Chapter Summaries

Si Li Qiu challenged the Chen Family’s champion, Zhao Sheng, and the two fought with secret arts, swords, and puppets. Zhao Sheng concealed his Spiritual Power attribute as instructed, and the battle left Si Li Qiu wounded after Zhao Sheng’s puppet self-destructed against his sword attack.

• Si Li Qiu demanded a spar with the Chen Family’s younger generation, and Chen Daqian selected Zhao Sheng to face him.
• The white-browed child warned Zhao Sheng not to reveal his Spiritual Power attribute, while Zhao Sheng agreed to fight without exposing it.
• Si Li Qiu used Sleeve Universe to seize Zhao Sheng’s red-gold flying sword, then attacked him with Golden Light Blades.
• Zhao Sheng reappeared behind Si Li Qiu and struck with the Formless Sword, forcing Si Li Qiu to rely on the Qiu Dragon Golden Robe to defend himself.
• Si Li Qiu summoned a golden eagle, and Zhao Sheng countered with two powerful tiger-shaped puppets.
• Si Li Qiu launched his Sword of No Return, but Zhao Sheng’s remaining tiger-shaped puppet self-destructed against it, leaving Si Li Qiu wounded and his robe in tatters.

Zhao Sheng defeated Si Li Qiu in the Chen Family Competition, earned the White-Browed Boy’s protection and a Nascent Soul talisman treasure, and entered seclusion to refine his prize sword. Later, he traded a Golden Core cultivation method and a Core Condensation secret art for Nether Shadow Sand and a Voidstone, then offered Ren Ling further valuable exchanges.

• Si Li Qiu unleashed his Dragon Head Sword, but Zhao Sheng used the Thousand-Year Thunder Wood Sword’s Tribulation Thunder aura to shatter the attack and badly injure him.
• Zhao Sheng offered to end the duel in a draw, and Si Li Wu Wo stopped Si Li Qiu and yielded the disputed spirit stone mine to the Chen Family.
• Zhao Sheng won the Chen Family Competition, received a Nascent Soul talisman treasure from the White-Browed Boy, and entered seclusion to refine the Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword.
• Zhao Sheng met two masked Black Alliance members in the medicinal garden and traded the latter half of his Golden Core cultivation method to Ren Ling for thirty grains of Nether Shadow Sand.
• Zhao Sheng exchanged a Core Condensation secret art for Ren Ling’s Voidstone and offered to trade more treasures for spatial and temporal materials.

Zhao Sheng opened a time-space gate and entered a strange trading world where all cultivators lost their powers. After learning its rules and meeting other arrivals, he encountered a plump elder whose attention fixed on his Time-Space Sand.

• Zhao Sheng agreed to trade Voidstones with Ren Ling for Core Condensation Pills, then returned to his bedroom and opened a gate to the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm.
• Zhao Sheng arrived in a ruined market beneath a gray mountain and discovered that the world's laws had sealed his Spiritual Power and Divine Sense.
• Bai Lin greeted Zhao Sheng, warned him to conceal his true name and world, and explained that the place gathered beings from different worlds for trades.
• A black-robed man arrived, introduced himself as E Er Kang, and traded a Ten Thousand Year Flame Jade to Bai Lin for a High-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Zhao Sheng showed Bai Lin an amber containing five grains of Time-Space Sand, declined to trade it, and then met Dwarf Old Man, who noticed the amber.

Zhao Sheng returned from the Immortal Heaven Ruins with stones and unexpectedly advanced to Foundation Establishment, then agreed to marry Chen Ying and six other women. After their wedding procession, he brought the brides to meet Flying Swan Ancestor, whose plans for the Chen Family’s divine tree explained Zhao Sheng’s importance.

• Zhao Sheng traded for Time-Space Sand, explored the Immortal Heaven Ruins, and brought back stones after discovering that even its ground could be valuable.
• The jade slab shattered, and Zhao Sheng refined a surge of Spiritual Energy to reach Foundation Establishment, gaining exceptionally powerful Divine Sense.
• The Chen Family investigated Zhao Sheng’s breakthrough, moved his wedding forward, and arranged for him to marry Chen Ying and six other girls.
• Bai Mei angrily ordered Chen Daqian to keep the wedding simple, low-key, and confidential.
• Zhao Sheng collected the seven brides and led them to meet Flying Swan Ancestor in the Great Chun Divine Tree.
• Flying Swan Ancestor welcomed Zhao Sheng and the seven girls, while the chapter revealed that the Chen Family hoped Zhao Sheng would help the divine tree survive its tribulation.

