Chapter Summaries

As the strange mountain prepared to reveal a lost Dongtian, Dijiang and Tianquan Star agreed to a temporary truce so both groups could face its dangers. Radiant mist drew Zhao Sheng into a deadly vision and weakened his Willpower Field, while the mountain transformed into a Demonic Beast that seized everyone and dragged them inside.

• Dijiang and Wu Zhiqi destroyed the first Fiend Star Light Bodies, then both sides held back as Ice Demons gathered around the mountain.
• Tianquan Star proposed cooperation, and Dijiang agreed to postpone their conflict until the Dongtian Spirit Pivot was found.
• Dijiang and Wu Zhiqi warned their group to work together as both sides waited for the mountain to open.
• Tianquan Star cut down an attacking Ice Demon, and over the next two days the mist thickened while the mountain's boundary began to crack.
• The mountain split and radiant mist showed Zhao Sheng visions of ancient battles and an ice world; he awoke with his Willpower Field weakened but new insights into the Great Dao of Thunder.
• The radiant mist infected everyone, the mountain became a vast Demonic Beast, and its tentacles wrapped both groups and dragged them into its body.

Dijiang, Zhao Sheng, and the others entered the lost cave-heaven after fighting off a Heretical Heavenly Demon and its demonic dragon. They found the cave-heaven close to collapse and withdrew under a rising horde of corrupted beasts, while four Fiend Star Lords arrived and were immediately attacked.

• Dijiang and the other four divine beast avatars combined their power into the Five Dragons Seal, which drew the cave-heaven’s core out of the Heretical Heavenly Demon.
• A thorn-covered demonic dragon emerged from the core, swallowed four Fiend Star Lords’ Light Bodies, and attacked the Five Dragons Seal before Dijiang tore through space and carried the seal and core into the cave-heaven.
• The Five Dragons Seal shattered on arrival, and Dijiang warned that thirty percent of the cave-heaven’s Laws had already collapsed.
• Demonic Beasts swarmed from underground, and Dijiang dissolved a demonic dragon and nearby beasts with Chaos mist before ordering the group to retreat.
• Four Fiend Star Lords descended into the cave-heaven and launched a powerful counterattack against the demonic dragons and beast horde.

Zhao Sheng and his companions defeated the four Heretical Heavenly Demons while Dijiang revealed his complete form and prepared to enter the Dongtian Spirit Pivot to help move the Dongtian. As Dijiang left them to defend the ritual platform, a tide of demonic beasts and five demonic dragons attacked, and Wu Zhiqi summoned the Yellow Springs to counter them.

• Zhao Sheng and the other divine beasts battled the four ancient-armored Heretical Heavenly Demons as the Fiend Star Lords attacked Dijiang and the ritual platform.
• Dijiang unleashed his complete Chaos divine beast form, destroyed the Fiend Star Lords and the four giant demons, and revealed that he had located the Dongtian Spirit Pivot.
• Dijiang ordered Zhao Sheng, Huo Dou, Wu Zhiqi, and Teng Snake to defend the ritual process against the approaching demonic beasts while he entered the Spirit Pivot space.
• Huo Dou joined Zhao Sheng as five demonic dragons and a vast tide of demonic beasts approached the ruins.
• The demonic dragons spewed torrents of Heavenly Demon insects at the ritual platform, and Wu Zhiqi summoned the Yellow Springs river to corrode the attackers.

Zhao Sheng survived the collapse of the grotto-heaven as a spirit bound to the Kui Ox Treasure, then spent years cultivating in Ice Abyss before the Treasure restored his body by absorbing a monster. He set out through the icy wilderness and reached the ruins of a vast palace complex beneath an immense azure mountain.

• Zhao Sheng, Huo Dou, and Teng Snake unleashed their powers against the Demonic Beasts, unknowingly feeding eerie demonic qi into Chaos and the grotto-heaven’s hidden spatial hole.
• The grotto-heaven collapsed, swallowing Wu Zhiqi, Teng Snake, and Huo Dou; Zhao Sheng was dragged into space-time darkness, where his body perished and his Primordial Spirit took refuge in the Kui Ox Treasure.
• Zhao Sheng awakened embedded in ice in Ice Abyss and discovered he could draw on Dao Turbidity Power to comprehend the Great Dao of Thunder.
• After years of cultivation, the Kui Ox Treasure entered a pig-headed monster and drained it, restoring Zhao Sheng to a living human body.
• Zhao Sheng traveled through the icy mountain wilderness, avoiding Ice Demons, and reached ruined palaces beneath a towering azure mountain.

