Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King while suppressing his own realm, revealing combat strength that Tu Fei identified as the Eight Restrictions. After Yan Ruyu refused Ye Fan’s request to see Pang Bo until his seclusion ended, Zhou Tong and Ye Fan realized Pang Bo was inside the Ageless Palace and intended only to see their old friend.

• Zhou Tong defeated the Golden-Winged Little Peng King in three strokes, splitting his body and leaving him despairing.
• Tu Fei explained the Four and Eight Restrictions, and Zhou Tong confirmed that he had reached the Eight Restrictions.
• Yan Ruyu arrived at Qing Yi’s residence and told Ye Fan that Pang Bo would not emerge from seclusion for three months.
• Young Azure Flood Dragon King revealed that Pang Bo was inside the Ageless Palace, and Zhou Tong and Ye Fan recognized it as the palace in the sky.

Zhou Tong and Ye Fan infiltrated Ageless Palace to rescue Pang Bo and confronted the old demon controlling him. Zhou Tong trapped the demon’s primordial spirit in fractured space-time and struck it with Death’s Eye.

• Zhou Tong taught Ye Fan a Luangu Scripture technique to conceal his aura before they approached Ageless Palace.
• Zhou Tong used prepared materials and Ye Fan’s Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron to break through Ageless Palace’s meteor formation and seal their way in.
• Zhou Tong and Ye Fan crossed the palace halls and found Pang Bo meditating on an altar in a Small World.
• Pang Bo opened his eyes, and Ye Fan realized the person before them was the old demon rather than Pang Bo.
• Zhou Tong used the Luangu Sacred Art and the Front Character Secret to strip out and imprison the old demon’s primordial spirit in another space-time.
• Zhou Tong unleashed Death’s Eye, piercing the old demon’s primordial spirit with a beam of deathly qi.

Zhou Tong defeated the old demon who had possessed Pang Bo and extracted the Azure Lotus Scripture from his soul. Studying its forbidden Demon Script, he found a possible path to adapt the Ten Evils Treasure Art and eventually elevate the Battle Character Secret, though he knew he could only lay some groundwork for now.

• Zhou Tong trapped the old demon's soul in the Vajra Ring, and Pang Bo awoke and explained how the demon had possessed him.
• Pang Bo chose to remain among the demon race, accepted the old demon's azure lotus, and planned to kill Holy Sons and Saintesses once he could act openly.
• Ye Fan tried to leave the demon city, but Tu Fei chose to stay, so Zhou Tong bought materials for formations and returned to study the captive demon.
• Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to refine the old demon's soul and extract the Azure Lotus Scripture, discovering its forbidden Demon Script and its depictions of the power of many races.
• Zhou Tong studied the Demon Script and began considering how to reconstruct the Ten Evils Treasure Art through Dao patterns, potentially upgrading the Battle Character Secret into an immortal-path secret art.

After emerging from seclusion with insights from the "Azure Lotus Scripture," Zhou Tong joined Ye Fan and Tu Fei on their journey to the Jade Pool Ruins to seek the "Empress West Scripture." He also revealed that the ruins held Wu Shi the Great’s sealed scripture, which only an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo could open.

• Zhou Tong left seclusion after seven days of studying the "Azure Lotus Scripture," and Ye Fan and Tu Fei invited him to leave the Azure Flood Dragon King's Small World with them.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Tu Fei that he had gained much from the Azure Emperor’s Dao, and agreed to take Tu Fei with them to the Jade Pool Ruins to seek the "Empress West Scripture."
• As they traveled toward the ruins near the Primordial Ancient Mine, Zhou Tong explained that Jade Pool had fled after the Western Empress's Emperor Corpse changed and caused many deaths.
• Zhou Tong reassured Tu Fei that Wu Shi the Great had made protective arrangements at the ruins, then revealed that the sealed "Wushi Scripture" could only be opened by an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.
• Zhou Tong and Tu Fei teased Ye Fan about joining with the Purple Mansion Saintess to produce the needed physique, and Ye Fan rebuked them as the group continued toward the ruins.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan and Tu Fei into the Jade Pool Ruins to find the “Empress West Scripture,” warning them about the dangers caused by the Western Empress's Emperor Corpse. The three reached an ancient engraving of a woman, where Zhou Tong had found the scripture.

