Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng examined the Zhou Tian Star Territory Map with Zhao Xuanjing, who explained the settlement with the Supreme Induction Sect and urged him to cultivate while rumors made him a target. After a century of studying fire-particle patterns, Zhao Sheng began refining the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron with the Mao Sun Gold Essence.

• Zhao Xuanjing showed Zhao Sheng the Zhou Tian Star Territory Map, compensation from Xie Juenan after the dispute over Mountain City, and explained that the Zhao Clan would retain the city lordship while opening the city to disciples of the eight great sects.
• Zhao Sheng studied the map, discovered that the Supreme Induction Sect's mountain gate lay on Ying Zhao Star, and warned Zhao Xuanjing that traveling to the Spring Birth World could be dangerous despite the map's authenticity.
• Zhao Xuanjing summoned Zhao Sheng to shield him from rumors and possible attacks after his defeat of two Demonic Giants, then urged him to cultivate toward Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Sheng entered seclusion with Zhao Xuanjing, while Xie Juenan took over guarding the Ascension Platform.
• After a century analyzing Fire Spirit particle trajectories, Zhao Sheng used the Mao Sun Gold Essence to form the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron's intricate internal patterns and channels.
• Zhao Sheng's Nascent Soul Dharma Body left his Purple Palace and entered the Mao Sun Gold Essence sphere to continue refining the cauldron.

Zhao Sheng completed his revision of the Undying Golden Body Art, taught Zhao Wanxian and Zhao Gudu the Metal Refining Art, and forged Essence of Five Metals while deepening his understanding of the Great Dao of Metal. He then tested his Annihilation Divine Light on Mountain Dragon, impressing Zhao Xuanjing with its destructive power.

• Zhao Wanxian and Zhao Gudu met Zhao Sheng in Five Metals Hall, where he gave them Jade Slips containing his revised Undying Golden Body Art.
• Zhao Sheng taught Zhao Wanxian and Zhao Gudu the secret Metal Refining Art, then used Metal Melting Extreme Flame and divine sense to refine five metal mountains and repeatedly form Essence of Five Metals.
• After three months of cultivation, Zhao Wanxian and Zhao Gudu left Earth Flame Island, and Zhao Sheng was summoned to meet Zhao Xuanjing beneath Mountain City.
• At Zhao Xuanjing's urging, Zhao Sheng released Annihilation Divine Light and pierced Mountain Dragon's shell with a grey flying sword.
• Mountain Dragon roared and threatened Zhao Sheng before retreating underground, while Zhao Xuanjing praised the power of the Annihilation Divine Light.

Zhao Sheng showed Zhao Xuanjing Annihilation Divine Light and revealed his plan to spread mutated Devil Bacteria spores through the blood of both realms to destroy Blood God’s influence. Zhao Xuanjing agreed the plan had a chance and advised him to study with the Gu God Lineage, so Zhao Sheng departed for Gu God Peak after arranging matters on Earth Flame Island.

• Zhao Sheng demonstrated Annihilation Divine Light, and Zhao Xuanjing tested its destructive power before explaining how an upper-realm Exalted One had advanced his cultivation.
• Zhao Sheng traded the Void Snatching Basket to Zhao Xuanjing for the Naha Shell, which he intended to use as a contained site for Devil Bacteria mutation experiments.
• Zhao Sheng described his plan to infect both realms with spores that would cause blood plague in cultivators who refined Essence Blood Pearls, weakening Blood God and aiding both realms’ Heavenly Dao.
• Zhao Sheng showed Zhao Xuanjing the Crystal Fungus Tree and Nether Crystal Pill, proving that the pill could kill the tiny Devil Bacteria spores and persuading Zhao Xuanjing to support the plan.
• Zhao Xuanjing advised Zhao Sheng to consult the Gu God Lineage at Gu God Peak, and Zhao Sheng arranged for two Golden Core cultivators to manage Earth Flame Island before flying south.