After marrying Chen Ying and six other women, Zhao Sheng spent three months trying to secure the Chen Family’s confidence by showing affection and hoping for an heir, but none conceived. He claimed treasures from the Chen Family vault, began refining the Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword, and tested his ability to teleport into the dangerous upper sky before returning alive.

• Zhao Sheng and the seven women received Flying Swan Ancestor’s gifts, visited Chen DaCheng and his wife, and returned to Hidden Dragon Pavilion for their wedding night.
• Zhao Sheng chose Chen Ying’s Phoenix Chamber first and spent the next three months sharing his attention among all seven women, but none became pregnant.
• The Chen Family granted Zhao Sheng a territory on the Great Chun Divine Tree and permission to select three treasures from the vault’s first five levels; he chose the Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword, Voidstone, and Kongtong Conch.
• Zhao Sheng visited Chen Ying at Bearing Ying Courtyard, prompting Chen Ling’er to resent his choice while the other women felt envious.
• Zhao Sheng absorbed a drop of Tree Heart Spirit Liquid and spent the night imprinting his Divine Sense onto the Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword.
• Zhao Sheng used the sword to teleport ten thousand miles above the ground, endured the lethal Gang Wind, and returned safely to his cultivation chamber, where his wounds healed.

Zhao Sheng returned from his wedding with gifts from Flying Swan Ancestor, spent his honeymoon with his seven wives, and tried to secure the Chen Family’s trust by pursuing an heir. After selecting treasures from the family vault, he began refining the Tree Heart Spirit Liquid and Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword, then used his mysterious spatial ability to reach the sky above the world and return alive.

• Zhao Sheng and the seven women left Flying Swan Ancestor’s tree hollow with their gifts, then visited Chen DaCheng and his wife before returning to Hidden Dragon Pavilion for the wedding night.
• Zhao Sheng spent the next three months with his wives and concubines, but none of the seven conceived, disappointing Chen Daqian, Chen DaCheng, and the Chen Family.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Chen Family treasure vault and chose a Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword, a Voidstone, and a Kongtong Conch.
• Zhao Sheng visited Chen Ying at Bearing Ying Courtyard, while Chen Ling'er resented his choice and the other wives secretly envied Chen Ying.
• Zhao Sheng consumed a drop of Tree Heart Spirit Liquid, refined the Ten Thousand Year Thunder Wood Sword, and successfully bound it to himself.
• Zhao Sheng appeared ten thousand miles above the earth, endured the deadly Gang Wind, and shifted back to his cultivation chamber, where his wounds quickly healed.

Zhao Sheng advanced his thunder cultivation through repeated tempering and cultivation at the Lightning Avoidance Tower, then received an estate from Chen DaCheng. He told his adoptive father he would cultivate Cloud Firmament Thunder Power, while secretly planning to cultivate several kinds of firmament thunder and make Violet Firmament Lightning Power his true focus.

• Zhao Sheng used the Heavenly Cycle Spirit Gathering Array and Lightning-Attracting Bottle for three days, reaching the second level of Foundation Establishment and completing the first transformation of the Thunder Battle Body.
• After leaving seclusion, Zhao Sheng declined to review his invitations and went to visit his consorts before heading to the Lightning Avoidance Tower during a storm.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated beside Chen DaXiang at the tower, where a sudden surge of lightning scorched him before his body quickly healed.
• Chen DaCheng gave Zhao Sheng an estate with fields, mines, and a large secular fief, and asked which firmament thunder power he planned to cultivate.
• Zhao Sheng agreed aloud to cultivate Cloud Firmament Thunder Power, but privately intended to cultivate Cloud, Divine, and Zi Firmament powers, with Violet Firmament Lightning Power as his focus.

Zhao Sheng cultivated Cloud Firmament Thunder Power by enduring the brutal winds beneath the world membrane, then gained greater freedom within the Chen Family. After Chen Ying became pregnant and the family’s surveillance faded, he activated a space-time array and vanished through its vortex gate.

• Zhao Sheng returned to Hidden Dragon Pavilion, assigned Chen Fu to receive his newly allocated properties, and arranged to enter seclusion rather than visit Sister Qi.
• Zhao Sheng traded Cosmic Light Marrow and Nether Shadow Sand with Ren Ling, promising him a discounted Core Condensation Pill if he gathered more space-time treasures.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated Cloud Firmament Thunder Power in the Thunder Palace and tempered his body beneath the world membrane while Chen DaXiang stood guard.
• Zhao Sheng completed his Cloud Firmament Thunder Power cultivation, earning the Chen Family’s approval and greater freedom; he later continued training in the Thunder Palace.
• Chen Ying became pregnant, easing the Chen Family elders’ concerns and ending their secret surveillance of Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng activated a concealed space-time array, placed a Voidstone at its center, and entered the vortex gate.