• Tu Fei learned that Zhou Tong possessed the Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body, and Zhou Tong said his friendship with Ye Fan would not be dictated by their rival lineages.
• Zhou Tong used his Martial Heavenly Eye to locate the Jade Pool Flying Immortals and uncover an ancient well leading underground.
• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Tu Fei followed the underground river through a weak seal into the desolate Jade Pool Ruins.
• Ye Fan sensed something sinister in the ruins, and Zhou Tong warned the others not to touch the Immortal Pool because it caused Jade Pool's changes.
• Zhou Tong found the location of the “Empress West Scripture” and led Ye Fan and Tu Fei to a barren region of cliffs and Stone Mountains.
• The three entered the mountain gate and saw an engraving of a woman that conveyed the Dao following nature and Unity of Heaven and Man.

Zhou Tong searched the Jade Pool Ruins for the Empress West Scripture while Ye Fan and Tu Fei explored its carvings. After studying an incomplete Embrace Mountain Seal, Zhou Tong began developing a new technique by combining it with other arts, while Ye Fan and Tu Fei left to search for the scripture.

• Zhou Tong warned Ye Fan and Tu Fei not to damage the Jade Pool Ruins, then continued deeper into the stone forest to seek the Empress West Scripture.
• Ye Fan worried that the Empress West Scripture might have been worn away, but Zhou Tong assured him that the Western Empress's Dao Rhyme would remain.
• Ye Fan found an incomplete Embrace Mountain Seal, and Zhou Tong explained how the Jade Pool experts had refined the widely circulated technique.
• Zhou Tong used the Battle Secret to deduce the Embrace Mountain Seal, combining its mountain momentum with ideas from other techniques and the Source Heaven Book.
• Zhou Tong evolved the momentum of Mount Tai, Mount Hua, and the other Five Sacred Mountains, then began developing a path beyond the original seal.
• Ye Fan and Tu Fei left Zhou Tong to continue creating his technique and went to search for the Empress West Scripture.

Ye Fan and Tu Fei searched the Jade Pool Ruins for half a month without finding the "Empress West Scripture," while Zhou Tong used his enlightenment to develop a new seal technique. Zhou Tong created the Thousand Mountain Seal in principle but injured himself trying to condense it, and concluded he needed a higher cultivation level to complete it.

• Ye Fan considered waking Zhou Tong to ask about the missing "Empress West Scripture," but Tu Fei stopped him and urged him to study the ruins' secret arts while they waited.
• Tu Fei explained that Zhou Tong's vast knowledge of secret arts gave him an exceptionally deep foundation, and Ye Fan agreed to wait for him to wake.
• Zhou Tong drew on the Source Heaven Book, several Great Emperors' techniques, and the Demon Emperor Scripture to devise the Thousand Mountain Seal.
• Zhou Tong inscribed the momentum of three thousand mountains and tried to simplify their profound meaning into runes over the course of a month.
• Zhou Tong spat blood, ended his enlightenment, and concluded that he needed to Sever the Dao or become a Saint to complete the Thousand Mountain Seal before healing himself with the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art.

Zhou Tong used the Bodhi Tree to reveal the Empress West Scripture hidden in the Jade Pool Ruins and helped Ye Fan and Tu Fei comprehend its Dao Palace volume. After collecting the five seals, the group stayed to study the scripture and Zhou Tong memorized Jade Pool’s secret technique diagrams.

• Zhou Tong asked Ye Fan and Tu Fei about a sun engraving, and Ye Fan led them to a palm-sized circle on a cliff.
• Zhou Tong summoned his Bodhi Tree and activated the engraving, revealing the heart Dao Palace’s scriptural meaning.
• Ye Fan activated the same engraving, while Zhou Tong recited the scripture guide once for Tu Fei to memorize.
• Ye Fan identified the locations of the other four seals, and the group comprehended them to obtain the complete Dao Palace volume of the Empress West Scripture.
• The group spent several days studying beneath the Bodhi Tree, and Zhou Tong memorized the secret technique diagrams left in Jade Pool.