Zhao Sheng explored an ancient palace complex, defeated its aged war puppets and a Golden-Haired Strange Ape, and followed the ape into an underground hall filled with supposedly living stone statues. He could not store the statues in Xumi Space, leaving their nature and the danger in the hall unresolved.

• Zhao Sheng ambushed and destroyed a Giant Alligator Puppet, taking its Alligator Tooth Greatsword and remains after noticing familiar immortal-seal markings.
• Zhao Sheng reached a vast ritual platform and sensed a strongly guarded Sumeru Grotto-Heaven overhead, but chose not to enter it blindly.
• A Golden-Haired Strange Ape attacked Zhao Sheng, who dodged its blows and knocked it unconscious with punches and lightning.
• Zhao Sheng questioned the ape and, after subduing it again when it attacked, followed its directions through a hidden underground passage.
• Zhao Sheng entered a hall crowded with lifelike stone statues that the ape claimed were living beings sealed in stone, but he failed to store them in Xumi Space.

Zhao Sheng discovered that the Kui Ox Treasure was secretly altering his consciousness, then fought Tianquan Star and destroyed his spirit body with Law Divine Thunders. After Tianquan Star’s returning light body was attacked by the ruins’ battle puppets and escaped as a thread of soul thought, Zhao Sheng recovered and approached the great crater.

• Zhao Sheng discovered that the Cat-Tiger Stone Statue held faint vitality and that the Kui Ox Treasure had been guiding and altering his consciousness.
• Zhao Sheng sent the Golden-Haired Strange Ape to confront an approaching intruder, then recognized the newcomer as Tianquan Star.
• Tianquan Star attacked Zhao Sheng and suppressed his Kui Ox Avatar, but Zhao Sheng escaped the Star Domain and struck back with thirteen Law Divine Thunders.
• Zhao Sheng’s divine thunders erased Tianquan Star’s spirit body and devastated the underground palace, forcing Zhao Sheng to retreat while injured.
• A new Fiend Star Light Body of Tianquan Star returned to the ruins, but battle puppets attacked it and drove its soul thought away in a streak of starlight.
• After three days of recovery, Zhao Sheng returned and descended to the bottom of the great crater.

Zhao Sheng uncovered Feng Xianxian among the stone statues, but she attacked him before regaining her awareness and continued to treat him with suspicion after awakening. After she questioned the Golden-Haired Strange Ape and learned about the area, she ambushed Zhao Sheng again and pursued him with the Light Splitting Thorn as he escaped.

• Zhao Sheng cleared rubble from the pit, and Feng Xianxian awakened from a stone statue and pierced his heart with the Light Splitting Thorn.
• Feng Xianxian attacked Zhao Sheng until he summoned ancient battle puppets, prompting her to turn back into a stone statue and evade them.
• Feng Xianxian questioned Zhao Sheng about the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm, then destroyed Tianquan Star's spying spirit body.
• The Golden-Haired Strange Ape awakened, but Zhao Sheng stopped it from petrifying itself and handed it over to Feng Xianxian for interrogation.
• After Feng Xianxian warned Zhao Sheng that some secrets could not be shared, she ambushed him with the Light Splitting Thorn and pursued him as he escaped.

Zhao Sheng escaped Feng Xianxian and discovered a Blood Pool that began transforming his body by awakening ancient bloodlines. He returned to human form after the transformation, and Dijiang reached him as the Blood Pool’s danger drew the other divine-beast treasure bearers toward the area.

• Zhao Sheng escaped Feng Xianxian by using Space-Time Grand Shift and hid beyond the range of her Willpower Field.
• Zhao Sheng found a Blood Pool sealed inside an ice peak and sensed that its power drew on the origin cells in his body.
• Zhao Sheng adjusted his Source Spirit Sense, causing the Blood Pool to awaken and its tendrils to draw him in and infuse him with ancient alien blood.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a powerful hybrid monster while the Kui Ox Treasure protected his head and soul; Dijiang and the other treasure bearers sensed the danger and raced toward him.
• Zhao Sheng emerged from the Blood Pool as a huge monster, then returned to human form when Dijiang arrived and asked if he was all right.

After emerging from the Blood Pool transformed, Zhao Sheng watched Dijiang risk everything to pursue Innate Source Blood and later rejoined him with their companions. The group reached the palace ruins, where Dijiang identified the Platinum Dharma Platform as a possible gateway to a hidden treasure and ordered the others to guard it while he cast a spell.

