Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong consumed sacred fruits from the Primordial Forbidden Land to transform his vitality, divine sense, physique, bones, and blood. After Ye Fan left because Zhou Tong’s powerful aura disturbed his cultivation, Zhou Tong continued refining fruits and remained in the midst of his transformation.

• Zhou Tong refined a ginseng-like sacred fruit, greatly strengthening his vitality and causing purple blood qi to emerge as True Dragons.
• Zhou Tong consumed Silver Moon Fruits that sharpened his divine sense, Martial Heavenly Eye, and Heaven's Ear Technique, though later fruits had diminished effects.
• Zhou Tong refined heart-shaped fruits that raised his blood qi to a level that unsettled Ye Fan and prevented him from calmly cultivating.
• Zhou Tong sent Ye Fan to Holy City to meet Tu Fei and Li Heishui, saying he would join them for the Jade Pool Stone Appreciation Convention after his transformation.
• Zhou Tong refined sun-like fruits that remolded his physique, then tiny tripod-shaped fruits that replaced and strengthened his bones.
• Zhou Tong consumed bird-shaped fruits that replaced his blood, while a luminous membrane fused with his flesh, blood, organs, and bones.

Zhou Tong refined the final sacred fruit and briefly entered the Divine Prohibition State, using the insight to complete the first eight mountains of his Thousand Mountain Seal. He then cultivated Great Emperor Fuxi’s Eight Extremes Divine Seal, laying its eight foundations and beginning to explore their combinations.

• Zhou Tong swallowed the final fruit and entered the Divine Prohibition State, where he formed the first eight runes of the Thousand Mountain Seal.
• After the state ended, Zhou Tong swallowed a second Bagua Fruit, but it did not trigger Divine Prohibition again.
• Zhou Tong used the eight innate patterns to cultivate the Heaven, Earth, Mountain, Marsh, Wind, Thunder, Water, and Fire Seals.
• Zhou Tong compared the Eight Extremes Divine Seal with the Battle Secret and the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Flying Immortal Art, considering whether the eight seals could unite into one.
• Zhou Tong practiced increasingly complex combinations of the eight seals until their marks disappeared from his palm and remained imprinted in his heart.

Zhou Tong used Taiyin Spirit Refining and the moon-shaped sacred fruit to temper his divine consciousness and break through into the Immortal Platform Realm. The breakthrough summoned a heavenly tribulation, which Zhou Tong eagerly prepared to face.

• After half a month studying the Eight Extremes Divine Seal and comparing it with the Battle Secret, Zhou Tong reached the half-step Immortal Platform Realm.
• With the Jade Pool Stone Appreciation Convention approaching, Zhou Tong chose to cultivate Taiyin Spirit Refining instead of continuing his earlier practice.
• At night, Zhou Tong swallowed the Silver Moon Sacred Fruit and drew Taiyin power into his Immortal Platform, using nine Emperor characters from the Taiyin True Scripture to suppress it.
• Zhou Tong tempered his divine consciousness with Taiyin power until his four secret realms resonated and his Human Body Great Dragon surged into the Immortal Platform Realm.
• Lightning and thunder heralded Zhou Tong's heavenly tribulation, and he wondered whether he would have to fight Great Emperors like Ye Fan.

Zhou Tong faced a heavenly tribulation that manifested ancient Great Emperor imprints and battled seven emperor phantoms while tempering his body and Hegemonic Bell. After two days and one night, the tribulation ended, and he recovered fully as his body and bell grew stronger.

• Zhou Tong realized the tribulation was manifesting imprints of past figures because the world's origin was insufficient, and he absorbed its lightning to strengthen himself and the Hegemonic Bell.
• The Taiyin Emperor phantom attacked with the Taiyin Human Emperor Seal, and Zhou Tong fought it while his Hegemonic Bell endured the seal's strikes.
• The Western Empress, Ruthless Great Emperor, Emperor Venerable, Feather Ascension Great Emperor, Hengyu the Great, and Dao De Tianzun joined the battle, gravely injuring Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong used the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art and successive Divine Form Transformations to survive the seven emperors' assault.
• After two days and one night, the tribulation vanished; Zhou Tong recovered to his peak, and the Hegemonic Bell's patterns became more intricate.