After leaving the Jade Pool Ruins with a passage of the Empress West Scripture, Zhou Tong offered Ye Fan ten million jin of Source to help him reach the Four Extremities Realm in exchange for two favors. Ye Fan agreed to collect divine fruits and spring water from the Primordial Forbidden Land, where he hoped to break the curse preventing his breakthrough.

• Zhou Tong explained that the Empress West Scripture passage came from the scripture’s early version, while Tu Fei revealed that his own cultivation scripture was likely left by a Great Sage near the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Tu Fei recognized Zhou Tong’s Heavenly Ear Technique and questioned him about reading the Mida Scripture, while Zhou Tong denied having ties to the Western Desert.
• Zhou Tong offered Ye Fan ten million jin of Source and revealed that he had robbed the Ji Family’s Northern Region headquarters.
• Zhou Tong asked Ye Fan to retrieve fruits from the divine trees in the Primordial Forbidden Land as a favor, and Ye Fan explained that entering it might help break the curse blocking his cultivation.
• Ye Fan accepted Zhou Tong’s offer and agreed to collect divine fruits and up to a cubic meter of Divine Spring water, warning that two sacred mountains no longer bore fruit.

Ye Fan, Zhou Tong, and Tu Fei met Little Nannan in Yan Capital and realized that she was an extraordinary child whose existence their divine senses could not detect. They invited her to travel with them, leaving her fed and hopeful as she joined their group.

• Ye Fan, Zhou Tong, and Tu Fei arrived in Yan Capital, where Ye Fan recognized the familiar mortal city.
• Little Nannan tugged on Ye Fan's trousers and begged him to buy her food, while Zhou Tong recognized her as the Dao Fruit of the Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Tu Fei that Little Nannan's presence was strange, and they discovered their divine senses could not detect her.
• Ye Fan recalled meeting the unchanged little girl years earlier, and Little Nannan explained that she periodically forgot her past and felt lonely.
• Zhou Tong invited Little Nannan to come with them, Ye Fan agreed, and they took her to a restaurant for a hearty meal.

Zhou Tong equipped Ye Fan with Source and a Bodhi Tree branch for his attempt to break the Primordial Sacred Body’s curse inside the Primordial Forbidden Land. Ye Fan entered the land while Zhou Tong and Tu Fei waited outside, and Zhou Tong began cultivating as Tu Fei secretly speculated about his scripture and romantic history.

• Zhou Tong transferred twelve million jin of Source into Ye Fan’s Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron, and Ye Fan added another million jin of his own.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan a large Bodhi Tree branch to preserve his life force during the journey through the Primordial Forbidden Land.
• Ye Fan thanked Zhou Tong, declared that he would succeed, and entered the Primordial Forbidden Land with his supplies.
• Zhou Tong warned Tu Fei that Ye Fan might face the curse again after leaving the Forbidden Land, and Tu Fei asked what would happen if the curse returned.
• Zhou Tong decided to wait for Ye Fan and began cultivating with Dragon Marrow while Tu Fei watched and privately guessed at the source of Zhou Tong’s scripture.

Zhou Tong and Tu Fei waited outside the Primordial Forbidden Land while Ye Fan cultivated inside and emerged having reached the Four Extremities Realm. Ye Fan faced a heavenly tribulation, and Zhou Tong watched as he endured its final bolts.

• Zhou Tong refined three drops of dragon marrow, broke through to the seventh transformation of Dragon Transformation, and left to undergo his tribulation away from Tu Fei.
• Ye Fan emerged from the Primordial Forbidden Land with the aura of the Four Extremities Realm, but Zhou Tong sensed danger and pulled Tu Fei away before lightning struck Ye Fan.
• Tu Fei worried that Ye Fan’s heavenly tribulation meant his curse remained, and Zhou Tong agreed it was possible while explaining that tribulations could grant powerful Dao marks.
• Ye Fan fought through a sea of lightning, and Zhou Tong said he was tempering his body and had nearly passed the Four Extremities Realm tribulation.

