Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng unleashed Purple Firmament Divine Lightning in the God Ruins Meteor Sea, destroying the battlefield and killing several Spirit Transformation cultivators before negotiating transmission-slot agreements with the survivors. In the Secluded God Realm, Di Yi learned from Blood God’s visions what had happened and saw the terrifying purple lightning that had overwhelmed the battle.

• Purple Firmament Divine Lightning swallowed Di Geng and the battlefield, broke through the spacetime barrier, and expanded into a destructive vortex that consumed everything within five hundred li.
• Zhao Sheng survived the blast, recovered Heaven Sword Emperor Lord’s sword, and met the five surviving True Lords, who feared the divine lightning and East Xun Devil Lord offered him a Void Storage Seal as an apology.
• Divining Ancestor and Chizha True Man agreed to wage war on the Heavenly Dao Sect in exchange for transmission slots, while Master Granny and her companions offered to trade three True Lords’ heads for three slots.
• After the five True Lords departed, Zhao Sheng looked toward the Secluded God Realm as the chapter shifted to the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Esteem Dao Palace.
• Di Yi saw Black Water Emperor Lord’s name fading and Heaven Sword Emperor Lord’s name weakening on the Investiture of the Gods, then received Blood God’s visions of the battle and recognized the power of the purple lightning.

Zhao Sheng studied the Nine Steps of the Great Dao, built his reputation as the God-Slaying True Lord, and traveled with Great Master Xiao to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm. After Master Granny brought him news of a Divine Prison Palace containing Primordial Spirit Essence, Zhao Sheng asked for time to consider helping her obtain it.

• Di Yi ordered Mu Gongyang to recall Garrison Commander Que Yue and prepare to open the Prayer Tower for his tribulation.
• Divining Ancestor and the others spread Zhao Sheng's feats, and cultivators across the two realms came to know him as the God-Slaying True Lord.
• Zhao Sheng deciphered parts of the Nine Steps of the Great Dao scroll and considered how its nine steps related to the nine heavens of the Void Realm.
• Great Master Xiao delivered ten Nascent Soul Late Stage heads to Zhao Sheng, who then escorted him to the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, where Xiao chose the Black Sand Realm.
• Master Granny brought Zhao Sheng a box containing Old Monster Xianyang's remains and asked him to help confront the Deep Sea Great Spirit guarding an emerging Divine Prison Palace in exchange for half its Primordial Spirit Essence.
• Zhao Sheng asked Master Granny why she had sought his help instead of East Xun and the others, then requested time to consider her proposal.

Zhao Sheng accompanied Master Granny to the Nether Night Realm and entered the Divine Prison Palace, where the Deep Sea Great Spirit warned him that Primordial Spirit Essence contained Primordial Soul Venom. After dividing the chamber’s treasures, Zhao Sheng watched Master Granny demonstrate her secret art for absorbing the essence.

• Zhao Sheng and Master Granny traveled to the Nether Night Realm, where a warm current stirred within Zhao Sheng as he entered its spiritual energy domain.
• At the Divine Prison Palace gathering, Zhao Sheng recognized Zhao Linzong but chose to avoid him, fearing contact could bring disaster upon the Zhao Family.
• When the Deep Sea Great Spirit opened the palace, it warned Zhao Sheng that Primordial Spirit Essence contained Primordial Soul Venom and cautioned him against consuming it.
• Zhao Sheng and Master Granny entered a crystal chamber, claimed the Primordial Spirit Essence and three Jade Slips, and divided the chamber’s treasures between them.
• Master Granny offered Zhao Sheng a secret art for absorbing Primordial Spirit Essence and began demonstrating it.

Zhao Sheng made preparations across the Nine Demon Continent before traveling to the Secluded God Realm to meet the awakening Star God. After discovering the Star God had split into two and lost its “miracle,” he proposed that the Blood God could help it create a new one, but the two halves disagreed.

