Chapter Summaries

Earth Flame Palace awakened its sealed ancestors as Zhao Sheng, Han Wei, Zhou Li, and Shi Jiugong attacked the Ancestral Hall. After four breaths of battle, Zhao Sheng’s side eliminated two of Earth Flame Palace’s five Nascent Soul cultivators, but Azure Light Ancestor burned his soul and turned on Han Wei.

• Yin Yixian awakened Earth Flame Palace’s sealed ancestors, and Azure Light Ancestor took command of their defense.
• Zhao Sheng, Han Wei, Zhou Li, and Shi Jiugong shattered the Ancestral Hall barrier and faced five Nascent Soul living dead.
• The four attackers engaged the ancestors, while Shi Jiugong trapped the Golden Core cultivators in his Black Sandstorm.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhou Li killed Wrathful Lin Shangren, then Heaven Burning Demon self-destructed inside Shi Jiugong’s sandstorm.
• Azure Light Ancestor burned his Nascent Soul and divine soul, struck Han Wei with a divine-sense storm, and raised a giant flaming palm over him.

The Southern Sky Zhao Clan and its allies defeated Earth Flame Palace on Earth Flame Island, though Han Wei died and the Azure Light Ancestor escaped. Zhao Sheng then secured the island and began questioning captured survivors as the Zhao Clan took control.

• Han Wei's Nascent Soul fled his burning body but was consumed by the World Cleansing Brahma Flame, while Zhao Sheng and Shi Jiugong escaped the Azure Light Ancestor's attacks and Zhou Li used a jade page to evade a strike.
• Zhao Xuanjing emerged from Zhou Li's golden book and jade register, used a vast yellow-light technique to imprison the Azure Light Ancestor's forces, and scattered his remaining power to capture Earth Flame Palace Golden Cores.
• The Azure Light Ancestor escaped underground with Zhou Lu and two Poison Clan members, while Zhao Sheng, Zhou Li, and Shi Jiugong joined forces to end the resistance and claim Earth Flame Island for the Southern Sky Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Sheng questioned captured Yin Cong and Fu Xin, and Fu Xin offered information about the mountain-guarding grand array after Huang Yu restarted it.
• Zhao Changdu and Shangguan Longhu and his wife arrived less than half a day after the island fell, and Zhao Clan members began demolition, reconstruction, and relocation work three days later.

After the Zhao Clan took Earth Flame Island, Zhao Changdu and Zhao Sheng opened the underground cavern and found the Unfixed Star Nucleus, which could help Zhao Changdu comprehend the Earth Dao. Zhao Sheng guarded the island and studied the Earth God Seven Flames Classic for thirty years, while the island moved close to Heaven Pillar Mountain and the seven true fires began gathering on the star nucleus.

• Zhao Changdu arrived at the central control chamber after paying Shangguan Longhu additional treasures to settle his demands, then announced that the Earth Flame Star Cave should be opened.
• Huang Yu moved the Array Jade Pillar, allowing Zhao Changdu and Zhao Sheng to enter the cavern and discover the Unfixed Star Nucleus surrounded by six kinds of Heaven and Earth True Fire.
• Zhao Changdu left the Seven Flames Fan near the star nucleus and entrusted Zhao Sheng with guarding Earth Flame Island and studying the Earth God Seven Flames Classic to learn how to wield it.
• Zhao Sheng took control of Earth Flame Island, cultivated there for thirty years, and moved it to within three hundred li of Heaven Pillar Mountain.
• The Unfixed Star Nucleus's gravitational fluctuations grew more than tenfold, and the seven great true fires gathered on its surface as Zhao Sheng examined it with his divine sense.

Zhao Sheng emerged from decades of cultivation unable to wield the Seven Flames Fan, then received Zhao Jingyu’s Heart Intent Fist manual and learned of its path toward transforming martial will. He agreed to refine a Nine Revolutions Marrow Cleansing Pill for the Emperor’s newborn son, but attached an unexplained condition to its delivery.

