Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng visited the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan and revealed the coming war between two realms, urging them to prepare a retreat for their clan. After staying in Star City and refining several kinds of spirit pills, he agreed to accompany Zhao Daojing to a high-end trading fair, where they arrived at Carefree Pavilion.

• Zhao Sheng entered the Zhao Clan's residence and made Zhao Daojing realize he was a Golden Core Ancestor after releasing his pressure.
• Zhao Sheng questioned Zhao Daojing about the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan, then told her that a war between two realms would soon erupt at Heaven Burial Plain and that the clan needed to prepare a path of retreat.
• Zhao Daojing arranged for Zhao Sheng to stay at Sky Turtle Pavilion, where he spent half a month touring Star City and purchasing treasures and spirit medicines.
• Zhao Sheng refined Foundation Establishment Pills, Soul Nurturing Pills, and Life Creation Pills at the same time, then gave Zhao Daojing a bottle of Soul Nurturing Pills.
• Zhao Daojing asked Zhao Sheng to lend his presence at Star City's high-end trading fair, and he agreed to attend the event at Carefree Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Daojing arrived at Carefree Pavilion, where its manager, Zhuang Ye, greeted them and silently studied Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng and Zhao Daojing attended Carefree Pavilion’s trade fair, where Zhao Sheng’s high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill and forceful display of Divine Sense established his standing among the gathered factions. After the fair began, he noticed an offer of third-rank Jade Fish Marrow Fluid and contacted the Immortal Sound Sect representative.

• Zhao Sheng gave a Carefree Pavilion disciple a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, and the disciple respectfully sent him and Zhao Daojing to the sixth floor.
• Zhao Daojing greeted acquaintances and creditors in the hall, while Zhao Sheng took a first-tier seat and repelled seven cultivators’ probing Divine Sense.
• Jin Yunzi opened the trade fair, and Jiang Xing offered ores, herbs, spirit tools, and a Top-Grade Spirit Tool Water Spirit Pearl in exchange for a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Qiao Tian'er presented Jade Fish Marrow Fluid, including a bottle of third-rank fluid, seeking pills that treated divine-soul injuries.
• Zhao Sheng sent a Divine Sense transmission to the Immortal Sound Sect, and a female Daoist in plain robes acknowledged him with a nod.

At the trade fair, Zhao Sheng exchanged Foundation Establishment Pills for rare treasures and secured agreements with Golden Core cultivators by offering his alchemy services. When Jin Yunzi distributed the Star God Palace’s ranking boards, Zhao Sheng read their top entries and was visibly shaken.

• Zhao Daojing presented the Zhao Family’s armor, talismans, and pills, then offered five Foundation Establishment Pills in exchange for treasures and materials.
• Zhao Sheng used his Divine Sense to negotiate with traders, declined Jin Yunzi’s invitation to join the Star God Palace, and haggled with Li Wen over a three-thousand-year Sandalwood Yang Grass.
• Zhao Sheng hinted that he could refine Core Formation Pills, prompting Li Wen and other Golden Core cultivators to agree to trade rare treasures and seek his alchemy services.
• Zhao Daojing traded all five Foundation Establishment Pills: four Mid-Grade pills for Nirvana Crystal and Sandalwood Yang Grass, and the High-Grade pill for an Earth Spirit Flame.
• Jin Yunzi distributed the Bounty, Wanted, and Spirit Treasure Boards, and Zhao Sheng read their leading entries, including the Blood God Child, a method to awaken the Star God, and the God Descent Platform.

Zhao Sheng exchanged with Jin Yunzi at the Carefree Pavilion and offered the Star God Palace access to his Five Elements Spirit Forging Pill formula under several conditions. After returning to the Sky Turtle Pavilion, Zhao Sheng examined his gains and awakened the flesh-like lump into an infant.

