Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng was swept from the Seven Stars Spirit Realm into the Primal Chaos Realm, where he survived a Space-Time Storm and found himself on an endless Dark-Gold Giant Pillar. After following the pillar through Chaos and passing through a light curtain, he arrived in an ancient world and recognized a Five-Colored Ice Lotus.

• Zhao Sheng was caught in a Space-Time Storm and dragged into the Nine Nether Void Realm, where violent currents wounded him and shattered his Nascent Soul Domain.
• Zhao Sheng awoke on a vast Dark-Gold Giant Pillar, discovered that its scales revealed the Great Dao True Script for "Firm," and collected Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence.
• Zhao Sheng found that the Nine Underworlds Pagoda had vanished, then traveled along the pillar for days while his divine sense steadily drained away.
• Zhao Sheng reached a transparent light curtain, but wisps of fine light flashed from his waist and drew him through it, leaving him unconscious.
• Zhao Sheng awoke in a vast ancient world filled with rich spiritual energy and recognized a Five-Colored Ice Lotus growing nearby.

Zhao Sheng found himself in a strange, spiritually rich realm where the Golden Haired Giant Ape repeatedly captured him and treated him like a toy. After he finally escaped, he awoke in a familiar snowfield and concealed himself to investigate a disturbance in the mountains.

• Zhao Sheng collected a Five-Colored Ice Lotus, killed an Azure Sky Cold Viper, and wondered whether he had entered the Spirit World.
• Zhao Sheng reasoned that the dark-gold pillar might have belonged to a vast creature and that the Nine Underworlds Pagoda might have triggered his arrival in the realm.
• The Golden Haired Giant Ape seized Zhao Sheng, suppressed his powers, and carried him to its lair, where he repeatedly tried and failed to escape.
• After seven days of being caught and released, Zhao Sheng slipped out of the ape's lair and flew more than a hundred thousand miles before losing consciousness over a lake.
• Zhao Sheng woke in a familiar snow-covered wilderness, heard signs of a battle in the mountains, and concealed himself to investigate.

Zhao Sheng watched an azure powerhouse battle white ape great demons in the Glacier Basin, then met a mysterious Long-Bearded Old Man who urged him to comprehend an approaching battle. A colossal Golden Haired Giant Ape appeared, and after it attacked, the old man invoked a World Honored One with a strange talisman as the world convulsed around Zhao Sheng.

• Zhao Sheng concealed himself and watched an azure light fight seven or eight white ape great demons above the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The Long-Bearded Old Man stopped Zhao Sheng from leaving and told him to watch the battle carefully for a rare opportunity.
• A colossal Great Ape King appeared, and Zhao Sheng recognized it as the Golden Haired Giant Ape grown into a peerless Demon Saint.
• The Great Ape King accused the old man of injuring its descendants and attacked Zhao Sheng and the old man with a heaven-obscuring palm.
• The Long-Bearded Old Man shielded Zhao Sheng with his pill cauldron, invoked a World Honored One through a multicolored talisman, and the palm vanished as heaven and earth violently changed.

Zhao Sheng witnessed Ape Hong’s battle with the World Honored One and learned how the Demon Saint was eventually subdued, rebelled, and destroyed. After the old man in green robes sent him into the world of Dao threads, Zhao Sheng deepened his understanding of the Great Dao of Metal and emerged above a mountain range where powerful apes appeared.

• The Great Ape King, Ape Hong, attacked the sky with punches and uprooted mountains before unleashing the Golden Light of the Great Dao of Metal and the Great Dao of Strength.
• The old man in green robes told Zhao Sheng that Ape Hong had been subdued by the World Honored One, later betrayed the faith, and ultimately destroyed his own saintly body.
• The old man sent Zhao Sheng’s Primordial Spirit into the world of Dao threads, where Zhao Sheng watched the World Honored One’s white light bind Ape Hong’s Dharma form and gained insight into the Great Dao of Metal.
• A trace of white light appeared in Zhao Sheng’s soul and vanished with radiance from a jade-white book, while an indescribable existence in an immortal realm failed to see through the disturbance.
• Zhao Sheng returned above a mountain range, sensed several Spirit Transformation-level auras, and fled as enormous apes emerged from golden light below.

Zhao Sheng explored a strange world where the trees produced valuable spirit water, beasts attacked him, and mysterious white spheres rapidly increased his cultivation. After surviving a night of world-spanning scripture chants and repeatedly failing to escape the world, he fled a pack of demon apes while Phase Displacement remained unusable.

