Chapter Summaries

Li Daohang pursued Zhao Sheng to the Floating Fortress and wagered that he could withstand three of Si Muzhen’s attacks without injury. After surviving the battle, he demanded that Zhao Sheng return with him, but Zhao Sheng claimed the object Li Daohang wanted was no longer in his possession, just as danger suddenly threatened him.

• Li Daohang broke through the Floating Fortress’s defenses and demanded that Si Muzhen hand over his junior brother, while Zhao Sheng prepared to flee.
• Mu Gongyang arrived to help, and Li Daohang proposed that he endure three of Si Muzhen’s attacks in exchange for Zhao Sheng; he offered Thunder Attribute Extraterrestrial Profound Essence if he lost.
• Si Muzhen attacked Li Daohang with lightning and water techniques, but he endured the three moves and demanded that she honor their wager.
• Li Daohang called Zhao Sheng out, and Zhao Sheng appeared on the fortress deck and said he had already handed over the object his senior brother sought.
• As Old Man Ma asked what the object was, Zhao Sheng suddenly sensed immense danger.

Zhao Sheng fled Mu Gongyang’s pursuit and hid inside the Floating Fortress, where Si Muzhen’s search forced him to summon help. Zhao Changdu arrived and confronted the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators, but Mu Gongyang launched a lethal strike at Zhao Sheng, prompting Zhao Changdu to retaliate before another powerful cultivator intervened.

• Zhao Sheng used treasure talismans and Blood Escape to evade Mu Gongyang, then hid inside the Floating Fortress as Li Daohang and Old Man Ma clashed over Si Muzhen’s wager.
• Si Muzhen activated the fortress’s search formations and cornered Zhao Sheng, who crushed an emergency distress bead to summon Zhao Changdu.
• Zhao Changdu arrived and recognized Zhao Sheng’s Zhao Clan bloodline, while Mu Gongyang sacrificed his Thunder Spirit Avatar to attack Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng endured the lightning strike by using his Golden Core Phenomenon, Heavy Willow Armor, a Ten-Thousand-Year Wood Core, and six self-destructing Geng Metal Sword Pellets.
• Zhao Changdu struck Mu Gongyang and Li Daohang with a giant palm, but a gray wind pillar swallowed the attack as an unseen cultivator challenged him.

Zhao Sheng survived Mu Gongyang’s attacks as Zhao Changdu and Xiao Fengfeng battled, but the Blood God appeared as the Sky Pillar World forces retreated. The Star God expelled the Blood God, then Zhao Sheng and his Floating Fortress were pulled through spacetime.

• Xiao Fengfeng appeared and fought Zhao Changdu while Zhao Sheng’s allies moved to protect him amid the changing battlefield.
• Mu Gongyang attacked Zhao Sheng with a Slaughtering Execution Arrow, but Zhao Sheng narrowly evaded it using his teleportation ability and suffered severe injuries.
• Zhao Changdu struck back at Mu Gongyang and Li Daohang as Sky Pillar World’s forces regrouped and retreated toward the Star Gate vortex.
• The Blood God appeared as an enormous face above the battlefield, terrifying both armies and causing Secluded God Realm’s Daoists to kneel.
• The Star God’s power erased the Blood Sea and expelled the Blood God, then Zhao Sheng and his Floating Fortress were pulled through spacetime.

Zhao Sheng returned from the Secluded God Realm with evidence of Ancestor Qingyang’s legacy, then used an Emperor-level Heavenly Dao fragment to earn immense merit and rise to Golden Core Great Perfection. Zhao Changdu brought him before the Nascent Soul Ancestors, where Zhao Sheng avoided scrutiny as the assembly’s questions about the early withdrawal ended without consequence.