Ouyang Boxian captured a mature female Blood Deficient Demon Midge by sacrificing Ouyang Yanran, then brought it to Golden Silkworm Old Ancestor and Zhao Sheng. Because the Gu had already been refined, Zhao Sheng spared Ouyang Boxian only on condition that he join their experiments.

• Ouyang Boxian lured the Blood Deficient Demon Midge with Ouyang Yanran’s blood and let the insect kill her while he watched without intervening.
• Ouyang Boxian returned to Gu God Peak and presented the refined demon midge to Mo Lian True Person, who brought him to the back mountain.
• Zhao Sheng and Golden Silkworm Old Ancestor discussed their experiments and the need for another batch of Gu God Pills before learning that someone had captured a Blood Deficient Demon Midge.
• Zhao Sheng confirmed the mature female Gu was suitable for breeding, but noted that Ouyang Boxian had already refined it.
• Golden Silkworm Old Ancestor threatened to kill Ouyang Boxian, but Zhao Sheng instead ordered him to join the experiments, and Ouyang Boxian agreed.

Ouyang Boxian collected his reward and spent years overseeing gu-breeding experiments while Zhao Sheng and Golden Silkworm Child cultivated blood-plague strains. Zhao Sheng arranged a remote island experiment and asked Zhao Fuji to assess his fortune, but Zhao Fuji was overcome when he looked at Zhao Sheng’s aura.

• Ouyang Boxian received his identity plaque from Zhao Hongcen and collected the Blood Soul book and reward at the Earth Valley Great Merit Hall.
• Ouyang Boxian organized the exchange of gu worms, and the Zhao Clan gathered the required varieties before he spent seven or eight years supervising breeding experiments.
• Zhao Sheng and Golden Silkworm Child discussed the Four-Winged Black Spotted Mosquito and negotiated for convicted prisoners and materials to continue their plague-fungus experiments.
• Zhao Sheng met Zhao Fuji, Zhao Xian, and Zhao Gudu and learned that a remote island and its million residents were ready for an experiment aimed at eliminating Blood God.
• Zhao Fuji used the Qi Observation Art to inspect Zhao Sheng’s fortune, then groaned and shut his eyes as tears ran down his face.

Zhao Sheng left Earth Valley with his companions, killed a seventh-rank Ocean Overlord Octopus that threatened Hidden Island, and then faced a hostile delegation from the Heavenly Thunder Earthly Fire Sect. Lei Xinggang confronted him over the island as two unexpected Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivators revealed themselves, leaving Zhao Sheng questioning how they had advanced and why they had come to kill him.

• Zhao Fuji shared family news with Zhao Sheng and watched Zhao Wanxian and Zhao Gudu demonstrate their progress in the Golden Body Art.
• Zhao Wanxian and Zhao Gudu joined Zhao Sheng and Golden Silkworm Child's experiments, which produced mutated plague gu, plague bacteria strains, and a controlled Devil Bacteria ancestral strain.
• Zhao Sheng and his companions departed Earth Valley by Cloud Boat, while Golden Silkworm Child watched them leave from Gu God Peak.
• Zhao Sheng killed a seventh-rank Ocean Overlord Octopus near Hidden Island and collected its eye, demon core, and corpse.
• Fang Sanping lived in a village on Hidden Island, where he and others suffered from Bump Disease, while he remained grateful to the immortal who had brought him there.
• Lei Xinggang confronted Zhao Sheng over the Zhao Family's occupation of Hidden Island, then revealed two more Nascent Soul Thunder Cultivators among his allies.

Zhao Sheng fought Lei Xinggang, the Purple Eyebrow Youth, and Xu Yan after the Heavenly Thunder Earthly Fire Sect trapped him, and he killed the two other Nascent Soul cultivators with overwhelming fire attacks. As he faced Lei Xinggang’s thunder dragon, a hidden attacker shot Zhao Sheng through the abdomen.