• Zhao Sheng suspected the Star God Palace was stirring conflict to preserve its weakened authority while the Star God remained silent.
• Zhao Daojing welcomed trade partners as Zhao Sheng met Jin Yunzi, who asked to exchange for spiritual pills and privately questioned him.
• Jin Yunzi recognized Zhao Sheng’s pills, and Zhao Sheng revealed that he had created the Five Elements Spirit Forging Pill, which aided core condensation.
• Zhao Sheng refused to sell the pill formula outright but agreed to provide it to the Star God Palace under conditions, then left the negotiations to Zhao Daojing.
• Jin Yunzi told Zhuang Ye that Zhao Sheng claimed ties to the Xinglong Zhao Clan and said the Star God Palace would verify his origins.
• Back at the Sky Turtle Pavilion, Zhao Sheng used his Divine Sense on a lump of flesh, which transformed into a lifelike infant.

Zhao Sheng examined his Star God Palace spoils, including a shape-shifting Mycelium Field and rare spiritual ingredients, while the Star God Palace’s former masters discussed the Blood God Child’s escape and the coming invasion of the Nether Ghost Realm. The chapter ended with Ying Zhao offering ten wisps of fire-element Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence for one wisp of the Flame Emperor’s Undying True Flame.

• Zhao Sheng tested the Mycelium Field’s transformations, fed it four Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and inspected the rare herbs and treasures he had obtained.
• Jiao Ri and Ying Zhao discussed the Blood God Child’s escape, Star God’s demonic corruption, and the danger of the impending Nether Ghost Realm invasion.
• Sword God Lin Yizhi arrived to meet Jiao Ri and Ying Zhao, and the Flame Emperor Zu Yanwu soon joined them.
• Jiao Ri asked Zu Yanwu and Lin Yizhi to help capture the Blood God Child, but Zu Yanwu refused to risk his strength before Nine Stars Align.
• Jiao Ri asked Zu Yanwu to lend a wisp of Undying True Flame, and Ying Zhao offered ten wisps of fire-element Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence in exchange.

The Flame Emperor rejected an alliance against the coming realm war and left after clashing with Lin Yizhi, while Jiao Ri and Ying Zhao planned to seek the reclusive Soul-Seizing Old Ancestor. On Star God Island, Zhao Sheng’s pill trading drew the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan leadership to him, where Zhao Luochi asked to reunite their branch with the main clan.

• The Flame Emperor accepted payment for a wisp of Undying True Flame, then declined Jiao Ri and Ying Zhao’s proposal to join forces against the approaching war between realms.
• Lin Yizhi and the Flame Emperor fought with their Sword and Flame Domains until Jiao Ri and Ying Zhao intervened, and the Flame Emperor departed after declaring he might defect to the Nether Ghost Realm.
• Lin Yizhi urged Jiao Ri and Ying Zhao to search for the Soul-Seizing Old Ancestor, while Ying Zhao entrusted him with affairs in the Central Continent as she focused on Blood God Child and Wang Fusheng.
• Zhao Sheng’s pill exchanges brought hundreds of spirit pills and more than two hundred jun of Nirvana Crystals, and seven days later the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan’s leaders arrived at Sky Turtle Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng asked whether the clan had a presence on Floating Mountain Island, and Zhao Luochi knelt to ask that the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan return to the main branch.

Zhao Sheng quelled the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan’s factional dispute and set its elders to work on a plan to develop Floating Mountain Island. After obtaining Nirvana Crystals, he went to Sky Turtle Island and began preparing an auxiliary formation for refining his Grand Sun Mirror, leaving the formation partially assembled.