• Zhao Changdu restrained Zhao Sheng while Sky Pillar World’s forces drove the Secluded God Realm army through the Star Gate and ended the battle early.
• Zhao Sheng presented Zhao Changdu with books and Jade Slips attributed to Ancestor Qingyang, and Zhao Changdu accepted his story after examining them.
• Zhao Sheng released an Emperor-level Heavenly Dao fragment, causing purple qi and spiritual lotuses to descend across the battlefield and grant merit to cultivators.
• Zhao Sheng absorbed the merit, advanced from Qi Refining First Layer to Golden Core Great Perfection, and greatly increased his divine sense.
• Zhao Changdu took Zhao Sheng to a gathering of Nascent Soul Ancestors, where he defended the early withdrawal and invoked Jing Old Ancestor to end the questioning.

Zhao Sheng told Zhao Changdu that he had brought a Heavenly Dao Fragment back to the Sky Pillar World, triggering the recent heavenly phenomenon, and learned that his fortune appeared as purple qi filling the heavens. Zhao Changdu escorted him to the Sky Terrace to meet the Zhao Clan’s Spirit Transformation Old Ancestor, Zhao Xuanjing, who reacted with surprise at Zhao Sheng’s fortune.

• Zhao Sheng revealed that he had brought a Heavenly Dao Fragment capable of creating a Sovereign Emperor back to the Sky Pillar World, and Zhao Changdu realized it had caused the heavenly phenomenon.
• Zhao Changdu disclosed that his own fortune had surged after returning and accidentally revealed that Zhao Sheng’s fortune was marked by purple qi filling the heavens.
• Zhao Changdu took Zhao Sheng across the hidden light road to the Sky Terrace, where he explained the Ascension Grand Array and its damaged pillars and Ascension Tower.
• Zhao Xuanjing appeared above the Ascension Tower, and Zhao Sheng recognized his old friend, whom he had watched rise through the cultivation realms across his rebirths.
• Zhao Xuanjing greeted Zhao Sheng and Zhao Changdu, then reacted in shock when he sensed that purple qi filled the heavens around Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng told Zhao Xuanjing of Zhao Qingyang’s death and adventures, earning a Nascent Soul Pill, access to the clan’s archives and vault, and recognition for his branch. Three months later, Zhao Jingyuan revealed that the newly ascended Nascent Soul Ancestor was the little-known Five Paths Wanderer, Zhao Sheng, whose rise threatened to stir conflict in the Zhao Kingdom.

• Zhao Changdu brought Zhao Sheng to meet Zhao Xuanjing and told the Ancestor that Zhao Sheng had news of Zhao Qingyang.
• Zhao Sheng recounted Zhao Qingyang’s life and presented the Jade Slip and stitched book, which Zhao Xuanjing recognized as Qingyang’s relics.
• Zhao Xuanjing gave Zhao Sheng a Nascent Soul Pill, access to the clan’s archives and treasure vault, and a golden token granting him high clan authority.
• Three months later, Zhao Jingyuan told Mu Lian True Person and Zhan Yue True Person that a Shen Branch elder had passed the Nascent Soul tribulation and become a Supreme Clan Elder.
• Zhao Jingyuan identified the newly ascended elder as the Qiong-generation Five Paths Wanderer, known to the clan as Zhao Sheng, and predicted his rise might stir the Zhao Kingdom.

Zhao Sheng welcomed Ancestor Qingshan and Ninth Prince Zhao XinFu, who brought gifts while seeking his favor amid Great Zhao’s succession struggle. After hearing Qingshan recount the clan’s history and the rivalries behind past emperors, Zhao Sheng decided to stay out of the coming contest and watch.

• Ancestor Qingshan arrived at the Zhao Clan Secret Estate with Zhao XinFu, the Ninth Prince, to visit Zhao Sheng.
• Qingshan presented Zhao Sheng with a first-order high-grade spirit vein and a thousand-li territory deed, and Zhao Sheng gave XinFu a third-order high-grade escape talisman in return.
• Qingshan recounted the Southern Sky Zhao Clan’s rise and described the strengths and weaknesses of the first three emperors.
• Zhao Sheng realized that Qingshan and XinFu wanted his support in the coming succession struggle and concluded that rival branches would compete fiercely for the throne.
• Zhao Sheng decided not to get involved because every potential emperor would be his descendant.