• Zhao Sheng declined Master Granny’s invitation, hid a treasure site in the Candlelight Mountain Range, and secretly assessed the Yellow Heaven Sect’s growth under Dao Zhan.
• Zhao Sheng left more backup treasure sites across the continents and traveled through the Void Sea toward the Secluded God Realm.
• Zhao Sheng waited near the Wu Continent Sea until strange heavenly phenomena signaled the Star God’s awakening, then entered the realm and contacted it.
• The Star God drew Zhao Sheng into a divided sea-world, where its two identical halves appeared and recognized him.
• Zhao Sheng showed the Star Gods his memories and learned that their lost “miracle” had left them unable to grow.
• Zhao Sheng suggested that the Blood God could help the Star Gods create a new miracle, and one half called the idea impossible while the other called it possible.

Zhao Sheng advised the Star Gods to attack Blood God in cycles to prevent losing control, then attempted to return through the spacetime vortex. Blood God disrupted the passage and exiled Zhao Sheng into an unknown void, where he recovered and began preparing a method to find his way home.

• Zhao Sheng urged the Star Gods to unite with the Dao and later proposed that they attack Blood God whenever they neared losing control; both Star Gods agreed the strategy was feasible.
• Zhao Sheng left the Star Gods’ world and entered the spacetime vortex as the battle between the Secluded God Realm and Sky Pillar World raged.
• Blood God appeared as the Heavenly Dao Blood Mask and destabilized the vortex, leaving Zhao Sheng gravely wounded and unconscious in the Chaos storms.
• Zhao Sheng regained consciousness in an unknown void, healed his injuries, and realized Blood God had exiled him far from home.
• Zhao Sheng built a three-tiered altar and began activating a blood-red talisman in an attempt to find the road home.

Zhao Sheng’s bloodline resonance led him through three hundred years of travel across the Extraterritorial Void Sea before strange fog trapped him and brought him face to face with Fate Demon True. True offered to return him to Sky Pillar World in exchange for an equivalent amount of fate, to be collected when the Fate Compass began to turn.

• Zhao Sheng used a blood-red talisman and formation to amplify his Bloodline Resonance Technique, sensed a disturbance above him, and set off toward it in a Yukong Disc Boat.
• During three hundred years of travel, Zhao Sheng recorded his discoveries, endured the void sea’s erosion of his Primordial Spirit, and noticed the bloodline disturbance gradually grow stronger.
• Grayish-white mist and dark-gold lightning surrounded Zhao Sheng, destroyed his Disc Boats, and trapped him as a vast mental fluctuation appeared.
• A thousand-eyed, many-armed being revealed itself as Fate Demon True, recognized the Hundred Lifetimes Book within Zhao Sheng, and explained that it belonged to him.
• True offered Zhao Sheng a fair trade after asking whether fate could change, and Zhao Sheng wished to return to Sky Pillar World.
• True said Zhao Sheng could pay later, when the Fate Compass began to turn, and Zhao Sheng silently accepted the terms.

Zhao Sheng learned that Fate Demons guarded the Fate Great Dao while seeking their own escape from fate, but he refused Fate Demon Zhen’s offer of immortality and chose to return to Sky Pillar World. He arrived at the Ascension Platform in time to help Zhao Xuanjing and Crazy Monk Ben Neng drive off the Blood God Child, then reunited with his ancestor and learned that five hundred years had passed.

• Fate Demon Zhen explained that its race guarded the Fate Great Dao and asked Zhao Sheng to change his wish, but Zhao Sheng insisted on returning to Sky Pillar World.
• Fate Demon Zhen used Zhao Sheng’s bloodline aura to locate Sky Pillar World and transported him to Heaven Pillar Mountain, where Zhao Xuanjing and Crazy Monk Ben Neng were fighting the Blood God Child.
• Zhao Sheng appeared with his Great Sun Dharma Image, startling the fighters and forcing the Blood God Child to flee; he began pursuing it until Zhao Xuanjing told him to stop.
• Zhao Sheng reunited with Zhao Xuanjing and Crazy Monk Ben Neng, then gave Ben Neng the Kala World Honored One Dharma Image, allowing the monk to depart.
• Zhao Xuanjing asked Zhao Sheng where he had been for five hundred years, and Zhao Sheng reacted in shock at the passage of time.