• Zhao Sheng stopped Zhao Daoming and Zhao Luochi from continuing their dispute, reminded the clan of its ancestral admonitions, and postponed their return to the main branch until he could consult the Ancestors.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Daoming and Zhao Luochi instructions to develop Floating Mountain Island, while Zhao Daojing remained at Sky Turtle Pavilion to manage trade and follow his orders.
• After the Nirvana Crystals arrived, Zhao Sheng traveled to Sky Turtle Island, where Zhao Daoming and Zhao Luochi reported on the Floating Mountain Island project.
• Zhao Sheng retrieved a silver-white shell from beneath the sea, then returned to Ao Shou Cliff and activated a defensive formation with Zhao Qingyan standing guard.
• Zhao Sheng began setting up an auxiliary weapon-refining formation on Ao Shou Cliff, drawing a large talisman formation and placing flags at its thirty-six nodes.

Zhao Sheng refined two Grand Sun Mirrors and a Void Snatching Basket, demonstrating the mirrors’ formidable firepower and strengthening the Zhao Clan’s standing across the Outer Star Sea. After learning that a Golden Core cultivator had been invited to challenge the Zhao Clan’s trading house on Floating Mountain Island, he prepared to leave and deal with the trouble.

• Zhao Sheng spent months refining Nirvana Crystals and used them to successfully make two Grand Sun Mirrors, while the spectacle drew attention to Sky Turtle Island and deterred nearby forces.
• Zhao Sheng tested the mirrors’ heat and light attacks, then recovered and nurtured them as Natal Treasures in his Dantian.
• Zhao Sheng received visitors from nearby forces, and his presence helped end their schemes against the Zhao Clan as the name Zhao True Person spread through the Outer Star Sea.
• Zhao Sheng spent half a month refining the first Treasure Seal of the Void Snatching Basket and stored the completed treasure in his Tan Zhong Acupoint.
• Zhao Sheng learned that the Zhao Clan’s trading house on Floating Mountain Island had provoked several forces, which had invited a Golden Core cultivator to make trouble, so he decided to go there.

Zhao Sheng confronted the Zhao Clan’s ties to the Blood Demon Sect before meeting Ji Juxi, who demanded that he withdraw from Lan Zhao Valley. They agreed to fight at Qingyun Peak, where Zhao Sheng discovered that Jiao Zuo had come to watch.

• Zhao Sheng arrived at the Zhao Estate, learned that Ji Juxi had injured Zhao Luochi and threatened to take Lan Zhao Valley, and received an invitation to Qingyun Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that Zhao Qingjie had advanced using the Blood Soul Sutra and exposed Zhao Luochi’s decades-long dealings with the Blood Demon Sect.
• Zhao Sheng followed the jade talisman to Qingyun Pavilion, where Ji Juxi demanded that he abandon Lan Zhao Valley and challenged him to a contest at Qingyun Peak.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the estate and found Zhao Luochi gone and Zhao Qingjie drunk; the next day he met Ji Juxi at Qingyun Peak with Jiao Zuo present.
• Jiao Zuo told Zhao Sheng he would only observe, while Ji Juxi prepared to test Zhao Sheng’s strength.

Zhao Sheng fought Ji Juxi in the sky above Qingyun Mountain, demonstrating his strength against Ji’s ice techniques and dragon-soul treasure. Jiao Zuo intervened before the duel could escalate further, and the two opponents agreed to make peace, leaving Lan Zhao Valley’s ownership to the stronger party.

• Ji Juxi attacked Zhao Sheng with icy needles and shields, but Zhao Sheng evaded the needles and smashed three shields with his fists.
• Ji Juxi trapped Zhao Sheng inside Ice Peak World and unleashed Icefall Burial, but Zhao Sheng’s Golden Crow True Fire broke through the ice and withstood Ji’s ice thunderballs.
• Ji Juxi summoned the ice wyrm from his Dragon Soul Pearl, and Zhao Sheng’s Sinking Star Sword severed one of its claws.
• Zhao Sheng’s hidden Golden Crow True Fire struck at Ji Juxi, but Jiao Zuo intervened with his Spirit Fire Gourd and urged the rivals to reconcile.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to let bygones be bygones, and Ji Juxi accepted the truce while claiming Lan Zhao Valley for the stronger party.

