Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng led Zhao Zhenhai, Zhao Wannong, and Zhao Gujiu through the Divine Ruins to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, where they entered Bright Star and reached the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array. The chapter ended with Zhao Wannong and Zhao Gujiu emerging from their damaged ship and staring in shock at the array.

• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Zhenhai that they would soon undertake their secret plan and ordered Zhao Wannong and Zhao Gujiu to prepare to join them.
• Zhao Sheng and the others left Yellow Heaven Peak aboard a Disc Boat, transferred to the Domain Realm Black Ship, and traveled for eight years toward God Ruins Meteor Sea.
• During the voyage, Zhao Sheng perfected his White Bone Godslaying Sword and advanced his Star God Thousand Hearts Art while cultivating.
• Zhao Sheng instructed Yama Ancestor to return to the continent and monitor events before setting out with Zhao Zhenhai, Zhao Wannong, and Zhao Gujiu in a Tanjin Ball.
• Zhao Sheng guided the group through the meteor sea to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, entered Bright Star with Zhao Zhenhai, and reached the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array underground.
• Zhao Wannong and Zhao Gujiu emerged from the damaged Tanjin Ball and were stunned by the cavern and array.

Zhao Sheng and his family settled in the Seven Stars Spirit Realm while he studied the effects of its Time Pressure and prepared the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array. Zhao Zhenhai chose to risk teleporting to the Sea Cloud Realm, and the chapter ended with his soul lamp still burning after he vanished.

• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Wannong and Zhao Gujiu cave abodes and a Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter to Zhao Zhenhai, who began refining it.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated as Zhao Wannong gathered Spirit Rain and Zhao Gujiu practiced his fist art in the cavern.
• After the Seven Stars Spirit Realm shifted, Zhao Wannong suffered under Time Pressure while Zhao Gujiu found his martial will and Cell Willpower had changed; Zhao Sheng ordered them to record their observations.
• Zhao Zhenhai finished refining the scepter and chose the Sea Cloud Realm for the first teleportation trial despite Zhao Sheng's recommendation to choose the closer Big Tree Realm.
• Zhao Zhenhai activated the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array and disappeared, while Zhao Sheng watched his Lifebound Soul Lamp until its flame stabilized.

Zhao Sheng investigated why Zhao Gujiu’s Martial Dao willpower endured the Spirit Realm’s time pressure better than Zhao Wannong’s cultivation, then chose Gujiu as the next transmission candidate. After years crossing the Meteor Sea, Zhao Sheng reached the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and encountered Young Master Han Wu, who recognized him as the man he had met aboard the Black Ship.

• Zhao Wannong suffered a divine soul injury during the Spirit Realm’s shift, while Zhao Gujiu endured the time pressure with less discomfort.
• Zhao Sheng tested Zhao Gujiu’s willpower and found it could damage objects through divine sense and Mana, then compared the two men in sparring.
• Zhao Sheng selected Zhao Gujiu for the next inter-realm transmission and strengthened his Martial Dao willpower before planting a Devil Crystal Tree in Dark Star.
• Zhao Sheng led Zhao Wannong and Zhao Gujiu out of the Seven Stars Spirit Realm before its third shift, then escaped the resulting meteor collisions and navigated the Meteor Sea for years.
• Zhao Sheng approached the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and met Young Master Han Wu and Profound Light Old Ancestor near it.
• Han Wu recognized Zhao Sheng from their past meeting aboard the Black Ship, and Zhao Sheng openly acknowledged who he was.

Zhao Sheng used the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter to lead Han Wu and Profound Light Old Ancestor into the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, then descended into Dark Star with them. After finding Zhao Sheng beneath a crystal tree in an underground grotto, Profound Light Old Ancestor attacked him to seize his treasure, while Han Wu tried to stop him.