• Zhao Sheng gathered Clear Spirit Jade Liquid from an Ancient Giant Tree until a furious Black-Haired Silverback Great Ape attacked him.
• Zhao Sheng killed the ape king with the Thousand Flames Cauldron and a jade sword, then absorbed a white sphere that boosted his Mana and divine sense.
• Zhao Sheng endured a night of scripture chanting that threatened to assimilate his consciousness, then tried and failed three times to leave the world.
• Zhao Sheng killed the demonic beasts that attacked him after his failed attempts, and their white spheres forced his cultivation up through the Nascent Soul Seventh Level.
• Zhao Sheng fled from seven or eight Purple-Haired Demon Apes without fighting them, but Phase Displacement failed to activate again.

Zhao Sheng escaped his pursuers and was drawn into a conversation with Ape Hong, who explained that Forgotten Heaven was part of the Nine Nether Void Realm and the Thought Realm was a remnant of his thoughts after death. When the chanting triggered Ape Hong’s fury and the realm began to collapse, Zhao Sheng called out to him and the world returned to normal.

• Zhao Sheng used three Hundred Mile Rainbow Transformation Talismans to escape the Purple-Haired Beasts, then flew across Forgotten Heaven to draw out a variable.
• Ape Hong appeared on a beach, identified himself as the Golden Sun Great Saint, and asked how Zhao Sheng had reached Forgotten Heaven and the Thought Realm.
• Ape Hong explained that Forgotten Heaven gathered forgotten memories and that his Thought Realm would collapse once all living beings forgot him.
• As the nightly chanting grew louder, Ape Hong became furious and offered to teach Zhao Sheng his supreme divine abilities and immortal arts.
• Ape Hong forgot the arts he meant to teach, raged against the Supreme Celestial Venerable, and caused the Thought Realm to break apart.
• Zhao Sheng shouted for Ape Hong to wake up, and the collapsing world stopped before returning to normal.

Zhao Sheng met Ape Hong in Forgotten Heaven, received the Size Altering Immortal Art and knowledge meant to guide him toward the Great Saint’s other requests, then returned to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. After Daoist Ou Feng privately asked whether he had fallen into the Nine Nether Void Realm, Zhao Sheng reacted cautiously and asked why.

• Ape Hong offered Zhao Sheng three immortal arts in exchange for finding its remnant, locating descendants of the Ten Divine Apes, and spreading its name through temples and incense.
• Ape Hong gave Zhao Sheng space-time coordinates for the Supreme Clarity Realm, taught him about the Ten Divine Apes, and passed on the Size Altering Immortal Art, which Zhao Sheng discovered he could cultivate only after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Sheng accepted Ape Hong’s request to return to Forgotten Heaven someday, suspected its hidden intentions, and asked to be sent back to the present world.
• Zhao Sheng returned through the Nine Underworlds Pagoda to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, where Xian Kong Ancestor, Yan Mo, Thunder Roc, and Daoist Ou Feng confirmed he was unharmed.
• Daoist Ou Feng met Zhao Sheng privately and asked whether he had fallen into the Nine Nether Void Realm, prompting Zhao Sheng to question how he knew.

Zhao Sheng recovered from his journey through the Thought Realm, returned to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, and spent years gathering resources before repairing its Inter-Realm Teleportation Array. After completing his first goal, he revealed to Daoist Ou Feng that he had come from the Sky Pillar World.

• Zhao Sheng discovered that the Great Saint Hair inside the Nine Underworlds Pagoda was unreachable, then raised his mana and returned to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Sheng subdued the Void Devil Fungus ancestral seed, and the Seven Stars Spirit Realm later vanished from the Primal Chaos Realm.
• Zhao Sheng and his four companions reached Treasure Arrival Grotto-Heaven, where they traded Spirit Realm treasures and gathered resources to repair the array.
• Zhao Sheng advanced to the Nascent Soul Seventh Level and learned from Zhao Youxuan that Zhao Hai Kui and many Defying Heaven Alliance elders had died in a surprise attack.
• Zhao Sheng, Thunder Roc, and Ou Feng returned to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and restored the final four damaged array pillars.
• Zhao Sheng thanked Daoist Ou Feng for his help and disclosed that he had come from the Sky Pillar World.

Zhao Sheng brought Daoist Ou Feng to the Secluded God Realm and learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect was preparing to attack the spacetime seal before the Star Gate opened. He grew an ancestral Void Devil Fungus and set out alone to carry out a dangerous plan against the sect.