• Zhao Sheng gained the ability to transform among six bloodlines, while Dijiang explained that Innate Source Blood was priceless and could turn decay into wonder.
• As the ice peak collapsed, Dijiang tore through the Flesh and Bone Tree’s shield and jumped into the Blood Pool; Zhao Sheng escaped and waited for the others.
• Zhao Sheng, Huo Dou, Teng Snake, and Wu Zhiqi fought the Ice Demons and a Human-Faced Eagle Monster, then Dijiang emerged stronger but disappointed that the Innate Source Blood had not erased the Immortal Lord’s mark.
• After Zhao Sheng recounted discovering the Platinum Dharma Platform, Dijiang led the group to the palace ruins, where Feng Xianxian did not appear.
• Dijiang identified the platform as a possible gateway to a treasure and ordered Zhao Sheng and the others to guard its four sides while he cast a spell.

Dijiang located a Lost Grotto-Heaven, which turned out to be an ancient power’s mausoleum guarded by stone-shelled Grave Guardians. Zhao Sheng and the others were routed, Teng Snake was dragged underground, and Zhao Sheng escaped to a ruined palace, where he suspected Dijiang had concealed a secret and decided to act on it.

• Dijiang used the Chaos divine beast to find the Lost Grotto-Heaven while Zhao Sheng, Huo Dou, Wu Zhiqi, and Teng Snake fought off ancient battle puppets.
• The Grotto-Heaven’s laws appeared, but Dijiang discovered it was a mausoleum and warned the others that Grave Guardians were coming.
• The Grave Guardians emerged and proved resistant to spiritual attacks, overwhelming the group alongside the battle puppets.
• Teng Snake was dragged underground, Dijiang fled with Huo Dou, Wu Zhiqi escaped by self-detonating his limbs, and Zhao Sheng vanished into a ruined palace.
• Zhao Sheng sensed the mausoleum entrance still hanging above the Dharma Platform, suspected Dijiang had held back for a reason, and made a bold decision.

Zhao Sheng watched the Fiend Star Lords repeatedly assault the Platinum Dharma Platform until they exterminated the Grave Guardians and prepared to enter the Dongtian Mausoleum. Feng Xianxian gave him the Divide Light Immortal Technique and tasked him with finding an Earth-element qi cultivator, while Dijiang emerged after Zhao Sheng left.

• Zhao Sheng waited near the ruins as six Fiend Star Lords arrived and repeatedly died fighting the Grave Guardians, eventually discovering that the guardians could not leave the ruins.
• After three months of attritional warfare, Tianquan Star, Celestial Violence Star, Celestial Skill Star, and Terrestrial Benevolence Star remained to prepare a formation around the platform; Terrestrial Dark Star and Terrestrial Rampage Star withdrew.
• Feng Xianxian and the Golden-Haired Strange Ape appeared behind Zhao Sheng, and Feng Xianxian warned that anyone below the True Immortal realm would die entering the mausoleum.
• Feng Xianxian gave Zhao Sheng the first two layers of the Divide Light Immortal Technique and ordered him to find a high-level Earth-element qi cultivator as the price of their cooperation.
• As thick fog rose around the ruins, Feng Xianxian urged Zhao Sheng to leave, and he departed through space.
• After Zhao Sheng left, Feng Xianxian addressed Dijiang, who had been hiding nearby, and asked why he had not stopped Zhao Sheng.

Dijiang petrified Feng Xianxian and prepared to enter the immortal mausoleum, while Zhao Sheng and Wu Zhiqi left the Frozen Demon Abyss for Gui Ruins Market. On their journey, the Heaven Swallowing Great Tongue nearly killed them, but they escaped and learned that the forbidden being was tied to the laws of the Great Dao.

• Dijiang attacked Feng Xianxian with a strange ripple, but she turned herself into a stone statue and blocked it.
• Zhao Sheng met Wu Zhiqi above the Frozen Demon Abyss, and Wu Zhiqi said Teng Snake was dead while Dijiang and Huo Dou had vanished.
• Zhao Sheng and Wu Zhiqi set out for Gui Ruins Market, traveling through the Burial Immortal Ruins toward a Vine Oasis.
• The Heaven Swallowing Great Tongue appeared above the oasis, devoured the land, and trapped Zhao Sheng and Wu Zhiqi with black threads of light.
• Wu Zhiqi sacrificed his body to escape with his head, and Zhao Sheng fled with him to a valley ten thousand li away.
• Wu Zhiqi told Zhao Sheng that Heaven Swallowing was a legendary being formed from the laws of the Great Dao and warned him not to speak of it lightly.