Zhao Sheng studied Zhao Xuanjing’s cultivation insights and the Primal Beginning Art, then used the Hundred Lifetimes Book to develop a plan for achieving a Primordial Spirit through his Star God Thousand Hearts Art. After three months of slow cultivation, he left the secret manor to examine the Zhao Clan’s Dao collections, leaving Zhao Qingbi to guard the manor.

• Zhao Sheng learned that Nascent Soul cultivation centered on forming a Primordial Spirit through understanding Great Dao laws, and studied Zhao Xuanjing’s Primal Beginning Art.
• Zhao Sheng consulted the Star God world in the Hundred Lifetimes Book and concluded that completing and reversing the Star God Thousand Hearts Art could unite a thousand souls into one and help him achieve a Primordial Spirit.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated for three months using a Top-Grade Spirit Stone, then emerged from seclusion and received the Zhao Clan’s congratulatory gifts and questions about his Nascent Soul ceremony.
• Zhao Sheng summoned Zhao Qingbi and explained that he was leaving the mountain to study the clan’s Dao collections, asking him to guard the secret manor.

Zhao Sheng returned to Rising Dragon City, met Zhao Shanhe, and explored the clan’s Scripture Repository, where he discovered how later generations had advanced the Sumeru Transforming Sea Scripture and martial cultivation. After exchanging cultivation insights with Zhao Shanhe, he left for the Zhao Clan’s new ancestral land, Divine Dragon Valley.

• Zhao Sheng arrived at Rising Dragon City, introduced himself to Zhao Shanhe, and attended a welcoming feast where he encouraged two young clan prodigies after Zhao Shanhe reprimanded them.
• Zhao Sheng toured the city, visited his old residence, and entered the Scripture Repository to study the clan’s accumulated techniques and records.
• Zhao Sheng read Zhao Xingbo’s account of the Sumeru Transforming Sea Scripture and learned that it used Three Yuan Heavy Water to form a water world at great expense.
• Zhao Sheng examined the Martial Saint statue and learned how Zhao Yu had developed Gale Yuan Power, founding a martial realm attained by members of Ancestor Qingyang’s lineage.
• Zhao Sheng studied the Supreme Purity Nine Yang Skill, then stayed in Rising Dragon City for three more months to exchange cultivation insights with Zhao Shanhe.
• Zhao Sheng left Rising Dragon City for Divine Dragon Valley, the Zhao Clan’s new ancestral land, whose former name had been Divine Farmer Valley.

Zhao Sheng arrived at Azure Cloud Peak and met the Zhao Clan’s Nascent Soul Ancestors, then watched the clan’s juniors demonstrate their abilities. He chose the martial artist Zhao Yi to accompany him, and the chapter ended with Zhao Changdu hinting that he wanted an Earth Grade treasure from the clan vault.

• Qu Feng escorted Zhao Sheng to United Hearts Hall, where Zhao Changdu introduced him to Zhou Li, Zhao Fuji, and the Martial Saint Zhao Jingyu.
• Zhao Sheng greeted the clan’s Golden Core cultivators with Three Revolutions Primal Chaos Pills, then watched Foundation Establishment juniors fight and gave them rewards and advice.
• Zhao Sheng selected Zhao Yi, Zhao Jingyu’s great-grandson and a Divine Connection martial artist, to accompany him because he wanted to study the Martial Saint Realm.
• Zhao Jingyu agreed to cooperate with Zhao Sheng’s investigation into martial arts and primal cells.
• Zhao Changdu reminded Zhao Sheng that he could choose treasures from the clan vault, and Zhao Sheng offered to retrieve an item for him after hearing his hint about the Earth Grade vault.

