Chapter Summaries

Zhou Tong examined Jade Pool’s cultivators with the Reincarnation Mirror and uncovered the memories of two notable past lives. One revealed a cache of Phoenix Blood Red Gold in Ziwei, while the other’s travels helped Zhou Tong piece together which Life Star Domains produced different kinds of immortal gold.

• Zhou Tong challenged Ye Fan’s claims about forging his own cultivation path, saying Ye Fan’s words lacked weight until he had walked that path himself.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror on nearly three hundred cultivators at Jade Pool and found memories of a Great Sage from the Sun God Cult and a well-traveled independent Great Sage.
• Zhou Tong learned that the Sun God Cult Great Sage had mastered the True Sun Scripture, which could aid Zhou Tong’s plan to cultivate yin and yang together.
• Zhou Tong discovered that the independent Great Sage had found a Phoenix Blood Red Gold vein in Ziwei and left it to mature behind formations, prompting Zhou Tong to plan a trip there.
• Zhou Tong used the Great Sage’s accounts to identify several Life Star Domains that produced specific kinds of immortal gold and speculated about the sources on Huosang, Yongheng, and Hegemon Body Ancestral Star.

At the Jade Pool Gathering, Nangong Zheng revealed that he had entered the Bronze Immortal Palace and confronted Ye Fan about the Myriad Mother Qi Source Root. Zhou Tong challenged Nangong Zheng’s claims about karma, leaving the gathered powers arguing that the Ancient Great Emperors were long dead.

• Ye Fan, Zhou Tong, and Pang Bo attended the Jade Pool Gathering and noticed that the powerful guests viewed them with hostility.
• Nangong Zheng arrived, recognized Ye Fan, and recounted how he had discovered and escaped from the Bronze Immortal Palace.
• Nangong Zheng asked Ye Fan whether he had obtained the Myriad Mother Qi Source Root there, and Ye Fan confirmed it before the crowd.
• Nangong Zheng warned Ye Fan that he had formed a great karmic bond with Ruthless Great Emperor, but Zhou Tong told Ye Fan not to believe him.
• Zhou Tong questioned what karma meant, and Queen Mother of the West and the Jiang Family Patriarch insisted that the Ancient Great Emperors had died long ago.

At Jade Pool, Zhou Tong and Ye Fan faced accusations that they had taken the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inheritance, and Zhou Tong exposed Yaoguang Holy Land and the Jiang Family as harboring her inheritors. Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan began escaping after Zhou Tong killed a Mighty Lord, while a black sword qi shattered a pursuing attacker’s tripod.

• Nangong Zheng questioned Zhou Tong about entering the Bronze Immortal Palace, and others demanded that Zhou Tong and Ye Fan reveal what treasures they had obtained.
• Yaoguang Holy Land’s people accused Zhou Tong and Ye Fan of possessing the Ruthless Great Emperor’s inheritance, but Zhou Tong said Yaoguang’s Saint Son and Hua Yunfei were the true inheritors and challenged the Saint Son to fight.
• Zhou Tong accused the Jiang Family of inheriting the Indestructible Heavenly Merit and plotting against its Divine King lineage, while the Jiang Family Patriarch denied the allegations.
• Zhou Tong tried to leave Jade Pool with Ye Fan, then killed a Mighty Lord who attacked him with a single strike.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan to bring Little Nannan, and Ye Fan alerted Pang Bo, who carried her as they followed.
• A pursuer summoned a great tripod against the group, but a black sword qi shattered it and cleaved through the void.

Zhou Tong provoked the major holy lands into pursuing him from Jade Pool, then used an Ancient Great Emperor’s Array Patterns to escape through a Gate with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan. A Ji Family Great Expert reopened the Gate with an imitation Void Mirror, and the Great Experts followed in pursuit.

• Zhou Tong destroyed a Zifu Holy Land Great Expert’s Dao-Proving Artifact and left Jade Pool with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan.
• Zhou Tong revealed his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword, and Queen Mother of the West refused to let Jade Pool intervene in the pursuit.
• The Great Experts and Holy Lords followed Zhou Tong out of Jade Pool, seeking to kill him and seize his treasures.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan that he had provoked the holy lands deliberately and hinted that Ye Fan could obtain the scriptures and secret arts he lacked.
• Outside Jade Pool, Zhou Tong used a Mysterious Jade Platform and Ancient Great Emperor Array Patterns to take his group through a Gate.
• A Ji Family Great Expert used an imitation Void Mirror to reopen the Gate, and the Great Experts entered after them.

