Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng corrected Zhao Xuanan’s Heart Intent Fist, then accepted the Danyang Fragmentary Canon and Heavenly Mandate Token from Lu Pingyang in exchange for promising to act once for the Lu Clan. Lu brought Zhao Sheng to Red River City, where he met two Nascent Soul cultivators and attended a banquet hosted to rally the Lu Clan’s allies.

• Zhao Xuanan demonstrated his Heart Intent Fist, and Zhao Sheng sent him into an illusion to teach him the true thirty-six forms.
• Lu Pingyang arrived and offered Zhao Sheng several treasures, including the Danyang Fragmentary Canon, the Heavenly Mandate Token, and the Pill Emperor Cauldron.
• Zhao Sheng accepted the Danyang Fragmentary Canon and Heavenly Mandate Token and promised Lu Pingyang he would act once for the Lu Clan.
• Zhao Sheng and Lu Pingyang traveled to Red River City, where Zhao Sheng met a red-faced elder and a dark-haired young woman, both Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators.
• Lu Pingyang hosted a banquet for Zhao Sheng and Golden Core True Persons, raising their hopes by praising Zhao Sheng’s strength.

Zhao Sheng joined the Lu Clan and helped it withstand the Luo Clan’s siege, but the war escalated as Nascent Soul cultivators intervened on both sides. When Lu Pingyang was trapped in battle, Zhao Sheng arrived to save him and faced a large enemy force, leaving the clash unresolved as poisonous and insect attacks closed in.

• Zhao Sheng joined the Lu Clan, prompting the Luo Clan to withdraw temporarily before resuming its siege of Red River City with greater force.
• Lu Pingyang ordered the Lu Clan to abandon its outer territories, while Zhao Sheng sheltered Zhao Xuanan and helped him improve his cultivation.
• The prolonged fighting killed Golden Core cultivators on both sides, including Luo An, and the Luo Clan retaliated after a Nascent Soul cultivator caused the disappearance of Luo Shuangquan and his men.
• A jade pendant at Zhao Sheng’s waist cracked, and he rushed to the Great Chun Divine Tree, where Lu Pingyang and Heavenly Sound Lady were being overwhelmed by Luo Clan forces.
• Zhao Sheng drove the attackers back with eighteen Black Abyss Swords, then agreed to help Lu Pingyang after demanding greater rewards.
• The leopard-headed demon king released a poisonous cloud as Nan Xiazi summoned three monstrous insect heads to attack Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng overwhelmed the Lo Clan’s Nascent Soul fighters, killing three and badly injuring Luo Yuan before facing the grand cultivator Luo Jiu. Their battle escalated as Zhao Sheng resisted Luo Jiu’s attacks and struck through his ice defense, with the outcome still undecided.

• Zhao Sheng unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Thunder Abyss, overwhelming the five Nascent Soul cultivators while Lu Pingyang and Heavenly Sound Lady fought off the others’ attacks.
• Zhao Sheng’s sword storm killed Nan Xiazi, the leopard-headed brute, and the effeminate young man, while Luo Yuan and Luo Jiu survived.
• Luo Yuan attacked Zhao Sheng with nine spears, but Zhao Sheng deflected them and heavily damaged Luo Yuan’s Natal Treasure, the Sky Piercing Spear.
• Luo Jiu challenged Zhao Sheng and attacked his soul with Annihilating Divine Thunder, but Zhao Sheng destroyed the divine-sense assault with the golden giant ape in his Soul Sea.
• Luo Jiu’s sword and ice attacks failed to catch Zhao Sheng, who counterattacked with purple lightning and the Black Abyss Sword, splitting Luo Jiu’s iceberg and bringing his sword light above Luo Jiu’s head.

Zhao Sheng defeated and killed Luo Jiu after breaking through his Fiendish Blood Ice Hell, saving the Lu Clan from destruction. The battle at Luo Clan Military City then abruptly halted as the attackers withdrew.