Zhao Sheng explored the Heaven Grade treasure vault and chose Mao Sun Gold Essence and several other treasures to support his plan to refine the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron. After delivering the Wind Thunder Wings to Zhao Changdu for Zhao Fumo, he asked Zhao Changdu to help obtain rare materials and reaffirmed that refining the cauldron was essential to his path.

• Zhao Sheng entered the Heaven Grade treasure vault and selected the mysterious Mao Sun Gold Essence, storing it in an unusual gold-and-silver bag after his Storage Bag tore under its weight.
• Zhao Sheng searched a second vault and chose the Epiphyllum Sun Pure Flame, the Ten Thousand Talismans Array Disk, and the Wind Thunder Wings.
• Zhao Sheng delivered the Wind Thunder Wings to Zhao Changdu, who gave them to Zhao Fumo to help him pursue a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Changdu he planned to cultivate in seclusion on Bing Fire Peak and refine the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Changdu lists of rare materials and his own refining skills and possessions, asking him to help obtain what the cauldron required.
• Zhao Sheng insisted that refining the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron was necessary for his path of Dao.

Over ten years, Zhao Sheng became the Zhao Clan’s leading pill master while refining many spiritual fires and settling his debts through pillmaking. At the Martial Saint Training Ground, Zhao Jingyu demonstrated that martial will differed from divine sense and revealed that origin cells possessed will of their own, giving Zhao Sheng a new explanation for why he could not draw out their power.

• Zhao Sheng obtained numerous spiritual fires and treasures from Zhao Changdu, then traded his resources for an Innate Bing Fire Furnace and began refining pills to repay his debts.
• Ten years later, Zhao Sheng refined twenty-six furnaces of Essence Gathering Pills at once and delivered fifty bottles to Zhao Fu'an to offset his debt to the Yi Branch.
• Zhao Fu'an requested an Enlightenment Pill for Zhao Zhenhai, and Zhao Sheng agreed to refine one after hearing the offered terms.
• Zhao Sheng left Bing Fire Peak for the Martial Saint Training Ground and debated martial will with Zhao Jingyu while watching the trainees.
• Zhao Jingyu used his will to split a sheet of paper without Zhao Sheng’s divine sense detecting it, then explained that will was distinct from spiritual power and that origin cells possessed will.

Zhao Sheng advised Zhao Jingyu that Martial Saints needed to undergo heavenly tribulation and assimilate their Cells’ willpower to awaken deeper Barbaric Ancient bloodline potential. He then developed a stable Life Flame spell and began testing its healing light on the injured hand of Zhou Xiang, a Spirit Field farmer.

• Zhao Sheng explained to Zhao Jingyu that the Martial Saint path had stalled because its practitioners lacked heavenly tribulation and should subdue and assimilate their Cells’ willpower.
• Zhao Jingyu reconsidered a danger omen he had felt when becoming a Martial Saint and asked how to assimilate the Cells’ willpower.
• Zhao Sheng left Zhao Jingyu a Jade Slip and flew to a Dragon Tooth Rice field, where he repeatedly refined a seven-colored fireball spell.
• After several hundred attempts, Zhao Sheng created a stable Life Flame that burned above the Spirit Field for nearly half an hour.
• Zhao Sheng summoned Zhou Xiang, compensated him with a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone after his hand was cut, and directed the Life Flame’s white light onto the wound.

Zhao Sheng created the fire-element Dao art Life Flame, which accelerated healing and promoted the growth of spirit plants, then worked with Zhao Fuji to improve it. The art proved powerful but remained too difficult for cultivators below Nascent Soul to master, leaving Zhao Sheng to consider simplifying it into spells for lower cultivation levels.