Zhou Tong lured 213 Great Powers into a barren wasteland and revealed he had trapped them with an array. He unleashed a fully revived Heirloom Sacred Weapon, freezing his enemies beneath overwhelming Saintly might.

• The Great Powers followed Zhou Tong and Ye Fan through a Domain Gate into a desolate crimson wasteland, where Zhou Tong challenged them to fight him directly.
• A Great Power attacked Ye Fan from the void, but Zhou Tong shattered the hand and split another pursuer in two with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword.
• The Great Powers surrounded Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo, and Zhou Tong badly wounded another attacker with a single sword strike.
• As the Great Powers launched a combined assault, Zhou Tong summoned an ancient Saint's weapon, causing several Holy Lords to flee.
• Zhou Tong's hidden array sealed the wasteland, and he unleashed the Crimson Blood Divine Phoenix's overwhelming Saintly might, freezing every Great Power in place.

Zhou Tong took Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan to a subterranean palace beneath Myriad Dragon Nest to hide from the sacred lands after capturing their Holy Lords. There, he divided the spoils and prepared to search and strip the prisoners, while recognizing Little Nannan as his strategic protection.

• Holy Sons and Saintesses waited anxiously for their elders to return, while Queen Mother of the West ended the Jade Pool Gathering after the captured Holy Lords failed to come back.
• Zhou Tong used the Mysterious Jade Platform to take Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan to a subterranean palace beneath Myriad Dragon Nest.
• Zhou Tong explained that the group could hide there from the sacred lands and proposed dividing the captives' spoils, with seventy percent going to him and ten percent each to Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan.
• Little Nannan asked whether she would receive a share, and Zhou Tong assured her she would.
• Zhou Tong brought several hundred unconscious, sealed Holy Lords into the palace and prepared to search their souls and take their treasures.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo searched the unconscious Holy Lords and divided the enormous haul of treasures. After claiming his share of the wealth and materials, Zhou Tong hinted that he had a grand plan for the damaged Saint Weapons.

• Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo searched the Holy Lords, finding Source, weapons, Immortal Materials, pills, and other treasures.
• Pang Bo discovered Dragon Pattern Black Gold, while Zhou Tong found Profound Yellow Qi carried by Nangong Zheng and a fragment of Feathered Green Gold.
• The three finished searching the Holy Lords and counted eighty million jin of Source among the spoils.
• Zhou Tong took seventy percent of the Source and all the Immortal Materials, while Pang Bo and Ye Fan took their agreed shares and divided the other goods.
• Zhou Tong gave Ye Fan and Pang Bo the damaged Saint Weapons in exchange for their allocated forging materials, then said he had a grand plan.

Zhou Tong used the Vajra Ring to extract the scriptures and secret arts from the captured Saint Lord Great Powers, then urged Ye Fan and Pang Bo to stop fearing the holy lands and fight back. He planned to trade the captives for their stolen inheritances and seek enough immortal material to complete his Dragon Pattern Black Gold Sword.

• Zhou Tong searched the captives’ souls and spent a month organizing the ancient scriptures and secret arts he had extracted.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo examined the vast collection of inheritances, while Ye Fan discovered that Yaoguang Holy Land possessed Ruthless Great Emperor’s complete inheritance.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Pang Bo to face the cultivation world without fear, and both men set aside their worries and resolved to fight back.
• Zhou Tong proposed trading captured holy lords to holy lands in exchange for the scriptures extracted from them.
• Zhou Tong said he needed more Dragon Pattern Black Gold to enlarge and strengthen his sword, ideally enough to make it weigh a million jin.

Zhou Tong recruited Ye Fan and Pang Bo to join his plan to gather immortal gold, then rushed his cultivation breakthrough by using the Taiyin True Scripture. He survived a tribulation against nine Great Emperors and became a Holy Lord, leaving to head for the Sun Star.