• Luo Yuan used a Blood Escape Talisman to flee, while Zhao Sheng continued pursuing Luo Jiu after destroying his sword and armor.
• Luo Jiu unleashed the Primordial Spirit Forbidden Art, Fiendish Blood Ice Hell, trapping Zhao Sheng in a blood-red space that suppressed his powers.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a Thunder Giant and shattered the prison with his fists, then pursued Luo Jiu as he fled.
• A giant silkworm tore Luo Jiu's body apart, and Zhao Sheng destroyed his escaping Nascent Soul with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• Zhao Sheng collected Luo Jiu's treasures, accepted Lu Pingyang and Heavenly Sound Lady's bow, and reminded Lu Pingyang to pay his fee.
• Luo Clan Military City sounded its retreat drums, and the assaulting forces withdrew, bringing the battle to a halt.

Zhao Sheng traveled to Together Heart City, met Zhao Chengping, and agreed to attend the Simon Continent treasure exchange gathering to bolster the Zhao Clan’s standing. At South Ke Palace, he discovered that others had given him the dangerous title “Thunder God” and was greeted by Qing Ling as the gathering was about to begin.

• After Zhao Sheng’s incarnation forced the Lo Clan to soften its terms, the Lo Clan withdrew from Red River City three months later, ending the war with the Lu Clan.
• Zhao Sheng arrived in Together Heart City and met Zhao Chengping, introducing himself as Lei and agreeing to visit Zhao Chengping’s cave abode.
• Zhao Chengping told Zhao Sheng that the Nascent Soul treasure exchange gathering would also divide Simon Continent’s interests, and Zhao Sheng agreed to attend.
• One month later, Zhao Sheng and Zhao Chengping entered South Ke Palace in the void beyond the realm, where Zhao Sheng found that most of the reception room was an illusion.
• Qing Ling arrived and addressed Zhao Sheng as the famed Thunder God, a title that had been spread through the Big Tree Realm without his knowledge.

Zhao Sheng attended a Nascent Soul exchange meet in South Ke Palace with Zhao Chengping, where he rebuffed Lampwick Mister’s illusion and watched several rare treasures change hands. The gathering continued as Lampwick Mister traded his Illusionary Sky Banners for Profound Essence Source Qi and other treasures.

• Zhao Chengping led Zhao Sheng through South Ke Palace’s illusion passage and introduced him to Ke Chang at the exchange hall.
• Zhao Sheng surveyed the Nascent Soul cultivators, and his divine sense made them look away when they stared at him.
• Lampwick Mister attacked Zhao Sheng with a seductive illusion, but Zhao Sheng shattered it with divine light and forced him to back down.
• Ke Chang opened the exchange meet, and a bald cultivator offered Supreme Cold Crystal Jade for an earth-element treasure of equal grade or a tenth-rank demon core.
• A crane-haired old woman traded eighth-rank sea demon materials to Precious Cauldron Senior for fourth-rank Spirit-Replenishing Pills, while other cultivators completed several exchanges.
• Lampwick Mister displayed thirty-six Illusionary Sky Banners and exchanged them for one hundred strands of Profound Essence Source Qi and three rare treasures.

Zhao Sheng displayed several Dao Carrying Treasures at the exchange meeting and refused most offers, hoping to attract the Ke Clan's Star Gate transmission token. After the meeting, Lampwick Mister visited Zhao Sheng and claimed the Ke Clan had tokens to trade, while warning him to beware of the clan.

• Zhao Sheng displayed nine treasures, including the Ice Soul Divine Pearl, Harmony Dao Tablet, Crystal Skull, Stone Core, and Ten Thousand Year Fire Marrow, and demanded rare treasures in exchange.
• The pill-robed elder traded for the Ten Thousand Year Fire Marrow, but Zhao Sheng kept the other Dao Carrying Treasures after rejecting the cultivators' offers.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to hold the Harmony Dao Tablet for Old Daoist Ke Chang for up to half a year, then created a cave abode inside South Ke Palace and began meditating.
• Two days later, Lampwick Mister visited Zhao Sheng, seeking the demon emperor's core and warning him about the Ke Clan.
• Lampwick Mister told Zhao Sheng that the Ke Clan possessed at least three Star Gate transmission tokens and might trade one, then cautioned him about what could follow.