Zhao Sheng met with Blood Demon Sect Hall Master Zeng Kui and used Zhao Luochi’s death and Blood Spirit Pill to negotiate with the sect. Half a month later, Zhao Sheng and Zeng attacked a Seven Mysteries Sect assassin group on a remote island, where Zhao Sheng ambushed their Golden Core leader.

• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Luochi visited the hidden Blood Demon Sect outpost in You Huan Valley and met Hall Master Zeng Kui.
• Zhao Sheng raised the Blood Spirit Pill from Zhao Luochi’s body after Zhao Luochi killed himself, and Zeng agreed to hear his proposed transactions.
• Half a month later, Zhao Sheng and Zeng confronted Black Poison Sha Nu and three Foundation Establishment assassins on a remote island.
• Zhao Sheng vanished and struck Sha Nu from behind with a thunderball, then dodged away as the elder unleashed black qi.

Zhao Sheng secured Lan Zhao Valley for the Sky Turtle Zhao Clan, strengthened his cultivation, and prepared the clan to manage the territory before leaving Floating Mountain Island. After returning to Rising Dragon City, he reunited with Dong Miaozhen and met his grandson Zhao Xiuqi, who initially did not recognize him.

• Zhao Sheng and Zeng Kui defeated Sha Nu and the Seven Mysteries Sect cultivators, after which Zhao Sheng entered the island's secret territory and gave Zeng Kui the promised Mysterious Fruit.
• Over the next half year, Zhao Sheng advanced to the second level of the Golden Core Realm, while Zhao Qingyan established his Foundation and Zhao Qingming arrived with clan members from Xinglong Plain.
• Zhao Sheng decided to return to Xinglong Plain, entrusted the clan's affairs on Floating Mountain Island to its Foundation Establishment cultivators, and gave them treasures and instructions for seeking help if threatened.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Daojing left Floating Mountain Island, and Zhao Sheng later traveled from Star God Island back to Central Continent aboard the Vast Righteous Sect's Sea Suppression Cloud Boat.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Rising Dragon City and reunited with Dong Miaozhen, while Zhao Xiuqi initially failed to recognize his grandfather before greeting him and accepting a gift.

After returning to Central Continent, Zhao Sheng learned that war with the Nether Ghost Realm was drawing near and redirected the Xinglong Zhao Clan toward stability, stockpiling, and production. Five years later, the clan’s martial-training program was drawing in mortal clansmen as Zhao Sheng cultivated atop the Eight Trigrams Bright Light Tower.

• Zhao Sheng returned to Rising Dragon City, settled the clan’s affairs, and ordered the Xinglong Zhao Clan to reduce expansion, stockpile supplies, and begin whole-clan martial training.
• Zhao Sheng appeared at a Dan Ding Sect ancestor’s birthday celebration, reassuring nearby powers that he was alive and helping secure the clan a peaceful period of development.
• Zhao Hong brought his grandson Zhao Shiluo to the Immortal Martial Hall, where Grand Martial Uncle Zeng accepted him as a nominal disciple and assigned him to the Fungus Meat Field.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated on the ninth floor of the Eight Trigrams Bright Light Tower, drawing in fire spiritual qi and Grand Sun Essence to slowly strengthen his Golden Core.

After years of cultivation, Zhao Sheng shared his knowledge with the Zhao Clan and delegated clan affairs to Zhao Debang. The Yellow Sand Daoist and Sword Two recruited him to hunt an injured Quenching Void Eagle, then Sword Two challenged him to a duel before the hunt.

