Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong cultivated on a remote ancient star and transformed two of his three Great Dao Flowers, reaching the Earth Immortal level. After consuming King Pan’s Flat Peach Immortal Medicine, he strengthened his Human and Earth Flowers and began comprehending his own Dao, setting his sights on transforming the third flower.

• Zhou Tong secluded himself on an ancient star and used his immortal scripture to transform two Great Dao Flowers, whose radiance illuminated the star.
• Zhou Tong recognized that his two transformed flowers made him an Earth Immortal by the Immortal Domain’s standards.
• Zhou Tong swallowed the Flat Peach Immortal Medicine bestowed by King Pan, absorbing its vitality and fragments of King Pan’s Dao.
• Zhou Tong’s Human Flower manifested countless divine beasts and plants, while his Earth Flower absorbed the medicine’s vast life force.
• Zhou Tong entered Dao enlightenment, and his third flower began to stir with the aura of the Kunpeng and his own fundamental Dao.

Zhou Tong absorbed a Flat Peach Immortal Medicine and continued north through the Immortal Domain, tempering himself over a hundred thousand years while seeking the Kunpeng Ancestral Land. Along the way, he learned that Shi Hao had been killed during his Immortal King tribulation and that war with the Dark Faction had spread into the Immortal Domain.

• Zhou Tong absorbed the Flat Peach Immortal Medicine, but his Heaven Flower could not bloom because his foundation and cultivation time were insufficient.
• Zhou Tong set out north toward the Kunpeng Ancestral Land, following the guidance of his bloodline and training without teleportation.
• Zhou Tong spent a hundred thousand years crossing the Immortal Domain, battling dark creatures in forbidden lands and nearly encountering a Quasi-Immortal King and an Immortal King.
• Zhou Tong listened to Hun Yuan Immortal King's Dao preaching, meditated beneath the World Tree for seven thousand years, and obtained a Longevity Immortal Medicine.
• Zhou Tong learned that Ao Sheng, Tai Shi, and Yuan Chu had killed Shi Hao during his Immortal King tribulation.
• Zhou Tong learned that the Dark Faction had destroyed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, taken territory in the Immortal Domain, and fought several battles that killed Immortal Kings on both sides.

Zhou Tong perfected his Kunpeng Scripture, reached Quasi-Immortal King combat strength, and entered the Immortal Domain’s North Sea, where its primordial power nurtured him toward the Immortal King realm. A hundred years later, a Kunpeng manifestation shook the Immortal Domain, and its Immortal Kings believed Zhou Tong had touched that realm.

• Zhou Tong completed his third Great Dao Flower, perfected his Kunpeng Scripture, and reached True Immortal Realm perfection.
• After another hundred thousand years of fighting and tempering, Zhou Tong reached Quasi-Immortal King combat strength and arrived at the northern edge of the Immortal Domain.
• Zhou Tong transformed into a Kunpeng and plunged into the North Sea, where the seawater awakened his bloodline and nurtured his Dao.
• Over the next hundred years, Zhou Tong’s Immortal Scripture began transforming into an Immortal King Scripture as he cultivated within the North Sea.
• A vast Kunpeng rose from the North Sea, awakening Immortal Kings across the domain, who hoped Zhou Tong would become another Immortal King-level combatant.

Zhou Tong completed his physical transformation into one of the Ten Fiends and triggered the Immortal King Tribulation in an attempt to become an Immortal King. His body withstood and absorbed the tribulation, but the decisive test of his primordial spirit still lay ahead.

• Zhou Tong drew on the North Sea’s power to temper his body to Immortal King level, while his primordial spirit remained just short of the threshold.
• Zhou Tong summoned the Immortal King Tribulation, and Immortal Kings across the Immortal Domain reacted with shock to his attempt to break through.
• The tribulation’s rules and Dao symbols descended on Zhou Tong from across time and the worlds.
• Zhou Tong’s Kunpeng Dao suppressed the tribulation’s power, turning it into nourishment that further strengthened his already formidable body.
• Immortal Kings observed that the tribulation’s crucial remaining test was Zhou Tong’s primordial spirit.