• Lei Xinggang used the Nine Dragons Thunder Seal with the Purple Eyebrow Youth and Xu Yan to trap Zhao Sheng in a vast thunder domain.
• Zhao Sheng protected Zhao Hongcen, Zhao Wanxian, and the others with a barrier, then attacked the three Nascent Soul cultivators with blazing punches and the Three Yang Blazing Fire Banner.
• Lei Xinggang summoned heavenly lightning against Zhao Sheng, who forced his way into Lei Xinggang’s Nascent Soul Domain while the Purple Eyebrow Youth and Xu Yan struggled against his Heaven and Earth True Fire.
• Lei Xinggang transformed the Nine Dragons Thunder Seal into a thousand-zhang Five-Clawed Thunder Dragon and struck at Zhao Sheng with its lightning.
• The Purple Eyebrow Youth and Xu Yan were beheaded and their Nascent Souls annihilated, while Demon Star Daoist appeared beside them.
• An unseen arrow struck Zhao Sheng’s protective domain from behind, leaving a fist-sized hole in his lower right abdomen.

Zhao Sheng fought off Lei Xinggang and a hidden bald old man who had been sent to kill him, then deduced that the Supreme Induction Sect was the likeliest force behind the assassination. He tried to stop the fight by appealing to the old man's desire for the Longevity Peach and the chance to witness what lay beyond Spirit Transformation.

• Zhao Sheng survived the bald old man's wooden-fish and arrow ambush, then struck Lei Xinggang with a Seven-Colored Fire Fist and killed him.
• Zhao Sheng used the God-Slaying Arrow to wound the bald old man and force him out of hiding, but the old man captured the arrow and prepared another attack.
• Zhao Sheng offered the Longevity Peach and questioned why the old man had been sent to kill him, while suspecting the Supreme Induction Sect had arranged the assassination.
• When the bald old man resumed his attack, Zhao Sheng demonstrated that he could escape and urged him to stop by offering the chance to witness the splendor beyond Spirit Transformation.
• The bald old man halted when Zhao Sheng mentioned what lay beyond Spirit Transformation.

Zhao Sheng fought Old Monk Yin Zhen, who revealed himself as the former Great Snow Mountain monk and used powerful Buddhist treasures to try to kill him. Zhao Sheng survived their final clash and realized Yin Zhen had passed away in meditation during the battle.

• Yin Zhen ambushed Zhao Sheng with golden finger-spears, silver arrows, and the Apricot Yellow Wooden Fish, but Zhao Sheng countered with his treasures and spiritual flames.
• Zhao Sheng recognized the bald old man as Yin Zhen, the monk who had stolen the Returning to Taste Pestle after losing the abbot position to Yin Xiu.
• Yin Zhen struck Zhao Sheng with the Returning to Taste Pestle, but the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron blocked the blow, and Zhao Sheng pierced Yin Zhen with a spear of Annihilation Grey Light.
• Yin Zhen survived the spear attack and threatened Zhao Sheng's clansmen, then fought back with the wooden fish and the Returning to Taste Pestle as Zhao Sheng attacked with his treasures.
• Zhao Sheng used the Nine Underworlds Pagoda to suppress the Returning to Taste Pestle while the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron and Three Yang Blazing Fire Banner attacked Yin Zhen.
• Zhao Sheng sensed that Yin Zhen had vanished and realized the old monk had passed away in meditation during the battle.

After Zhao Sheng defeated Lei Xinggang, he reported the attack and his suspicions about the Supreme Induction Sect to Zhao Xuanjing. They agreed to broaden the Blood Plague Experiment among the other seven sects and isolate their suspected enemy, while Zhao Xuanjing left to strike back at Xie.

• Zhao Sheng returned to Hidden Island with the recovered treasures, assigned Zhao Hongcen to manage the island and monitor several people, then flew to Heaven Pillar Mountain.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Xuanjing about the attack, presented evidence, and explained why he suspected the Supreme Induction Sect.
• Zhao Xuanjing described the sect's secretive influence and agreed with Zhao Sheng that they should unite the other seven sects against it.
• Zhao Sheng proposed handing the Blood Plague Experiment to Zhao Changdu and involving the other sects, and Zhao Xuanjing accepted the plan.
• Zhao Xuanjing left for two days, then returned and said he had knocked all the teeth from Xie's mouth.