Zhao Sheng learned that nearly five hundred years of war had devastated Sky Pillar World while he was lost beyond the realm, and that the Blood God Children repeatedly attacked the Ascension Tower to prevent contact with the Spirit World. He also learned that most of the elders he had known were dead, leaving the Zhao Clan’s future in the hands of a changed generation.

• Zhao Sheng hid his encounter with Fate Demon Zhen and realized his return might have changed the course of fate and incurred a heavy karmic debt.
• After sleeping for three days, Zhao Sheng drank thousand-year Fire Dragon Wine with Zhao Xuanjing and found that it slightly strengthened his divine sense.
• Zhao Xuanjing told Zhao Sheng that the space-time seal at Heaven Burial Plain had been destroyed and that Sky Pillar World had endured nearly five hundred years of invasion from the Secluded God Realm.
• Zhao Xuanjing explained that the Blood God Children sought to destroy the Ascension Tower, Sky Pillar World’s space-time beacon, and had repeatedly attacked it during the war.
• Zhao Sheng learned that most of the Southern Sky Zhao Clan’s ancestors had died, including Zhao Changdu, who had failed to reach Spirit Transformation.

At the Ascension Platform, Zhao Sheng helped Zhao Xuanjing study Immortal Seal Script and uncovered the danger hidden in the Return to Void Pill through Min Jue’s records. He began recovering from the arduous voyage and pieced together a possible path to Return to Void centered on refining Cell Willpower.

• Zhao Xuanjing worried that a summoned Spirit Realm cultivator might let the Supreme Induction Sect dominate, while Zhao Sheng reminded him that they could flee through the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array.
• Zhao Sheng suggested that the hide shed when Mountain Dragon became a true dragon could carry Zhao Xuanjing’s Great Dao True Script, then taught him another Immortal Seal Script.
• Zhao Sheng rested for a month on the Ascension Platform and tested how Cell Willpower fused with Mana to strengthen a fireball.
• Zhao Sheng studied Min Jue’s records and learned that the Return to Void Pill used a Body Integration expert’s willpower to suppress a cultivator’s Cell Willpower, restricting their future advancement.
• Zhao Sheng concluded that the breakthrough to Return to Void required a second unification of essence, qi, and spirit, with Cell Willpower as the essential element of essence.

Zhao Sheng completed his deductions on cultivation beyond Spirit Transformation, then was sent by Zhao Xuanjing to Flying Immortal City to guard the Southern Sky Zhao Clan during a Central Continent Alliance meeting. At the meeting, Zhao Qiong Yu was pressured to take a dangerous mission to rescue Dragon Shadow Number One, but he countered by nominating the Nether Jade Old Devil, prompting an objection from the Dan Ding Sect.

• Zhao Sheng recorded his deductions about fusing the Primordial Spirit, Mana, and Cell Willpower for the clan’s Scripture Pavilion, then cultivated with Spirit Stones and pills.
• After Zhao Sheng spent half a year recovering on the Ascension Platform, Zhao Xuanjing sent him to Flying Immortal City with the Baxia mask to protect the clan during the Alliance meeting.
• At Flying Immortal Hall, Alliance leaders debated reports that the Secluded God Realm was preparing for war and discussed rescuing Dragon Shadow Number One from near the Ten Thousand Bones Underworld Abyss.
• Daoist Qing Miao and his supporters steered the rescue mission toward Zhao Qiong Yu, and several delegates argued that he should lead a Golden Core squad.
• Zhao Qiong Yu nominated the Nether Jade Old Devil for the mission instead, and a frail Dan Ding Sect elder stood to object.