• Zhao Sheng revealed the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter, and Han Wu and Profound Light Old Ancestor agreed to enter the Spirit Realm with him.
• Zhao Sheng chose Dark Star while Han Wu and Profound Light Old Ancestor initially headed for Light Star, but the two later decided to pursue Zhao Sheng and seize the scepter.
• Han Wu and Profound Light Old Ancestor descended into Dark Star and found Zhao Sheng beside a crystal tree and a mountain of Spirit Stones in an underground grotto.
• Profound Light Old Ancestor ignored Han Wu's warning and transformed into a giant spear, unleashing a powerful attack that engulfed Zhao Sheng and blasted a deep hole into the ground.

Zhao Sheng killed Profound Light Old Ancestor and forced Han Wu to help activate the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array. After Han Wu successfully reached the Big Tree Realm, Zhao Sheng sent Zhao Gujiu there as well, proving that cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm could use the array.

• The Falling Immortal Bow killed Profound Light Old Ancestor, while Zhao Sheng trapped Han Wu and used the Devil Crystal Tree’s spreading crystals to make him comply.
• Zhao Sheng gave Han Wu a Nether Crystal Pill to stop the crystals, then brought him to the teleportation cavern beneath the Light Star and had him refine the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter.
• After Han Wu recovered, Zhao Sheng ordered him to operate the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array, and Han Wu agreed to travel to another realm.
• Han Wu activated the array and vanished; Zhao Sheng confirmed his soul lamp still burned and found the Big Tree Realm’s coordinate glowing on the scepter.
• Zhao Sheng gave the scepter to Zhao Gujiu, who used the array two months later and successfully reached the Big Tree Realm.

Zhao Sheng invited cultivators in Small Spirit Sky to join him in searching for the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, then led Zhu Mo, Zeng Xian, and Wen Ru there. After they found the ruined teleportation array and the Devil Bacteria Crystal Tree, Zhao Sheng ambushed them as they tried to flee.

• Zhao Sheng arrived at Small Spirit Sky and tested the auras of its cultivators before accepting the Qi brothers’ invitation to a banquet.
• Zhao Sheng learned about Crystal Death Disease and recognized Zhu Mo as an old acquaintance he wanted to use as an experimental subject.
• Zhao Sheng demonstrated the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter and invited the cultivators to join his search for the Seven Stars Spirit Realm; Zhu Mo, Zeng Xian, and Wen Ru agreed to go.
• Zhao Sheng led the three cultivators to the Dark Star Grotto, where they found the ruined teleportation array and the Devil Bacteria Crystal Tree.
• Zhu Mo, Zeng Xian, and Wen Ru attempted to escape, but Zhao Sheng attacked them with silver arrows and the Three Yang Blazing Fire Banner.

After exposing and interrogating three plague-stricken cultivators, Zhao Sheng moved his plan to the Divine Ruins and reunited with the surviving Zhao Clan and allies fleeing the Blood Plague. He sent the clan and some of Thunder Roc’s descendants through the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array, then turned to repairing the damaged formation while Yan Mo and Thunder Roc discussed his plans.

• Zhao Sheng defeated Zeng Xian, Wen Ru, and Zhu Mo, tortured Zhu Mo for information, and later sent the three toward different outer realms; Wen Ru’s soul lamp went out during teleportation.
• Eight years later, Zhao Sheng met Zhao Youxuan, Yan Mo, and Thunder Roc at God Ruins Market, where they recounted the Blood Plague’s devastation and the losses among their espionage networks.
• Zhao Sheng revealed that he had prepared a retreat, and a black Disc Boat carried the group to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm after they prepared supplies.
• Zhao Sheng used the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array ten times to send the Zhao Clan and several of Thunder Roc’s descendants to five outer realms, overloading the array and draining half the realm’s Spiritual Energy.
• Zhao Sheng took enlightenment pills and studied the cracked array pillars while Yan Mo and Thunder Roc discussed spreading news of the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and rejected the idea of using a Blood God Child against Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng sent Yan Mo Ancestor and Thunder Peng Ancestor to gather information while he considered Zhao Wannong’s path to Nascent Soul. Two years later, the Divining Ancestor brought Zhao Sheng to meet Si He Old Freak and the Heaven Deficient Goddess, where Si He attacked him and the other two intervened.

