Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng killed Jinhua Zhenren, advanced to the Golden Core Ninth Level during ten years of cultivation, and escaped a Nascent Soul Ghost King and the Demon Octopus Emperor. He learned that his group would soon enter the Qiu Ling Sect to compete for Nascent Soul Pills, with the expedition set to begin in two months.

• Zhao Sheng pursued and killed Jinhua Zhenren, destroying his Golden Core despite the threat of retaliation from the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Over ten years in the Earth-Core Sea Eye, Zhao Sheng advanced from the Golden Core Fourth Level to the Ninth Level and strengthened his Karmic Fire Red Lotus by defeating ghosts.
• A Nascent Soul Ghost King attacked Zhao Sheng’s cave, but he escaped; the Demon Octopus Emperor’s presence then drove the Ghost King away.
• Zhao Sheng received word that a flaw in the Qiu Ling Sect’s mountain-guarding formation would appear when the twin suns aligned with the moon in three months.
• Zhao Sheng met Daoist Zhai Kong, learned that seven others would join them in seeking the Qiu Ling Sect’s Nascent Soul Pills, and was warned that Daoist Shi Cha coveted his Coiling Spirit Tablet.
• Zhao Sheng and Daoist Zhai Kong agreed to set out in two months.

Zhao Sheng and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Golden Core cultivators arrived at the Qiu Ling Sect as rival factions gathered to enter its mountain gate and seek its treasures. After the barrier opened, Zhao Sheng, Xiao Jiu Ke, and Zhai Kong entered a ghost-ridden ruin, where their plans shifted toward Dragon Transformation Cliff and they faced dangerous undead.

• Xiao Jiu Ke told Zhao Sheng and Zhai Kong that Tian Xin Zi had challenged him and revealed that Tian Luo Zi and other powerful cultivators were also coming to the Qiu Ling Gathering.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s Floating Island reached the gray-black sea, where seventeen factions had gathered, and the mountain-guarding formation opened after a massive surge of spiritual energy.
• Zhao Sheng and the other cultivators crossed the barrier into the Qiu Ling Sect, where deathly mist corroded Divine Sense and reduced its range.
• Xiao Jiu Ke chose to go to Dragon Transformation Cliff to pursue the Nine Revolutions Dragon God Scripture, and Zhai Kong agreed to accompany him; Zhao Sheng suggested visiting the Scripture Repository first, but Xiao Jiu Ke dismissed the suggestion.
• A Golden Armor Corpse attacked Li Yanfeng, and more than ten Golden Core Ghost Kings later ambushed Zhao Sheng, Xiao Jiu Ke, and Zhai Kong, injuring Zhai Kong.

Zhao Sheng and his companions confronted Tian Xin Zi, Lingluo Holy Maiden, and the Nan Su Two Elders at the ruined Qiu Ling Sect, where Xiao Jiu Ke escaped toward Dragon Transformation Cliff and Zhai Kong was left in danger. After fleeing the battle, Zhao Sheng defeated a skeletal monster bird and found a familiar golden flame among the ruins.

• Zhao Sheng sensed a hidden hostile presence in the plaza, but he and Zhai Kong and Xiao Jiu Ke left before a ghostly figure emerged from the mist.
• Xiao Jiu Ke led Zhao Sheng and Zhai Kong to confront Tian Xin Zi and six Golden Core human puppets, while Lingluo Holy Maiden and the Nan Su Two Elders arrived as reinforcements.
• Tian Xin Zi ordered an attack, and Zhao Sheng used his Geng Metal Sword Pellets to engage the Nan Su Two Elders as Lingluo and Tian Xin Zi attacked Xiao Jiu Ke.
• Xiao Jiu Ke used the Illusory Light Escape Technique to flee toward Dragon Transformation Cliff, while Zhao Sheng escaped into the mist and Zhai Kong was struck by Lingluo.
• Half an hour later, Zhao Sheng killed a skeletal monster bird, took its Jade-White Bone Bead, and found a familiar golden flame in the ruins.

Zhao Sheng killed Wen Zhongfei over the Golden Crow True Fire, then slew a second Golden Core cultivator who tried to ambush him. Elsewhere, Zuo Lingsun trapped two Golden Core cultivators and began killing them for spying on Purple Jade Fairy.