Zhou Tong broke through to the fourth level of the first layer of the Immortal Platform Secret Realm and formed the Taiyin Divine Talisman. By searching the Humanoid Divine Medicine’s memories through the Reincarnation Mirror, he found the Kunpeng Treasure Art, which could help him combine the Taiyin and True Sun scriptures, then set out for the Holy City.

• Zhou Tong tempered his divine consciousness with the Taiyin True Scripture and inscribed nine Emperor Scripts into a black moon talisman, forming the Taiyin Divine Talisman.
• Zhou Tong considered cultivating the True Sun Scripture alongside the Taiyin True Scripture and realized the Kunpeng Method could help him harmonize their yin and yang powers.
• Zhou Tong searched the Humanoid Divine Medicine’s memories through the Reincarnation Mirror, finding the Kirin Treasure Art before continuing his search.
• After recovering his divine power nineteen times, Zhou Tong found and imprinted the Kunpeng Treasure Art into his divine soul.
• Zhou Tong prepared to leave for the Holy City, but a cold flash carrying Killing Intent suddenly struck.

Zhou Tong survived an ambush by a Great Power assassin from Human World, killed him, and captured his primordial spirit. After learning the assassin had targeted him because of his heavenly tribulation and led a nearby Human World base, Zhou Tong set out to destroy it.

• A black-clad Great Power assassin attacked Zhou Tong with a Killing Sword, but Zhou Tong used his divine rings, Kirin Roar, and Heaven and Earth Seal to survive and seize the weapon.
• Zhou Tong used his Martial Heavenly Eye to force the fleeing assassin out of the void, then killed him with his incomplete Thousand Mountain Seal.
• Zhou Tong sealed the assassin's primordial spirit and sent it to the Vajra Ring to be refined and searched for information.
• Zhou Tong learned that the assassin belonged to Human World, had tracked him because of his heavenly tribulation, and commanded a nearby base less than a thousand li away.
• Zhou Tong headed for the Human World base, intending to destroy it.

Zhou Tong destroyed a Human World assassin base and reunited with Ye Fan, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui in Holy City, where he revealed he had reached the First Layer of Immortal Platform, Fourth Heaven. Pang Bo then arrived after pursuing Yaoguang Holy Land’s candidate Holy Son, and the group prepared to celebrate with a drinking contest.

• Zhou Tong used the assassin’s memories to infiltrate and destroy a Human World base, then headed to Holy City.
• Zhou Tong reunited with Ye Fan, Little Nannan, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui at an Origin Stone Pavilion, where he met Wu Zhongtian, Liu Kou, and Jiang Huairen.
• Zhou Tong revealed he had reached the First Layer of Immortal Platform, Fourth Heaven, shocking the group with his strength and progress.
• Tu Fei joked about picking out Saintesses at the Jade Pool Stone Appreciation Convention, and Zhou Tong hinted that kidnapping one might be possible with preparations.
• Pang Bo arrived and told Ye Fan and Zhou Tong he had pursued Yaoguang Holy Land’s candidate Holy Son but had failed to catch him.
• Pang Bo, Zhou Tong, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui agreed to drink together and challenge each other to a contest.

Zhou Tong and Ye Fan arrived at the Jade Pool Gathering, where Ye Fan’s cultivation and Saint Body blood attracted attention. When Xia Jiuyou demanded that Ye Fan become his servant, Zhou Tong gave him White Tiger Divine Medicine medicinal liquid, prompting Xia Jiuyou’s attendants to leave with it for Gai Jiuyou.

• Experts at the Jade Pool Gathering recognized Zhou Tong and Ye Fan as wanted men, and they were shocked that Ye Fan had reached great perfection in the Four Extremities Realm.
• Xia Jiuyou confronted Ye Fan and demanded that he serve him and provide Saint Blood for refining medicine.
• Ye Fan challenged Xia Jiuyou to become his servant if he lost, while Xia Jiuyou claimed he would defeat Ye Fan and take him away.
• Zhou Tong gave Xia Jiuyou a drop of White Tiger Divine Medicine medicinal liquid and asked him to pass his regards to Gai Jiuyou.
• Xia Jiuyou’s gray-robed attendants thanked Zhou Tong and hurriedly left the Jade Pool with the medicinal liquid for Gai Jiuyou.

