Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng accepted Yellow Ancestor’s birthday invitation and traveled to Yellow Spirit Peak, where he met Green Sky Old Ancestor after rebuffing a divine-sense challenge. He left for the celebration hoping to recruit Green Sky Old Ancestor as an ally, while also advancing his plans to refine a Spirit Treasure and visit the Divine Ruins.

• Zhao Sheng received Yellow Ancestor’s invitation from Bi Ling’er and said he would attend, telling her to pass along his wish to meet Green Sky Old Ancestor.
• Zhao Sheng repeatedly destroyed and restored the sentient Mao Sun Gold Essence with Innate Gold Essence, weakening its wariness and nurturing his ambition to refine a Spirit Treasure.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Linzong a Nascent Soul talisman treasure and agreed that he could return home, then lamented the cost of cultivation and decided to bring his Divine Ruins plans forward.
• Zhao Sheng departed Black King Peak with a grand retinue and flew to Yellow Spirit Peak for Yellow Ancestor’s birthday celebration.
• An unknown cultivator challenged Zhao Sheng with divine sense upon his arrival, but Zhao Sheng shattered the attack and exchanged greetings with Green Sky Old Ancestor.
• Green Sky Old Ancestor invited Zhao Sheng to the Longevity Hall to meet the assembled cultivators, and Zhao Sheng followed her there.

Zhao Sheng attended Yellow Ancestor’s birthday gathering at the Longevity Hall under the name Heavenly Dome and encountered cultivators with grudges against him. When Thunder Peng Ancestor demanded that he return half of Turbid Wave Lake to the River Otter Tribe, Zhao Sheng challenged him, and the two began a contest of divine sense inside a wine cup.

• Green Sky Old Ancestor escorted Zhao Sheng through the Longevity Hall and showed him to his seat among the Nascent Soul Ancestors.
• Fang Ziqi questioned Zhao Sheng about his identity, while He Tai glared at him from a distant platform.
• Mo Bieli visited Zhao Sheng, accepted two fourth-grade low-grade treasure talismans, and warned him that Ten Thousand Show Mushroom Mother had threatened the human race over its expansion.
• Wu Tao, Ghost Fox, and Earth Python persuaded Thunder Peng Ancestor to mediate on the River Otter Tribe’s behalf.
• Thunder Peng Ancestor demanded that Zhao Sheng return half of Turbid Wave Lake, and Zhao Sheng refused, mocking the value of Thunder Peng’s face.
• Thunder Peng Ancestor attacked with a lightning-wreathed wine cup, and Zhao Sheng met the assault with golden flames as their divine senses clashed within it.

Zhao Sheng fended off Thunder Peng Ancestor, traded Prolonging Life Pills with gathered Nascent Soul Ancestors, and waited for Yellow Ancestor’s birthday celebration. When Yellow Spirit Peak transformed and revealed its stone eyes, Zhao Sheng realized Mountain Spirits were Earth Deities, just as two Nascent Soul Ancestors suddenly exploded.

• Thunder Peng Ancestor attacked Zhao Sheng, but Green Sky Old Ancestor intervened and ended their clash before Thunder Peng and the other foreign-race ancestors fled.
• After witnessing Zhao Sheng hold his own against Thunder Peng Ancestor, Nascent Soul Ancestors sought his acquaintance, and Zhao Sheng traded Prolonging Life Pills for valuable treasures and Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence.
• Fang Ziqi exchanged three strands of Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence for a mid-grade Prolonging Life Pill, then failed to persuade Zhao Sheng to sell the pill formula.
• Seven days later, the Nascent Soul Ancestors gathered at Ten Thousand Laws Hall as Yellow Spirit Peak rose to ten thousand zhang and revealed two enormous stone eyes.
• Zhao Sheng recognized Yellow Ancestor and the Mountain Spirit race as Earth Deities, while two Nascent Soul Ancestors exploded and their blood-colored phantoms were swallowed by the Profound Yellow Earth Qi.