At the Central Continent Alliance meeting, Zhao Qiong Yu faced opposition as Daoist Qing Miao pushed for a secret ballot to choose a leader for the mission to rescue Dragon Shadow. The vote was interrupted by Zhao Sheng’s dramatic arrival, and he ended the chapter by casting the Southern Sky Zhao Clan’s vote against the proposal and challenging the hall to object.

• Purple Qi Ancestor publicly objected to Zhao Qiong Yu’s conduct, while Daoist Qing Miao and Nether Jade Old Devil pressured Zhao Qiong Yu to sit down.
• Daoist Qing Miao proposed a secret ballot under Article Nine to select a leader for the mission to bring Dragon Shadow back alive, and more than two-thirds of the hall supported it.
• As Zhao Qiong Yu prepared to vote, fire-element spiritual qi flooded the hall and the doors burst open as Zhao Sheng entered under immense pressure.
• Daoist Qing Miao ordered the hall to seize Zhao Sheng, and Nether Jade Old Devil attacked him with Yin Sha Jade Bone Nails.
• Zhao Sheng repelled Nether Jade Old Devil with a single blow, then froze and collected the bone nails before announcing that the Southern Sky Zhao Clan voted against the proposal and asking whether anyone objected.

Zhao Sheng disrupted the Central Continent Alliance meeting, then explained his hard-line stance to Zhao Qiong Yu before confronting the Nine Chi Devil Lord. The Nine Chi Devil Lord agreed to pass Zhao Sheng’s warning to Xie Juenan, and Zhao Sheng departed for Heaven Pillar Mountain.

• Zhao Sheng voided the alliance vote, took Zhao Qiong Yu away, and escaped the meeting after Daoist Qing Miao invoked the Alliance Lord Seal to order their capture.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Qiong Yu that the Southern Sky Zhao Clan should not let others use righteousness and the greater picture to pressure it.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Flying Immortal City and met the Nine Chi Devil Lord, recognizing that his banners were the Ghost Chi Clan’s Chi Demon Banners.
• Zhao Sheng demanded an apology from Nether Jade, but the Nine Chi Devil Lord agreed to arrange one and urged unity against their common enemy.
• Zhao Sheng warned the Nine Chi Devil Lord to tell Xie Juenan not to scheme against the Southern Sky Zhao Clan, and the Nine Chi Devil Lord departed after agreeing to relay the message.
• Zhao Sheng flew toward Heaven Pillar Mountain.

Zhao Sheng helped launch a vast mobilization to draw the Secluded God Realm into a decisive war while Heavenly Sword recovered in the Zhao Clan’s Spirit Cleansing Pool. Three years later, Heavenly Sword had returned to full strength, and Zhao Sheng prepared to carry out the plan as the great war approached.

• Zhao Sheng offered Ji Yun Primordial Spirit Essence and persuaded Zhao Xuanjing to support a plan to lure the Secluded God Realm into a major war and reclaim the spatial-temporal rift.
• Zhao Sheng placed Heavenly Sword in the Zhao Clan’s Spirit Cleansing Pool, where it absorbed the nectar and began recovering from its injuries.
• Zhao Xuanjing summoned the Sky Pillar World’s eight Spirit Transformation combatants, and their decision set armies from across the world marching toward Heaven Burial Plain.
• The Sky Pillar World and Secluded God Realm spent three years preparing for war while guerrilla battles around Heaven Burial Plain ceased.
• Heavenly Sword emerged fully recovered and promised Zhao Xuanjing it would fight the Heavenly Dao Sect without restraint.
• Zhao Sheng learned Ji Yun would emerge from seclusion within two years and declared his intention to trap every enemy who came.

Zhao Sheng led the Zhao Clan fleet to Heaven Burial Plain and spent two years secretly guarding the family camp while the war fog battlefield filled with brutal skirmishes. At the camp tower, he noticed a promising young cultivator, and a red-haired woman arriving there fixed her gaze on him.