After Xia Jiuyou left, Zhou Tong explained the lifespans of powerful cultivators and described how constitution affected a Great Emperor’s longevity. The group learned about the realms beyond the Immortal Platform, while Zhou Tong admitted he did not know exactly how Quasi-Emperors cultivated; Ye Fan ended by longing to reach the summit and return to Earth.

• Tu Fei asked Zhou Tong whether Gai Jiuyou was still alive, and Zhou Tong said an eight- or nine-thousand-year lifespan was possible for a Quasi-Emperor close to attaining the Dao.
• Zhou Tong explained that Great Emperors could live around twelve to fifteen thousand years, or much longer with an exceptional constitution, and said constitution was crucial to pursuing longevity.
• Pang Bo asked about Gai Jiuyou’s lifespan, and Zhou Tong estimated that his failed attempt to become a Great Emperor had reduced it to a little over eight thousand years.
• Zhou Tong outlined the approximate lifespans of Quasi-Emperors, Great Sages, Saint Kings, Saints, Kings, and Great Powers, and identified the first six Immortal Platform layers.
• Tu Fei asked whether Quasi-Emperor was the seventh Immortal Platform layer, but Zhou Tong said he did not know because the cultivation method was unclear to him.
• Ye Fan expressed his eagerness to see the cultivation world’s summit, then sighed that he still wanted to return to Earth and see his parents.

Zhou Tong discussed the value of immortal gold and considered trading the True Dragon Divine Medicine to Gai Jiuyou for a heavy-weapon-sized piece. At Jade Pool, a Battle Saint Ape fled toward the Peach Ancestral Root, whose fruit could still extend a cultivator’s life by five hundred years.

• Pang Bo asked Zhou Tong whether he had given Xia Jiuyou the True Dragon Divine Medicine, and Zhou Tong said he would trade it only for valuable immortal gold.
• Zhou Tong reasoned that a large piece of immortal gold was rarer and more valuable to him than divine medicine.
• A tempest erupted at Jade Pool as an expert chased a golden streak, and Zhou Tong identified it as the Battle Saint Ape found in Holy City.
• Tu Fei, Wu Zhongtian, and the others discussed the ape’s arrival and learned it was heading for Jade Pool’s Peach Ancestral Root.
• Wu Zhongtian explained that Jade Pool’s Peach Tree grew from a Peach Divine Medicine seed, and Zhou Tong said its peaches could extend cultivators’ lives by five hundred years.

At Jade Pool, the Battle Saint Ape asked Zhou Tong for his Kirin Seed to save the gravely injured Divine Silkworm Princess, but Zhou Tong explained that it was not mature enough and offered another divine medicine instead. He left the others with the Holy Imperial Son and began negotiating privately, setting a condition for his help.

• Little Nannan spotted a golden young man, and Zhou Tong recognized him as a Battle Saint Ape.
• The Battle Saint Ape recognized Zhou Tong and asked for the Kirin Seed to save someone.
• Zhou Tong refused to give up the immature Kirin Seed and explained that the Divine Silkworm Princess needed a divine medicine to survive.
• Zhou Tong took the Holy Imperial Son to a private corner and used a Mysterious Jade Platform to prevent eavesdropping.
• Zhou Tong offered to provide divine medicine on the condition that the Holy Imperial Son agreed to something.

Zhou Tong negotiated with Holy Imperial Son, offering a True Dragon Divine Medicine fruit in exchange for the Divine Emperor's scripture. Holy Imperial Son accepted, and Zhou Tong received the scripture as the Divine Silkworm Princess’s rescue was secured.

• Zhou Tong asked Holy Imperial Son to lend him an Ancient Emperor Weapon, but Holy Imperial Son refused because he did not control one.
• Zhou Tong proposed that Holy Imperial Son let him study the Divine Emperor's scripture in exchange for the Immortal Divine Medicine.
• Holy Imperial Son agreed to the exchange but asked for the Kirin Seed, and Zhou Tong instead offered a complete True Dragon Divine Medicine fruit.
• Holy Imperial Son recognized that the fruit could save the Divine Silkworm Princess and potentially help her advance from Saint King to Great Sage.
• Holy Imperial Son accepted the fruit, and Zhou Tong handed it over before Holy Imperial Son recited the Divine Emperor's scripture.