• Zhao Sheng revealed his identity as Zhao Qiong Tian and persuaded Daoist Ou Feng to travel to the Sky Pillar World by promising him a chance to study and repair the Ascension Grand Array.
• Zhao Sheng and Daoist Ou Feng arrived in the Secluded God Realm and met Zhao Youxuan, who reported the Heavenly Dao Sect's military buildup near the Ten Thousand Bones Underworld Abyss.
• Zhao Youxuan estimated that the Star Gate would open in less than a year, leaving little time to stop the Heavenly Dao Sect from attacking the spacetime seal.
• Zhao Sheng proposed using his ancestral Void Devil Fungus against the Heavenly Dao Sect and revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Zhao Sheng and Daoist Ou Feng prepared a cave formation, and Zhao Sheng spent three months feeding Spirit Stones to enlarge the fungus before setting out alone on his mission.

Zhao Sheng infiltrated the Heavenly Dao Sect’s invasion force and planted Devil Bacteria among its fortresses and corpse army before Thick Earth Emperor Lord discovered him. The two confronted each other across the bone fields, with Zhao Sheng resisting the Emperor Lord’s attacks and refusing his offer to surrender.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect assembled its army around the spacetime rift in Ten Thousand Bones Underworld Abyss and sent Inspector Xiao to inspect the Floating Fortresses.
• Zhao Sheng used the inspection mission to infiltrate the army and plant sealed Devil Bacteria pearls in fortresses, flying divine temples, and the corpse ghost army.
• After the inspection ended, Thick Earth Emperor Lord attacked Zhao Sheng, who escaped the first strikes using his talismans and Phase Displacement.
• Zhao Sheng confronted Thick Earth Emperor Lord’s Primordial Spirit avatar and used Profound Light to repel the Emperor Lord’s covert spiritual test.
• Thick Earth Emperor Lord offered Zhao Sheng a position in the Heavenly Dao Sect, but Zhao Sheng challenged his attempt to deceive him.

Zhao Sheng fought Thick Earth Emperor Lord at the Heavenly Dao Sect’s main camp, escaped after revealing the power of his treasures and abilities, and secretly released Devil Bacteria spores throughout the camp. The chapter ended when Liu Wen coughed up phlegm with crystalline light, signaling that the Crystallization Disease had begun to spread.

• Thick Earth Emperor Lord attacked Zhao Sheng with an ancient stone axe, and Zhao Sheng countered with the Three Yang Blazing Fire Banner and the Thousand Flames Cauldron.
• Zhao Sheng severed his legs to escape the Earth Qi binding, resisted Thick Earth Emperor Lord’s attacks, and displaced himself beyond the camp’s detection range.
• Thick Earth Emperor Lord intensified the camp’s patrols, but Zhao Sheng remained nearby and secretly observed the Heavenly Dao Sect for several days.
• When the half-month deadline arrived, sealed crystal beads aboard Flying Divine Temples and Floating Fortresses turned to dust, releasing sparse Devil Bacteria spores into the air.
• Zhao Sheng watched from a bone mountain as Liu Wen began coughing up phlegm containing faint crystalline light, while Junior Brother Wu cried out in alarm at another puddle.

Crystallization Disease spread through the Heavenly Dao Sect and its corpse army, while the Emperor Lords identified an unknown fungus and debated how to stop it. After Heaven Sword left the others, Zhao Sheng sensed danger and fled, only to find the Emperor Lord’s sword waiting in his path.

• Liu Wen and the disciples discovered crystal grains in their phlegm and blood, and Junior Brother Wu transformed into a mass of multiplying crystals after taking a spirit pill.
• The Golden Core High Priest found crystals breaking through his own palm, and Crystallization Disease spread through nearly half the sect’s members and the corpse army.
• The Emperor Lords learned that an unknown fungus caused the disease, and Thick Earth said Primordial Spirit power could treat some cultivators but slowly.
• Heaven Sword departed after learning the Sect Master was bringing the sect’s supreme treasure, while Thick Earth and the Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor returned to their respective domains.
• Zhao Sheng sensed a deadly threat, blocked Heaven Sword’s strike with his arm, and fled until a small silver-white sword appeared in front of him.

Zhao Sheng survived an encounter with Heaven Sword Emperor Lord and agreed to retrieve its lost sword sheath in exchange for its protection and defection to the Sky Pillar World. As the sword departed, Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor trapped Zhao Sheng with a soul-targeting attack and demanded that he return with it.