• Zhao Sheng refined his cultivation, visited the Zhao Clan's Scripture Pavilion, and recorded the dangerous Demon Transformation Art for future generations.
• Zhao Degang reported the He Mountain Sect's request to double its purchases, and Zhao Sheng told him to consult Zhao Debang while granting him a Mind Awakening Jade.
• Zhao Sheng lamented that the clan lacked promising Foundation Establishment cultivators capable of reaching Golden Core.
• The Yellow Sand Daoist and Sword Two asked Zhao Sheng to help hunt an injured fifth-rank Quenching Void Eagle, offering him the spoils aside from its inner core and wind wings, twenty High-Grade Spirit Stones, and an inner sword art.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to join the hunt, and Sword Two challenged him to another duel as the Yellow Sand Daoist stepped in to witness.

Zhao Sheng defeated Sword Two in a fierce spar and then traveled with Yellow Sand Daoist to meet him in the mountains. The three prepared an ambush for a Quenching Void Eagle, with Yellow Sand Daoist setting traps and assigning Zhao Sheng to restrain it and Sword Two to deliver the final blow.

• Zhao Sheng defeated Sword Two despite suffering severe wounds, which quickly healed through his Indestructible Body.
• Sword Two left for the Ten Thousand Mountains after vowing to challenge Zhao Sheng again, and Zhao Sheng sent a message before departing with Yellow Sand Daoist.
• During their journey, Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist discussed the threat from the Nether Ghost Realm, the Zhao Clan's juniors, and a possible marriage alliance between their families.
• Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist met Sword Two in the mountains, and Yellow Sand Daoist used sand flies to locate the Quenching Void Eagle.
• Yellow Sand Daoist concealed the group and prepared a formation around the eagle's cave, assigning Zhao Sheng to hold the creature back and Sword Two to strike the final blow.

Zhao Sheng, Yellow Sand Daoist, and Sword Two lured and killed the wounded Quenching Void Eagle, then divided its valuable remains. As Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist traveled away from the mountains, a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator trapped them and sealed Zhao Sheng’s Golden Core.

• Yellow Sand Daoist used the Nine-Seeded Ginseng King as bait to draw the wounded Quenching Void Eagle from its cave.
• Zhao Sheng, Yellow Sand Daoist, and Sword Two fought the Quenching Void Eagle, with Zhao Sheng holding it back until Yellow Sand Daoist trapped it in a formation and Sword Two killed it.
• Sword Two took the Quenching Void Eagle’s wings and demon core, while Zhao Sheng stored the remaining corpse and Yellow Sand Daoist recovered the ginseng king.
• Sword Two left to cultivate, and Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist departed together through the sea of clouds.
• Zhao Sheng realized they had been circling in the same place, but a Nascent Soul cultivator froze the surroundings and sealed Zhao Sheng’s Golden Core as Yellow Sand Daoist cried out a warning.

Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist encountered Thousand Illusion Lady, whose illusion arts secretly altered Zhao Sheng’s consciousness and memories. As Zhao Xuanjing returned to Rising Dragon City as a Nascent Soul Ancestor riding a transformed Mountain Dragon, the true Zhao Sheng’s hidden consciousness prepared to strike back.

• Thousand Illusion Lady trapped Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist, overwhelmed them with illusions, and planted false memories and hatred in Zhao Sheng’s primary consciousness.
• The true Zhao Sheng remained hidden deep in his soul and discovered that Thousand Illusion Lady’s illusions made his primary consciousness dismiss suspicious details.
• Zhao Sheng and Yellow Sand Daoist returned to Rising Dragon City, where Zhao Sheng’s subtle changes concerned Dong Miaozhen, while his hidden consciousness searched for a way to warn him.
• Zhao Xuanjing passed the Nascent Soul tribulation, and the Mountain Dragon passed the Dragon Transformation Tribulation to become the sole remaining seventh-order Mountain Dragon.
• Rising Dragon City celebrated Zhao Xuanjing’s return, and the hidden Zhao Sheng accumulated strength while waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
• Zhao Xuanjing returned to Rising Dragon City riding a dragon, and the opportunity Zhao Sheng had awaited finally arrived.