• Zhao Sheng ordered Yan Mo Ancestor and Thunder Peng Ancestor to spread news of the Spirit Realm, collect the records listed in his Jade Slips, and await his orders at God Ruins Market.
• Zhao Sheng learned that Zhao Wannong wanted to attempt the Bi Wind Tribulation, and he warned that Wannong needed many more years of cultivation and tempering.
• Two years later, Zhao Sheng met the Divining Ancestor at God Ruins Market, and the Divining Ancestor took him to a meteor where Si He Old Freak and the Heaven Deficient Goddess were waiting.
• Si He Old Freak attacked Zhao Sheng with Yin Soul Death Blades and a black-soul tempest, but Zhao Sheng countered and escaped the worst of the assault with his Nascent Soul Domain.
• Si He Old Freak lost control and sent his Headless Giant dharma image to strike the Divining Ancestor, until the Heaven Deficient Goddess shattered it with an enormous azure-scaled claw.
• Zhao Sheng summoned and enlarged the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron to shield against the resulting black light.

Zhao Sheng revealed that he created Crystal Death Disease and joined Divining Ancestor, Heaven Deficient Goddess, and Si He Old Freak in planning to lure Blood God Children into the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and kill them. After spending months learning the Netherworld Realms’ secrets, he turned his attention to the danger posed by the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Blood God’s forces.

• Si He Old Freak absorbed the black qi and dead souls consuming him, then asked Zhao Sheng whether he had created Crystal Death Disease.
• Zhao Sheng admitted creating both the Blood Plague and Crystal Death Disease, and the group agreed that killing Blood God Children could drain the Blood God's origin.
• Zhao Sheng proposed using the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and its damaged Inter-Realm Teleportation Arrays to trap a Blood God Child, and the four devised an “invite the lord into the jar” plan.
• Heaven Deficient Goddess protected Zhao Sheng and instructed him for a month, while Si He Old Freak eventually departed after failing to approach him.
• After learning the Netherworld Realms’ combatant numbers and secret history, Zhao Sheng recognized the Heavenly Dao Sect as a major threat and considered how to destroy it.

Zhao Sheng halted the Spirit Realm Project, refined jade talismans, and led the Heaven Deficient Goddess and Si He Old Freak to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm to prepare a damaged inter-realm array for repair. Seven years later, remnants of the Sky Pillar World reached God Ruins Market, while Zhao Jing Yun questioned Yama Ancestor about Qiong Tian Ancestor and left under the influence of Blood God.

• Zhao Sheng suspended the Spirit Realm Project, gave Yama Ancestor a Same Sound Conch, and continued refining jade talismans in seclusion.
• Zhao Sheng met the Heaven Deficient Goddess and Si He Old Freak, then traveled with them on the Azure Scale Earth Turtle Beast to Light Star.
• Zhao Sheng persuaded the two True Lords to help refine Heaven Mending Fluid and set up Defense Arrays around the damaged Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Seven years later, seven remnants of the Sky Pillar World arrived at God Ruins Market and departed on a pitch-black Disc Boat toward the Meteor Sea.
• Zhao Jing Yun asked Yama Ancestor whether Qiong Tian Ancestor was in the Profound Spirit Domain, then left with blood-red light in his eyes.
• Zhao Sheng contacted Yama Ancestor through the Same Sound Conch, warned him that Blood God might test him, and told him not to make contact unless necessary.

Zhao Sheng and the ambushing Heaven Deficient Goddess and Si He Old Freak confronted a Spirit Transformation Blood God Child, who revealed himself as the fallen Zi Lu Shang Ren. The Blood God Child cursed Zhao Sheng with corrupted blood, but the two allies attacked and Si He trapped it in a vast formation as his Headless Giant began devouring its blood clouds.