• Wen Zhongfei attacked Zhao Sheng and demanded the Golden Crow True Fire, but Zhao Sheng killed him with a Flying Fire Meteor Sword Pellet.
• A hidden cultivator attacked Zhao Sheng from the mist, and Zhao Sheng identified him as a member of the Perfected Man Sect and killed him with the Five-Colored Giant Palm and Geng Metal Sword Pellets.
• Zhao Sheng collected Wen Zhongfei's Phoenix Profound Fire Banners and the cultivators' storage seals before disappearing into the mist.
• Zuo Lingsun trapped two Golden Core cultivators with a nine-story tower and earth-element force.
• Zuo Lingsun mocked the two cultivators for spying on Purple Jade Fairy as their bodies were crushed and turned to sand and stone.

Zhao Sheng, Zuo Lingsun, Tian Luo Zi, Lingluo Holy Maiden, and other cultivators were intercepted by powerful ghost cultivators and invited to a banquet on the Qiu Ling Sect grounds. Zhao Sheng reached Rebirth Hall and reunited with Lingluo Holy Maiden, where they suspected the site was the Qiu Emperor Tomb.

• Purple Jade Fairy emerged from the Treasure Pavilion, and Zuo Lingsun promised to find her a Nascent Soul Pill before a Nascent Soul Ghost King appeared and invited them to a banquet.
• A ghost cultivator swallowed a fleeing green-robed elder, while Venerable Ding Shen invited Tian Luo Zi to the banquet.
• Dong Qingyang attacked Lingluo Holy Maiden with the Soul Loss Furnace, but a ghostly darkness halted their fight and summoned her to the banquet.
• Zhao Sheng accepted Dingnan Venerable's invitation and followed him into a sealed underground cavern filled with ancient formation patterns.
• Zhao Sheng reached Rebirth Hall and found Lingluo Holy Maiden there; they both suspected the palace and nearby jade hill marked the Qiu Emperor Tomb.

Zhao Sheng and the other Golden Core cultivators met the mysterious Qiu Ling Sect Leader in Rebirth Hall, where he used supernatural wine to subdue them before revealing treasures to tempt them. The chapter ended as he presented a bronze token radiating an overwhelming authority of heaven.

• Venerable Dingnan led Zhao Sheng and the Lingluo Holy Maiden into Rebirth Hall, where they joined a small gathering of powerful Golden Core cultivators.
• The Qiu Ling Sect Leader appeared and had his attendants serve Soul Cleansing Dew, which most of the guests drank under his influence.
• The sect leader promised the cultivators treasures and scriptures, while Zuo Lingsun openly demanded to know what he wanted from them.
• The sect leader displayed the sealed Dragon Tooth Sword and a fragment of the Grand Righteousness Nine Heavens True Scripture, startling the guests.
• The sect leader revealed a bronze token whose radiance carried an almost indescribable authority of heaven.

Zhao Sheng and the other Golden Core cultivators were sent into a heart tribulation by the Qiu Ling Sect Leader, who promised three treasures to whoever found the item hidden within it. Zhao Sheng awoke as Hanzhang True Person in a distorted vision of the Qiu Ling Sect a thousand years earlier, where the sky collapsed and he lost consciousness.

• The Qiu Ling Sect Leader offered the Dragon Tooth Sword, the Grand Righteousness Nine Heavens True Scripture, and a Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token to whoever found a mysterious item in the heart tribulation.
• The Qiu Ling Sect Leader and the ghost cultivators dissolved into black mist, put Zhao Sheng and the other Golden Core cultivators to sleep, and sent them into the tribulation.
• Zhao Sheng awoke in the body of Hanzhang True Person at the Qiu Ling Sect a thousand years earlier and realized that the other cultivators were inhabiting roles there too.
• Zhao Sheng fought Miao Miao Dao Ren, then joined Xiao Jiu Ke as the other Golden Core cultivators gathered amid the strange, distorted sect grounds.
• Bu Zhun Dao Ren warned that catastrophe was imminent, and the sky collapsed, plunging Zhao Sheng into darkness and unconsciousness.

Zhao Sheng returned to the sect and learned that each rebirth drained some of his essence, qi, and spirit. He allied with Lingluo, killed Miao Miao Dao Ren, and reached the Ancestral Hall, but the world reset just as Tian Luo Zi entered it.

• Zhao Sheng awoke in the sect, discovered his weakness, and learned from Zhi Yan that the expeditionary army might have suffered a defeat.
• Zhao Sheng gathered intelligence from Qiu Long Arm and accepted Lingluo’s proposal to ally until they found the object, which she believed was in the Qiu Emperor Tomb.
• Zhao Sheng and Lingluo killed Miao Miao Dao Ren in the Spirit Herb Garden, then Xin Bai Qin arrived, tried to recruit Lingluo, and fled when they prepared to attack.
• Zhao Sheng and Lingluo located the Qiu Emperor Tomb beneath the sect’s Ancestral Hall and sensed several powerful figures gathered nearby.
• Tian Luo Zi entered the Ancestral Hall through its formation, but Zhao Sheng and Lingluo were interrupted by another world reset.