Zhao Sheng sought the Primordial Tribulation Lightning Crystal at a high-end exchange meet and arranged for Lampwick Mister to acquire it. Lampwick Mister traded the Demon Emperor Stone Core for the crystal, then gave Zhao Sheng the accompanying meteorite as well.

• Lampwick Mister invited Zhao Sheng to a high-end exchange meet, where Zhao displayed four Dao Carrying Treasures and rejected the bids offered for them.
• At a later exchange meet, Old Ancestor Bi Cang offered a Primordial Tribulation Lightning Crystal and a mysterious meteorite, and Zhao Sheng secretly asked Lampwick Mister to obtain the crystal for him.
• Lampwick Mister offered his Blood Spirit Bamboo and ripe True Yang Bamboo Fruit, which Old Ancestor Bi Cang traded for the crystal, meteorite, and Profound Essence Source Qi.
• After the exchange meet, Lampwick Mister gave Zhao Sheng the Primordial Tribulation Lightning Crystal in return for the Demon Emperor Stone Core.
• Zhao Sheng told Lampwick Mister to keep the meteorite, but Lampwick Mister insisted he accept it and asked for Zhao's future help.

Zhao Sheng left the Simon Continent grand convention knowing that powerful cultivators might target his treasures, then deliberately traveled openly to draw out his pursuers. A Ke Clan Spirit Transformation True Lord trapped him in a fog illusion and attacked, while Zhao Sheng fought back and searched for a way out.

• Lampwick Mister warned Zhao Sheng to beware of Ke Kun before leaving, and Zhao Sheng attended the month-long Simon Continent grand convention.
• Zhao Sheng learned that overseas forces threatened Simon Continent and decided to postpone visiting Leaving Dust Island until he reached Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Chengping departed South Ke Palace separately, and Zhao Sheng waited in the void to provoke any enemies following him.
• Lampwick Mister exposed the Ke Clan's scheme to draw other cultivators into attacking Zhao Sheng, and the gathered great cultivators dispersed without stopping him.
• A Ke Clan True Lord trapped Zhao Sheng in vast mist, used an apparent Zhao Chengping as bait, and attacked him with mist swords and divine light.
• Zhao Sheng suspected South Ke Palace had been involved in the illusion, confirmed his Space-Time Beacons remained available, and blocked the True Lord's divine-light attack with a giant lightning-covered hand.

Zhao Sheng battled Ke Kun’s illusion arts, resisting his attacks and turning Ke Kun’s attempt to invade his memories against him. Ke Kun was badly wounded by what he saw in Zhao Sheng’s consciousness, but then became greedy after discovering a Great Secret.

• Zhao Sheng guessed that the mist-sword attack was an illusion and charged toward the sky, only to be struck from behind by the real swords and expel their invading water-element mana with lightning.
• Zhao Sheng used Purple Firmament Divine Lightning against Ke Kun, but destroyed only a water-vapor incarnation before four identical Spirit Transformation Body Cultivators surrounded him.
• Zhao Sheng hid inside the Black Abyss Sword Domain, swallowing the illusionary attackers, but Ke Kun’s illusion arts separated him from the sword and made him see Heaven Pillar Mountain beneath a burning sky.
• Zhao Sheng recognized Ke Kun’s vision of the blood altar and burning world as an illusion, causing Ke Kun’s attempt to probe his memories to backfire and leave him vomiting blood.
• Ke Kun recovered enough to threaten Zhao Sheng and reveal that his brief invasion of Zhao Sheng’s consciousness had uncovered a Great Secret.

Zhao Sheng broke through Ke Kun’s illusions, killed him, and suppressed South Ke Palace, though the treasure sealed its spirit and became unusable. Meanwhile, the Ke Clan learned of Ke Kun’s death, mobilized in alarm, and drew the attention of rival factions.