Zhao Sheng attended Yellow Ancestor’s exposition of the Dao, then recruited Nascent Soul Ancestors for an expedition to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. After two years of cultivation at Black King Cave, he received a desperate message from Little Zongzi and vanished to help him.

• Yellow Ancestor’s exposition greatly strengthened Zhao Sheng’s divine sense and understanding of several Dao principles, and the Nascent Soul Ancestors entered seclusion to absorb their gains.
• Zhao Sheng and Yama Ancestor selected Xian Kong Ancestor and Ou Feng as potential members of their expedition, and Zhao Sheng agreed to Xian Kong’s demand for first choice of two treasures.
• Zhao Sheng, Yama, Xian Kong, and Nine Lives Ancestor agreed to meet at the outskirts of the Divine Ruins fifteen years later, and Zhao Sheng exchanged treasures with Nine Lives after they sparred.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Black King Peak with the Yellow Heaven Sect disciples and spent the next two years cultivating in Black King Cave.
• Zhao Sheng received a transmission from Little Zongzi begging for help and immediately disappeared.

Zhao Sheng arrived during Zhao Linzong and Quan Mei’s desperate battle over the Prison God Palace Talisman, killed the pursuing Golden Core cultivators, and rescued Zhao Linzong. After healing him, Zhao Sheng threatened Quan Mei, while Zhao Linzong tried to bargain for both their lives by revealing the hidden Medicine Old Man, only to learn Zhao Sheng already knew.

• Zhao Linzong and Quan Mei were overwhelmed by the bone-armored man’s ghostly bone claws, and Quan Mei sent the Prison God Palace Talisman flying toward their attackers.
• Zhao Linzong used his jade pearl to unleash golden true fire, killing the bone-armored man and two Golden Core High Priests, while Zhao Sheng caught the fleeing black light and killed its owner.
• Zhao Sheng killed the white-haired boy, the sixth-level Golden Core leader of the Azure Snow Sect, and Zhao Linzong recognized him as a Yellow Heaven Sect elder.
• Zhao Sheng questioned Zhao Linzong, healed his injuries with a Jade-White Pure Bottle, and then threatened to kill Quan Mei despite Zhao Linzong’s plea for mercy.
• Quan Mei offered her life to spare Zhao Linzong, who tried to save them by revealing the Medicine Old Man in the sect’s back mountain.
• Zhao Sheng revealed that he already knew the Medicine Old Man was hidden in Ginseng Garden, leaving Zhao Linzong in despair.

Zhao Sheng spared Zhao Linzong and Xiao Quan'er, binding them to serve him and enter the Divine Prison Palace for its treasures. After completing his Devil Bacteria experiments and preparing the Yellow Heaven Sect for his absence, he sealed Black King Cave and secretly flew toward the far end of the Heavenly Dome above Yun Province.

• Zhao Linzong recognized that Zhao Sheng was testing them, and Zhao Sheng spared him and Xiao Quan'er after learning she was the Eternal Xiao Family's heir.
• Zhao Sheng forced Zhao Linzong and Xiao Quan'er to take Seven Insects Seven Flowers Pills, ordered them to enter the Divine Prison Palace when it opened, and gave them communication jade tablets.
• Zhao Linzong and Xiao Quan'er discovered the battlefield's abandoned treasures, and Zhao Linzong later found Zhao Sheng's jade slip in the emptied ginseng garden.
• Zhao Sheng completed the seventh-generation Bacteria-Suppressing Pill experiment, prompting Dao Zhan to mobilize the Yellow Heaven Sect to capture test subjects and expand its influence.
• Zhao Sheng destroyed the experiment fields, gave Dao Zhan a Nascent Soul talisman treasure, and ordered the sect to contract its territory while he entered closed cultivation.
• Zhao Sheng sealed Black King Cave behind a third-tier Wu Earth Vajra Array, then secretly flew toward the far end of the Heavenly Dome above Yun Province.

Zhao Sheng traveled to the God Ruins Meteor Sea with Xian Kong Ancestor, Nine Lives Ghost King, and other Nascent Soul cultivators, then followed the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter toward the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, Thunder Peng Ancestor, Gloomy Vulture Youth, and Fairy Mushroom confirmed Zhao Sheng’s trail and prepared a killing trap for him.