• Zhao Sheng concluded that he could not wield the Seven Flames Fan without mastering a chapter of the Earth God Seven flames Classic, and decided to prioritize refining the Thousand Flames Cauldron.
• Zhao Hongyan told Zhao Sheng that the new Emperor had sent a Martial Saint to deliver an heirloom, so Zhao Sheng went to meet the messenger, Zhao Zhongwu.
• Zhao Zhongwu presented Zhao Jingyu’s final relic, the Heart Intent Fist manual, and Zhao Sheng studied its five levels and Zhao Jingyu’s theories about transforming martial will.
• Zhao Zhongwu asked Zhao Sheng to make a Nine Revolutions Marrow Cleansing Pill for the Emperor’s newborn son, and Zhao Sheng agreed after accepting the prepared spiritual medicines.
• Zhao Sheng promised to deliver the pill to Dragon Capital in three months, on the condition that the person delivering it be made to suffer a little.

Zhao Sheng began the Zhao Clan’s Heaven-Piercing Earth-Penetrating excavation beneath Heaven Pillar Mountain and visited the clan’s secret estate, where he chose Zhao Zhongquan as a nominal disciple. He then climbed toward the mountain’s summit, killed a Cloud Dragon, and halted when he encountered a strangely lush region beyond the sixth cloud sea.

• Zhao Sheng ordered the Zhao Clan to begin excavating an upward passage beneath Heaven Pillar Mountain, and the clan’s cloud boats opened a vast pit in the dome above Earth Flame Island.
• After the excavation proceeded smoothly, Zhao Sheng left Earth Flame Island, while Zhao Hongyan departed for Dragon Capital aboard the Earth Piercing Shuttle.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Qingbi that the plan had begun, gave spirit pills to eight promising juniors, and secretly selected Zhao Zhongquan as his nominal disciple.
• Zhao Sheng taught Zhao Zhongquan about the Undying Golden Body before leaving the secret estate and continuing toward Heaven Pillar Mountain’s summit.
• Zhao Sheng killed a nearly thousand-year-old Cloud Dragon and, after passing the sixth cloud sea, discovered an unexpectedly lush region and retreated cautiously.

Zhao Sheng crossed Heaven Pillar Mountain’s deadly upper regions after refusing Mu Daoyuan’s offer to help raid ancient ruins. He reached the Ascension Platform and joined Zhao Xuanjing and the three great Formation Masters, whose bickering began before they could discuss their purpose.

• Zhao Sheng encountered Mu Daoyuan, who offered him Ten Thousand Year Heavenly Fragrance Wood in exchange for help entering restricted ruins, but Zhao Sheng refused and continued upward.
• Zhao Sheng crossed the upper reaches of Heaven Pillar Mountain, reflecting on the remarkably intact ancient restrictions and the mountain’s dangerous cloud layers.
• Zhao Sheng crossed the boundary membrane and reached the Ascension Platform, where a path of light brought him to Sky Terrace Plaza.
• Zhao Sheng met Zhao Xuanjing, Huang Yu, Li Ziran, and Liu Tianyi, then greeted the three Formation Masters.
• Huang Yu, Li Ziran, and Liu Tianyi traded insults and argued until Zhao Xuanjing intervened.

Zhao Xuanjing asked three formation Grandmasters to repair damaged Crystal Pillars, then recruited Zhao Sheng to study formations and seek Primordial Spirit Fruits for the Southern Sky Zhao Clan. After observing the Grandmasters at work, Zhao Sheng chose Huang Yu as his first teacher and descended with him to the fourth layer of the sea of clouds.