Ye Fan broke through to the Four Extremities Realm, but the Primordial Sacred Body’s curse manifested as an Innate Dao Diagram that threatened to sever his cultivation. Little Nannan destroyed the diagram at the cost of dissolving into light, then reappeared as Ye Fan recovered with her sitting on his shoulder.

• Ye Fan overcame the final bolts of Chaos Lightning and entered the Four Extremities Realm, while Zhou Tong warned that his tribulation was not over.
• An Innate Dao Diagram descended to suppress Ye Fan, and his attacks and the Bodhi Tree branch could not stop it.
• Zhou Tong explained that the diagram sought to cut away Ye Fan’s cultivation and said only a complete Immortal Divine Medicine might help.
• Little Nannan remembered Ye Fan, rushed toward him, and transformed into a rain of light that shattered the Dao Diagram.
• Little Nannan’s body dissolved around a glowing stone that broke before she reappeared, and Ye Fan stood up with her sitting on his shoulder.
• Zhou Tong gave Tu Fei a Bodhi Tree leaf to help him heal from his injuries.

Tu Fei recovered after swallowing a Bodhi leaf and Divine Spring, while Ye Fan gave Zhou Tong twenty-six sacred fruits and more Divine Spring from the Primordial Forbidden Land. Zhou Tong tested Ye Fan’s combat strength after the fruits transformed him and found that Ye Fan reached seven Restrictions with the All Character Secret activated, leaving him short of the Eight Restrictions.

• Tu Fei swallowed a Bodhi leaf and drank Divine Spring supplied by Ye Fan, healing his injuries.
• Ye Fan told Zhou Tong he had obtained the promised resources and revealed twenty-six sacred fruits and a cauldron full of Divine Spring.
• Zhou Tong stored the fruits and Divine Spring and realized Ye Fan had kept fourteen fruits, but chose not to confront him.
• Zhou Tong asked Ye Fan to test the All Character Secret, and Ye Fan triggered it after repeated attempts.
• Ye Fan attacked Zhou Tong with the Chaos Seed Green Lotus, while Zhou Tong blocked it with Sea Rises Bright Moon.
• Zhou Tong judged that Ye Fan reached seven Restrictions with the All Character Secret and barely six without it, while Tu Fei explained that Eight Restrictions prevented further power-boosting secret techniques.

Zhou Tong led Ye Fan, Tu Fei, and Little Nannan to the Ice Snow Palace in search of the True Dragon Divine Medicine, then broke through the seals into an underground dragon vein. They reached a vast abyss where the dragon energy rose from below, leaving the group facing an unknown danger.

• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan he knew where the True Dragon Divine Medicine was, and Ye Fan and Tu Fei agreed to go with him.
• Zhou Tong took the group through the void to the Ice Snow Palace and explained that the divine medicine lay beneath its territory in a dragon vein.
• Zhou Tong used Source Technique to find a cave entrance, but the group encountered powerful Array Patterns sealing the depths.
• Zhou Tong spent a day using the Group Character Secret to dismantle the Array Patterns and opened a passage into a vast underground palace.
• Zhou Tong led the group through the palace toward the source of the dragon energy, and they stopped before a gigantic, bottomless abyss.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, Tu Fei, and Little Nannan descended into Myriad Dragon Nest in search of its Immortal Divine Medicine. The True Dragon Divine Medicine rushed toward them, and Zhou Tong realized the Ruthless Great Emperor had arranged for it to aid Ye Fan.

• Zhou Tong led the group into the abyss, where they collected Divine Source particles as they descended.
• The group reached the abyss floor and passed a Five-Colored Altar without investigating where it led.
• Zhou Tong guided Ye Fan and Tu Fei through Myriad Dragon Nest's dragon caverns.
• Little Nannan spotted the True Dragon Divine Medicine, which transformed into a golden dragon and flew toward them.
• Zhou Tong concluded that the True Dragon Divine Medicine was part of the Ruthless Great Emperor's preparations to guide Ye Fan's cultivation.