• Zhao Sheng arrived at the Nameless meteorite, met Xian Kong Ancestor and other Nascent Soul cultivators, and boarded Zhou Palace Ancestor’s Mayfly Palace with Nine Lives Ghost King.
• During the journey, Zhao Sheng destroyed a Void Ghost King and a swarm of Void Ghosts, then broke through to the fifth level of Nascent Soul before Mayfly Palace reached the Divine Ruins.
• Zhao Sheng, Xian Kong Ancestor, and Nine Lives Ghost King traveled to a dark-red iron meteorite and waited for Yama Ancestor and Ou Feng to join them.
• Yama Ancestor arrived with Ou Feng, and Zhao Sheng used the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter to guide the group into the Meteor Sea in search of the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
• Thunder Peng Ancestor, Gloomy Vulture Youth, and Fairy Mushroom found the mark on the iron meteorite and revealed their plan to kill Zhao Sheng in the Divine Ruins.

Zhao Sheng and his companions crossed the Profound Spirit Domain, gathered treasures, and found a Small Spirit Sky where they rested and traded. After leaving with a valuable trove, they remained unaware that Thunder Peng Ancestor’s group was waiting outside.

• Zhao Sheng’s group endured void storms and meteor collisions, collecting several strands of Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence as they traveled through the Profound Spirit Domain.
• A year into their pursuit, Zhao Sheng used the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter to adjust their route toward their shifting destination, and the group followed jade pearls to Gui Mei Small Spirit Sky.
• Zhao Sheng and his companions met eight Nascent Soul cultivators at the Small Spirit Sky and attended a welcoming banquet where Yama Ancestor described their planned search for a Void Devil Ray nest.
• The cultivators held a trade fair, and Zhao Sheng acquired Ten Thousand Ripple Illusion Gold along with other rare materials.
• After resting, Zhao Sheng’s group departed while Thunder Peng Ancestor and his companions, unable to enter the Small Spirit Sky, watched them leave.

Zhao Sheng led Yan Mo, Xian Kong, Ou Feng, and Nine Lives to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, where the group descended in search of its treasures. Below the surface, they discovered a cavern of crystallized corpses and a spreading danger that trapped Nine Lives, while Zhao Sheng headed toward the Earth Core Demon Cavern.

• After three months of tracking, Zhao Sheng opened a passage through the nebula surrounding the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, and the group entered.
• Nine Lives, Yan Mo, and Xian Kong descended into the dark star, while Ou Feng became absorbed in studying the formation and Zhao Sheng prepared himself with flames and talismans before following.
• As Yan Mo and Xian Kong descended, they found increasingly rich spirit crystals and reached a vast cavern containing a crystal peak filled with powerful corpses.
• Yan Mo recognized the Demon Fang Mushroom Mother among the corpses, while Xian Kong began coughing blood mixed with crystalline granules.
• Nine Lives screamed for help as crystal silk entangled its ghostly forms and began pulling them into the Crystal Peak.

Yan Mo, Xian Kong, and Ou Feng fled as the Void Devil Fungus awakened the Crystal Corpses and trapped them inside the Variegated Nebula. Zhao Sheng watched the battle from safety, then gave Yan Mo a pill that slowed the fungus’s crystal corruption.

• Yan Mo lost control as the Void Devil Fungus emerged from his body, while the Nine Lives Ghost King's ghost bodies were trapped in Crystal Silk.
• Xian Kong warned Zhao Sheng to flee, and Zhao Sheng escaped the underground as Yan Mo's monstrous true form burst through the ground.
• Zhao Sheng refused to open the passage, vanished before Yan Mo's attack, and left Yan Mo, Xian Kong, and Ou Feng to face the Crystal Corpses.
• The Crystal Corpses overwhelmed Yan Mo, who abandoned his body and fled in a Corpse King's form as the fungus spread through the cultivators resisting it.
• After watching Yan Mo weaken, Zhao Sheng attacked the Crystal Corpses, offered him a pill, and Yan Mo swallowed it, slowing the corruption and clearing his mind.