Zhou Tong endured the Immortal King Tribulation while Immortal Domain and Dark Immortal Kings fought to stop or protect his breakthrough. After withstanding more than a thousand beams of Dao light, he passed the tribulation and became an Immortal King.

• Dao light struck Zhou Tong’s primordial spirit, and Immortal Kings praised his strength as he endured the tribulation.
• A Dark Immortal King attacked Zhou Tong, but King Pan and Hun Yuan Immortal King intervened to block the assault.
• The Dark Immortal Kings and Immortal Domain forces fought in a chaotic battle, and Jin Sheng called on the Golden Crow ancestor to help Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong continued comprehending and refining the tribulation’s Dao orders, eventually returning to human form as he endured more than a thousand strikes.
• The final beam of Dao light vanished, and Zhou Tong successfully became an Immortal King.

After overcoming the Immortal King Tribulation, Zhou Tong absorbed vast amounts of the Immortal Domain’s essence to recover his strength. When a Dark Immortal King attacked him, Zhou Tong revealed overwhelming speed and power, shattered the attacker, and trapped him inside the Profound Yellow Bell.

• Zhou Tong completed the Immortal King Tribulation, becoming the Kunpeng lineage’s first new Kunpeng King in two epochs.
• Zhou Tong inhaled the essence of the sun, moon, stars, and Immortal Domain to replenish the power he had lost.
• A Dark Immortal King attacked Zhou Tong while the native Immortal Kings were occupied fighting elsewhere.
• Zhou Tong shattered the Dark Immortal King’s claw with his Kunpeng wings and pursued him at incredible speed.
• Zhou Tong smashed the Dark Immortal King into pieces and spread Great Dao runes across his wounds to prevent him from recovering.
• Zhou Tong swallowed the Dark Immortal King’s shattered body with the Profound Yellow Bell and suppressed him with its chime.

Zhou Tong and the Immortal Domain’s forces defeated the Dark Immortal Kings, turning a battle into a sweeping victory. With every enemy suppressed, they divided the spoils and prepared to repair the pass and purify the darkness.

• Zhou Tong sealed one Dark Immortal King in his Profound Yellow Bell, then joined the Hun Yuan Immortal King to defeat and suppress another.
• Ao Sheng, Immortal King Yuan Chu, and countless Immortal Kings of the Immortal Domain joined the battle as the Dark Faction received no reinforcements.
• The remaining Dark Immortal Kings fled, but Zhou Tong overtook two and blocked their escape until more than a dozen Immortal Kings caught up.
• Zhou Tong recovered his strength, returned to the Immortal Domain’s Immortal Kings, and shared the spoils from the defeated enemies.
• An Immortal King called for the Immortal Domain’s forces to repair the pass and purify the darkness.

After becoming an Immortal King, Zhou Tong studied the transformation of his body and Myriad Dao Tree, realizing that Dao Merging Immortal Seeds explained how deceased Immortal Kings became Longevity Immortal Medicines. He spent thirty thousand years refining the Dark Immortal King and then set out for the Kunpeng Ancestral Land.

• Zhou Tong refused invitations from other Immortal Kings and returned to the North Sea to examine his new Immortal King body and primordial spirit.
• Zhou Tong discovered that his Myriad Dao Tree had transformed alongside him and reasoned that it would become the Kunpeng Immortal Medicine if he perished.
• Zhou Tong concluded that Immortal Kings could become Longevity Immortal Medicines because their Dao Merging Immortal Seeds were fused with them.
• Zhou Tong burned away the Dark Immortal King's body and spent thirty thousand years refining its primordial spirit while studying its Great Dao laws.
• After the Dark Immortal King was destroyed, Zhou Tong headed toward the Kunpeng Ancestral Land.