• Zhou Tong offered Ye Fan and Pang Bo one-tenth of the immortal material from his planned venture, and both agreed to join him.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Pang Bo to wait while he made a breakthrough, then left for the Sun Star.
• Zhou Tong chose to advance with the Taiyin True Scripture rather than wait to cultivate the True Sun Scripture to the same level.
• Zhou Tong faced a tribulation against nine manifested Great Emperors and survived by reaching the Divine Forbidden Realm.
• Zhou Tong entered the Second Layer of Immortal Platform and became a Holy Lord, then set out for the Sun Star.

More than thirty powerful figures gathered at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and paid its Pavilion Master to divine Zhou Tong’s whereabouts. The divination triggered Heavenly Punishment that killed the Pavilion Master, leaving the group unable to learn where Zhou Tong had gone as he traveled to the sun to study the Kunpeng Method.

• More than thirty peerless experts waited at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion and offered ten portions of Divine Source for a divination.
• The Pavilion Master agreed to sacrifice a hundred years of his lifespan to seek Zhou Tong’s location.
• Zhou Tong used a domain gate to reach the sun and sat down to comprehend the Kunpeng Method while circulating the Divine Emperor Scripture and activating the Reincarnation Mirror.
• The Pavilion Master glimpsed a vast sea of fire, then suffered Heavenly Punishment that destroyed his eyes and limbs as he tried to record what he had seen.
• The Pavilion Master’s Immortal Platform collapsed, and Heavenly Tribulation struck him until he vanished completely.
• The assembled experts realized the divination had failed and wondered how to discover Zhou Tong’s whereabouts.

Zhou Tong underwent a three-hundred-year reincarnation as a Kunpeng, mastering its transformations and completing his Kunpeng Divine Form. He emerged with his second Latent Life formed, a stronger cultivation realm, and the possibility of cultivating another Divine Form ahead of schedule.

• Zhou Tong broke out of a golden eggshell as a newborn Great Roc, then transformed into a Kun Fish when he plunged into the Endless Ocean.
• Zhou Tong spent three hundred years living as a Kunpeng, fighting Ancient Beasts and demonic birds while alternating between Roc and Kun forms.
• Zhou Tong returned to his true form as Kunpeng runes assembled around him and merged with the Kunpeng spirit body inside his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings.
• The Kunpeng spirit body vanished and a black-patterned golden egg appeared, marking Zhou Tong's second Latent Life and the completion of the Divine Emperor Scripture's second transformation.
• Zhou Tong realized that his cultivation had advanced by five minor stages and his Kunpeng Divine Form had reached completion ahead of schedule.

Zhou Tong overcame the clash between Taiyin and Sun Sacred Power by cultivating the True Sun Scripture in his peng form, then used the Kunpeng Method to balance the forces and test his new speed. He began condensing a Sun Divine Talisman as the chapter ended with the author addressing readers’ criticism of the story’s relationships and character settings.

• Zhou Tong began cultivating the True Sun Scripture, but Taiyin and Sun Sacred Power clashed and injured him.
• Zhou Tong transformed into a peng and absorbed Sun Sacred Power, rapidly advancing to the sixth level of the Second Layer of Immortal Platform before undergoing a lightning tribulation.
• When Zhou Tong returned to human form, he used the Kunpeng Method to merge the Kun Fish and peng Dharma Forms and suppress the renewed clash of yin and yang.
• Zhou Tong fused the Kunpeng Divine Form into his wings, released wisps of Chaos Qi, and tested his unmatched Kunpeng speed.
• Zhou Tong gathered Sun Sacred Power and inscribed nine Emperor Scripts onto a Sun Divine Talisman.
• The author defended the story’s portrayal of Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the black dog, and said the book’s outline and character settings would not be changed wholesale in response to criticism.

Zhou Tong cultivated the Sun Divine Talisman and refined the Vajra Ring by merging the True Dragon and Immortal Phoenix methods, discovering clues about the Pollen System and the spirit within immortal gold. After the Reincarnation Mirror showed him tragic memories in awakened Phoenix Blood Red Gold, he cut the vision short, unsettled by how deeply its emotions affected him.