Zhao Sheng used the Heart Devil Soul Locking Curse to make Xian Kong Ancestor, Daoist Ou Feng, and finally Yama Ancestor submit to him, then led them out of the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. After reaching a desolate meteorite, he gave Ou Feng a pill to suppress his Devil Bacteria infection, while Xian Kong berated Yan Mo for defying their new master.

• Zhao Sheng offered Yama Ancestor a cure in exchange for accepting the Heart Devil Soul Locking Curse, but Yan Mo refused and Zhao Sheng left him to fend for himself.
• Zhao Sheng found Xian Kong Ancestor trapped by Crystal Corpses and gave him a Bacteria-Suppressing Pill; Xian Kong accepted the curse and pledged loyalty to Zhao Sheng.
• Xian Kong volunteered to persuade Yan Mo while Zhao Sheng constructed an illusion array and met Daoist Ou Feng, who recognized Zhao Sheng's world by its array style and agreed to submit.
• Zhao Sheng planted the curse on Ou Feng, and the two joined Xian Kong to rescue Yan Mo; after Xian Kong's persuasion, Yan Mo also accepted the curse.
• Zhao Sheng opened a passage through the nebula with the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter and led all three Ancestors out of the Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Sheng gave Ou Feng a Bacteria-Suppressing Pill, and Xian Kong scolded Yan Mo for speaking disrespectfully to their master.

Zhao Sheng subdued Yan Mo, Xian Kong, Thunder Roc, and He Tai with the Heart Demon Soul-Locking Curse, then used them to lure and fight the Crystal Corpses inside the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. After ordering the four to retreat and recover, he sent them back into the realm to begin another hunting war.

• Zhao Sheng tortured Yan Mo with the Soul-Locking Curse until he submitted and revealed the ambush planned by Thunder Roc and the others.
• Zhao Sheng instructed Yan Mo and Xian Kong to lure Thunder Roc, Fairy Mushroom Mother, and the Gloomy Vulture Youth into Dark Star, then escaped through the nebula passage with Xian Kong while the trap caught the others.
• Zhao Sheng forced Thunder Roc and the Gloomy Vulture Youth to accept the curse, then made the four captives take turns fighting the Crystal Corpses on Dark Star.
• The four Nascent Soul cultivators battled the Crystal Corpses until Zhao Sheng ordered them to retreat, and the creatures stopped at the nebula boundary.
• After ten days of recovery, Zhao Sheng sent the four cultivators back into the Spirit Realm to begin another round of hunting.

Zhao Sheng and his companions witnessed the Seven Stars Spirit Realm vanish in a Space-Time Grand Shift, then tracked it into the Black Abyss Domain. When they found it again, the awakened Void Devil Fungus was fighting a vast army of Void Devil Rays, forcing Zhao Sheng’s group to retreat and wait for the battle to end.

• Zhao Sheng discovered that space-time fluctuations were disrupting Phase Displacement and learned that his Nascent Soul subordinates were running out of supplies and strength.
• The Seven Stars Spirit Realm disappeared in a Space-Time Grand Shift, and Daoist Ou Feng gave Zhao Sheng his observations of its grand formation.
• Zhao Sheng led five Nascent Souls through the Black Abyss Domain for months until they found the Spirit Realm again.
• The group witnessed a million Void Devil Rays clash with a gigantic Crystal Tree as the awakened Void Devil Fungus revealed its overwhelming power.
• Zhao Sheng led his companions more than eight hundred li away to hide, then returned two days later and found the battle over and the Nebula Maze Realm restored.

Zhao Sheng and the others investigated the Light Star, where Yan Mo and Thunder Roc discovered an underground Inter-Realm Teleportation Array and a strange ore whose crystal grains could dissolve Devil Bacteria crystals. Zhao Sheng identified the grains as the Devil Bacteria’s nemesis and began studying their powerful dark green radiance.