Zhao Sheng entered the Burial Immortal Ruins and traded his time-space treasures to Feng Fengzi for a Harmony Dao Tablet. After Feng Fengzi killed a golden giant who was revealed to be a Void Return Half Immortal, Zhao Sheng fought off cultivators competing for the corpse, and Feng Fengzi took notice of his martial skill.

• Zhao Sheng found Feng Fengzi's stall, recognized a Primordial Spirit Fruit among its treasures, and learned that Dongtian Jade was used for trade.
• Deng Ai exchanged Dongtian Jade and other time-space treasures for a bottle of Yang Primordial Divine Thunder and left the ruins.
• Zhao Sheng traded his Cosmic Light Marrow, Voidstone, and Kongtong Conch for a Harmony Dao Tablet, then left Feng Fengzi's stall as Feng Fengzi warned him of danger.
• A golden giant attacked Feng Fengzi, who killed it with a single finger; the crowd recognized the giant as a Void Return Half Immortal and rushed to collect its remains.
• Zhao Sheng killed an armored cultivator who threatened him, then escaped three attackers by entering a shop and emerged covered in blood after defeating them.
• Feng Fengzi observed Zhao Sheng's fighting and recognized his exceptional martial skill and physical talent.

Zhao Sheng returned from the time-space gathering point with a mysterious Jade Slip and the powerful Harmony Dao Tablet, then advanced his cultivation while concealing the tablet from Flying Swan Ancestor. He traded for rare materials as Heavenly Dome True Person, reached the third level of Foundation Establishment, and became a father when Chen Ying gave birth to their daughter, Chen Mingzhi.

• Feng Fengzi gave Zhao Sheng a Chronicle of Time-Space Objects before Zhao Sheng returned to the real world with a Giant’s remains and absorbed spiritual energy.
• Zhao Sheng briefly revealed the Harmony Dao Tablet, alerting Flying Swan Ancestor, who searched the Chen Family’s domain but could not find its source.
• Zhao Sheng demonstrated his Second Transformation Thunder Battle Body and traded a High-Grade Foundation Establishment Pill to Gui Zongzheng for rare materials and an invitation to a Return City auction.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated in the Ancient Copper Thunder Palace and advanced to the third level of Foundation Establishment before Chen DaCheng reminded him that Chen Ying was about to give birth.
• Chen Ying gave birth to a daughter with a Thunder-Fire Dual Spiritual Root, and Flying Swan Ancestor confirmed her talent before she was entered into the clan genealogy as Chen Mingzhi.

After mastering a powerful blood technique and refining layered Lightning Escape Talismans, Zhao Sheng traveled in disguise to Return City for its grand auction. The auction began with fierce bidding, while Zhao Sheng watched for several treasures he had resolved to acquire.

• Chen Ying told the other women that Zhao Sheng had been in secluded cultivation since their daughter Zhi'er's one-month celebration.
• Zhao Sheng completed a twelve-layer Lightning Escape Talisman and mastered the Burning Blood and Marrow Great Art.
• Zhao Sheng disguised himself and traveled to Return City, where Gui Zongzheng escorted him to the high-tier auction hall.
• Zhao Sheng spotted the Immortal Devouring Silkworm Larva and several other treasures on the auction list and decided to pursue them.
• Gui Menglai opened the auction, and the Golden Core True Persons began bidding on the first treasures.

Zhao Sheng won the fossilized Immortal Devouring Silkworm eggs at auction and traded Thunder Escape Talismans to pay for them. After the auction ended, he went to Jade Tassel Street and began watching the Si Li Family’s Jade Tassel Pavilion before entering Hundred Herbs Hall.

• Skyfire Ancestor auctioned the fossilized Immortal Devouring Silkworm eggs, and Zhao Sheng won them for forty-three High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• An obscure Golden Core Rogue Cultivator bought the Star Soil for a high price and left, followed by three other Golden Core True Persons.
• Skyfire Ancestor presented the Soul Stabilizing Spirit Nurturing Pagoda, and a mysterious young man outbid Chen Dalong with two Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Sheng traded twenty-two Thunder Escape Talismans to the Gui Family for the silkworm fossil, receiving one more High-Grade Spirit Stone in value than its price.
• The next day, Zhao Sheng watched Jade Tassel Pavilion from a nearby tea house, then entered Hundred Herbs Hall.