Zhou Tong followed his Kunpeng bloodline into the Immortal Domain’s mysterious darkness, where an aurora triggered a transformation that burned away his body and cultivation. The ordeal left him on the verge of being completely crippled.

• Zhou Tong reached the darkness beyond the North Sea and recalled that Immortal Kings had lost their way searching for the Kunpeng Ancestral Land.
• Zhou Tong followed his bloodline resonance into the darkness, where his divine sense was suppressed and his body transformed into a Kun Fish.
• A green aurora spread through the darkness, and Zhou Tong’s Kunpeng Method began resonating with its changing colors.
• Zhou Tong advanced through the darkness as light engulfed him, burning his Dao, methods, runes, blood, and body.
• Zhou Tong shifted from Kun Fish to roc form while enduring the agony of the ancestral land’s ordeal, which threatened to destroy his cultivation.

Zhou Tong endured the Kunpeng Ancestral Land’s flames as they repeatedly destroyed and rebirthed his body, soul, and Dao. By comprehending their nirvana-like power, he transformed the Kunpeng Method beyond the Immortal King level and gained Myriad Calamities Immortality.

• Zhou Tong resisted the multicolored flames by rebuilding his Dao runes whenever they were burned away.
• Zhou Tong realized the flames contained a power of nirvana and were forcing his Kunpeng Method to transform rather than simply destroying him.
• Zhou Tong concluded that, as an Immortal King, completing this nirvana could lead him to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.
• Zhou Tong incorporated his comprehension of the nirvana power into the core of his Great Dao, restoring his vitality and confirming his path forward.
• Zhou Tong perfected the final transformation of the Kunpeng Method and gained Myriad Calamities Immortality, rendering the flames unable to harm him.

Zhou Tong used his transformed Kunpeng Method to escape the darkness and enter the Kunpeng Ancestral Land, a ruined universe containing the enormous corpse of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor Kunpeng. Near the corpse, he discovered two living fish eggs, one already taking the shape of a Progenitor Fish Fry.

• Zhou Tong found that his divine sense could barely reach beyond his colossal body, then used the transformed Kunpeng Method to break out of the darkness.
• Zhou Tong entered a desolate ruined universe and realized it was the true Kunpeng Ancestral Land, hidden beyond an entrance that required the identity of a Progenitor Fish Fry.
• Zhou Tong followed his bloodline resonance and discovered a petrified Kunpeng corpse so immense that a single feather dwarfed his true body.
• Zhou Tong recognized the corpse as a Kunpeng who had surpassed the Immortal King realm and endured its terrifying Quasi-Immortal Emperor aura.
• Zhou Tong spotted a spring pool near the corpse containing two living fish eggs, one of which was developing into a Progenitor Fish Fry.

Zhou Tong discovered how the Kunpeng Ancestral Land nurtured Progenitor Fish Fry and found the imprint of the Kunpeng Ancestor within the Kunpeng corpse. The ancestor explained that he had waited over a hundred epochs for a descendant who could reach the Dao Ancestor realm, and Zhou Tong was the only one to arrive.

• Zhou Tong examined the spring and learned that it used the fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperor Kunpeng's essence to nurture Progenitor Fish Fry, which faced a trial across the heavens and worlds.
• Zhou Tong reasoned that only Kunpeng who had reached the Immortal King level could enter the ancestral land and speculated that its ancestor had died after confronting the strange and ominous forces.
• Zhou Tong flew to the Kunpeng corpse's brow and triggered a transformation that revealed a radiant immortal paradise and the Kunpeng Ancestor's imprint.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor confirmed that he was dead and that Zhou Tong was his finest descendant, then invited him to sit and speak.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor told Zhou Tong that the ancestral land nurtured nine Progenitor Fish Fry each epoch and that, after waiting over a hundred epochs, only Zhou Tong had arrived able to touch the Dao Ancestor realm.