• Li Ziran, Liu Tianyi, and Huang Yu each attempted to repair a damaged Crystal Pillar, but only Li Ziran made slight progress.
• Zhao Xuanjing asked Zhao Sheng to study formations under the three Grandmasters and fight for a chance to obtain the Zhao Clan’s Primordial Spirit Fruits; Zhao Sheng agreed.
• Zhao Xuanjing gave Zhao Sheng two Storage Bags and entered the spatial interlayer above the Ascension Tower.
• Zhao Sheng observed the Grandmasters’ different formation techniques and used the Star God Thousand Hearts Art to record and study their methods.
• After the Grandmasters failed to make significant repairs, they agreed to teach Zhao Sheng, who chose Huang Yu as his first teacher.
• Zhao Sheng and Huang Yu left the Ascension Platform and reached a valley on the fourth layer of the sea of clouds.

Zhao Sheng learned Limitless Divine Calculation from Huang Yu and rapidly improved his spiritual power by calculating the Limitless Number. After studying Limitless Valley’s formation texts, he exchanged a valuable array disk for numerology Jade Slips and received ancient Dragon Seal and Phoenix Script scrolls from Huang Yu.

• Huang Yu taught Zhao Sheng Limitless Divine Calculation and explained how its spiritual-power benefits increased at higher levels of calculation.
• Zhao Sheng used his thousand consciousnesses in rotation to calculate the Limitless Number, reaching millions of digits and strengthening his divine sense.
• After reading the Ten Thousand Formations Pavilion’s collection, Zhao Sheng rejected Dong Tianzhen’s invitation to visit her cave abode for a Heart Questioning Array Diagram.
• Huang Yu gave Zhao Sheng Jade Slips containing the Great Evolution Heavenly Numbers and Taiji Divination Scripture in exchange for borrowing his Ten Thousand Talismans Array Disk for half a year.
• Huang Yu also gave Zhao Sheng two scrolls of Dragon Seals and Phoenix Scripts and urged him to collect similar writings from Liu Yishou and Li Bu Zhengjing to help bridge the great schools’ divisions.

Zhao Sheng refined his experiments with Spiritual Fire collisions and began studying ancient barriers while gathering treasures across Heaven Pillar Mountain. After learning formations at Sky Gazing Cliff, he arrived at Floating Light Platform, where Liu Tianyi received him only after making him wait for over half a month.

• Zhao Sheng refined Innate Gold Essence and used the Hundred Flames Cauldron to record experiments with Polar Ice Flame and Earth Core Spirit Flame.
• Zhao Sheng tested and broke an ancient barrier on Heaven Pillar Mountain, collected its Spiritual Herbs and fruits, then narrowly escaped a killing formation in the cave.
• Zhao Sheng found an eight-chi Azure Blood Treasure Tree and set to work harvesting its Azure Blood.
• Zhao Sheng traded Azure Cloud Tea with Li Ziran for the Inner Heaven spirit-preservation art and received access to the Heaven and Earth Sumeru Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng studied formations at Sky Gazing Cliff for half a year, then traveled to Floating Light Platform, where Liu Tianyi kept him waiting for over half a month before receiving him.

Zhao Sheng studied the three formation schools, gained Huang Yu’s Primal Chaos Numerology, and joined the Zhao Clan’s efforts to study the Unfixed Star Nucleus and repair the Ascension Grand Array. Over the following decades he advanced to Nascent Soul Third Level, while Zhao Changdu broke through to Nascent Soul Ninth Level and the Thousand Flames Cauldron appeared on Earth Flame Island.

• Zhao Sheng visited Floating Light Platform, studied in Youqiong Tower, and exchanged knowledge with several formation masters after Liu Tianyi rebuffed him.
• Huang Yu gave Zhao Sheng the Primal Chaos Numerology method and advised him to study the Heaven’s Will Myriad Phenomena Array in Dragon Capital.
• During an Earth Fire Tide, Zhao Sheng and three Zhao Clan ancestors studied the Unfixed Star Nucleus’s changing fluctuations, and Zhao Sheng gained insight into the laws of weight.
• Zhao Changdu announced an upcoming Nascent Soul gathering, while Zhao Sheng said he would help repair the Ascension Grand Array and offered Pleiades Thunder Iron as a gift.
• Zhao Xuanjing gave Zhao Sheng Chaotic Sky Stone Armor and cultivation resources, then let him attempt repairs on the Li Position Crystal Pillar; Zhao Sheng worked for half a year before entering seclusion.
• Over the following decades, Zhao Changdu advanced to Nascent Soul Ninth Level, Zhao Sheng reached Nascent Soul Third Level with twenty years left before the Star Gate opened, and the Thousand Flames Cauldron emerged on Earth Flame Island.

