Chapter Summaries

After refining the True Immortal Demonic Thought and attending Chen ZhengCheng’s Nascent Soul celebration, Zhao Sheng returned to Simon Continent and agreed to help repel the overseas army. Suspecting the war was a scheme to harvest human souls, he issued a challenge to the enemy’s Spirit Transformation cultivators, and the two sides gathered for battle at the Bi Family’s Divine Tree.

• Zhao Sheng subdued the True Immortal Demonic Thought in the Jade Yellow Thunder Gourd after surviving the tribulation.
• Chen ZhengCheng emerged as a Nascent Soul Ancestor, and the Chen Family celebrated while Chen Zhengjue revealed his late-stage cultivation.
• Zhao Chengping told Zhao Sheng that the overseas army had invaded the Earth Overturning Mountain Range and offered the Mo Family’s Three Tribulation Divine Tree in exchange for his help.
• Zhao Sheng suspected Xuan Zhan was plundering souls and that the alliance was exploiting the war to destroy rival cultivation factions, then agreed to act.
• Zhao Sheng sent a challenge to the overseas Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Mirror Wu True Lord accepted.
• The opposing armies assembled outside the Bi Family’s Divine Tree as Zhao Sheng’s anticipated battle approached.

Zhao Sheng fought Mirror Wu True Lord in the clouds and revealed a late-stage Spirit Transformation battle body, overwhelming Mirror Wu’s water-domain summons. The chapter ended when Mirror Wu and the five-clawed golden dragon struck Zhao Sheng with a coordinated attack, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Zhao Sheng challenged Mirror Wu True Lord, who trapped him in a fog-filled Water Mirror True Domain and attacked with a Cold Chi.
• Zhao Sheng crushed the Cold Chi’s tail, then struck Mirror Wu with Purple Firmament Thunder Orbs and severed one of his arms.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a ten-zhang Thunder Giant as Mirror Wu summoned two demon emperors and a five-clawed golden dragon from three Water Mirrors.
• Zhao Sheng’s attacks overwhelmed the summoned beasts, and cultivators on both sides recognized that his power had reached the late stage of Spirit Transformation.
• The golden dragon struck Zhao Sheng and erupted into a vast sphere of light while Mirror Wu launched crystalline threads into it, leaving Zhao Chengping horrified.

Zhao Sheng defeated and captured Mirror Wu True Lord, helping force the overseas army into retreat, then waited for Three Lives Palace’s inter-realm flying ship. The Shuang Ling Ship arrived above Moonlight Star, and Zhao Sheng joined the Nascent Soul Ancestors entering it.

• Zhao Sheng trapped Mirror Wu True Lord with the Black Abyss Sword Domain and thunder, pierced him with the Crimson Dragon Spear, and captured his Primordial Spirit.
• Pacifying Sea True Lord negotiated for Mirror Wu’s release, while Zhao Sheng handed the talks to Gui Mei Fairy and returned to his camp with the Profound Manifestation Mirror.
• The overseas army retreated more than nine thousand li after Mirror Wu’s defeat, and Mirror Wu later destroyed his Primordial Spirit to thwart the alliance’s attempt to enslave him.
• Zhao Sheng waited for Three Lives Palace’s inter-realm flying ship after failing to draw Xuan Zhan out from Leaving Dust Island.
• The Shuang Ling Ship arrived above Moonlight Star, and Zhao Sheng joined the Nascent Soul Ancestors as they entered its passageway.

After years aboard the Shuang Ling Ship, Zhao Sheng reached the Black Sand Realm and felt an unexpectedly deep sense of familiarity as he entered its atmosphere. The chapter left him surveying the realm’s bleak landscape, newly invigorated in body, spirit, and divine sense.

• Zhao Sheng left his cabin, entered the ship’s Spirit Realm, and met Jing Lian to trade pills for a spacetime-rich Thousand Loach Dragon Jade Bone.
• Zhao Sheng learned that Long Kui had returned to the Three Lives Palace and that the ship had stopped at seventy-two Ganges Sand Realms, with the Black Sand Realm expected to be near.
• Jing Lian traded for Zhao Sheng’s Return to Ruins Pills, later recorded what he had observed, and disappeared in a wisp of green smoke.
• After three more years of travel, the Shuang Ling Ship crossed into the extraterritorial void near the Black Sand Realm, and Zhao Sheng flew toward the planet.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Black Sand Realm and felt at home as his Primordial Spirit Dharma Body and divine sense grew more vigorous.