• The Sun Divine Talisman entered Zhou Tong's Immortal Platform, where its Sun Sacred Power revolved with the Taiyin Divine Talisman and nourished his primordial spirit and Hegemonic Bell.
• Zhou Tong used the True Dragon and Immortal Phoenix methods to awaken and merge patterns within the Vajra Ring, greatly strengthening it and gaining insights into their fusion.
• Zhou Tong connected the Vajra Ring's self-evolution to the Pollen System, wondering whether immortal gold contained spirit particles from ancient powerful beings.
• Zhou Tong used the Reincarnation Mirror on the awakened Phoenix Blood Red Gold and saw fragmented images of a grieving Immortal Phoenix.
• Zhou Tong cut off the vision after it stirred him to speak of helping all living beings, then concluded that only immortal gold with awakened mysteries could reveal images and resolved to use the mirror less often.

Zhou Tong refined teleportation altars for a coming auction while the Big Dipper cultivation world remained fearful after the Jade Pool incident. He announced the auction to members of the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family and left them with a Mysterious Jade Platform and a list of auction items, including several Holy Lords.

• Zhou Tong fused Feathered Green Gold into his Vajra Ring and devised a system of primary and secondary teleportation altars to avoid meeting the holy lands in person.
• After half a month of studying Array Patterns, Zhou Tong refined dozens of altars and added protective measures to them.
• The Big Dipper cultivation world remained in fear because Heavenly Masters could not locate Zhou Tong or the missing Great Powers, and several Heavenly Masters suffered for their divinations.
• In a tavern, young men from the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family attacked wandering cultivators who praised Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong entered the tavern, struck down one Jiang Family youth, and told the others to announce his auction three days later using a Mysterious Jade Platform.
• Zhou Tong gave the leading young man an auction list that included the Jiang Family Patriarch, the Ji Family Holy Lord, and the Yaoguang Holy Lord.

Zhou Tong was ambushed by two Dao-Slaying kings from the Assassin Divine Dynasty after they traced his movements. He killed them with the Vajra Ring and realized he needed to finish his dealings quickly before other factions found him.

• Zhou Tong sensed a lethal threat just as he prepared to return after sending a message to the Jiang Family.
• The first assassin king attacked, and Zhou Tong restrained his demonic sword before driving him back with Kirin Fist.
• A second assassin king stabbed Zhou Tong, but his Azure Heaven Hegemonic Body shattered the sword and let him survive.
• Zhou Tong used Chaos Bell Wave to fend off the second assassin as the first resumed his attack.
• Zhou Tong unleashed the Vajra Ring's Saint might and killed both assassin kings with its fused True Dragon and Immortal Phoenix power.
• Zhou Tong healed his wound with Phoenix Divine Fire and decided to finish his transaction before finding a place to recover and digest his gains.

Zhou Tong agreed to fight Ji Zi, the Void Great Emperor’s son, in exchange for the release of the Ji Family captives and a wager for the family’s relics and Immortal Material. After Zhou Tong returned to Myriad Dragon Nest to prepare, a violent heat and supreme Dao power suddenly broke through the defenses.

• Zhou Tong met Ji Zi, defended his criticism of the modern Ji Family, and learned that Ji Zi had come to challenge him in the Void lineage’s name.
• Zhou Tong agreed to release the Ji Family captives and swear not to reveal the Void Scripture’s mysteries; he wagered for the Void Great Emperor’s Imperial Weapon fragments and the Ji Family’s accumulated Immortal Material.
• Zhou Tong and Ji Zi arranged a same-realm battle for the next morning at Green Flame Ridge, and Ji Zi assured the Ji Family that he would honor the wager without tricks.
• Zhou Tong told Ye Fan and Pang Bo that the auction would proceed in three days and explained that he trusted Ji Zi but would prepare for possible interference from the Ji Family.
• As Zhou Tong prepared to enter seclusion, the ground shook and scorching heat carrying supreme Dao divine might broke through the underground palace’s defenses.

Zhou Tong used the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Flowing Light Immortal Art to save himself, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan from the Hengyu Furnace’s attack. As the Jiang Family approached, Little Nannan revealed a mysterious technique that carried them through the guarded Gate into the space beyond.