• Zhao Sheng tried to escape Heaven Sword Emperor Lord, but the sword followed him through the void and wounded him through his defenses.
• After Heaven Sword Emperor Lord warned Zhao Sheng of his deadly fortune, Zhao Sheng guessed that it opposed the Heavenly Dao and urged it to leave for the Sky Pillar World.
• Heaven Sword Emperor Lord revealed that it was shackled by the Heavenly Dao Sect and offered to protect Zhao Sheng's clan for three thousand years if he retrieved its wooden sword sheath.
• Heaven Sword Emperor Lord departed after naming Zhao Sheng the thirteenth person it had chosen to help fulfill its wish.
• A black light pierced Zhao Sheng's defenses and disrupted his Phase Displacement, then Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor appeared and ordered him to return to the Ten Thousand Bones Underworld Abyss.

Zhao Sheng escaped the Secluded God Realm after using Zhao Subduing Dragon to delay Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor, then returned to the Sky Pillar World aboard the Zhao Clan's Floating Fortress. As the fortress neared the Central Continent, Zhao Sheng learned how the clan had changed and discovered that his disciple Zhao Hongyan had joined the Water Mother Palace for Yue Feifei.

• Zhao Sheng summoned Zhao Subduing Dragon, who struck Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor with the Mountain Dragon and Earthspirit Light Cloud while Zhao Sheng fled through repeated teleports.
• The Star Gate battle ended in victory for the Sky Pillar World, and the weakened Heavenly Dao Sect faced condemnation after news of its losses and the Third Invasion Plan spread.
• Aboard the Zhao Clan's Floating Fortress, Zhao Sheng sparred with Zhao Qiong Yu and reunited with Daoist Ou Feng and Zhao Shanhe on the journey to the Central Continent.
• Zhao Sheng learned that the Southern Sky Zhao Clan had grown powerful but still had fifteen Nascent Soul Ancestors, while Zhao Jingheng had advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhao Shanhe told Zhao Sheng that Zhao Hongyan had joined the Water Mother Palace thirty years earlier for Yue Feifei, and Zhao Sheng resolved to bring his disciple back.

Zhao Sheng returned to Heaven Pillar Mountain with Daoist Ou Feng, reported his discoveries and the repaired Inter-Realm Teleportation Array to Zhao Xuanjing, and helped settle Ou Feng among the realm’s formation masters. He then went to the Zhao Clan Secret Estate, where Zhao Changdu, Zhou Li, and Zhao Jingheng awaited him.

• Zhao Sheng and Daoist Ou Feng met Zhao Xuanjing and Pig Emperor at the Ascension Platform, where Pig Emperor gave Zhao Sheng a shed tusk as a gift.
• Zhao Sheng introduced Daoist Ou Feng to Zhao Xuanjing, whose assurances persuaded Ou Feng to join the Southern Sky Zhao Clan and study the grand formation.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Xuanjing about the conflict between the Secluded God Realm and Nether Night Realm, the Void Devil Fungus, and the repaired Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Zhao Xuanjing praised Zhao Sheng’s achievement but refused to let him risk his life as the first person to test the repaired array.
• Zhao Sheng brought Daoist Ou Feng to meet Huang Yu, Liu Yishou, and Li Ziran, and the four formation masters spent months exchanging knowledge.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at the Zhao Clan Secret Estate and greeted Zhao Changdu, Zhou Li, and Zhao Jingheng.

Zhao Sheng returned to the Zhao Clan, toured the magnificent Mountain City, and withdrew to Earth Flame Island to cultivate. There, he resumed searching the Sumeru Ring for its hidden space and hesitated over whether to consume the Primordial Spirit Fruit.

• Zhou Li and Zhao Changdu welcomed Zhao Sheng back and hosted a banquet in Mountain City, where Zhao Jingheng greeted him as the Shen Branch’s Second Master.
• Zhao Changdu showed Zhao Sheng Mountain City, whose buildings and streets formed an elaborate grand formation; Zhao Sheng noticed Zhao Jingheng’s ambition and suspected he feared losing his City Lord position.
• After Zhao Changdu and Zhou Li departed, Zhao Sheng declined Zhao Jingheng’s offer to cultivate in Mountain City and returned to Earth Flame Island to enter secluded cultivation.
• Zhao Sheng’s cultivation stirred immense spiritual-energy tides in the Star Grotto, prompting the Golden Core cultivators there to recognize Sixteenth Ancestor and leave him the cultivation ground.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated, searched the Sumeru Ring for its hidden space, and then took out the Primordial Spirit Fruit, uncertain whether to eat it.

Zhao Sheng joined Ancestor Qingshan on a mission to protect the Zhao Clan’s imperial descendants in the Divine Capital from two Nascent Soul demons. After arriving, they met Ninth Ancestor Zhao Zhenhai and Saint Emperor Zhao Doutian, while Zhao Sheng considered gifts for the emperor’s four sons.