Zhao Sheng returned to Gui Ruins Market, sent valuable cultivation inheritances to Zhao Xuanjing, and resumed cultivation in Golden Wind Jade Dew Valley, where he advanced and refined his Sun Moon Divine Ape form. Three years later, as he remained in seclusion, Clear Crown Old Man came seeking an audience with him.

• Zhao Sheng returned to Gui Ruins Market with Wu Zhiqi, who recovered enough to fly to Hundred Herbs Heaven and promised to repay him.
• Zhao Sheng received three recording Jade Slips from Bi Jie, learned of the Sky Pillar World's decline, and sent restricted cultivation Jade Slips to Zhao Xuanjing.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Golden Wind Jade Dew Valley, where surging spiritual energy raised his cultivation to the late first level of the Void Return Realm.
• Zhao Sheng explained how his evolving Thunder Great Dao True Script could support further breakthroughs but chose not to advance too quickly.
• Three years later, Zhao Sheng transformed into a golden-furred Sun Moon Divine Ape and recalled the tasks and immortal arts promised by the Great Saint.
• Clear Crown Old Man visited the cave estate and asked to see Zhao Sheng, but Dai YiPing told him his master was still in seclusion.

Zhao Sheng rejected the Yan Clan’s bid for his patronage and chose to cultivate in the Mystic Iron Thunder Domain instead. There, he uncovered and awakened the damaged Five Elements Thunder Ring, whose power accelerated his cultivation and stirred its artifact spirit.

• Clear Crown Old Man met Zhao Sheng, who considered the Yan Clan’s search for a new patron but decided not to establish a new spirit domain.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated in the Mystic Iron Thunder Domain for ten years, advancing to the late second level of the Void Return Realm.
• Zhao Sheng sensed something buried beneath the thunder domain and used his power to raise and shrink a vast object into a silver-white ring.
• Zhao Sheng named the damaged artifact the Five Elements Thunder Ring and found that his Source Spirit Sense and Metal Envoy Divine Lightning could awaken traces of its Five Elements Divine Lightning.
• Zhao Sheng fed the ring his essence blood, divine sense, and Mana, awakening it enough to draw down torrents of seven-colored lightning.
• The Five Elements Thunder Ring absorbed the lightning and channeled power into Zhao Sheng, rapidly increasing his Mana refinement as he sensed a muddled artifact spirit stirring.

Dao Ancestor Pu learned that Zhao Xi possessed the Five Thunder Rings but chose to watch him rather than intervene. Years later, Zhao Sheng boarded a Sky Sea Divine Boat bound for the Big Tree Realm with Han Wu, an old acquaintance from his previous life, leaving their reunion poised to unfold during the journey.

• Wan Xu told Dao Ancestor Pu that the Five Thunder Rings had chosen Zhao Xi, an ascended cultivator from the Nine Questions Immortal Sect, and Dao Ancestor Pu ordered him to keep watch without breaking the palace’s oath.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Sky Sea Home in Ten Thousand Realms City and agreed to share a cabin on a Sky Sea Divine Boat bound for the Big Tree Realm.
• Zhao Sheng recognized the white-robed Han Wu as Han Break-Five, an old acquaintance from his previous life, and concealed his identity while introducing himself as Zhao Xi.
• Zhao Sheng and Han Wu grew familiar during the three-month wait, then boarded the divine boat with the gray-robed old man and the woman in the green skirt.
• The Sky Sea Divine Boat crossed the realm membrane and vanished into the starlight of the Myriad Stars Grand Formation.

Zhao Sheng and the passengers aboard the Sky Sea Divine Boat faced a catastrophic Space-Time Storm and an attack by Green Forest Dao robbers. After the group was drawn into a silver tripod, the gray-robed old man was struck down and the green-skirted woman attacked Zhao Sheng, who realized the conflict involved the Burial Immortal Ruins.

• The Sky Sea Divine Boat's defenses failed in a powerful Space-Time Storm, and Zhao Sheng suspected someone aboard had sabotaged them.
• Zhao Sheng used his divine sense to discover that Green Forest Dao robbers were seizing the ship and robbing its passengers.
• The gray-robed old man brought out a silver tripod, and Zhao Sheng, Han Wu, and the green-skirted woman helped activate it before all four were drawn inside.
• The gray-robed old man attacked and severely injured She Lao, while the green-skirted woman tried to kill Zhao Sheng and was thrown back by his finger.
• Han Wu offered to let Zhao Sheng leave, but Zhao Sheng mentioned the Burial Immortal Ruins and realized the green-skirted woman recognized the name.