Zhao Sheng found the poison-resistant Sha Sheng in the Endless Desert and persuaded him to leave with the promise of plentiful food. Meanwhile, the Zhao Clan struggled to save the unconscious Zhao Zhong as the Mian Yang Fire Poison worsened.

• Zhao Sheng reached the Endless Desert and discovered a strange, poisonous-mushroom habitat cultivated around a barren hill.
• Zhao Sheng drew Sha Sheng from hiding and recognized his unusual strength, fire and earth Spiritual Roots, and ability to withstand poison.
• After devouring a roasted spirit sheep, Sha Sheng agreed to follow Zhao Sheng in exchange for more food, and they departed aboard a flying vessel.
• At the Zhao Clan's Rising Dragon Mountain stronghold, Zhao Yuedu learned from Zhao Fengxian that Zhao Zhong had been unconscious for more than five days despite treatment.
• When Zhao Zhong's Mian Yang Fire Poison surged, Zhao Yuedu tried to force it from his body, but the black poisonous flames grew fiercer.

Zhao Sheng’s fleet crossed the Yellow Sand Dead Sea as a Black Sandstorm and a massive Beast Tide approached, while he suspected sand pirates were using the chaos to attack. The vessels rose above the scorpion horde and flew north, but the pirate threat remained within the storm.

• Zhao Yuedu revived Zhao Tai Zhong and removed the fire poison from his body, while Zhao Fengxian urged him to set aside his grudge against Bei Ming Xue and the Bei Ming Clan.
• Three days later, Zhao Sheng traveled aboard a desert vessel with Sha Sheng and considered the boy’s evolving poisonous physique.
• Hu Jiutong warned Zhao Sheng that sand pirates often attacked during Black Sandstorms and used the Heart Demon Empowerment Great Art to turn captives into pirates.
• Zhao Sheng sensed a strange fluctuation near the Sky Veil Continent and watched the southern desert as Jin Tian Hou delivered a Storage Bag to Hu Jiutong.
• A Black Sandstorm and a huge Beast Tide led by Giant Pincer Black Death Scorpions approached the fleet, and Hu Jiutong ordered the passengers into their cabins and the vessels to take flight.
• Zhao Sheng spotted sand pirate warships within the storm and warned that he might intervene before disappearing from the deck; the desert vessels then flew north above the scorpion horde.

Zhao Sheng rescued the surviving ship owners and guards from the Sand Pirates, then learned the location of Black King City from the pirates’ commander. After leaving Sha Sheng in North Gate City, he found the hidden underground sea where Black King City stood and arrived above its island.

• The Sand Pirates crippled the desert ships, attacked the passengers, and used the Beast Tide to overwhelm the guards while the ships’ Golden Core owners fought elsewhere.
• Zhao Sheng killed the Sand Pirates across the battlefield with a snap, then extracted information from their commander before giving Sha Sheng the commander’s belongings.
• Zhao Sheng brought Sha Sheng to North Gate City and left him at Master Han’s residence before shifting away to search for Black King City.
• Zhao Sheng found an underground passage beneath the Death Desert and discovered a vast freshwater sea with Black King City on an island at its center.
• Zhao Sheng shifted to the skies above the spiritual island where Black King City stood.

Zhao Sheng witnessed the Heart Demon Empowerment Great Art in Black King City, uncovered its mind-twisting nature, and escaped before the ritual turned bloody. He trained Sha Sheng, investigated the Zhao Clan, and years later appeared in the Rising Dragon Mountain Range as Zhao Yuedu and Chen Mingye competed in alchemy.

• Zhao Sheng secretly watched Sha Tongtian conduct the empowerment ritual and discovered that the Heart Demon Empowerment Great Art assimilated people through a flood of violent memories.
• After the ritual drove most survivors into madness and the Skeleton God Statue’s eyes kindled with white flames, Zhao Sheng escaped to North Gate City with Sha Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng settled Sha Sheng in a spiritual cave abode, devised the Crimson Refinement Myriad Transformation Body for him, and trained him until he reached Qi Refining Level Four.
• Zhao Sheng investigated the Zhao Clan and found no record of anyone teleporting back to the Star Ruins, then kept his identity concealed.
• Several years later, Zhao Yuedu and Chen Mingye competed in alchemy beside a stream in the Rising Dragon Mountain Range while a young man handled Spirit Rice nearby.