Zhao Sheng prepared for the coming Star Gate War, secured Withered Glory Great Lord’s promise to watch over him, and secretly joined the Southern Sky Zhao Clan’s expedition. After sixteen years of mobilization, the Star Gate opened over the sea.

• Zhao Hongyan negotiated with Venerable Never Hungry over a wisp of World Cleansing Brahma Flame, then Zhao Sheng punished him by sealing him inside a true-fire sphere until he refined the fire or advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Zhao Sheng met Withered Glory Great Lord at the Ascension Platform, where Zhao Xuanjing asked the Living Buddha to watch over him during the next Star Gate War.
• The Zhao Clan and other powers mobilized for war, and sixteen years later the clan’s cloud-ship fleet set out toward the Star Gate.
• Zhao Sheng secretly left the fleet and hid beneath the sea while the armies gathered above the seaweed-covered waters.
• At midnight, a vast whirlpool rose from the sea as Star God awakened and the Star Gate opened.

Zhao Sheng reunited with Zhao Youxuan and asked the Dragon’s Roar Organization to search for the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter and arrange passage to the Nether Night Realm. After boarding the Spirit Bone Flying Boat and reaching the Yama Ship, he was directed with other passengers into the right passage.

• During the battle between the Sky Pillar World and the Secluded God Realm, Zhao Sheng secretly left the battlefield and met Zhao Youxuan at sea, proving his identity with the Dragon Seal Token.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Youxuan that he needed the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter and passage to the Nether Night Realm, and Zhao Youxuan said a ticket would be available in six months.
• Zhao Sheng demonstrated his powerful escape arts and divine sense, then asked the Dragon’s Roar Organization to search discreetly for the scepter and secure his ticket.
• Six months later, Zhao Sheng boarded the Spirit Bone Flying Boat, whose masters identified several passengers as potentially troublesome and decided to leave them for the Yama Ancestor to judge.
• The Spirit Bone Flying Boat reached the Yama Ship, where the Spirit Bone Old Monster divided the passengers between two passages and sent Zhao Sheng to the right.

Zhao Sheng remained hidden aboard the Black Ship while Yama Ancestor’s followers enslaved passengers and searched for two missing people. Old Devil Han, Dao-Seeking Outcast visited Zhao Sheng and warned him about Yama Ancestor, then left after discovering Zhao Sheng had vanished from his divine sense.

• Zhao Sheng entered his assigned cabin, secretly extended his divine sense through nearby cabins, and waited as the fiends enslaved most passengers and stripped them of their treasures.
• A Wolf-Head Brute entered Zhao Sheng’s cabin but was driven away by Zhao Sheng’s command and forgot what he had been doing.
• Yan Jiu and the other Golden Core Realm fiends discovered that two passengers were missing and ordered the crew to search the Black Ship, threatening to summon Yama Ancestor if they failed to find them within three days.
• Zhao Sheng continued cultivating his divine sense secret arts while the searchers inexplicably overlooked his cabin.
• Han Wu introduced himself as Old Devil Han, Dao-Seeking Outcast, gave Zhao Sheng Dao Inquiry Pills, and warned that Yama Ancestor might come after them.
• Han Wu left Zhao Sheng’s cabin and hurried away after realizing Zhao Sheng had disappeared from his divine sense perception.

Yama Ancestor emerged from seclusion, failed to find the two hidden Nascent Soul cultivators aboard his ship, and ordered a heightened search. Five years later, Zhao Sheng revealed himself as the supposed Sky Dome Wanderer and befriended Yama Ancestor, ending their conversation with a question about whether Spirit Transformation was still possible.

