate Daos, gradually reaching toward the Supreme Ultimate Dao.
• The myriad universes in the rings resonated with Zhou Tong as the World Tree’s sources of origin flowed into his primordial spirit.
• Yan Ruyu noticed that Zhou Tong’s aura had vanished while his cultivation seemed to be advancing rapidly.
• Zhou Rui arrived, and Yan Ruyu suggested that Zhou Tong might be about to break through beyond the King Realm.

Zhou Tong transformed his primordial spirit within the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and returned to his body, breaking through the Immortal King realm to become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor. His aura spread across the universe, and powerful figures began heading to the Divine Domain.

• The Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, its worlds, artifacts, and World Tree empowered Zhou Tong’s primordial spirit until he became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level existence.
• The Sky Horn Ant True Fate and Immortal Phoenix True Fate explained that Zhou Tong was still only a half-Emperor until his primordial spirit returned and his physical body transformed.
• Zhou Tong’s primordial spirit returned to his body, and the Quasi-Immortal Emperor runes and laws transformed his flesh and blood.
• Zhou Tong announced that he had broken through, and his aura spread throughout the great world, shaking even Immortal Kings and quasi-Immortal Kings.
• Wu Shi the Great, the Divine Emperor, Ye Fan, and Azure Emperor recognized Zhou Tong’s breakthrough and set out for the Divine Domain.

After advancing to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, Zhou Tong examined the changes to his body, Hegemonic Bell, and Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, then summoned his Blood Phoenix Incarnation to govern his inner worlds. Outside the Divine Domain, powerful cultivators gathered and recognized that Zhou Tong had surpassed the Immortal King realm.

• Zhou Tong found that his Hegemonic Bell had become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor artifact and that his System Divine Patterns had multiplied, while the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings had become easier for him to control.
• Zhou Tong concluded that cultivating true myriad worlds could be the Inner World system's path to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and summoned his Blood Phoenix Incarnation to manage them.
• Divine Emperor, Ye Fan, Ruthless Great Emperor, Taiyin Human Emperor, Sun Emperor, and Duan De gathered outside the Divine Domain with countless other cultivators.
• Wu Shi the Great and Azure Emperor arrived, and Azure Emperor and Wu Shi said the aura from within the Divine Domain proved that someone had broken through the King Realm.

After breaking through to the King Realm, Zhou Tong invited the Quasi-Emperors into the Divine Domain and began preaching a new Cultivation System beneath the World Tree. He continued teaching for more than thirty days, until only the immortals could follow his increasingly profound explanations.

• Zhou Tong confirmed his breakthrough to the King Realm and brought his children and talented descendants into the Divine Domain.
• Zhou Tong opened the Divine Domain to the Quasi-Emperors and welcomed them beneath the World Tree.
• Zhou Tong began a forty-nine-day lecture on an entirely new Cultivation System, while silently refining the Law Creation Tribulation.
• Zhou Tong gave the tribulation's fortune to the gathered cultivators, who gained insights from the light rain and his Dao Sounds.
• After several days, the cultivators understood the system's foundation, but after more than thirty days only the immortals could still follow Zhou Tong's teaching.

After the Dao preaching ended, Zhou Tong explained the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and why he had revealed a new Cultivation System. He left the immortals to pursue their own Sixth Secret Realms as they prepared for the growing threat of Darkness.

• News spread that Zhou Tong had created a new Cultivation System, reached the Emperor realm, and shared the fortune of the Law Creation Tribulation with those who heard his Dao.
• Ye Fan, Wu Shi, Divine Emperor, and the other immortals asked Zhou Tong about the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and he explained that advancement depended on each person's Sixth Secret Realm and individual Dao path.
• Ye Fan asked why Zhou Tong had revealed a new system, and Zhou Tong said he wanted to give the living beings of the world another choice as Darkness Erosion advanced.
• Zhou Tong admitted that even as a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, he could not withstand the Dark Origin Substance at full strength without advancing further.
• Ye Fan, Ruthless Great Emperor, and Wu Shi resolved to pursue their own paths, and the immortals left the Divine Domain to enter seclusion.

Zhou Tong learned that Yan Ruyu had found the beginnings of her Sixth Secret Realm, the Virtual-Real Green Lotus, and discussed her ideas with her. Concerned that the Dark Faction might target the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands while he was away investigating, Zhou Tong began integrating his formation knowledge to prepare defenses.

• Zhou Rui told Zhou Tong that his Cultivation System was not connected to his own Dao, and Zhou Tong gave him a golden book containing other Cultivation Systems.
• Yan Ruyu explained her Sixth Secret Realm, and Zhou Tong identified it as the Virtual-Real Green Lotus formed by returning her Azure Lotus Immortal Artifact to herself.
• Zhou Tong offered Yan Ruyu suggestions about her unresolved difficulties, and she entered seclusion after three years of discussion.
• Zhou Tong decided to investigate the darkness but worried the Dark Faction might attack the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands while he was gone.
• Zhou Tong chose to prepare a defensive formation and began integrating his Formation Dao with the Eternal Ultimate Formation Dao under tenfold time acceleration.

After mastering the Ultimate Formation Dao, Zhou Tong forged powerful formations and artifacts to protect the Divine Domain and the Hegemon Body continent. He finished upgrading his Hegemonic Bell and prepared to explore the Dark Faction.

• Zhou Tong completed his study of the Ultimate Formation Dao and refined twenty-seven Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level Array Diagrams.
• Zhou Tong deployed nine interlocking formations to protect the Divine Domain and nine more across the Hegemon Body continent, keeping the final nine for himself.
• Zhou Tong discovered a little girl with a pure-blooded Hegemon Body among his descendants and granted her a fortuitous opportunity.
• Zhou Tong upgraded the dynasty's Immortal Bell into an Immortal King Bell and distributed more than a dozen Immortal King artifacts across the Divine Domain and the Hegemon Body continent.
• Zhou Tong immersed his Hegemonic Bell in the remaining Profound Yellow Qi, completing its upgrade after ten thousand years.
• Zhou Tong decided to take the initiative and explore the Dark Faction.