Zhao Sheng and Han Wu were trapped in the Immortal Awareness Cauldron by a powerful divided spirit from the Immortal Cave, but Zhao Sheng destroyed her cavern-heaven domain with the Five Elements Thunder Ring and claimed the cauldron. After learning that Han Wu’s stronghold master was an Immortal Ruins Traveler seeking help in the Burial Immortal Ruins, Zhao Sheng accepted a ride back to the Big Tree Realm aboard the Sky Sea Divine Boat.

• Han Wu agreed to let Zhao Sheng take the cauldron, but a seductive woman emerged from She Wutong and revealed herself as a Void Return Divided Spirit from the Immortal Cave.
• The woman trapped Zhao Sheng and Han Wu in her cavern-heaven domain, where demonic beast spirits attacked them and Han Wu fought his way out.
• Zhao Sheng escaped the collapsing domain, then used the Five Elements Thunder Ring to capture and destroy the woman and her domain before claiming the Immortal Awareness Cauldron.
• Han Wu told Zhao Sheng that his stronghold master had ordered him to abduct She Wutong and that the old stronghold master was an Immortal Ruins Traveler.
• After Hen Jiu reported that the ship was under their control, Han Wu offered to take Zhao Sheng back to the Big Tree Realm, and the Sky Sea Divine Boat set out toward a Space-Time Beacon.

After the Immortal Cave Master sent phantom shadows to hunt the thief who took the Immortal Awareness Cauldron, Zhao Sheng returned to the Big Tree Realm three hundred years later. He quietly checked on his family, left treasures for the Chen and Zhao clans, and arrived at Leaving Dust Island, where his presence overwhelmed its guards.

• Jiao Tu Er reported that Green Forest Dao bandits had taken the Immortal Awareness Cauldron, and the Immortal Cave Master sent phantom shadows into the Nether Dark Sky to find the culprit.
• After two years aboard the Sky Sea Divine Boat, Zhao Sheng reached Chen Clan's Sky City and learned that his family and clan had prospered during his absence.
• Zhao Sheng saw the Chen Clan's grand ceremony honoring him and recognized Zhao Chongyou among the dignitaries, but left without meeting Chen Ying or his descendants.
• Zhao Sheng secretly placed a Dao Carrying Treasure in Righteous Awareness Ancestor's cave and left another with the Ximeng Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Leaving Dust Island's cross-realm teleportation formation, where his pressure immobilized the three Nascent Soul Ancestors guarding it.

Zhao Sheng activated an inter-realm array and returned to the Zhao Clan’s ancestral realms, then entered the Secluded God Realm. His arrival awakened the Star God, who confirmed Zhao Sheng’s Zhao Clan blood and welcomed him as a Void Return Realm cultivator.

• Zhao Sheng activated the Inter-Realm Teleportation Array, crossed into the Seven Stars Spirit Realm, and met Zhao Yunchan, who recognized him as Ancestor Xi.
• Zhao Sheng questioned Zhao Yunchan about the state of the Netherworld Realms and Sky Pillar World, then left him stationed beside the Primordial Spirit Fruits.
• Zhao Sheng shifted into the Secluded God Realm, and his arrival awakened the Star God and caused the Star God statue on Emerald Peak Island to shine.
• The Star God transported Zhao Sheng to the Star God Sea and demanded proof of his identity.
• Zhao Sheng offered a drop of Heart Blood, and the Star God confirmed his Zhao Clan lineage and welcomed him.

Zhao Sheng claimed Zhao Qiong Tian’s hidden treasure from the Star God and returned through the temporal rift to the Sky Pillar World. There, he encountered the imprisoned Zhao Yueru and a group of hostile cultivators, leaving them frozen by his overwhelming power.

• Zhao Sheng reminded the Star God of Zhao Qiong Tian’s agreement, gave the correct passphrase, and collected the stored treasure.
• Zhao Sheng sensed that the Secluded God Realm’s spiritual energy had greatly declined and teleported to the White Bone Underworld Abyss.
• Zhao Sheng encountered Zhao Yueru, now a chained Nascent Soul-level Flying Underworld King guarding the Two Realms Passage, and strengthened her before leaving a Storage Bag.
• Zhao Sheng crossed the temporal rift back to the Sky Pillar World and reminisced about the old friends he had lost over the centuries.
• A long-haired man attacked Zhao Sheng with a blood-red ghost banner, but Zhao Sheng dispelled the attack and froze him and the approaching Yunzhou cultivators in place.