Zhao Sheng secured Chen Mingye’s help in studying an ancient pill canon and obtained Zhao Yuedu’s agreement to teach him the Life Flame Divine Power Method. Seven years later, Zhao Sheng sent his disciple Zhao Zongze through a space-time vortex after the young man completed an Orbital Instrument Jade Plate and sensed Grey Mountain.

• Zhao Sheng invited Chen Mingye to study a damaged pill canon with him and Zhao Yuedu in exchange for her help finding treasures containing space-time power.
• Chen Mingye became absorbed in the pill canon, while Zhao Sheng traded Hundred Year Brew and treasures with Zhao Yuedu.
• Zhao Sheng asked Zhao Yuedu to teach him the Life Flame Divine Power Method, and Zhao Yuedu agreed after Zhao Sheng swore not to pass it on.
• Seven years later, Zhao Zongze completed an Orbital Instrument Jade Plate, and Zhao Sheng prepared him to perform his first summoning ritual.
• Zhao Zongze opened a vortex with a Sumeru Stone, sensed Grey Mountain, and entered the passage; Zhao Sheng added more Sumeru Stones and followed him.

Zhao Sheng traded for an Innate Geng Metal pillar on Grey Mountain Street, then returned to his secret chamber and refined it while Zhao Zongze prepared to establish his foundation. Elsewhere, Feng Xin failed to secure help from Black King City for the abducted Shao Quan, and Zhao Sheng ambushed Bei Ming Yaoli as the elder flew toward Flawless Palace.

• Zhao Sheng bought the one-eyed Giant’s Star Metal Rod for thirty High-Grade Spirit Stones after recognizing it as Innate Geng Metal.
• Zhao Zongze sold three treasures on Grey Mountain Street before Zhao Sheng brought him back to the lower realm and gave him the remaining wares.
• Zhao Sheng refined a jar-sized ball of Innate Geng Metal while Zhao Zongze absorbed the abundant spiritual energy, reached the limit of Qi Refining, and began foundation-establishment seclusion.
• Feng Xin demanded that Yin Lie of Black King City help recover Shao Quan, but Yin Lie denied responsibility and left.
• Zhao Sheng stopped Bei Ming Yaoli near Flawless Palace, overwhelmed him with divine-sense lightning, and carried his unconscious body into the cloud sea.

Months after Strange Thief True Lord abducted more Nascent Soul Cultivators, the leaders of Black Sand Realm gathered to decide how to stop him. The conference turned into a battle when Heavenly Wasteland and Earth Mother attacked Zhao Sheng, who faced them in his lightning domain.

• Zhao Sheng ambushed Sheng Xia and Zhang Kong, capturing both Nascent Soul Cultivators and taking their flying ship.
• At Giant Que City, Yin Ji and Si Fangyang opposed the plan to besiege Strange Thief, while Zhan Xin rallied support for the attack and announced that Heavenly Wasteland and Earth Mother would intervene.
• Yin Ji realized that Zhan Xin had already brought the two Spirit Transformation True Lords to Giant Que City, and the conference erupted in alarm.
• Zhao Sheng’s lightning sea tore through the city’s defensive barrier as Heavenly Wasteland and Earth Mother rushed out to confront him.
• Heavenly Wasteland launched a fast golden-core attack at Zhao Sheng, who retreated and strengthened his lightning domain as the battle began.

Zhao Sheng defeated and killed Heavenly Wasteland Earth Mother and the Desolate Daoist, then returned to Giant Que City. He declared the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators his hostages, and none dared object.

• Zhao Sheng trapped Earth Mother in Space Cracks and fought off the Desolate Daoist’s attacks while suppressing her with the Thunder Gourd.
• Zhao Sheng broke through the Desolate Daoist’s defenses with the Black Abyss Sword and killed him, then killed Earth Mother inside the Thunder Gourd.
• Zhao Sheng’s battle left the cultivators in Giant Que City watching in fear, while Yin Ji recalled how he had helped Zhao Sheng build a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the city lord’s manor with both enemies’ heads and told the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators that they were his hostages.
• The cultivators stayed silent, relieved that becoming hostages would temporarily spare their lives.

Zhao Sheng ransomed the Nascent Soul Great Cultivators he had taken hostage and left Giant Que City with their treasures. More than ten years later, he discovered that the Skeleton God Statue concealed a Red Eyebrow Dao existence, whose awakening drew down the Heavenly Dao’s wrath.