Zhao Sheng reached Qiu Ling Sect’s Ancestral Hall with seven other cultivators and followed a black-robed patriarch into the Qiu Emperor Tomb. After entering the dragon’s mouth, he encountered a mysterious child in a Chaos space, who identified himself as a Deity and left Zhao Sheng wondering if he was the Star God.

• Zhao Sheng found that the world had grown more real while his strength had fallen to around the fourth level of the Golden Core Realm.
• Zhao Sheng and Lingluo Holy Maiden joined Tian Luo Zi and five others at the Ancestral Hall, where Zhao Sheng opened the gates by calling himself Han Zhang.
• A black-robed patriarch led the eight cultivators through a hidden passage and down to a cavern containing an enormous true dragon head, identified as the entrance to the Qiu Emperor Tomb.
• The patriarch ordered the cultivators to enter the dragon’s mouth in a set sequence, and Zhao Sheng followed Xiao Jiu Ke, Tian Luo Zi, and Xin Bai Qin inside.
• Zhao Sheng arrived in a Chaos space, met a child with immense life force, and heard the child call himself a Deity when Zhao Sheng asked his name.

Zhao Sheng learned how Blood God Child had freed the Star God and helped trigger the catastrophe that devastated the Shattered Star Sea, then advised the Star God on how a human might become immortal. As cultivators emerged from their encounters with the Star God, Nascent Soul Ancestors invaded Coiling Spirit Mountain to pursue the Sect Master and the Qiu Emperor Tomb.

• The chubby baby told Zhao Sheng that Blood God Child had freed the Star God from its cage and urged it to change worlds, prompting Zhao Sheng to reconstruct how the Star God's escape caused the space-time disaster and led to Centipede Province's destruction.
• The Star God asked Zhao Sheng how a human became immortal, and Zhao Sheng replied that immortality depended on a reversal of the heart; the Star God then questioned whether Blood God Child had deceived it about needing to experience human emotions.
• The Star God expelled Xiao Jiu Ke because his Ghost Chi Clan bloodline carried a Heavenly Dao curse, while Zuo Lingsun, Bu Zhun Lao Dao, Purple Jade Fairy, Tian Luo Zi, Lingluo Holy Maiden, and Xin Bai Qin emerged from the mysterious space.
• Xin Bai Qin grew more displeased when he saw that only six people had returned, realizing that someone with even greater fortune had yet to emerge.
• Several uninvited guests, including Demon Subduing High Priest and Kun Ze, arrived at the sinkhole as Nascent Soul Ancestors breached Coiling Spirit Mountain's protective array and headed for the Qiu Emperor Tomb, the Sect Master, and the high-level ghost cultivators.

Zhao Sheng witnessed the Star God’s consciousness being seized and discovered that the “sun” was a fragment of the Heavenly Dao, then used a second dream cycle to glimpse the Great Dao of Strength’s light and heavy principles. He obtained the fragment from the Star God, but an ominous premonition struck just before the collapsing space erased everything.

• Zhao Sheng spoke with the Star God, who recognized his name, before a gigantic hand descended and seized the Star God’s consciousness across time and space.
• Empowered by the Star God’s perspective, Zhao Sheng saw the Sea of Laws and realized that the giant hand had damaged the Heavenly Dao, scattering law fragments into the world.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the Ancestral Hall with the other seven cultivators, then entered another dream cycle and met the Star God again.
• Zhao Sheng studied the Law Threads and comprehended that the Great Dao of Strength included the paired principles of lightness and heaviness.
• The Star God tossed Zhao Sheng the Heavenly Dao fragment, but Zhao Sheng sensed he had been tricked as the space collapsed around them.

Zhao Sheng escaped the collapsing dream realm with the Heavenly Dao fragment while the Sect Master and the other ghost cultivators were overwhelmed by Nascent Soul Ancestors. He fled aboard the Sun Chasing Shuttle and began preparing to evade the Heavenly Dao Sect’s pursuit, heading toward He Zhou Continent.

• The Sect Master tried to seize the Heavenly Dao fragment, but Zhao Sheng vanished and the dream realm collapsed.
• Zhao Sheng reappeared in the sea, used Phase Displacement to flee hundreds of li, and escaped aboard the Sun Chasing Shuttle.
• Nascent Soul Ancestors attacked the ghost cultivators in Rebirth Hall, forcing the Sect Master to offer surrender.
• The Nascent Soul Ancestors searched the surrounding sea for Zhao Sheng but found no trace of him.
• Zhao Sheng crafted Curse-Warding Divine Talismans aboard the shuttle and planned to escape the Heavenly Dao Sect’s territory before its pursuers caught up.
• Zhao Sheng raced southwest toward He Zhou Continent, estimating he would arrive in less than a day.