Zhao Xuanjing learned through Zhao Sheng’s transmitted memories that Zhao Qingyang had been ensnared by the Thousand Illusion Demon King’s Heart Illusion Art, and he planned to seek help from a powerful expert. At the Zhao Clan Secret Estate, Beggar Immortal unexpectedly accepted Zhao Qingyang as his disciple, while Zhao Xuanjing prepared to seek an audience with True Lord Old Xie.

• After the other clan elders departed, Zhao Xuanjing received Zhao Sheng’s memories revealing that the Thousand Illusion Demon King had altered Zhao Qingyang’s consciousness and urging him to find a way to break the Heart Illusion Art.
• Zhao Xuanjing heard Zhao Sheng’s report on the clan, then told him that Hua Xiong had become Ji Ancestor’s disciple and discussed Hua Ying’s missing whereabouts and his wife Zu Xiaoyue’s possible ties to the Great Flame Imperial Family.
• Zhao Xuanjing took Zhao Sheng to the Zhao Clan Secret Estate, where they encountered Beggar Immortal, who had been hiding there and warned that the estate might already be known to powerful cultivators.
• Zhao Xuanjing introduced Zhao Qingyang to Beggar Immortal, who recognized his body-refining talent and offered to teach him the Supreme Purity Nine Yang Skill.
• After Zhao Xuanjing urged him to accept, Zhao Sheng kowtowed nine times and became Beggar Immortal’s disciple.

Zhao Sheng became Beggar Immortal’s disciple and accompanied Zhao Xuanjing to Ghost Chi Cave Heaven, where a vast formation and a gathering of powerful cultivators surrounded True Lord Xie. After Zhao Xuanjing explained his purpose, True Lord Xie recognized Zhao Sheng’s contribution and revealed a painting containing Purple Cloud Fairy, then said he could resolve the matter by using Huan Die as the main soul for his Heaven Deceiving Talisman.

• Beggar Immortal accepted Zhao Sheng as his disciple, praised his innate vital energy and Golden Crow True Fire, and gave him a pouch filled with valuable treasures.
• Zhao Dehe arrived at the secret residence, greeted the three cultivators, and returned to guard the grotto after Zhao Xuanjing dismissed him.
• Beggar Immortal agreed to accompany Zhao Xuanjing and Zhao Sheng to Ghost Chi Cave Heaven, where Su Li and Zuo Xuan admitted them.
• Zhao Sheng saw that Ghost Chi Cave Heaven had been transformed into a grand formation and found Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators gathered outside Ghost Chi Palace.
• Zhao Xuanjing brought Zhao Sheng before True Lord Xie, who showed them a lifelike painting and listened to Zhao Xuanjing’s request.
• Zhao Sheng recognized the violet-robed woman in the painting as Purple Cloud Fairy, and True Lord Xie said he would use Huan Die as the main soul for his Heaven Deceiving Talisman.

Zhao Sheng escaped Thousand Illusion Lady’s scheme with True Lord Xie’s help, then received a painting and the promise of an opportunity after offering a poem. Beggar Immortal taught him the Supreme Purity Nine Yang Skill, and three months later Zhao Sheng reached the One Yang Realm in the Zhao Clan Secret Estate.

• True Lord Xie restored Zhao Sheng’s sealed memories and removed Thousand Illusion Lady’s illusion, while Zhao Sheng thanked him for saving his life.
• Zhao Sheng suggested that True Lord Xie’s unfinished painting needed a poem, recited one, and received the painting and a promise of an opportunity in a few years.
• Beggar Immortal taught Zhao Sheng the Supreme Purity Nine Yang Skill and explained its requirements, nine apertures, and incomplete final portion.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated in the Secret Estate for three months and reached the One Yang Realm, melting the walls of his chamber with the skill’s heat.
• Zhao Sheng ate more than two hundred catties of seventh-rank demon beast meat to replenish the innate primordial qi consumed by cultivation.