• Zhan Xin and the other Nascent Soul Great Cultivators agreed to Zhao Sheng’s demands, and their sects paid ransoms to free them from Giant Que City.
• Zhao Sheng departed with a vast amount of Spirit Stones, and the legend of Strange Thief True Lord spread through the city.
• More than ten years later, Zhao Sheng watched an initiation sacrifice at White Bone Mountain and used the Kui Ox Treasure to perceive the Skeleton God Statue’s hidden power.
• The Skeleton God Statue exposed Zhao Sheng and awakened, so he drove the people from the altar and faced it in a clash of wills.
• A white, three-headed, six-armed figure emerged from the statue and identified itself with the Red Eyebrow Dao, but the Heavenly Dao’s pressure weakened it.
• Zhao Sheng recognized the figure as a Red Eyebrow Dao demon that could revive by drawing on stored memories and the vital energy and spirits of living beings.

Zhao Sheng survived the Heavenly Dao’s assault on Black King City, absorbed the memories of Old Immortal Chang Fa, and spent a century building the Zhao Clan’s strength while living under the identity of Old Ancestor Xi Yi. He departed the Black Sand Realm through its Star Gate, leaving Zhao Zongze and Sha Sheng to begin their own paths.

• The Skeleton God Statue shattered, and Zhao Sheng absorbed its scattered memories before the statue concealed itself and the Heavenly Dao vortex dissipated.
• Zhao Sheng recovered in seclusion, learned the truth about Old Immortal Chang Fa and the Red Eyebrow Daoist, and studied the secret arts he had obtained without cultivating them.
• Over the next hundred years, the Zhao Clan flourished under Old Ancestor Xi Yi, while Flawless Palace and the Bei Ming Clan underwent major changes.
• Zhao Zongze grieved after his master, Old Ancestor Xi Yi, left Rising Dragon Mountain, while Sha Sheng eagerly set out to establish a Sand Bandit Gang in the Endless Desert.
• Zhao Sheng reached the Star Gate beneath the White-Haired Ocean and entered its grand formation after Hai Longzi opened the barrier.

Zhao Sheng studied and activated an advanced Star Gate formation, then returned to the Big Tree Realm and confronted the cultivators guarding Leaving Dust Island. He left Pacifying Sea True Lord bound to a jade tablet and warned him to pass a message to Xuan Zhan, while the Chen Family’s Nascent Soul Ancestors worried about Zhao Sheng’s delayed return and the approaching Flourishing and Decaying Great Tribulation.

• Zhao Sheng spent more than a hundred days studying the Star Gate formation before demanding three Star Gate scepters from Hai Longzi and rewarding him with Profound Essence Source Qi crystals.
• Zhao Sheng spent more than thirty million Low-Grade Spirit Stones to activate the formation, then used a scepter to open a spacetime vortex and left for the Big Tree Realm.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Leaving Dust Island and demanded to know where Xuan Zhan was, then defeated Pacifying Sea True Lord with a lightning strike.
• Zhao Sheng made Pacifying Sea True Lord bind his life to a jade tablet and ordered him to tell Xuan Zhan that Zhao Sheng had returned and would leave him alone if he did not provoke him.
• Righteous Awareness Ancestor, Bai Mei, Chen ZhengCheng, and Spirit Lake Fairy worried that Zhao Sheng had not returned before the Flourishing and Decaying Great Tribulation, and Righteous Awareness Ancestor offered his Immortal Skeleton to endure its first three waves.

Zhao Sheng returned to the Chen Family as a Spirit Transformation True Lord, reassured the Ancestors, and reunited with the family he had left behind. As the Flourishing and Decaying Great Tribulation approached and the Si Li Family prepared to visit, Zhao Sheng offered to handle Si Li Lanlan himself.

• Flying Swan Ancestor rejected deploying the Immortal Puppet and agreed to send Righteous Awareness Ancestor to seek the Si Li Family's Eight Treasures Tribulation Transference Copper.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at the Flying Swan Cave Residence, revealed his Spirit Transformation cultivation, and astonished the Chen Family Ancestors.
• Zhao Sheng recounted a partly altered version of his travels and spent more than half a month teaching the Ancestors about cultivation.
• Zhao Sheng learned that many of his wives, concubines, and children had died during his long absence, while Chen Ying, Chen Zhi, and Chen Ren had survived; his descendants had grown into a large clan.
• As rival families and the Chen Family's own branches grew restless near the coming tribulation, Flying Swan Ancestor ordered the white-browed boy to endure their provocations.
• Zhao Sheng volunteered to deal with the arriving Si Li Lanlan, while Flying Swan Ancestor warned him not to cause further trouble.