• Yama Ancestor guided the Disc Boat through the Starlight Maze, where Zhao Sheng waited outside the ship in the Seven Stars Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Jing Yun smashed the cabin window, and the disguised Blood God Child killed the Zhao Clan members before shedding its disguise and charging at Zhao Sheng.
• The Blood God Child’s arrows passed harmlessly through it, and its bloodline curse entered Zhao Sheng’s chest; Zhao Sheng escaped beneath the Light Star using Phase Displacement.
• The Heaven Deficient Goddess and Si He Old Freak attacked the Blood God Child, and the Heaven Deficient Goddess recognized it as Zi Lu Shang Ren.
• The Blood God Child fought the Heaven Deficient Goddess and her Azure Scale Earth Turtle Beast while Si He Old Freak activated a vast light-net formation that slowed and trapped it.
• Si He Old Freak summoned his Headless Giant, which surrounded the Blood God Child’s clouds with dead souls and began devouring them.

Zhao Sheng temporarily suppressed the Source Blood Curse by expelling the blood from his body, then returned to the battle and helped Heaven Deficient Goddess fight the Blood God Child. Si He Old Freak fell under the Blood God Child’s control and died, while Zhao Sheng headed toward the remaining fight.

• Zhao Sheng expelled the cursed blood from his body, healed his wounds, and returned to the battlefield.
• The Blood God Child corrupted Si He Old Freak’s dead souls and seized control of his Primordial Spirit Dharma manifestation.
• Heaven Deficient Goddess trapped the Blood God Child with her Star Banners as Zhao Sheng sent true fires and the Azure Scale Earth Turtle Beast attacked.
• Zhao Sheng struck the blood sea with the White Bone Godslaying Sword and a Profound Yellow Giant Palm, then destroyed Si He Old Freak’s remaining Primordial Spirit with Annihilation Grey Light.
• Zhao Sheng rode the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron toward the other battlefield, engulfing his path in true-fire flames.

Zhao Sheng and Heaven Deficient Goddess trapped the Blood God Child, but its final eruption overwhelmed them with twelve human-headed blood pythons. Zhao Sheng returned with his hidden weapons and destroyed several of them, while Heaven Deficient Goddess unleashed a powerful stone rod to kill another.

• Zhao Sheng and Heaven Deficient Goddess used the Three Yang Blazing Fire Banner and the Star Banners to capture the fleeing Blood God Child in a black hole.
• The Blood God Child revealed its true body and unleashed face-blood snakes, then broke free as the black hole collapsed and its power split into twelve human-headed blood pythons.
• The pythons overwhelmed Heaven Deficient Goddess and attacked the Azure Scale Earth Turtle Beast, while Zhao Sheng vanished from the battlefield.
• Zhao Sheng returned with three White Bone Godslaying Swords and a jade talisman, destroying seven human-headed blood pythons and rescuing Heaven Deficient Goddess from immediate danger.
• Heaven Deficient Goddess summoned a giant stone rod and crushed another human-headed blood python, though her gravity domain developed cracks.

Zhao Sheng and the Heaven Deficient Goddess defeated one Blood God Child, then Zhao Sheng repaired the cross-realm formation and remained in the Seven Stars Spirit Realm to cultivate. A century later, he reached the Nascent Soul limit and prepared to face the Bi Wind Tribulation, while Yama Ancestor was suddenly killed by a demonic shadow.

• Zhao Sheng used the Nine Underworlds Pagoda to suppress one human-headed blood python, and the Heaven Deficient Goddess destroyed another before defeating a Blood God Child with her stone staff.
• The Heaven Deficient Goddess gave Zhao Sheng a Returning Life Pill and reminded him to fulfill his promise to repair the cross-realm formation; Zhao Sheng punished Yama Ancestor for failing to help and later accepted the relics he had gathered.
• After the Seven Stars Spirit Realm shifted, Zhao Sheng repaired the formation, and the Heaven Deficient Goddess departed for the Black Sand Realm after advising him that heavenly tribulation could counter the Source Blood Curse.
• Zhao Sheng sent Yama Ancestor out to gather intelligence and assist the Zhao Clan, then spent a century cultivating in seclusion and refused the Spirit Transformation True Lords’ requests to use the formation.
• Zhao Sheng reached the Nascent Soul limit and spent seven more years refining pills and inscribing shamanic formation totems to prepare for the Bi Wind Tribulation.
• A pitch-black demonic shadow emerged from Yama Ancestor’s Nascent Soul Dharma Body, swallowed his Nascent Soul, and killed him.