Mu Gongyang reported the emergence of Emperor Lord-level authority at Wu Continent Sea to Di Yi, who ordered the Demon Subduing High Priest to pursue the sect’s fugitive Golden Core High Priest. Meanwhile, Zhao Sheng prepared deadly weapons and a formation in a volcano on He Continent, and Mu Gongyang arrived at the Floating Islands as the two High Priests went to meet him.

• Mu Gongyang brought news of the authority’s emergence at Wu Continent Sea to Di Yi, who viewed records of Zhao Sheng and summoned the sect’s leaders.
• Di Yi ordered the Demon Subduing High Priest to act, while Thick Earth Emperor Lord refused his request to open the Heaven Altar.
• Zhao Sheng sacrificed his arm to forge a White Bone Heart Locking Sword, then blood-sacrificed his Wind Profound Fire Banners and black miniature blade.
• Zhao Sheng carved a formation into stone pillars deep inside a volcano and installed High-Grade Spirit Stones to complete it.
• Mu Gongyang arrived above the Floating Islands, where the Demon Vanquishing and Demon Subduing High Priests rose to greet him.

Zhao Sheng fought the Demon Subduing High Priest in a lava cavern, using prepared formations, fire banners, and his Heart Aspect to counter the Nascent Soul Ancestor. The battle continued as Zhao Sheng faced a crushing attack from the High Priest’s icy giant hands.

• The Demon Subduing High Priest tracked Zhao Sheng to an ancient volcano and descended into the lava cavern where Zhao Sheng was preparing for battle.
• Zhao Sheng activated the Five Prisons Reincarnation technique, summoned his nine-zhang Heart Aspect Giant, and set formations and Phoenix Profound Fire Banners around the cavern.
• The Demon Subduing High Priest offered to spare Zhao Sheng if he surrendered, but Zhao Sheng claimed he had hidden the sought-after thing and then launched a surprise attack.
• Zhao Sheng used the cavern’s gravity formation and lava to hinder the High Priest, while the High Priest countered with his Nascent Soul Domain and Overturning Sea Staff.
• The High Priest’s attacks forced Zhao Sheng out of concealment and trapped him beneath enormous icy hands, but Zhao Sheng and his Giant struck back with five-colored fists.

Zhao Sheng defeated the Demon Subduing High Priest after surviving the Slaughtering Execution Arrow and exploiting the chaos of their battle. He sealed the High Priest’s Nascent Soul, but Mu Gongyang arrived just as Zhao Sheng escaped and collapsed the passage.

• The Demon Subduing High Priest attacked Zhao Sheng with the Overturning Sea Staff and Slaughtering Execution Arrow, but Zhao Sheng’s Five-Colored Divine Light seized the staff and Phase Displacement only partly evaded the arrow.
• Zhao Sheng endured the High Priest’s Nascent Soul Domain and water lightning, then struck him from behind with his body-cultivation strength.
• Zhao Sheng combined his fire dragons and talismans to disrupt the domain, then seized the Slaughtering Execution Arrow and pierced the High Priest with two exploding White Bone Heart Piercing Swords.
• The High Priest’s Nascent Soul fled, but Zhao Sheng trapped it inside the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and sealed the lotus in a jade box.
• Zhao Sheng stored the High Priest’s remains and the Overturning Sea Staff after sensing an incoming attacker, then collapsed the passage as Mu Gongyang’s Thunder Spirit Avatar arrived.

Zhao Sheng evaded the Secluded God Realm’s gathering forces while recovering, refining treasures, and making his way to Dragon Zhou Continent. He reached West Chu City and contacted his organization through an inn, where Zhao Yang recognized him as an elder uncle ancestor.

• Heavenly Balance Sect, Asking Dao Sect, Black Heaven Sect, and other factions issued orders to hunt Zhao Sheng after learning he had killed the Demon Subduing High Priest.
• Zhao Sheng captured a No Thought Jellyfish to obtain material for his Heaven Deceiving Talisman Robe.
• After recovering from his injuries, Zhao Sheng began refining the Slaughtering Execution Arrow, the Overturning Sea Staff, and the jellyfish skin sac.
• Zhao Sheng traveled to Dragon Zhou Continent and headed for West Chu City, where he hoped to remain concealed.
• Zhao Sheng presented a token at the Peace and Safety inn, and shopkeeper Zhao Yang greeted him as Elder Uncle Ancestor.