Zhao Sheng helped the Zhao Clan form a secret alliance with seven Central Continent sects to spread the incurable Blood Plague, then returned to Mountain City and found his disciple Zhao Hongyan involved with Water Mother Palace’s Holy Maiden, Yue Feifei. The chapter ended with Sky Severing Fairy intervening as Zhao Sheng confronted his disciple and both sides sought approval for the pair’s union.

• Zhao Sheng handed Zhao Changdu his plans for the Blood Plague experiment as Zhao Xuanjing welcomed the seven sect ancestors to Mountain City, where the Supreme Induction Sect was excluded.
• Zhao Sheng explained the Blood Plague scheme, and Golden Silkworm Child described the fungus’s incurable effects to the gathered sect leaders.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Changdu brought the seven sect ancestors to Hidden Island, where their failed attempts to cure the disease led them to swear the Three Realms Blood Oath with the Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Mountain City, where Zhao Xuanjing summoned him to meet Sky Severing Fairy, Yue Feifei, and Zhao Hongyan.
• Zhao Sheng attacked Zhao Hongyan for disgracing the clan, but Sky Severing Fairy stopped his strike and asked Zhao Xuanjing to approve Yue Feifei and Zhao Hongyan as Dao companions.
• Zhao Xuanjing left the matter to the younger generation, and Zhao Hongyan and Yue Feifei approached Zhao Sheng to seek his acceptance as Sky Severing Fairy frowned.

Zhao Sheng helped Zhao Hongyan and Yue Feifei’s marriage alliance take shape while Water Mother Palace joined the Blood Plague experiment, then refined the Falling Immortal Bow and advanced to the eighth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. He was summoned to meet Living Buddha Ben Neng, who immediately demanded to inspect the Buddhist treasure Zhao Sheng had obtained from Yin Zhen.

• Zhao Sheng calmed the hall, learned Sky Severing Fairy had come to discuss the Blood Plague experiment, and arranged for Yue Feifei to stay in Tingwen Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng scolded Zhao Hongyan, gave him three secret pills, and ordered him to have a child with Yue Feifei before the next opening of the Star Gate.
• Sky Severing Fairy departed Mountain City after half a month, leaving Yue Feifei in charge of Water Mother Palace’s Hidden Island experiment.
• Zhao Sheng finished refining the Falling Immortal Bow and, eighty years after returning, broke through to the eighth stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhao Xuanjing summoned Zhao Sheng to Tripod Pillar Tower, where Living Buddha Ben Neng demanded to see the Buddhist treasure Zhao Sheng had obtained from Yin Zhen.

Crazy Monk Ben Neng traded the Buddhist treasures for Zhao Clan access to Ancient Buddhism’s resources, then helped develop three beneficial Blood Plague Gu. As the Star Gate’s opening drew near, Zhao Sheng returned from preparing contingencies and asked Zhao Fuji to lend him Zhao Wannong as an inter-realm candidate.

• Zhao Xuanjing agreed to return the Buddhist treasures in exchange for the Great Enlightenment Pill formula and three years of access to Moko Boundless Pavilion, and Ben Neng revealed that he sought help completing his final good deed.
• Ben Neng established himself on Hidden Island, where his proposal to turn harmful fungi into beneficial Gu led Zhao Sheng and others to develop Energy Gu, Long Qi Gu, and Nourishing Essence Gu.
• The Central Continent’s eight great forces cultivated Blood Plague Gu and spread the beneficial varieties, while reports of Crystallization Disease helped uncover the Secluded God Realm’s hidden agents.
• Zhao Hongyan told Zhao Sheng that Yue Feifei was pregnant, and Zhao Sheng rewarded him; Yue later gave birth to Zhao Fan Yun, while Zhao Sheng spent years hiding caches of wealth across the world.
• With less than two years remaining before the Star Gate opened, Zhao Sheng returned to Divine Dragon Valley and asked Zhao Fuji to lend him Zhao Wannong for the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.