• Zhao Sheng tested Life Flame on an old farmer's wound and saw it heal faster.
• Zhao Zhengzhuo visited Zhao Sheng, delivered one million jin of gold, and learned that Zhao Sheng would remain neutral in the succession struggle.
• After two months in the Spirit Field, Zhao Sheng completed Life Flame and accelerated the growth of the Dragon Tooth Rice.
• Zhao Sheng visited Zhao Fuji and revealed Life Flame, and the two discussed and revised the Dao art together.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Fuji improved Life Flame's effects and found that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could maintain it after Zhao Sheng cast it.
• Zhao Fuji asked Zhao Sheng to create simpler versions of Life Flame for lower-level cultivators, and Zhao Sheng estimated it could take decades or a century.

Zhao Sheng refined gold essence for his planned Hundred Flames Cauldron, then attended a Zhao Clan meeting where he volunteered to represent the clan in a dispute with Sky Splitting Sword Dao and helped plan a campaign against Earth Flame Palace. He arrived at Eastern Wilderness Mound for the three matches and recognized the opposing side’s leader as an old acquaintance.

• Zhao Sheng refined gold into six taels of gold essence, then continued processing ingots until he had gathered enough to begin forging the Hundred Flames Cauldron.
• Zhao Sheng attended a Supreme Clan Elders meeting, volunteered to contest Sky Splitting Sword Dao’s claim to the Spirit Stone mine, and avoided taking a firm position on the next Sacred Emperor.
• Zhao Sheng, Han Wei, and the other elders agreed to organize a carefully planned assault on Earth Flame Palace, with Zhao Changdu arranging support from Earth Treasury Sect and other forces.
• Seven days later, Zhao Sheng led a cloudship to Eastern Wilderness Mound, where Zhao Clan and Sky Splitting Sword Dao had assembled to contest ownership of the mine through three matches.
• Sky Splitting Sword Dao’s leader arrived with his sword disciples, and Zhao Sheng recognized the gaunt black-robed man as an old acquaintance.

Zhao Sheng negotiated with Old Man Ma after a tied contest, trading a Star Sword inheritance for Gold Essence, then returned to Divine Dragon Valley and completed the upper-middle-grade Hundred Flames Cauldron. He visited Zhao Fuji in the Ten Thousand Herb Garden, where they discussed the cauldron and Zhao Sheng’s Life Flame Dao Arts.

• Zhao Sheng and Old Man Ma agreed that their three matches would determine victory without risking lives, and the Zhao Clan and Sky Splitting Sword Dao finished with one win, one loss, and one draw.
• Zhao Sheng offered Old Man Ma three Geng Metal Sword Pellets and the Celestial Star Sword Formation diagram, then agreed to trade the Star Sea Sword Intent Art for one dou of Innate Gold Essence.
• Zhao Sheng and Old Man Ma settled on jointly owning the Spirit Stone mine and splitting its output, after which Old Man Ma took Zhao Sheng to Sky Splitting Peak.
• Zhao Sheng spent three months at Sky Splitting Sword Dao, then returned to Divine Dragon Valley and learned that the clan had secretly prepared to attack Earth Flame Palace during its master’s tribulation.
• Zhao Sheng spent three years refining the Hundred Flames Cauldron, completed it as an upper-middle-grade magic treasure with six Treasure Seals, and absorbed it into his body.
• Zhao Sheng visited Zhao Fuji in the Ten Thousand Herb Garden, where they joked about his talent and discussed the Life Flame Dao Arts.

Zhao Sheng refined and spread the Life Flame Dao Art while the Southern Sky Zhao Clan prepared a coalition assault on Earth Flame Palace. The forces gathered in the Earth Abyss Fire Sea, where Zhao Changdu welcomed the Purple Sun Sect’s Nascent Soul leaders before the battle briefing began.