The Kunpeng Ancestor explained that the Kunpeng lineage originated in High Heaven and revealed why he had ended his own life: an enemy’s ghostly beings kept returning after they were killed. He left Zhou Tong with the warning that even the strongest cultivators had found no hope of defeating them.

• The Kunpeng Ancestor explained that Dao Ancestor and Quasi-Immortal Emperor referred to the realm above Immortal Kings, which Zhou Tong had already touched.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor clarified that Progenitor Fish Fry gave rise to Kunpeng as a species, while the Kunpeng lineage itself originated in High Heaven.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor described High Heaven as an eternal sacred land where the heavens’ cultivation systems collided and Dao Ancestors opened new paths.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor told Zhou Tong that he had killed himself after losing hope of breaking through and entrusted the future to later generations.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor recounted how ghostly beings that he and his fellow cultivators killed repeatedly revived, leaving them unable to see a way to defeat their enemy.

Zhou Tong learned that Kunpeng Ancestor had created the Kunpeng Ancestral Land to cultivate descendants who might surpass him and confront the Weird and Ominous. Kunpeng Ancestor explained that Zhou Tong’s next step toward the Dao Ancestor realm was to expand his own Cultivation System, leaving him with a new direction for advancement.

• Kunpeng Ancestor explained that he had failed to reach the Immortal Emperor realm and created the ancestral land to nurture Progenitor Fish Fry with a greater chance of becoming Dao Ancestors.
• Kunpeng Ancestor revealed that a Kunpeng had to return as an Immortal King within one million years to qualify for the ancestral land’s trial, and praised Zhou Tong for advancing in just over two hundred thousand years.
• Zhou Tong realized that Kunpeng Ancestor had likely remained as a teacher who could revive himself, hoping to cultivate a descendant who would surpass him.
• Kunpeng Ancestor told Zhou Tong that his Dao had touched the Dao Ancestor level, but his Cultivation System still limited his advancement.
• Kunpeng Ancestor urged Zhou Tong to expand his own Cultivation System to the Dao Ancestor level, explaining that this was the purpose of the ancestral land.

The Kunpeng Ancestor explained how studying the many Cultivation Systems of High Heaven could help Zhou Tong improve his chances of reaching the Dao Ancestor level. He then began testing Zhou Tong against his younger self, whose first attack trapped Zhou Tong with a field of golden feathers.

• The Kunpeng Ancestor said that High Heaven’s many Cultivation Systems could offer Zhou Tong insights and increase his chances of becoming a Dao Ancestor.
• Zhou Tong considered whether a system could encompass every path, then asked to study the Cultivation Systems that had produced Dao Ancestors and Immortal Emperors.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor described his own pure bodily cultivation system and placed Zhou Tong in a battlefield against his youthful self.
• Zhou Tong met the young Kunpeng Ancestor’s fist with his own, and golden Great Rocs emerged from their attacks and clashed.
• The two Great Rocs perished together, and the young Kunpeng Ancestor’s golden feathers formed a field that sealed Zhou Tong in place.

Zhou Tong fought Kunpeng Ancestor and gradually deciphered the Body Cultivation System, using its runes to strengthen his own body before defeating him. Kunpeng Ancestor promised to reveal another aspect of the system in a thousand years, and Zhou Tong sat down to study what he had learned.

• Zhou Tong and Kunpeng Ancestor fought at close range, and Zhou Tong found himself physically outmatched by Kunpeng Ancestor's body.
• Zhou Tong studied the runes that appeared during their collisions and realized they embodied the heavens and myriad worlds within Kunpeng Ancestor's body.
• Zhou Tong copied the runes into his own flesh and grew stronger, but his rune armor burst apart as his power surged.
• Zhou Tong struck Kunpeng Ancestor hard enough to injure him, and Kunpeng Ancestor vanished as the battlefield disappeared.
• Kunpeng Ancestor told Zhou Tong that he had seen only one path within the Body Cultivation System and promised to show him another in a thousand years.
• Zhou Tong accepted the challenge and sat cross-legged to comprehend the battle's gains.