• Thunder Roc Ancestor, Yan Mo, and He Tai discussed escaping Zhao Sheng’s control, but Xian Kong Ancestor urged them to focus on destroying the Void Devil Fungus before Zhao Sheng ordered everyone to move out.
• Zhao Sheng waited until the Crystal Silk withdrew from the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, then sent Yan Mo and Thunder Roc into the Light Star to investigate.
• Yan Mo and Thunder Roc returned with a recording pearl showing an underground Inter-Realm Teleportation Array and brought Zhao Sheng a piece of gray ore.
• Zhao Sheng examined the array, ordered the others to search for more ore, and tested the crystal grains embedded in the sample.
• Zhao Sheng confirmed that the grains dissolved Devil Bacteria crystals into spiritual qi and discovered that their dark green radiance could penetrate multiple layers of Mana shields.
• Yan Mo, Thunder Roc, and the others returned with a small pile of ore, and Zhao Sheng observed that its radiance increased geometrically with the amount of crystal.

Zhao Sheng and the Nascent Souls used Azure Haze Nether Crystals to cure their Crystallization Disease, then gathered Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence and hunted down the Void Devil Fungus’s Crystal Corpses. After five more relocations of the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, He Tai suffered cracks in his Nascent Soul and divine soul, which Zhao Sheng and the others suspected were caused by spacetime pressure.

• Yan Mo, Thunder Roc, Xian Kong, Ou Feng, and He Tai healed within the Azure Haze Nether Crystal radiation, curing their Crystallization Disease but losing cultivation and lifespan; Yan Mo suffered the worst losses.
• Three months later, the Seven Stars Spirit Realm shifted, and Zhao Sheng and the others collected twenty-three strands of Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence before Zhao Sheng divided some among them.
• Zhao Sheng refined Nether Crystal Pills, then led the five Nascent Souls in repeated hunts that eliminated the Crystal Corpses and left the Void Devil Fungus without its forces.
• After five more Spirit Realm relocations, He Tai discovered cracks in his Nascent Soul Dharma body and divine soul, and Zhao Sheng gave him Soul-Nourishing Pills.
• Daoist Ou Feng and Yan Mo concluded that repeated shifts had exposed He Tai to spacetime pressure, which they called Time Pressure.

Zhao Sheng and the others confronted the weakened Void Devil Fungus beneath Dark Star and subdued it. After taking its six Primordial Spirit Fruits, Zhao Sheng sealed the fungus and hid it in a Fire Phoenix Grand Array, while Dark Star began releasing vast amounts of Spiritual Energy.

• Zhao Sheng and four Nascent Soul Ancestors planted 1,108 formation banners across Dark Star, then descended into its cavern and discovered the Devil Fungus’s weakened aura beneath a lake of spiritual liquid.
• Zhao Sheng and the four formed an array and attacked the crystalline giant tree, with their combined strength overcoming the fungus’s spiritual assault and destroying its outer body.
• Zhao Sheng stopped the attack when the core crystal tree was exposed, took its six Primordial Spirit Fruits, and warned Xian Kong not to question him.
• Zhao Sheng used nine Azure Glow Crystal Pearls to seal the core tree and suppress the Devil Fungus until it fell dormant.
• Zhao Sheng buried the sealed fungus beneath a Fire Phoenix Grand Array, while Yan Mo and the others restored their Mana and Spiritual Energy began pouring out across Dark Star.

Zhao Sheng and his companions uncovered four Devil Bacteria treasure pits and an immense hoard of Spirit Stones, which Zhao Sheng claimed and partly distributed to his subordinates. He then brought Daoist Ou Feng to inspect the ruined Inter-Realm Teleportation Array and learned there was a small chance they could use it as a reference to repair the array on Light Star.

• Zhao Sheng collected twenty-six Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepters from the jade pillars and joined Xian Kong Ancestor at a treasure pit filled with precious materials and ancient magic treasures.
• Zhao Sheng claimed the treasures from four pits, while Yan Mo, Thunder Roc, and He Tai searched nearby and watched him take the valuable finds.
• Zhao Sheng ordered Xian Kong Ancestor to fetch Daoist Ou Feng and allowed his subordinates to take portions of the Spirit Stone hoard after explaining that the stones contained Devil Bacteria spores.
• Daoist Ou Feng gave Zhao Sheng a Storage Bag holding a captured Void Devil Fungus, and Zhao Sheng led him to examine the ruined Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Daoist Ou Feng said the array resembled the one on Light Star and estimated a twenty percent chance of repairing it, though the pair could not address its core foundation in the Void Realm.