• Zhao Sheng adjusted Life Flame through repeated trials, taught it to twenty-two Fire Element Foundation Establishment cultivators, and continued refining it in seclusion.
• The Southern Sky Zhao Clan sealed news of Life Flame, but other factions learned of it and several allied sects paid to join the experiments.
• Two years later, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Li led the Heavy Earth and Blazing Sun Banners, Golden Core cultivators, and other allies toward Earth Flame Palace.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhou Li arrived at a stone hall in the Earth Abyss Fire Sea, where Zhao Changdu introduced formation master Huang Yu and awaited the Purple Sun Sect.
• Shangguan Longhu arrived with Spirit Phoenix Perch and Qu Feng, and Zhao Changdu rose to address the assembled coalition.

Zhao Changdu coordinated an alliance of three factions to attack the Earth Flame Palace while its master underwent tribulation, and the forces gathered around Earth Flame Island. As Old Huang began breaking the island’s protective array, the assault was poised to begin.

• Zhao Changdu assigned the factions their roles in the planned attack and tasked Zhao Sheng with assisting Old Huang in breaking the Earth Flame Palace’s array.
• Shangguan Longhu demanded copies of two Earth Flame Palace treasures and a share of Earth Flame Island, while Shi Jiugong appeared and the factions negotiated the spoils.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Zhengzhuo and Dong Mengyan two Hundred Mile Rainbow Transformation Talismans before the assembled forces departed to prepare for the siege.
• Seven days later, Zhao Changdu’s forces waited as Zhao Baichou began his Nascent Soul tribulation, drawing Dong Zhi and Shi Ri away from Earth Flame Island.
• Zhao Sheng and Old Huang approached Earth Flame Island, and Old Huang used eight Yin Yang Array Plates to begin breaking its protective barrier as the Zhao Clan, Earth Treasury Sect, and Purple Sun Sect took their positions.

Zhao Changdu and the Purple Sun Twin Immortals ambushed Earth Flame Palace’s two Nascent Soul Ancestors while Huang Yu disrupted the sect’s protective formation. The allied forces launched a devastating invasion, and Zhao Sheng reached the Scripture Storage Pagoda as the battle overwhelmed the island.

• Zhao Changdu struck Devil Lord Dong Zhi with the Sky Pillar Dharma Image, while the Purple Sun Twin Immortals confronted Shi Ri.
• Huang Yu used eight Yin Yang Talisman Plates to interrupt Earth Flame Palace’s mountain-guarding grand formation, and Zhao Sheng sent the signal to attack.
• Rotten Heart True Person noticed the formation malfunction and contacted Zhou Lu, but Earth Flame Palace lost its last chance to prepare before the invasion began.
• The Southern Sky Zhao Clan, Earth Treasury Sect, and Purple Sun Sect attacked from three directions, unleashing Nascent Soul Domains and overwhelming Earth Flame Palace’s defenses.
• Zhou Lu realized a traitor had enabled the attack and rushed toward the Ancestral Hall as Zhao Sheng crossed the island to the Scripture Storage Pagoda.

Zhao Sheng and three Nascent Soul cultivators attacked Earth Flame Palace’s Ancestral Hall while their forces routed the island’s defenders. Beneath the hall, Grand Elder Zhou Lu confronted two family heads plotting to seize the sect’s treasures, and the chapter ended as they prepared to fight.

• Zhao Sheng sealed the Scripture Depository with the Ten Thousand Talismans Array Disk and helped drive Earth Flame Palace’s defenders into disarray.
• Zhao Sheng, Han Wei, Zhou Li, and Shi Jiugong joined forces to attack the Ancestral Hall’s white fire barrier, with Zhou Li’s waterfall weakening it most effectively.
• Zhou Lu confronted the Yin and Du Clan Supreme Family Heads as they tried to reach the formation’s central chamber, claiming they needed to help repair the grand formation.
• Zhou Lu exposed their plan to take the seven true flames and the Unfixed Star Nucleus and flee Earth Flame Island, then demanded a share of the treasures.
• The Du Clan Supreme Family Head produced Death Soul Poison and the Yan Clan Supreme Family Head revealed a God Extinction Pearl, so Zhou Lu drew his Bronze Halberd and threatened to perish with them.