Zhao Sheng bought rare herbs to make Rebirth Spirit Liquid, sold powerful talismans through Jade Tassel Pavilion, and pursued dawn across the sky to cultivate Violet Firmament Lightning Power. The chapter ended with him discovering seven insect eggs that showed signs of survival and hearing tearful sobbing near the garden.

• Zhao Sheng asked Shopkeeper Liu to identify seven rare herbs, bought the six available herbs, and arranged to collect the Thousand-Year Jiao Scale Mushroom later.
• Zhao Sheng visited Chen Shuang and Chen Qi, then returned to Hundred Herbs Hall five days later to collect the mushroom and arrange for Shopkeeper Liu to keep gathering the herbs.
• Zhao Sheng sold unusually powerful fire talismans and supreme-grade talismans through Jade Tassel Pavilion, then vanished before its leaders could find him.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated by pursuing dawn across the sky, repeatedly using the Space-Time Grand Shift to gather Constant Sun Violet Qi and refine Violet Firmament Lightning Power.
• Zhao Sheng learned from Chen Shou that seven insect eggs showed growing vitality, moved them into stronger Rebirth Spirit Liquid, and took them away.
• Zhao Sheng heard tearful sobbing beyond the garden wall and reacted with anger before becoming helpless.

Zhao Sheng disciplined Chen Mingren after he wrecked Chen Mingzhi’s birthday flower, then continued cultivating while concealing his rapid progress and strengthening his body. After his Immortal Devouring Silkworm eggs hatched, he prepared the Space-Time Spiral Jade Plate and vanished into its mist vortex.

• Zhao Sheng caught Chen Mingren destroying the garden and made him apologize to Chen Mingzhi, but relented after Chen Ling, Chen Qi, Chen Shuang, and Chen Ying pleaded for the children.
• Zhao Sheng spent years cultivating in secret, accumulated rare treasures, and concealed his strength while completing minor duties assigned by the Chen Family.
• Zhao Sheng broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, while his second son, Chen Mingyi, celebrated his first birthday; Zhao Sheng wondered why all three children had Thunder Spiritual Roots.
• Zhao Sheng tested his Three Revolutions Thunder Battle Body against sword attacks, then watched seven Immortal Devouring Silkworms hatch and fed them demon beast meat.
• Zhao Sheng exchanged his Spirit Stones for High-Grade Spirit Stones, activated the defenses in his cultivation room, and used the Space-Time Spiral Jade Plate to enter the mist vortex.

Zhao Sheng returned to the Burial Immortal Ruins, where he learned about a past battle and tried selling treasures before arranging a cultivation-method exchange with Bai Lin. As spacetime rejection began forcing him out, startled cries at the far end of the street drew his attention to an unexpected sight.

• Zhao Sheng found the long street devastated by a great battle and began salvaging stones, bricks, and wood from the ruins.
• Zhao Sheng met a wary newcomer and reunited with Bai Lin, then explained the Burial Immortal Ruins to the newcomer as more visitors arrived.
• Zhao Sheng and Bai Lin set up stalls, but Zhao Sheng's first potential customer refused to buy his Innate Gold Essence after learning the street's trading rules.
• Zhao Sheng and Bai Lin exchanged Mystic Spirit Iron and Innate Gold Essence, then agreed to trade Spirit Transformation Grade cultivation methods using a timekeeping method based on a stone's fading spiritual energy.
• Zhao Sheng packed up his stall and searched another shop's ruins until spacetime rejection grew stronger and startled cries from the street's end made him look up in astonishment.

Zhao Sheng survived the blood mist in the Burial Immortal Ruins, claimed a strange gourd vine, and purged corrupted flesh from his body. More than half a year later, after refining his Divine Sense with lightning, he returned to Hidden Dragon Pavilion for his son Chen MingQian’s one-month celebration.

• Two skeletons carrying Yellow-skinned Gourds approached the street entrance, and several people died after entering the blood mist.
• Zhao Sheng defeated the middle-aged man and drove off the sword-browed youth, then used a spirit rope to pull the gourd vine into the safe zone and store it in his Xumi Space.
• Back in his cultivation chamber, Zhao Sheng cut away infected flesh and destroyed the writhing remains with Violet Firmament Lightning Power before checking that the gourd vine was unchanged.
• More than half a year later, Zhao Sheng trained at the Lightning Avoidance Tower, condensed a Thunder Pearl, and left when Chen DaXiang arrived.
• Zhao Sheng attended Chen MingQian’s one-month celebration at Hidden Dragon Pavilion with Chen Ying’s family.