• Yan Jiu reported the disappearance of the two intruders to Yama Ancestor, who punished him by draining his vitality before sparing him.
• Yama Ancestor searched the black ship with his Divine Sense but failed to find Han Mu or Zhao Sheng, then ordered the ship placed on Level Two alert.
• Han Mu escaped detection by merging into the darkness, while Zhao Sheng blocked Yama Ancestor’s Divine Sense transmission and continued meditating.
• Five years later, Zhao Sheng met Yama Ancestor and claimed to be Sky Dome Wanderer, a cultivator from the Nether Night Realm who had been trapped in the Divine Ruins.
• Zhao Sheng and Yama Ancestor discussed their pasts and the Dao, and Yama Ancestor came to regard Zhao Sheng as a powerful fellow cultivator.
• Zhao Sheng asked Yama Ancestor whether he still had hope of reaching Spirit Transformation, citing the seniors who had become Blood God Children.

Zhao Sheng recruited Yan Mo Ancestor to help search for the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter and the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array, then returned to the Nether Night Realm to recover his previous life's remains, Ice Soul, and treasures. He later confronted the Feng Yi Clan after finding it besieging the Zhao Clan, leaving Feng Yi Yong pleading that the attack had been a misunderstanding.

• Zhao Sheng persuaded Yan Mo Ancestor to join his future search for the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array and arranged to meet him at Yellow Ancestor's birthday in twenty years.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the Nether Night Realm, carefully excavated his crystallized remains, recovered a bone pearl and Golden Crow True Fire, and sealed the remains in an Obsidian Gold chest.
• Zhao Sheng retrieved the treasures he had buried on a desolate island and flew toward the Nine Demon Continent.
• The Feng Yi Clan besieged Zhao Family City, while Zhao Shao Yang and the clan elders argued over whether to surrender the ancestor's relic.
• Zhao Sheng appeared in the Feng Yi Clan's camp, where Feng Yi Yong bowed and begged forgiveness for offending the Zhao Clan.

Zhao Sheng ordered Feng Yi Yong to pressure the Qianling Zhao Family while secretly controlling the siege, then rewarded him and directed him to negotiate. After days of fighting and stalled talks, Zhao Shao Yang’s hopes for help from Divine Blade Peak faded, leaving the Zhao Clan divided over whether to surrender or use its ancestral corpses; the chapter revealed that the ordeal was only a trial.

• Zhao Sheng spared Feng Yi Yong’s clan from immediate punishment, ordered it to continue pressuring the Zhao Family, and questioned Feng Yi Yong about the Nine Demon Continent.
• Feng Yi Yong led the assault on Zhao Family City, while Zhao Shao Yang prepared the defenders and expected an envoy from Divine Blade Peak.
• The Feng Yi Clan repeatedly attacked the city for three days, suffering heavy casualties while mysteriously withdrawing whenever the Zhao Family neared defeat.
• Zhao Sheng rewarded Feng Yi Yong with a secret art and ordered him to halt the siege and negotiate with the Zhao Clan using nonviolent pressure.
• After three days of fruitless negotiations and no word from Divine Blade Peak, Zhao Shao Yang faced divided clan leaders and weighed surrender against deploying the ancestor corpses.
• The chapter revealed that the siege and negotiations were merely a trial.

Zhao Sheng helped the Feng Yi Clan take control of Black King Temple, which became the Yellow Heaven Temple and grew into a powerful new religion and sect. When the sect announced it would recruit cultivators, the Zhao Family sent Zhao Lin Zong toward the Heavenly Fire Great Plains, leaving his future there uncertain.