• Ke Kun trapped Zhao Sheng among illusionary Spirit Transformation True Lords and awakened South Ke Palace’s killing power.
• Zhao Sheng unleashed his Giant Spirit Thunder Battle Body, found Ke Kun’s true body, and destroyed both his body and Primordial Spirit.
• South Ke Palace went berserk after Ke Kun’s death, but Zhao Sheng escaped with the jade token and later suppressed the palace until it sealed its true spirit and fell dormant.
• The Black Abyss Sword remained behind in South Ke Palace, while Zhao Sheng stored the dormant treasure in his Xumi Space.
• The Ke Family Tree Revered learned Ke Kun had died and ordered the clan to gather its Nascent Soul cultivators, guard against attack, and halt expansion.
• The Ke Clan’s frantic measures reached the eleven great two-tribulation families of Simon Continent, whose leaders wondered what the clan was planning.

After Zhao Sheng killed Ke Kun, he concealed the death and accepted three valuable gifts from the Ke Clan as war engulfed Simon Continent. The invasion eventually stalled after the Alliance brought in outside Spirit Transformation True Lords, leaving the continent’s eastern territories largely occupied.

• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Chengping that he had killed Ke Kun and urged him to keep the death secret; the Zhao Clan later weathered Ke Clan-backed provocations with Zhao Sheng’s help.
• Zhao Sheng reached the fifth level of the Nascent Soul Realm as the overseas Cultivation World invaded Simon Continent, capturing dozens of Great Chun Divine Trees and overwhelming many clans.
• The Ke Clan concealed Ke Kun’s death, but rumors spread after it struggled to supply a Spirit Transformation True Lord for the Simon Continent Cultivation Alliance.
• Lampwick Mister delivered the Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter, a Void Sea Star Domain Map, and an Ascension Token to Zhao Sheng as the Ke Clan’s apology; Zhao Sheng accepted the treasures without promising to leave.
• After the Alliance invited Spirit Transformation True Lords from the Divine Continent and East Li Continent, the war reached a stalemate, though nearly all of Simon Continent’s eastern territory had fallen.

Zhao Sheng successfully refined three fifth-tier Doumu Divine Pills and traded two to Su Lie for a spacetime token to the Guiyuan Ruins. Su Lie then offered lifespan-extending treasures in exchange for Zhao Sheng refining more pills.

• Zhao Sheng refused to join the conflict around Together Heart City and told Zhao Chengping to say he had gone to Divine Continent to visit friends.
• Zhao Sheng spent about nine months refining the Doumu Soul-Stabilizing and Spirit-Solidifying Pill, producing three pills with innate spirituality.
• At the Endless Tower Market, Su Lie praised Zhao Sheng for completing the pill refinement and confirmed that the pills were genuine.
• Zhao Sheng gave Su Lie two Doumu Divine Pills and received a Spiral Jade Plate containing spacetime coordinates for the Guiyuan Ruins.
• Su Lie offered Nine Souls Divine Water and Ten Thousand Year Blood to compensate for the lifespan Zhao Sheng would expend refining more pills, and Zhao Sheng agreed.

Zhao Sheng studied the Primordial Tribulation Lightning Crystal and experimented with transforming jade bones through Violet Firmament Lightning Power, seeking to understand the mysteries beyond Return to Void. After realizing that the Great Dao was one but its True Scripts could be infinite, he returned to his research and received a sudden flash of inspiration.

• Zhao Sheng returned from the Endless Tower and realized that advancing cultivation made traversing the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm increasingly costly.
• Over more than twenty years, Zhao Sheng deduced that the Primordial Tribulation Lightning Crystal was a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator’s arm bone infused with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• Zhao Sheng tried inscribing the True Script for “Tribulation” into jade bones, and his first transformed pearl exploded, destroying a mountain.
• Zhao Sheng used the Primordial Tribulation Lightning Crystal to transform more jade bones into varied forms that carried strange fluctuations of laws.
• While studying thousands of three-dimensional configurations, Zhao Sheng realized that Great Dao True Scripts were not fixed and that one Great Dao could have infinite True Scripts.
• A month later, Zhao Sheng opened his eyes with a flash of inspiration as intricate patterns of Dao essence appeared in his pupils.