Zhou Tong reasoned that Great Emperors prepared resources and protectors for their successors, then used the Reincarnation Mirror to acquire the True Dragon Treasure Art and Fuxi Emperor Scripture. The True Dragon Divine Medicine went to Little Nannan, who gave it to Ye Fan, while Zhou Tong reflected on how support could help talent rise.

• Zhou Tong considered the Ruthless Great Emperor's preparations for Ye Fan and concluded that resources, protection, and luck were crucial on the path to proving the Dao.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror to imprint the True Dragon Treasure Art into his primordial spirit.
• Zhou Tong viewed Great Emperor Fuxi's memories and obtained the complete Fuxi Emperor Scripture.
• The True Dragon Divine Medicine went to Little Nannan, and Zhou Tong told Ye Fan to keep it safe.
• Little Nannan handed the True Dragon Divine Medicine to Ye Fan, who solemnly put it away.

After escaping Myriad Dragon Nest with the True Dragon Divine Medicine, Ye Fan gave Zhou Tong its fruit and asked him to help find the Xing Character Secret. Zhou Tong and Ye Fan settled into seclusion together, cultivating beside the Bodhi Tree and True Dragon Divine Medicine.

• Zhou Tong led Ye Fan and Tu Fei out of Myriad Dragon Nest, and they fled tens of thousands of miles before setting up a protected cave dwelling.
• Ye Fan extracted nine drops of medicinal liquid from the True Dragon Divine Medicine, gave Tu Fei three drops, and handed the fruit to Zhou Tong in gratitude.
• Ye Fan asked Zhou Tong to honor his promise to teach him another of the Nine Secrets, and Zhou Tong offered to take him to find the Xing Character Secret after reaching the peak of the Dragon Transformation Realm or Half-Step Mighty One.
• Tu Fei departed to return to his family, while Ye Fan chose to stay and enter seclusion with Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong and Ye Fan placed the Bodhi Tree and True Dragon Divine Medicine together in the cave and nourished them with Divine Spring water before beginning their seclusion.

Zhou Tong comprehended the True Dragon Treasure Art, reached great completion in the Dragon Transformation Realm, and survived two levels of Heavenly Tribulation. The chapter ended with him transforming into a purple dragon, while an author’s note defended the protagonist’s principles and explained why he did not share certain opportunities with Ye Fan.

• Zhou Tong comprehended the True Dragon Treasure Art and realized that the True Dragon’s defining power was transformation, culminating in Myriad Laws Immunity.
• After refining the last of his Heavenly Dragon Source, Zhou Tong reached great completion in the Dragon Transformation Realm, startling Ye Fan and Little Nannan with his dragon aura.
• Zhou Tong sensed Heavenly Tribulation approaching and left to face it in an uninhabited place in the Northern Region.
• Zhou Tong survived two levels of Dragon Transformation Realm lightning tribulation, refining the lightning and imprinting its Dao patterns onto the Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong discovered that his third Divine Form had also reached completion, then transformed into a purple dragon and soared into the sky.
• The author explained that Zhou Tong prioritized attaining the Dao, helped Ye Fan when it did not cross his principles, and treated information from the original work as intelligence rather than something Ye Fan had provided.

Zhou Tong explained that Ye Fan’s combat power had reached Six Restrictions because the Sacred Fruits had transformed his foundation, but his incomplete secret arts held him back from higher levels. He advised Ye Fan to cultivate his existing techniques to their peak and offered to teach him the Thousand Mountain Seal if Ye Fan called him “Master.”

• Ye Fan asked Zhou Tong how to increase combat power, and Zhou Tong revealed that he knew Ye Fan had eaten Sacred Fruits in the Primordial Forbidden Land.
• Zhou Tong explained that Ye Fan’s transformed foundation gave him Six Restrictions, while powerful, complete secret arts could raise him to Seven or Eight Restrictions.
• Zhou Tong described combat power as a combination of foundation, secret arts, and comprehension of the Great Dao, and said Ye Fan mainly lacked strong secret arts.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that he had created the Thousand Mountain Seal by deducing the Embrace Mountain Seal and offered to teach it if Ye Fan called him “Master.”