Zhao Sheng endured the successive revolutions of the Bi Wind Tribulation, sacrificing several divided spirits and receiving help from Zhao Xuanjing to survive its final waves. The tribulation ended, and Zhao Sheng broke through to become a Spirit Transformation True Lord.

• A Black Abyss Star Mantis King sensed the spiritual energy gathering around Light Star, but fled when lethal winds arose within the nebula.
• Zhao Sheng activated his formations and Sacred Beast protections as the Bi Wind Tribulation began, then endured its assault on both his body and Nascent Soul Dharma body.
• Zhao Sheng survived the first five revolutions of Bi Wind as his body and Mana grew stronger, though the tribulation repeatedly damaged him.
• Five Heart Demons emerged during the sixth revolution, and Zhao Sheng sacrificed five divided spirits to drag them into the tribulation's black hole and destroy them.
• Zhao Sheng sacrificed another divided spirit to withstand the next wave, then summoned Zhao Xuanjing's Primordial Spirit avatar, which entered the black hole and helped disperse the tribulation clouds.
• Zhao Sheng sent the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron and Three Yang Blazing Fire Banner into the remaining clouds, then grew his Nascent Soul to a full foot and became a Spirit Transformation True Lord.

After recovering from the Bi Wind Tribulation, Zhao Sheng advanced his Spirit Transformation cultivation and chose the orthodox Dao of the Sun over the Destruction Dao. He met with Divining Ancestor to discuss the other Spirit Transformation cultivators’ allegiance and his plan to challenge Blood God, leaving him puzzled by Divining Ancestor’s sudden caution.

• Zhao Sheng recovered from his injuries, discovered his expanded divine sense and Phase Displacement range, and glimpsed the Nine Nether Void Realm.
• Eight years later, Zhao Sheng demonstrated his increased strength by destroying an asteroid with a casual strike.
• Zhao Sheng chose the Dao of the Sun over the Annihilation Grey Light and traveled to God Ruins Market to meet Divining Ancestor.
• Zhao Sheng told Divining Ancestor that he controlled the Seven Stars Spirit Realm and offered teleportation slots in exchange for a satisfying price.
• Divining Ancestor said he could confirm two potential allies among the other cultivators but did not know whether the rest would be friends or enemies.
• Zhao Sheng declared his intent to confront Blood God and revealed that he had already killed a Blood God Child, while Divining Ancestor warned that this had barely harmed Blood God.

Zhao Sheng learned that the Blood God had intensified wars across both realms and invited cultivators to meet him at God Ruins Market to discuss two matters. After years of cultivation, he confronted Great Master Xiao, who accused him of being a spy, but Zhao Sheng revealed Xiao’s origins and demonstrated that he could escape any fight.

• Divining Ancestor explained that the Blood God had increased the realms’ baleful energy, provoking widespread wars, and Zhao Sheng concluded that the Blood God’s tampering would eventually provoke the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhao Sheng asked Divining Ancestor to invite cultivators from both realms to God Ruins Market, promising him a teleportation slot in return.
• Zhao Sheng settled into a cave dwelling at God Ruins Market and cultivated for years while his spiritual sense searched the spatial fault lines inside the Sumeru Ring.
• Zhao Sheng sensed Great Master Xiao approaching and met him in the meteorite sea, where Xiao accused him of being a Sky Pillar World spy and attacked with blood light.
• Zhao Sheng exposed Great Master Xiao’s Ghost Chi Clan origins and used Thousand Mile Teleportation to evade him; Xiao withdrew his aura after realizing he could not keep Zhao Sheng from escaping.