Zhao Sheng refined his Thunder abilities and merged a new Thunder True Script with his own, awakening the manifested flame of his will. He used an Orbital Instrument Jade Plate to enter Guiyuan Ruins, where the strange landscape and bustling Market contradicted Su Lie’s account.

• Zhao Sheng used the Great Dao True Script “Annihilation” to amplify his thunder art, destroying most of a mountain before using thunderwater to restore vegetation.
• At the coast of Divine Continent, Zhao Sheng tested his Calling Thunder ability and summoned a storm that devastated a reef.
• Two years later, Zhao Sheng combined his Thunder Script with the script revealed by the Great Dao Golden Book, causing his will to manifest and alarming Chen DaCheng and other nearby creatures.
• Zhao Sheng built an Orbital Instrument Jade Plate, sacrificed a second Dongtian Jade, and was drawn through a stabilized time-space vortex into a volcanic wasteland.
• Zhao Sheng found a rift opening onto a ruined city and entered a busy Market, where Bai Mei told him that future entries required a Time-Space Crystal.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Market puzzled by how unlike Su Lie’s description Guiyuan Ruins appeared and wondered whether Su Lie had deceived him.

Zhao Sheng entered the Market as the ruined Hundred Herbs Heaven Dongtian emerged and revealed the Market’s powerful living puppets and Old Devils. Inside the Dongtian, he found a Kui Ox Exotic Beast Mask linked to his Thunder cultivation and bargained with Old Gourd for it using spirit wine and brewing recipes.

• Zhao Sheng watched Hundred Herbs Heaven rise into the Market and realized the shops there had each evolved from a Dongtian.
• The Market’s apparent people revealed themselves as powerful puppets, while Old Devils gathered to enter Hundred Herbs Heaven after its shopkeeper opened the doors.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Dongtian, found a barren Spirit Field, and pulled a Kui Ox Mask bearing the Great Dao True Script of Thunder from the soil.
• Old Gourd emerged from a gourd and accused Zhao Sheng of taking the Exotic Beast Treasure.
• Zhao Sheng offered Old Gourd jars of thousand-year Amber Fragrance and wine-brewing recipes, and Old Gourd agreed to give him the treasure in exchange.

Zhao Sheng questioned Old Gourd about the Dongtian, then reached the floating mountain where seven guests were told to compete for its Spirit Pivot and a chance to enter the Immortal Lord’s tutelage. As the search turned into a battle, Zhao Sheng fought a masked opponent while Chong Xuan and Blood Epiphyllum began eliminating the others.

• Old Gourd told Zhao Sheng that his master’s Dao field lay in the Heavenly Dome and that the Dongtian’s Spirit Pivot restriction prevented its inhabitants from leaving without permission.
• Zhao Sheng flew through the clouds to a ruined floating mountain, where the shopkeeper welcomed him as a guest of Hundred Herbs Heaven after he obtained the Kui Ox Treasure.
• The Kui Ox Treasure expanded Zhao Sheng’s Willpower Field, and six other guests arrived, including Chong Xuan and the one-eyed old man Blood Epiphyllum.
• The shopkeeper announced that the guests would compete to find the Spirit Pivot and earn the right to study under the Immortal Lord; Zhao Sheng asked whether he could withdraw, then chose to stay.
• A Ba Snake Mask guest challenged Zhao Sheng, who vanished and fought him at a distance, while Chong Xuan and Blood Epiphyllum teamed up and began defeating their opponents.
• Blood Epiphyllum’s Teng Snake Treasure appeared to reveal where his opponents would move, and Chong Xuan’s black feather swords pierced a Lu Shu avatar as the other guests tried to unite against them.

Zhao Sheng survived the battle over the grotto-heaven, rejected the masked woman’s offer to become her master’s disciple, and returned to his daoist grounds. There he absorbed a fleeting burst of Grand Dao Spiritual Opportunity, triggering a major breakthrough that drew all five Chen Family Nascent Soul cultivators to Hidden Dragon Pavilion.