Zhao Sheng organized the collection of Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence and assigned the Nascent Souls their duties while Ou Feng worked to break the barrier around the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array. He cultivated with rare resources and explored an apricot-yellow ring he suspected was a Sumeru Ring, then rewarded Ou Feng when the barrier fell and Ou Feng recognized the Limitless Treasure Eye as his lineage’s lost heirloom.

• Zhao Sheng and the four Nascent Souls collected Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence, and He Tai Ancestor and the others asked to avoid future spatial displacements because of their injuries.
• Zhao Sheng sent Yan Mo and He Tai to heal, ordered Xian Kong to manage Dark Star, and assigned Thunder Peng to patrol the Spirit Realm’s outskirts.
• Zhao Sheng tried to explore the apricot-yellow ring’s spatial maze while refining ancient treasures, then swallowed pills and used Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence to cultivate.
• After three days, Zhao Sheng found that Ou Feng had broken the barrier around the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array and rewarded him with the Limitless Treasure Eye.
• Ou Feng recognized the Limitless Treasure Eye as the lost Natal Treasure of Ancestor Zhen Pi and an heirloom of his lineage.

Zhao Sheng and Daoist Ou Feng successfully used newly created Heaven Mending Fluid to repair the Gengyi pillar of the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array. After the Seven Stars Spirit Realm vanished, Zhao Sheng led his group into the lethal Black Abyss Domain, where they struggled through a storm of fast-moving asteroid fragments toward the Primal Chaos Realm.

• Zhao Sheng gave Daoist Ou Feng a golden artifact that turned out to be his rightful treasure, strengthening their resolve to repair the grand array.
• Zhao Sheng and Daoist Ou Feng studied recordings of the damaged array, built a replica pillar, and devised a repair plan for the Gengyi pillar.
• Zhao Sheng refined Heaven Mending Fluid and used it to seal the pillar's crack, reconnecting its severed array patterns without triggering a backlash.
• The Seven Stars Spirit Realm vanished, and Zhao Sheng led Yan Mo, Thunder Roc, Xian Kong Ancestor, Daoist Ou Feng, and He Tai into the Meteor Sea.
• The group dodged deadly asteroid fragments in the Black Abyss Domain, but Daoist Ou Feng and Zhao Sheng's defensive shields were struck, and the others grew nearly exhausted as they neared the Primal Chaos Realm.

Zhao Sheng and his companions escaped the Devouring Sky Demon Toad and eventually returned to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, where Zhao Sheng continued restoring array pillars and subduing the Devil Bacteria tree. More than a decade later, three array pillars had been repaired, the Devil Bacteria’s resistance had weakened, and Zhao Sheng had run out of materials for Heaven Mending Fluid.

• He Tai led the group to an asteroid to rest, where they disturbed a dormant Devouring Sky Demon Toad; it swallowed He Tai and forced Zhao Sheng and the others to flee.
• Yan Mo suspected the Seven Stars Spirit Realm had shifted near the Primal Chaos Realm, so Zhao Sheng agreed they would avoid entering it; after resting, the group reached the Spirit Realm and entered through its gate.
• Zhao Sheng used the Demon-Subduing and Devil-Vanquishing Spell to gradually penetrate the Devil Bacteria tree’s defenses while Daoist Ou Feng helped him devise a plan to restore the Bing-Ding Array Pillar.
• Zhao Sheng restored the Bing-Ding Array Pillar two years later, and over the following decade he and his companions endured repeated dangers while tracking the shifting Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Sheng restored the Wu-Jia Array Pillar, leaving four pillars unrepaired; the Devil Bacteria’s resistance had weakened, but Zhao Sheng had exhausted his materials for Heaven Mending Fluid.