Zhao Sheng negotiated with Great Master Xiao and drew the attention of powerful enemies while secretly preparing for their arrival. After locating a Sumeru Grotto-Heaven and finding a dangerous purple light sphere inside, he gathered the Spirit Transformation True Lords at a fiery hall, where they began assembling for a meeting.

• Zhao Sheng agreed to let Great Master Xiao use the Seven Stars Spirit Realm's teleportation array in exchange for ten Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators' heads, and they sealed the deal with a Dao Oath.
• Di Geng and Black Water Emperor Lord traveled toward the God Ruins Meteor Sea, where Di Geng insisted Zhao Qiong Tian must be captured alive and prepared to use greater power.
• Spirit Transformation True Lords arrived at God Ruins Market seeking the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, but Zhao Sheng refused their demands and kept himself hidden between meetings.
• Zhao Sheng found the Sumeru Grotto-Heaven and discovered a sealed sphere of destructive purple light that strengthened his plan.
• Zhao Sheng raised a fiery hall from molten meteors, and the arriving True Lords gathered around it after a water attack filled the area with mist.
• Zhao Sheng invited the True Lords onto the plaza, where renowned cultivators including Divining Ancestor, East Xun Devil Lord, and Three Desolations Old Immortal revealed themselves.

Zhao Sheng faced seven Spirit Transformation True Lords over the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter, then drew out the Heavenly Dao Sect’s pursuit. When Di Geng and the sect’s guardian beasts attacked him, Zhao Sheng countered them, leaving Black Water Emperor Lord wounded and the Great Desolation Turtle trapped and burning.

• Chizha True Man accused Wu Yazi of provoking trouble, while Divining Ancestor urged the True Lords to hear Zhao Sheng out.
• East Xun Devil Lord threatened Zhao Sheng over the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, but Divining Ancestor warned that Zhao Sheng could escape, and Master Granny ordered East Xun to withdraw.
• A water sphere carrying Di Geng and the Dragon Pattern Great Wasteland Turtle arrived, and the seven True Lords chose to watch rather than intervene.
• Di Geng demanded that Zhao Sheng surrender to Blood God, and Zhao Sheng denounced her master before she and the turtle attacked.
• Zhao Sheng sent the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron into the turtle’s mouth, burned away Black Water Emperor Lord’s water body with Annihilation Grey Light, and trapped the turtle beneath a net of fire.
• The Great Desolation Turtle howled as the cauldron’s Heaven and Earth True Fire burned it, while crimson-gold fire and streams of filthy blood burst from the ruins.

Zhao Sheng fought off the Great Desolation Turtle, Black Water Emperor Lord, and Heavenly Sword Emperor Lord while trying to win Heavenly Sword Emperor Lord’s cooperation. After escaping Di Geng’s blood-sea attack, he returned to sever her arm and dropped a purple light sphere beside her before teleporting away and silently saying, “Boom!”

• Zhao Sheng used the Falling Immortal Bow and Three Yang Staff against the Great Desolation Turtle, but Heavenly Sword Emperor Lord split his Great Sun attack and ambushed him from the virtual realm.
• Black Water Emperor Lord unleashed Nether River Water, and Zhao Sheng resisted it while Heavenly Sword Emperor Lord’s sword lights pressed their attack; Zhao Sheng swore a Dao Oath to persuade Heavenly Sword Emperor Lord to cooperate.
• Di Geng cast a blood-colored net over Zhao Sheng, who escaped it by teleporting behind her and attacking with a Blazing Sun Black Hole, but a blood-sea force nearly devoured him.
• Zhao Sheng escaped a blood-sea assault and returned to the battlefield, where Di Geng used the Sword-Binding Spell to drag Heavenly Sword Emperor Lord toward the black sword sheath.
• Zhao Sheng severed half of Di Geng’s arm, vanished, then reappeared and dropped a purple light sphere near her before teleporting away and silently saying, “Boom!”