• Zhao Xuanjing sent Zhao Sheng with the Zhao Clan forces bound for Heaven Burial Plain and instructed him to help hold the line at Flying Immortal City.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Mountain City’s fleet, then led the clan forces toward the Golden Wall Great Wall and vanished after sending instructions to two Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Two years later, Zhao Kaiyuan’s battered squad escaped the war fog after defeating enemy fighters and returned to the Zhao Clan camp.
• Zhao Kaiyuan brought Zhao Yu and the other squad members to the camp tower, where Zhao Yu read the cultivation rankings and Zhao Kaiyuan warned him against boasting.
• A jade-fan-wielding youth argued that the rankings concealed the clan’s true strength, drawing Zhao Sheng’s approving attention as he secretly guarded the camp and sought promising clan members.
• A tall, red-haired woman entered the tower and immediately fixed her gaze on Zhao Sheng in disguise.

Zhao Sheng tested Zhao Yueru's progress in the Water-Fire Annihilation Path, warned her to keep the clan's inheritance secret, and assessed the threat posed by foreign True Lords. Meanwhile, the Blood Sea produced more souls and zombies as Di Yi questioned Que Yue about Zhao Sheng; the chapter ended with Zhao Rijia arriving to meet Zhao Sheng.

• Zhao Yueru failed to reproduce the Water-Fire Annihilation Path before Zhao Sheng, who gave her a Jade Slip of his guidance and ordered her to keep the inheritance secret.
• Zhao Sheng painted portraits of foreign True Lords on the chamber walls and worried over the unknown number of Blood God Children in the Secluded God Realm.
• The Blood Sea swallowed the living people dropped from a Disc Boat and produced new zombies that walked toward the gray fog.
• Di Yi learned that Zhao Sheng had returned and accused Que Yue of failing to kill his disciple; Que Yue accepted orders to replace Chizha True Man on the next mission.
• Zhao Rijia arrived at Zhao Sheng's stone chamber, and Zhao Sheng welcomed the Golden Core cultivator with interest.

Zhao Sheng mastered a new use of the Size Altering Immortal Art and joined the Pig Emperor in pushing a star meteorite toward the Sky Pillar World. Meanwhile, Zhao Yueru fled with intelligence about a Giant Corpse Legion threat, and Zhao Qiong Yu rushed to rescue her after several squad members died.

• Zhao Sheng guided Zhao Rijia in practicing the annihilation path, then sent him away with Three Returns Primordial Essence Pills.
• After receiving information from the Zhao ancestor, Zhao Sheng traveled into the void and met the Pig Emperor pushing an enormous star meteorite from Fluorescent Star.
• Zhao Sheng used the Size Altering Immortal Art to enlarge his right arm and propel the meteorite, while the Pig Emperor repeatedly begged him to teach the technique.
• As the Sky Pillar and Nether God forces escalated their war, Zhao Fan Wen died covering his squad's retreat, and Zhao Yueru escaped pursuing Ghost Kings with intelligence about the Giant Corpse Legion digging through the earth's core.
• Zhao Ri Xin reported that four Zhao squad members' Lifebound Soul Lamps had gone out, and Zhao Qiong Yu hurried off to save Zhao Yueru.

Zhao Yueru escaped the Secluded God Realm with news of its Earth-Core Plan, forcing the Central Continent Alliance to prepare for a possible catastrophic earthquake. As the two realms began monthly life-and-death wager battles to buy time, Zhao Sheng and Pig Emperor secretly pushed a concealed star-meteor toward the Sky Pillar World.

• Zhao Yueru fled the mist after Golden Core Ghost Kings discovered her, and Ancestor Mingren protected her until she met Zhao Qiong Yu and returned safely.
• Zhao Yueru reported the Earth-Core Plan, and Ji Yun confirmed the enemy was digging passages near the Earth's core before retreating from an otherworldly Spirit Transformation.
• The Central Continent Alliance issued emergency orders and searched underground, but false passages caused heavy casualties and the true route remained undiscovered.
• Five Ridges Ancestor proposed an early general offensive, but Xie Juenan and the other Spirit Transformation True Lords chose wager battles to delay the war and reduce casualties.
• The two realms agreed to monthly life-and-death matches at Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul levels, with captives returned as stakes.
• Zhao Sheng and Pig Emperor concealed a star-meteor with a formation and continued pushing it toward the Sky Pillar World.