Zhou Tong studied the Divine Emperor Scripture and learned how the Divine Silkworm Clan’s transformations worked. His comprehension drew him into a profound experience as a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, and he emerged with a deeper grasp of the Grass Character Sword Art.

• The Holy Imperial Son recited the Divine Emperor Scripture, and Zhou Tong learned the Divine Emperor’s nine transformations and the tenth transformation that fused them.
• After the Holy Imperial Son left, Zhou Tong continued comprehending the scripture while the Vajra Ring concealed him with an illusion.
• The Bodhi Tree and Nine-Leaf Sword Grass within Zhou Tong’s Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings reacted as his source energy transformed, and the Reincarnation Mirror sent light into his body and primordial spirit.
• Zhou Tong became a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass in a tranquil experience spanning what felt like a hundred years, comprehending the Grass Character Sword Art through nature and the changing seasons.
• Zhou Tong returned to his human form, and the Grass Character Sword Art’s sword intent erupted from him as a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass appeared in the air.

After the Reincarnation Mirror gave Zhou Tong the Light of Reincarnation, he gained a century of cultivation insights and discovered he had formed a Reincarnation Seal. He used a Latent Life from his Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm to create a true Nine-Leaf Sword Grass life inside his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, giving him a way to be reborn if his true body died.

• Zhou Tong realized the Light of Reincarnation had simulated a lifetime as a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, leaving him with greatly improved divine sense and Grass Character Sword Art comprehension.
• Zhou Tong discovered a Reincarnation Seal on his body and wondered whether reincarnation and his apparent past lives were real, before setting those questions aside.
• Zhou Tong recognized the living Nine-Leaf Sword Grass as a Latent Life produced by his first transformation of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm.
• Zhou Tong sent the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass into his Nine-Leaf Sword Grass spirit body, which vanished and left a grass seed in his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• Zhou Tong realized that nurturing the Latent Life as a Divine Embryo had turned it into a True Life that could revive him as a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass if his true body died.

Zhou Tong decided to nurture a new Immortal Phoenix spirit body and joined the others at Jade Pool, where he agreed to use the Source Heaven Divine Technique to nourish a stone king in exchange for access to Jade Pool’s highest-grade Weapon Forging Room. After infusing the stone with Holy Imperial Son’s discarded blood, Zhou Tong estimated that it would be born in about five thousand years.

• Zhou Tong created a new Immortal Phoenix spirit body within the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings and returned to the others.
• Zhou Tong accepted source from Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the others, while Holy Imperial Son explained his agreement with Jade Pool to nourish a stone king with his discarded blood.
• Zhou Tong insisted that Jade Pool negotiate with him directly for help and requested access to its highest-grade Weapon Forging Room as payment.
• Jade Pool’s elders brought Zhou Tong and the others to the Immortal Pool and showed him a stone king with nine apertures and eight holes that they hoped would develop life.
• Holy Imperial Son cut his wrist, and Zhou Tong used the Source Heaven Divine Technique to guide the Battle Saint Ape’s blood into the stone king.

Zhou Tong used Jade Pool’s True Sun Fire to erase the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword’s imprinted Dao and principles, then activated its immortal-gold mystery with the True Dragon Method. The sword seemed to come alive, leaving Zhou Tong wondering whether the Vajra Ring’s Deity had concealed the same effect in his earlier experiment.

• Zhou Tong entered Jade Pool’s highest-grade Weapon Forging Room and learned that it contained True Sun Fire nurtured by Jade Pool’s ancestors.
• Zhou Tong took out the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sacred Spirit Sword and used the True Sun Fire and yin-yang powers to erase its imprinted Dao and principles, reducing it to a sword embryo.
• Zhou Tong decided to test the fusion of the True Dragon Method and the Grass Character Sword Art on the sword embryo.
• Zhou Tong activated the sword’s primordial mystery, causing its dragon patterns to become True Dragons and reveal Dragon Pattern Black Gold’s Myriad Laws Immunity.
• Zhou Tong sensed that the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword had come alive and wondered whether the Vajra Ring’s Deity had masked a similar effect before.