• Zhao Sheng fought off the Mysterious Turtle man’s attack, then used lightning to break Teng Snake’s ambush and wound the one-eyed old man.
• The sickly-looking man empowered his Nine-Winged Guhuoniao Avatar, while the masked woman and her Return to Void puppet appeared before Zhao Sheng.
• The masked woman urged Zhao Sheng to pursue the opportunity to become her master’s disciple, but he refused, discarded the Kui Ox Treasure, and left the cloud sea.
• Back at his daoist grounds, Zhao Sheng absorbed the Grand Dao Spiritual Opportunity as his cultivation rose and his Nascent Soul Dharma body grew.
• Zhao Sheng’s expanding pressure alarmed the estate, prompting Chen Fu and the Chen Family to secure the area around Hidden Dragon Pavilion.
• Flying Swan Ancestor, the White-Browed boy, Righteous Awareness Ancestor, Spirit Lake Fairy, and Righteous Clumsiness Ancestor gathered near Zhao Sheng’s daoist grounds over the following months.

After emerging from seclusion as a Nascent Soul Eighth Level cultivator, Zhao Sheng failed to discard the mysterious Kui Ox Treasure and discussed his plans to return to his homeland with the Chen Family’s Five Ancestors. He returned to his family, learned of major developments among his relatives, and eight years later advanced to Nascent Soul Ninth Level.

• Zhao Sheng emerged from nearly a year of secluded cultivation at Nascent Soul Eighth Level, but the Kui Ox Treasure reappeared in his Purple Palace after he hurled it into the Great Sun.
• Bai Mei welcomed Zhao Sheng as an equal, and Zhao Sheng met Flying Swan, Zhengjue, Spirit Lake, and Righteous Clumsiness in Flying Swan Cave.
• Zhao Sheng asked Zhengjue about the Three Lives Palace and said he intended to return to his homeland, promising to come back to the Big Tree Realm before the Flourishing and Decaying Great Tribulation.
• Zhengjue explained the Three Lives Palace’s inter-realm vessel and the Star Gate on Leaving Dust Island, while Zhao Sheng kept his Seven Stars As-You-Wish Scepter secret.
• Zhao Sheng shared insights into the Great Dao with the Five Ancestors, then returned to his family, learned of Chen Zhi’s Dao companion and Chen DaCheng’s seclusion, and prepared high-grade Nascent Soul Pills for Chen DaCheng.
• Eight years later, Zhao Sheng returned from the Endless Tower and broke through to Nascent Soul Ninth Level.

Zhao Sheng cultivated to Nascent Soul Great Perfection, then provoked a Great Chun Divine Tree’s tribulation to temper himself before breaking through to Spirit Transformation. As the mutated lightning tribulation intensified, his Nascent Soul used the Thunder Gourd to draw its power onto the True Immortal Demonic Thought, which eventually vanished inside the gourd.

• Zhao Sheng used the Gathering Thunder Grand Array to absorb vast lightning power and cultivate the Twelve Heavens Calamity Averting Scripture and Six Nine Primal Lightning.
• After thirty years, Zhao Sheng reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, completed Six Nine Primal Lightning, and planned to face a Great Chun Divine Tree’s tribulation before attempting Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Qingyun Plain and provoked the tribulation over the Great Chun Divine Tree, causing it to expand into a mutated lightning calamity that terrified the Fang Family.
• Zhao Sheng endured successive waves of tribulation lightning with his Thunder Giant body, while the Fang Family’s Great Chun Divine Tree burned under the shockwaves.
• Zhao Sheng sent his Nascent Soul Dharma Body into the golden Thunder Pool with a jade-yellow gourd, directing most of the tribulation lightning toward the True Immortal Demonic Thought.
• The True Immortal Demonic Thought shrank under the lightning, revealed a strange frog-like demonic shadow, and then pierced into the Thunder Gourd.