• Zhao Sheng sealed away the Primordial Spirit Fruit and examined the Nine Underworlds Pagoda before leaving Unfixed Star Cave to test it on yin souls and ghosts.
• After half a year of experiments, Zhao Sheng found that the Nine Underworlds Pagoda devoured yin souls and ghostly creatures, but required great numbers of them to strengthen its Black Nether Divine Light.
• Ancestor Qingshan summoned Zhao Sheng and the clan’s Golden Core cultivators after learning that Heavenly Corpse True Man and Ghost Controlling Lord had entered the Divine Capital to threaten the imperial family.
• Zhao Sheng volunteered to accompany Ancestor Qingshan to the Divine Capital, while Zhao Jingheng stayed behind, citing the coming Nine Sects Assembly.
• Zhao Sheng and Ancestor Qingshan arrived in the Divine Capital and met Ninth Ancestor Zhao Zhenhai, who led them to Longevity Hall to receive Saint Emperor Zhao Doutian.
• After Zhao Doutian and his four sons paid their respects, Ancestor Qingshan asked Zhao Sheng to choose greeting gifts for the princes, and Zhao Sheng began considering what to give them.

Zhao Sheng gave the four princes divided-soul treasure pearls for combat training, then helped the Zhao Clan prepare for a growing wave of attacks across its territory. After realizing the missing victims may share ancient barbarian blood and ties to Ancestor Qingyang’s line, he suspected a larger force was behind the crisis and urged the clan to alert its ancestor.

• Zhao Sheng refined four Top-Grade Spirit Stones into treasure pearls containing divided-soul versions of himself, and the four princes tested them and thanked him.
• Ancestor Qingshan questioned Zhao Sheng about the forbidden Star God Thousand Hearts Art, and Zhao Sheng claimed he had inherited it from Ancestor Qingyang.
• Zhao Zhenhai, Zhao Doutian, and Zhao Sheng divided their duties in the Divine Capital while Zhao Sheng secretly searched the city and captured heretical cultivators.
• Urgent reports described assassinations, disappearances, and attacks across the Zhao Dynasty, including the abduction of Qian Prince and the disappearance of officials and soldiers.
• Zhao Sheng noticed that the missing victims might be connected to Ancestor Qingyang’s line and ancient barbarian blood, and the Dragon Scale Envoy confirmed their ties to the imperial clan.
• Zhao Sheng warned that the attacks might be a feint or an overt scheme, proposed sending a prince to inspect the provinces and alerting their ancestor, and Ancestor Qingshan agreed the crisis was serious.

The Supreme Induction Sect’s scheme drew Great Zhao into a three-front conflict, and the Zhao Clan spread its forces while secretly using Zhao Sheng and resource-rich Qihuang Basin as bait. Zhao Sheng was attacked by a black-qi creature emerging from a fissure beneath a mine.

• Zhao Doutian ordered border defenses strengthened and Zhao Bingzhong reinstated to command two armies after learning of the threat.
• Ancestor Qingshan received word that Xie Juenan was keeping Zhao Xuanjing occupied, and Zhao Sheng concluded the Supreme Induction Sect was coordinating attacks against Great Zhao.
• Han, Qi, and Yan forces attacked border passes and resource sites while demonic forces massacred four Zhao-aligned cultivation families, prompting Zhao Clan ancestors to deploy across the realm.
• Zhao Sheng traveled to Qihuang Basin on Zhao Changdu’s orders and remained there as the Zhao Clan’s concealed bait for enemy forces.
• After Zhao Sheng inspected a mine at night, the ground split open and black-qi tentacles attacked him, followed by a giant black hand reaching from the fissure.

Zhao Sheng fought off the hidden attackers, killing the Corpse King and Heavenly Corpse True Man and annihilating Ghost Controlling Lord. Beast Venerable escaped, and Zhao Sheng declined to pursue him before collecting the scattered treasures.

• A giant Corpse King emerged from a fissure and attacked Zhao Sheng, who blocked its soul-core rays and shattered its arms with the Hundred Flames Cauldron.
• Zhao Sheng trapped the Corpse King with the Shaking Art and destroyed it with Purple Haze Divine Lightning while fighting Ghost Controlling Lord.
• Zhao Sheng found Heavenly Corpse True Man beneath the earth and burned him to ashes with seven kinds of Heaven and Earth True Fire.
• Zhao Sheng used Annihilation Grey Light to destroy Ghost Controlling Lord and the hill where he stood.
• Beast Venerable appeared, blocked Zhao Sheng's attacks with beast spirits, and fled beyond his divine-sense range.
• Zhao Sheng chose not to pursue Beast Venerable and gathered the scattered treasures and corpse cores.