Zhao Sheng assembled Zhao Wannong, Zhao Gujiu, and Ninth Ancestor Zhao Zhenhai for the Star Gate mission, then met Daoist Ou Feng and gave Zhao Xuanjing treasures that could strengthen the Zhao Clan. After three months of instruction and preparation, Zhao Sheng and Zhao Xuanjing departed toward the Shattered Star Sea as reports warned that the Star God was awakening.

• Zhao Sheng persuaded Zhao Fuji to let Zhao Wannong join the mission by promising the patriarch's personal guidance and a path to Nascent Soul, and Zhao Wannong agreed to go to Mountain City for training.
• Zhao Sheng recruited Zhao Gujiu through a talisman edict and relied on the patriarch to speak with Ninth Ancestor Zhao Zhenhai.
• Zhao Sheng met Daoist Ou Feng on Heaven Pillar Mountain and refused to let him return to the Nether God Realm.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Xuanjing the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepters and revealed four Primordial Spirit Fruits, prompting Zhao Xuanjing to reward him with three Dao Talismans and personally teach him for three months.
• As armies set out for the Shattered Star Sea amid reports of the Star God's awakening, Zhao Sheng and Zhao Xuanjing traveled beyond the realm toward it.

Zhao Sheng attended the gathering of Spirit Transformation True Lords, where Xie Juenan proposed an assault on the Spirit Race’s last stronghold and Zhao Sheng suspected the Supreme Induction Sect had a hidden agenda. As the Star Gate opened, Zhao Sheng disguised himself and entered the spacetime vortex with the expedition fleet.

• Zhou You and Xie Juenan arrived at the cloud platform, where the True Lords gathered before the Star Gate opened.
• Zhao Xuanjing warned Xie Juenan against plotting against Zhao Sheng, while Xie Juenan and Zhou You gave Zhao Sheng gifts.
• Xie Juenan revealed his map of the Spirit Abyss and persuaded the True Lords to join an attack on the Spirit Race’s altar and remnants.
• Zhao Sheng suspected Xie Juenan was pursuing a hidden scheme to contact the Spirit World, and Zhao Xuanjing confirmed the Supreme Induction Sect had deep roots.
• Zhao Sheng disguised himself and joined three companions aboard a cloudship as the fleet charged into the spacetime vortex.

Three months after the battle at Star Gate, Zhao Sheng helped launch a blood-plague campaign across Secluded God Realm and traveled aboard the Black Ship toward Nether Night Realm. During the five-year journey, he learned of rising Blood God Child attacks and encountered a mysterious diviner who had pursued him from He Continent.

• Zhao Sheng reunited with Zhao Youxuan, delivered the plague materials, and trained Dragon's Roar spies as Plague Envoys while other factions prepared to spread the plague.
• Yama Ancestor arrived to collect Zhao Sheng and his companions, then took them aboard the Black Ship bound for Nether Night Realm.
• A gray-robed diviner at the Asking Dao Sect read omens about an unbound variable, left the mountain, and followed Zhao Sheng's trail into the void.
• During the five-year voyage, Zhao Sheng learned that the Irrigation Rat clan had turned neutral toward humanity, the Yellow Heaven Sect had grown powerful, and Blood God Children had caused widespread massacres.
• Yama Ancestor detected an intruder aboard the Black Ship and attacked, but the gray-robed diviner blocked his strike and appeared before Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng discovered that the Divining Ancestor had come to support his mission against the Blood God, though the True Lord could not openly intervene. As the Black Ship neared the Nether Night Realm, the Divining Ancestor asked Zhao Sheng to reveal the chance of survival his divinations had uncovered.