Zhao Sheng received Si Li Lanlan’s warning that Outer Domain Fleets were hunting ancient Great Chun Divine Trees, then learned that a powerful Spirit Transformation ship master had begun plotting an attack on the Chen Family. The chapter left Zhao Sheng secretly monitoring the intruders as they weighed where to strike.

• Zhao Sheng arrived at the pavilion, cowed Si Li Lanlan with his Willpower Field, and heard her warn that Outer Domain Fleets were targeting Great Chun Divine Trees that had endured three tribulations or more.
• Zhao Sheng revealed that he was Chen Xi and saw Si Li Lanlan and her fleet depart after delivering the warning.
• Chen Fu told Chen Shou that his master would not see him and ordered him to return what he had taken; Chen Shou later moved away with his household.
• Zhao Sheng tested the returned Immortal Binding Rope, found it too weak to be useful to him, and decided to leave the Immortal Devouring Silkworms to his children.
• As the Chen Family’s vassals grew restless, a Spirit Transformation ship master and his subordinates arrived in Sky City and discussed attacking the Chen Family’s Divine Tree after the Wither Bloom Tribulation.
• Zhao Sheng monitored the three intruders from a nearby tavern and overheard the ship master and Bei Gong debate whether to attack in the Divine Continent or Simon Continent.

Zhao Sheng tracked down a foreign bandit group, killed its Spirit Transformation leader, and forced a demon ape to serve as his spy. He then killed Cypress Old Man for coveting his family’s divine tree, unaware that two pursuers had departed Moonlight Star for the Big Tree Realm.

• Zhao Sheng ambushed Thunder Duke Face, killed him, and learned that foreign bandit groups were preparing to exploit Simon Continent after its long war.
• Zhao Sheng subdued the three-eyed demon ape with a Mutated Heart Demon Curse Jade Tablet and ordered it to report when the Shipmaster returned.
• Zhao Sheng fought Cypress Old Man, whose forces had targeted his family’s divine tree, and destroyed the cypress demon’s soul after defeating it.
• An azure streak and a black shuttle boat departed Moonlight Star for the Big Tree Realm while Zhao Sheng remained unaware of the approaching danger.

King Vine Old Demon recruited the Evil Fang Three Brothers to help him kill the Spirit Transformation cultivator who had destroyed his incarnation, while the group continued looting Divine Wood. They confronted Zhao Sheng at the Zhao Clan’s Great Chun Divine Tree, where Zhao Sheng killed the eldest brother and battled King Vine Old Demon and the remaining two fiends.

• King Vine Old Demon traveled to Exquisite Fairy and received the Evil Fang Three Brothers’ help in exchange for promising to retrieve a Thousand Autumn Flower from Dangerous Peak Dongtian.
• The Evil Fang Three Brothers and King Vine Old Demon finished felling an ancient Divine Wood, then headed toward eastern Simon Continent to hunt Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng sensed the four approaching Spirit Transformation-level enemies and ambushed them, killing Evil Fang Eldest Brother with his lightning-powered sword and punch.
• Zhao Sheng unleashed a sea of purple lightning and Five-Clawed Thunder Dragons against King Vine Old Demon and the Evil Fang Two Fiends, shattering their Primordial Spirit Domain and destroying many of King Vine Old Demon’s vine defenses.
• King Vine Old Demon pleaded for Zhao Sheng to stop, then detonated his vine dragons to create a storm that canceled out Zhao Sheng’s sword light, fiery dragons, and lightning.

Zhao Sheng defeated King Vine Old Demon and captured the Evil Fang Two Fiends, learning that they served the Seventeenth Princess of Myriad Stars Palace. The princess arrived in person, and Zhao Sheng faced her with a strong sense of danger as he readied his Kui Ox Mask.

• Zhao Sheng used his Zi Firmament Thunder Domain and fire dragon to stop King Vine Old Demon's escape, while the Evil Fang Two Fiends fled underground.
• King Vine Old Demon claimed ties to Myriad Stars Palace and the Seventeenth Princess, then sprang a trap with the two rats; Zhao Sheng broke free and subdued all three demons.
• Zhao Sheng nearly shattered King Vine Old Demon's demon soul with a punch and bound the injured Evil Fang Two Fiends, who pleaded for their lives.
• The Seventeenth Princess sensed the danger to her demon servants through her bracelet and used a jade talisman to travel to Zhao Sheng's location.
• The white-haired Seventeenth Princess appeared before Zhao Sheng, who sensed she could kill him and drew his Kui Ox Mask.