• The Feng Yi Clan withdrew from the Zhao Clan, and four elders who had favored surrender died mysteriously, leaving Zhao Shao Yang and Zhao Yun Ruo unable to identify the killer.
• Zhao Sheng chose Feng Yi Yong to become the new Temple Master of Black King Temple, then led him to seize control of the temple and eliminate its former leadership.
• Feng Yi Yong defeated the Fire Owl Clan, and the Feng Yi Clan expanded its power across the Heavenly Fire Plain as Black King Temple was renamed Yellow Heaven Temple.
• Yellow Heaven teachings and scriptures spread among mortals, and the Yellow Heaven Sect later announced it would recruit anyone with spirit roots and provide a path to Golden Core cultivation.
• The Zhao Family decided to send Zhao Lin Zong to join the Yellow Heaven Sect, and a Disc Boat carried him toward the Heavenly Fire Great Plains.

Zhao Sheng inspected the Void Devil Fungus experiments and continued his effort to develop a strain capable of weakening the Blood God. Three years later, Zhao Linzong visited the Medicine Old Man with an extravagant meal, hoping to build a connection.

• Feng Yi Yong presented Zhao Sheng with the sect's roster, and Zhao Sheng punished him after discovering Zhao Linzong had been ranked first among the True Inheritance Disciples.
• Feng Yi Yong changed Zhao Linzong's ranking to that of an ordinary inner disciple, and Zhao Linzong joined the Yellow Heaven Sect.
• Zhao Sheng inspected the imprisoned test subjects, treated Qin Yue, and continued his experiments to select aberrant Void Devil Fungus strains that might weaken the Blood God.
• Three years later, Zhao Linzong had advanced to the Qi Refining Eighth Level while many disciples progressed faster, though he had received the Profound Origin True Water Method from his Golden Core master.
• Zhao Linzong brought Heavenly Fragrance Meat, Eight Treasure Seasonal Duck, and Centennial Heavenly Fire Wine to the Medicine Old Man at Spirit Herb Mountain.

Zhao Sheng continued to manipulate and train Zhao Linzong while warning him about the Blood Soul Sutra and the danger in his altered cultivation. Meanwhile, Feng Yi Yong led the Yellow Heaven Sect into war against the River Otter People, and the chapter ended with Zhao Sheng giving Zhao Linzong a secret art that might save his life.

• Zhao Sheng punished Zhao Linzong for failing to notice poison, took most of the hush money, and sent him to retrieve treasures from an abandoned estate in Black Gorge.
• Half a year later, Zhao Sheng purged the Blood Soul Sutra from Zhao Linzong's cultivation and warned him about its hidden cost before sending him away with pills and tasks.
• Zhao Sheng gave Feng Yi Yong the Black King Command Token and ordered him to capture territory around Turbid Wave Lake and seize River Otter priests alive.
• Feng Yi Yong led the Yellow Heaven Sect's surprise attack on the River Otter People, and the humans gained the advantage before the Nether Night Season paused the war.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that Zhao Linzong's meridian routes had shifted during his cultivation and gave him a Nameless secret art that might prevent his spiritual power from exploding at Foundation Establishment.

Zhao Sheng refined the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter, discovered that the seemingly inert Mao Sun Gold Essence possessed nascent spirituality, and continued researching Devil Bacteria as war reshaped the region. Years later, after the Yellow Heaven Sect fell into political turmoil and Dao Zhan became acting sect leader, a colossal monstrous bird descended toward Black King Peak.

• Zhao Sheng assigned Zhao Linzong a two-year mission to obtain Chong Li’s fragment of the Heavenly Corpse Substitute Form Technique, and Zhao Linzong accepted.
• Zhao Sheng recorded the results of his Devil Bacteria experiments, finding that the strains behaved differently in mortals and cultivators and that spiritual energy intensified infection.
• The war between humans and the River Otter People resumed, while Zhao Linzong repeatedly failed to escape his assigned tasks and later reached Qi Refining Great Perfection.
• After five years of refinement, Zhao Sheng mastered the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter and used colliding true fires to expose the Mao Sun Gold Essence’s hidden spirituality.
• Years after the war ended, Feng Yi Yong died, Dao Zhan became acting sect leader, and a vast dragon-headed, elephant-bodied bird dived toward Black King Peak.