Zhou Tong discovered that awakened immortal gold profundities gave weapons a living essence that let them grow, and he reconsidered the potential of his Hegemonic Bell. He then experimented with his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword and found a way to fuse it with Nine-Leaf Sword Grass laws, leaving the sword with a newly sharpened edge.

• Zhou Tong sensed life in the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword and Vajra Ring, realizing awakened immortal gold could grow in essence over time.
• Zhou Tong concluded that living materials explained the vitality of weapons such as the Undying Heavenly Blade and Wu Shi Bell, and wondered whether Divine Mark Purple Gold could gain life.
• Zhou Tong weighed changing or supplementing the Hegemonic Bell’s material but decided to study Divine Mark Purple Gold’s profundities gradually.
• Zhou Tong failed to imprint Nine-Leaf Sword Grass laws directly onto the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword, so he merged it into a grass seed and nurtured it in True Sun Fire.
• The sword broke free from the growing Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, and Zhou Tong saw that its dragon patterns had gained a razor-sharp edge beneath their Myriad Laws Immunity.

Zhou Tong fused the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and True Dragon Divine Forms, strengthened his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword, and reached Great Perfection of Immortal Platform Layer One, awakening the Immortal Phoenix Divine Form. Back at Jade Pool, he learned the ancient races had taken the Son of God and spotted Liu Yunzhi, Li Changqing, and their companions among the gathered cultivators.

• Zhou Tong fused the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and True Dragon Divine Forms, turning his dragon features into sword embryos and further refining his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword.
• Zhou Tong drew down moonlight to cultivate the Taiyin True Scripture, endured a lightning tribulation, and reached Great Perfection of Immortal Platform Layer One.
• Zhou Tong discovered that his fourth Divine Form had taken shape as the Immortal Phoenix and used it to return swiftly to Jade Pool.
• Zhou Tong heard Holy Sons and Saintesses discuss the ancient races' arrival and the Son of God being taken away from Jade Pool.
• Zhou Tong recognized Liu Yunzhi, Li Changqing, and their companions among the Yaoguang Holy Land cultivators, and Li Changqing noticed him with a meaningful smile.

Zhou Tong attacked Li Changqing and Liu Yunzhi, then fought off a Yaoguang Holy Land expert with his Kirin Fist and Dao Scripture Emperor Scripts. Jade Pool activated the Empress West Pagoda’s Supreme Dao Divine Might, forcing Zhou Tong to endure its crushing pressure before it vanished.

• Zhou Tong struck Li Changqing and Liu Yunzhi with a purple palm, badly injuring them before the gathered Holy Sons and Saintesses could intervene.
• A Yaoguang Holy Land expert attacked Zhou Tong, but Zhou Tong shattered his holy-light palm with the Kirin Fist and began suppressing him with nine Emperor Scripts.
• Jade Pool activated the Empress West Pagoda, and its Supreme Dao Divine Might crushed Zhou Tong’s Emperor Scripts and pinned everyone to the ground.
• Zhou Tong resisted the Pagoda’s intensified pressure with the Hegemonic Bell’s protection, suffering severe strain as purple blood seeped from his body.
• The Jade Pool people arrived and the Supreme Dao Divine Might vanished, leaving Zhou Tong to reflect on the Pagoda’s immense power.

Zhou Tong fought Yaoguang disciples at Jade Pool, and Queen Mother of the West settled the dispute before the crowd dispersed. The Mysterious Scholar Mansion invited Zhou Tong and Ye Fan to join the reopening Mysterious Scholar Academy, but both declined.

• Zhou Tong endured Yaoguang's great cultivator's Supreme Dao Divine Might, healed his injuries, and explained to Queen Mother of the West that he had attacked Liu Yunzhi and Li Changqing over a private grudge.
• Queen Mother of the West healed Liu Yunzhi and Li Changqing with Pure Yang Spirit Pills, and they broke through to the Dragon Transformation Realm, ending Yaoguang's complaint.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that he had marked Liu Yunzhi and Li Changqing and planned to deal with them after they left Jade Pool.
• The Mysterious Scholar Mansion's elders invited Zhou Tong and Ye Fan to cultivate in the Mysterious Scholar Academy, which reopened once every ten thousand years.
• Zhou Tong and Ye Fan both declined the invitation, saying they would follow their own paths.