Zhao Sheng used a forged Zhao Clan token to contact the Dragon's Roar intelligence network on Dragon Zhou Continent and settled at the Pine Wind Sect. After reaching Golden Core Great Perfection, he built the organization's trust by killing powerful cultivators, including the Jade Scorpion King.

• Zhao Sheng presented his token at the Peaceful Inn, where Zhao Xin Yang contacted his superiors, and Zhao Sheng waited while refining his weapons and recovering with the Demon Subduing High Priest's Nascent Soul dharma body.
• Zhao Jing Yun arrived, verified Zhao Sheng's bloodline, and invited him to live at the Pine Wind Sect; Zhao Sheng introduced himself as Zhao Qiong Tian of the Shen Branch.
• Zhao Sheng gave spirit pills to Zhao Jing Yun's disciples and secluded himself at the sect, reaching Golden Core Great Perfection two months later as his reputation as an alchemy master spread.
• Over the next three years, Zhao Sheng killed the Dark Vulture Old Man with the Slaughtering Execution Arrow.
• Zhao Sheng defeated and killed the Jade Scorpion King after the scorpion-patterned Golden Core True Person attacked him and fled.

After killing Jade Scorpion True Person, Zhao Sheng reached the Dragon's Roar organization’s gathering and was recognized as a new leader, though Dragon Lord Zhao Youxuan questioned his identity. Zhao Sheng volunteered to help receive newcomers when the Star Gate opened in seven years, despite the danger of the coming conflict between realms.

• God Lord used the Dark Sinking Mirror’s Time Reversal to view Jade Scorpion True Person’s death, judged the killer too dangerous for his subordinates, and ordered them to withdraw.
• Zhao Sheng flew to the Ice Domain, entered the Xuan Clan’s ancestral estate, and reunited with Zhao Jingyun after proving he had completed the mission with the White Jade scorpion tail.
• Zhao Youxuan appeared before the gathered Dragon's Roar members and announced Zhao Sheng as a new leader, while Zhao Sheng offered to refine third-grade spirit pills for them.
• Zhao Youxuan challenged Zhao Sheng’s identity, but Zhao Sheng invoked Zhao Xuanjing’s authority and silenced the gathering.
• Zhao Youxuan announced that the Star Gate would open in seven years and asked who would help receive newcomers; Zhao Sheng volunteered while the others hesitated.

Zhao Sheng spent seven years preparing for the Star Gate mission, refining pills and Hundred Mile Rainbow Transformation Talismans before departing with Zhao Youxuan, Yu Tuo, and Zhao Jingyun. After meeting Zhao Hai Kui and the other members of their reception team in Wu Continent Sea, the group hid beneath the sea and headed toward the waters where the Star Gate might open.

• Zhao Youxuan assigned Yu Tuo and Zhao Jingyun to accompany the mission, and Zhao Sheng reported his recent work at the Dragon's Roar gathering.
• Zhao Sheng settled into a secluded cave at Xuan Family Estate, trained with Yu Tuo, and refined a Hundred Mile Rainbow Transformation Talisman during his years of preparation.
• Zhao Sheng gave talismans to Yu Tuo and Zhao Jingyun before leaving with them and Zhao Youxuan for Wu Continent Sea.
• Zhao Youxuan's group met Zhao Hai Kui and four other cultivators from Cang and Shi Provinces on a remote island, then exchanged information about the Star Gate mission.
• The nine members of the Zhao Clan reception team shared Zhao Sheng's pills and talismans with their companions, then hid beneath the sea and traveled toward the southwestern waters of Wu Continent Sea.

Zhao Sheng infiltrated a Sky Pillar World fortress during the Star Gate war, hoping to return home with a fragment of the Heavenly Dao. Just as he thought his plan had succeeded, Li Daohang sensed an inexplicable stirring from a nearby Floating Island.

• Zhao Sheng hid beneath the sea while patrols searched, then crossed into the Star Gate’s core as the celestial phenomenon opened it.
• The two realms’ armies clashed beneath the Star Gate, and Zhao Sheng destroyed a Concentric Pearl rather than aid the pursued spy Fang Xinping.
• Zhao Sheng disguised himself as a Dan Ding Sect alchemist and joined four Foundation Establishment cultivators in battle before following them onto a Floating Fortress.
• Zhao Sheng planned to hide aboard the fortress until it withdrew to the Sky Pillar World, but Li Daohang sensed something from a Floating Island thirty miles away.