Zhao Sheng defied the Chen family and chose an alchemy path for Chen Mingzhi, giving her an Exquisite Gourd and arranging for Chen DaLi to teach her. Later, he discovered that his Xumi Space had expanded and forced the Yellow-skinned Gourd to release a blood pearl that entered his heart.

• Zhao Sheng rejected Chen DaCheng and Chen Ying's plan for Chen Mingzhi to cultivate thunder arts and gave her an Exquisite Gourd.
• Zhao Sheng took Chen Mingzhi to see the Immortal Devouring Silkworms, then fed one flesh from a Void Return Realm Half-Immortal and watched it grow and spin a cocoon.
• Zhao Sheng persuaded Chen DaLi to accept Chen Mingzhi as a disciple by offering him the book Brief Discussion on the Dao of Alchemy.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that his Xumi Space had grown larger and cut a Yellow-skinned Gourd from its vine.
• Zhao Sheng repeatedly bled onto the Yellow-skinned Gourd until it released a blood pearl that flew into his chest and settled in his heart.

Zhao Sheng created Life Beads that could heal fatal wounds and secretly implanted one in Chen Mingzhi, then entered the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm to trade cultivation methods and treasures with Bai Lin. After learning that a rumored immortal abode had stirred up Grey Mountain, Zhao Sheng refused recruitment offers, made several profitable trades, and acquired a flame resembling the Death Soul Black Flame before returning to the Big Tree Realm.

• Zhao Sheng tested the blood bead's healing power on an injured Moon Rabbit and discovered that the Yellow-skinned Gourd could refine vital blood into Life Beads.
• Zhao Sheng implanted a sealed Life Bead in Chen Mingzhi to protect her from fatal injury and refined three more, which he withheld from his young sons.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm and exchanged the Six Nine Primal Lightning cultivation method with Bai Lin for the Undying Golden Body method.
• Bai Lin warned Zhao Sheng that rumors of a Longevity True Immortal's abode on Grey Mountain had drawn treasure hunters who sought cannon fodder, and both men refused recruitment offers.
• Zhao Sheng sold treasures and spirit herbs for valuable materials, then obtained a flame resembling the Death Soul Black Flame for twenty-three grains of Time-Space Sand.
• Zhao Sheng said farewell to Bai Lin and returned to the Big Tree Realm when the spacetime repulsion reached its limit.

Zhao Sheng braved the Golden Core Tribulation by absorbing its lightning to temper his body, refine his techniques, and advance his cultivation. After successfully forming a Golden Core with an extraordinary Divine Sense, he emerged with a strange, dangerous thundercloud phenomenon that astonished Chen DaCheng.

• Chen Guangxi charged into the Tribulation Clouds instead of using the Chen Family's prepared formation, revealing that Zhao Sheng was facing the tribulation under that identity.
• Zhao Sheng endured the tribulation lightning with his body, absorbed its power, and cultivated his Thunder Battle Body, Six Nine Primal Lightning, and Violet Firmament Lightning Power.
• Zhao Sheng survived the ninth wave and formed a Golden Core, while Bai Mei killed the hidden Fuzhe True Person and ordered the Chen Family to keep his death secret.
• Half a month later, Zhao Sheng's barrier vanished, and his Divine Sense had expanded to three thousand zhang as a dark-purple thundercloud gathered behind him.
• Chen DaCheng saw Zhao Sheng's Golden Core Phenomenon and asked why it was so strange, sensing that it could threaten his life.

After forming his Golden Core, Zhao Sheng revealed the Time-Space gateway to the Burial Immortal Ruins to the Chen Family’s five Nascent Soul Ancestors. They learned that only Zhao Sheng could enter for now, but his suggestion that other family members might qualify gave them hope.

• Zhao Sheng told Chen DaCheng that an extraordinary opportunity had helped him form his Golden Core, and Chen DaCheng brought him back to the family’s Sky City.
• Zhao Sheng reunited with his wives and children, then went to Flying Swan Cave after Flying Swan Ancestor summoned him.
• Zhao Sheng showed the five ancestors a spiral jade slab and opened a Time-Space gateway by using Time-Space Sand and his blood.
• Zhao Sheng explained the Burial Immortal Ruins and demonstrated their value by retrieving a stone brick whose energy amazed the ancestors.
• Flying Swan Ancestor tried to send a puppet through the gateway, but the ancestors found they could not touch or enter it.
• Zhao Sheng suggested that other Chen Family members might possess the trait needed to enter, lifting the ancestors’ spirits.