Zhou Tong studied the Body Cultivation System and fought its founder, learning how its opposing paths of “existence” and “emptiness” could be combined. He then battled the founders and pathbreakers of 249 cultivation systems, and emerged with a clearer understanding of his own path.

• During a thousand years of seclusion, Zhou Tong comprehended the Body Cultivation System from its Divine Patterns and Dao talismans, strengthening his body.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor arranged a battle between Zhou Tong and a bare-chested Dao Child from the Body Cultivation System, whose path centered on “emptiness.”
• Zhou Tong grasped the essence of emptiness and defeated the Dao Child with his Kunpeng Dao, then learned from the Kunpeng Ancestor that they had both founded the system.
• Zhou Tong spent five thousand years contemplating the Body Cultivation System before moving on to opponents from other systems, including the Curse Method.
• Over time, Zhou Tong fought more than two thousand founders and pathbreakers across 249 cultivation systems, and his path finally became clear.

Zhou Tong dismantled the Myriad Dao Tree, his Immortal Seed, and began merging its power and Great Dao runes into the Gates of Potential throughout his body. As the process gradually stabilized his collapsing cultivation, his flesh, primordial spirit, and Immortal Qi began advancing toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

• Zhou Tong concluded that his path required destroying the Myriad Dao Tree and making its power part of himself.
• Zhou Tong collapsed the Myriad Dao Tree, causing his Immortal Qi to run wild and his body to break apart.
• Zhou Tong swallowed fruits from the Longevity Immortal Medicine while the tree’s runes slowly fused into his body and Gates of Potential.
• Zhou Tong’s injuries stopped worsening as the motes of light suppressed and steadied his Immortal Qi.
• Zhou Tong began healing when half the motes had fused, and his flesh, primordial spirit, and Immortal Qi started transforming toward the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm.

Zhou Tong advanced to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, which the Kunpeng Ancestor called Dao Ancestor, and learned that becoming a true Immortal Emperor would require both further progress and fortune. As Zhou Tong prepared to leave the Kunpeng Ancestral Land, the Kunpeng Ancestor gave him access to High Heaven’s vast collection of scriptures, including Quasi-Immortal Emperor and Immortal Emperor texts.

• Zhou Tong broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and the Kunpeng Ancestor praised his unusual aura and cultivation path.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor told Zhou Tong about two other remarkable Quasi-Immortal Emperors: one who became an Immortal Emperor and one who died attempting the breakthrough.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor warned Zhou Tong that talent alone could not ensure he would become an Immortal Emperor, and Zhou Tong said he would leave and try to revive him if he succeeded.
• Zhou Tong discovered connections from the Kunpeng Ancestral Land to the Immortal Domain and myriad worlds, but the Kunpeng Ancestor stopped him.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor revealed tens of millions of scriptures, including Quasi-Immortal Emperor and Immortal Emperor texts, as his final gift to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong studied High Heaven’s vast collection of scriptures to refine his Dao and stabilize his Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm. After two hundred thousand years of secluded cultivation, he transformed another Immortal Embryo and reached the realm the Kunpeng Ancestor had possessed in life, leaving the Immortal Emperor realm as his next goal.

• The Kunpeng Ancestor offered Zhou Tong the scriptures and ancient texts he had collected, leaving him free to study them or depart.
• Zhou Tong chose to remain and read the scriptures, drawing inspiration from them while keeping the Immortal Ancient Method and Kunpeng Transcendence Path as the foundation of his cultivation.
• Over one hundred thousand years, Zhou Tong stabilized his Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and used the texts to develop his own Great Dao.
• After another hundred thousand years, Zhou Tong transformed into a Myriad Dao Tree, then a Kun Fish and a Golden-Winged Great Peng before returning to human form.
• The Kunpeng Ancestor recognized that Zhou Tong had transformed another Immortal Embryo and reached the realm he had held in life, and wondered whether Zhou Tong could complete the transformation into an Immortal Emperor.