• Zhou Tong combined Flowing Light Immortal Art with True Dragon Escape to evade the Hengyu Furnace’s Supreme Dao Divine Might and retreat deeper into the Myriad Dragon Nest with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan.
• While healing, Zhou Tong suspected that Little Nannan’s presence had influenced him to use the Ruthless Great Emperor’s technique, and he wondered whether her Dao Fruit had helped avert the crisis.
• As the Jiang Family began forcing its way into the nest, Zhou Tong led the group into a dragon cave, explaining that the caves led to the same destination.
• At the Gate, Zhou Tong urged Little Nannan to imagine herself as a deity, and she became enveloped in immortal light that opened a passage.
• Little Nannan swept Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo through the Gate without touching it, while Zhou Tong recognized the technique as belonging to the Ruthless Great Emperor’s fourth life.

Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan reached the deepest region of Myriad Dragon Nest, where Ye Fan obtained a map and token to Kunlun Mountain. Zhou Tong seized a sealed human Sage as the Jiang Family broke into the nest, and the group escaped with Little Nannan as another Sage awakened.

• Little Nannan brought Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo directly to Myriad Dragon Nest’s deepest region, where Zhou Tong recognized Ruthless Great Emperor’s coffin and wondered whether she had arranged for Ye Fan to arrive.
• Ye Fan’s Myriad Mother Qi Cauldron connected with the coffin and revealed an ancient scroll, which Zhou Tong identified as a map and token to Kunlun Mountain’s core region on Earth.
• Zhou Tong explained Earth’s hidden scale and Kunlun Mountain’s importance, then searched Myriad Dragon Nest with Source Technique for treasures.
• Zhou Tong found a human Sage sealed in Divine Source and stored him in his Vajra Ring as protection against the Ji Family.
• The Jiang Family entered Myriad Dragon Nest with the Hengyu Furnace, and Little Nannan carried Zhou Tong, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo away as a sealed Sage awakened and challenged the humans.

After escaping Myriad Dragon Nest, Zhou Tong led the group to the outskirts of Undying Mountain, where Ye Fan and Pang Bo could lie low. Before his decisive battle the next day, Zhou Tong forged his own Heaven Slaying Dao by combining the Grass Character Sword Art, True Dragon Method, and Immortal Phoenix Method, slightly surpassing the Eight Restrictions’ limits.

• The Hengyu Furnace confronted the Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor’s divine bells as Zhou Tong opened a Domain Gate and took the group away.
• Zhou Tong brought Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Little Nannan to the outskirts of Undying Mountain and explained that the Forbidden Zones offered refuge from their pursuers.
• Zhou Tong chose to create his own Heaven Slaying Dao, using the Ruthless Great Emperor’s technique as a framework while focusing on the Grass Character Sword Art and the profound meaning of Dragon and Phoenix Bring Auspiciousness.
• Zhou Tong fused the Grass Character Sword Art with the True Dragon Method and Immortal Phoenix Method as Ye Fan and Pang Bo sensed his growing power.
• Before sunrise, Zhou Tong manifested the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, True Dragon, and Immortal Phoenix Divine Forms together, producing a slight increase in his combat power despite the Eight Restrictions.

Zhou Tong met Ji Zi at Green Flame Ridge, freed the captured Ji Family members, and received the family’s remaining Immortal Materials before their promised duel began. After an initial exchange, both fighters escalated their attacks, and the battle continued with neither yielding.

• Ji Zi welcomed Zhou Tong at Green Flame Ridge, and Zhou Tong released the four captured Ji Family members.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord recognized Ji Zi as the clan’s Imperial Son, and Ji Zi handed Zhou Tong the Immortal Materials they had agreed upon.
• Zhou Tong accepted that the Ji Family had no more Immortal Materials and began fighting Ji Zi with the Kirin Method.
• Zhou Tong and Ji Zi exchanged powerful attacks that stunned the watching Ji Family members, then paused after a final collision.
• Zhou Tong declared that their earlier exchange had only been probing, and Ji Zi answered by summoning a Void Divine Stele as Zhou Tong attacked with his Dragon Fist.