The human alliance gathered its forces and sect foundations in Cloud Phoenix Mountain to prepare for a decisive battle against the Nether God Realm. After enemy scouts discovered the refuge, Nine Chi Devil Lord captured one scout and departed with the prisoner, while Sky Severing Fairy took charge of defending the city.

• Qiu Xinzong patrolled Cloud Phoenix Mountain and criticized the great sects for withdrawing troops from the front and arriving without secrecy.
• The Soaring Cloud Academy sent scholars to Weaving Phoenix City, where Spirit Transformation True Lords and Nascent Soul Ancestors revealed their sects’ battle preparations and discussed striking first.
• A pill-robed Nascent Soul Ancestor asked what the True Lords meant by the “east wind,” and Nine Chi Devil Lord warned the gathered sects against concealing their strength or wavering.
• Two Nether God scouts watched Weaving Phoenix City, but a hidden demonic power killed the thin scout and captured the fat Nascent Soul High Priest after he tried to flee.
• Nine Chi Devil Lord showed the assembled ancestors that their refuge had been exposed, ordered a warning sent to Flying Immortal City, and left with the captive while Sky Severing Fairy vowed to protect Weaving Phoenix City.

Zhao Xuanjing announced the start of the God-Slaying War, and the Central Continent Alliance mobilized its forces to face the Nether God Realm at the Heaven Burial Plain. The battle opened with beast hordes, warships, and puppet armies attacking the corpse-ghost tide, but the Alliance came under pressure as the Nether God Realm’s fleet remained in reserve and the undead seemed inexhaustible.

• Zhao Xuanjing received confirmation that “East Wind” had arrived and sent orders across the Central Continent to begin the decisive battle.
• The Central Continent Alliance assembled its fleet, puppet armies, and defenses while Di Yi watched its movements and ordered the Nether God Realm to begin its response.
• Daoist Qing Miao sent cloud ships to clear the War Fog, revealing the corpse-ghost army, and then launched the Alliance’s beast forces and warships against it.
• The Alliance’s cannons and puppet armies killed vast numbers of undead, but Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor drove the corpse-ghosts into a frenzy and sent them surging toward the Golden Wall Great Wall.
• The corpse-ghost tide overwhelmed the stone giants, attacked the puppets and their masters, and fought through the night while the Nether God Realm’s fleet stayed back and the Alliance’s pressure mounted.

As the Secluded God Realm’s campaign wore down the Sky Pillar World, Xie Juenan took command and ordered a risky assault to expose the alliance’s hidden trump card. The battle raged against the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Di Yi sensed that an unseen threat had arrived beyond the realm.

• Daoist Qing Miao directed the prolonged defense as Nascent Soul attackers from the Secluded God Realm exterminated more than a hundred sects and families, forcing him to divert pursuit forces to the rear.
• Three Primal Devil Sect ancestors tried to harvest battlefield ghosts with Ten Thousand Souls Devil Banners, but incarnations of the Ten Thousand Spirits Ghost Ancestor dragged the banners away, and a thunder attack failed to seriously injure him.
• Xie Juenan arrived at Flying Immortal City, took command, and ordered the alliance to send patriarchs’ coffins toward the Blood Sea Altar while the fleets tied down the Secluded God main fleet.
• A force carrying the Earth Treasury Sect, Holy Heart Temple, and Beast Taming Sect elites met a Secluded God interception, so the elders unleashed eight Nascent Soul corpse demons and awakened the patriarchs from their coffins.
• More than fifty Nascent Soul fighters clashed, and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Nascent Souls suffered losses and began retreating under pressure from opponents who feared neither death nor injury.
• Di Yi questioned the Sky Pillar alliance’s strategy and asked Ju Mang whether anything unusual had arrived beyond the realm; Ju Mang replied that she was circling with a fun opponent.