• The Divining Ancestor joined the Black Ship, treated Zhao Sheng with unusual warmth, and repeatedly divined as the ship traveled toward the Nether Night Realm.
• After Zhao Sheng entered seclusion, Zhao Zhenhai restrained the Zhao Clan members and kept them away from outsiders.
• In the fifth year, Zhao Sheng revealed his identity as Zhao Qiong Tian and explained his mission to the Divining Ancestor.
• The Divining Ancestor said his readings showed a slim chance of success against the Blood God and promised to discourage other True Lords from obstructing Zhao Sheng.
• The Divining Ancestor asked Zhao Sheng what guidance he could offer, since the readings had shown that his survival depended on Zhao Sheng; Zhao Sheng suspected the answer involved the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.

Zhao Sheng returned to the Yellow Heaven Sect, subdued Dao Zhan, and gathered powerful allies to pursue a plan against the Blood God. As he prepared a Dharma Assembly to unite human cultivators, Green Sky Old Ancestor arrived unexpectedly and revealed that he had met Divining Ancestor.

• Divining Ancestor agreed to wait decades for Zhao Sheng to tell him the truth about the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Black King Cave, where Dao Zhan submitted to him and Yama Ancestor, Thunder Peng Ancestor, and Xian Kong Ancestor came to pay their respects.
• Zhao Sheng ordered Yama Ancestor, Thunder Peng Ancestor, and Xian Kong Ancestor to carry out his plan against the Blood God, and they departed with Fungus Nests and Gu Worm Pouches.
• Zhao Sheng settled Zhao Zhenhai and the other Zhao Clan members in a forbidden area, then summoned human cultivators to a Dharma Assembly at Yellow Heaven Peak.
• Mo Bieli and the other human Nascent Soul cultivators arrived at Yellow Heaven Peak, but Zhao Sheng remained absent while Dao Zhan hosted them.
• Green Sky Old Ancestor invited Zhao Sheng to a pavilion in the clouds and told him that he had met Divining Ancestor on the way.

Green Sky Old Ancestor gave Zhao Sheng records of past struggles against the Blood God and an artifact that could conceal him from the Heavenly Dao, while Zhao Sheng learned that many human cultivators had adopted the Blood Soul Sutra. As Zhao Sheng studied the records, the Zhao Clan spread plagues across the Nine Demon Continent, and the chapter ended with Ren Lingke confronting the Zhao family at their ancestral hall.

• Green Sky Old Ancestor gave Zhao Sheng three Jade Slips documenting past failures against the Blood God and promised that most powerful cultivators would remain neutral.
• Zhao Sheng accepted and refined the Eight-Faced Wind Locking Pavilion, then met the human Nascent Soul elders and discovered that all but Mo Bieli had cultivated the Blood Soul Sutra.
• Zhao Zhenhai sent Plague Envoys across the continent while Zhao Gujiu and Zhao Wannong spread plague bacteria and parasites in secret.
• Blood Plague devastated human settlements, and the Yellow Heaven Sect won believers by distributing talisman water that cured many victims.
• Ren Lingke confronted the Zhao family at their ancestral hall, claiming he only wished to pay his respects as Zhao Linzong challenged his intentions.

Zhao Sheng appeared in time to kill Ren Lingke and save the Zhao Family, then gave Zhao Linzong a vast collection of treasures before disappearing. Three days later, Zhao Sheng returned to Yellow Heaven Peak and learned that plague envoys had begun spreading the plague to other continents.

• Ren Lingke shattered Zhao Linzong's water dragon and overwhelmed the Zhao Family, but Zhao Sheng emerged from the Ancestral Hall and killed him with a single flaming palm.
• Zhao Linzong recognized Zhao Sheng as the Medicine Old Man, bowed to him, and received a Void Storage Seal filled with wealth, cultivation techniques, magical treasures, and talisman treasures.
• Zhao Sheng left without saying goodbye, while Zhao Linzong realized their fate together might have ended.
• Three days later, Zhao Sheng met Zhao Wannong at Black King Cave and learned that eighty percent of the Nine Demon Continent had been infected and that plague envoys were already spreading the plague to three other continents.
• Zhao Sheng summoned Zhao Zhenhai, who arrived at Black King Cave with Zhao Gujiu.