Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng learned how the Sky Pillar World’s decline and the World-Saving Voyage had fueled a struggle between the Integration Faction and the Autonomy Faction, then returned to a severely weakened Heaven Pillar Mountain. He met Zhao Dingshan, who recognized the returning elder Zhao Xi as the clan’s hoped-for savior.

• Zhao Sheng searched the Ghost God Sect disciples’ memories and learned that the Heaven Pillar Zhao Clan had divided into branches, some of which had allied with demonic forces.
• Zhao Sheng traced the conflict to the World-Saving Voyage and the growing division between the Supreme Induction Sect’s Integration Faction and the Heaven Pillar Zhao Clan’s Autonomy Faction.
• Zhao Sheng killed the Ghost God Sect disciples, collected the Yunzhou, and vanished before Yin Yang True Person arrived and fled after finding no trace of him.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Mountain City and discovered that its cultivator population and spiritual energy had sharply declined.
• Zhao Sheng appeared before Zhao Dingshan, identified himself as Zhao Xi from the Tai Su Spirit Realm, and learned that the clan regarded him as its potential savior.

Zhao Sheng learned that most of the Zhao Clan’s ancestral treasures had been taken to Spring Birth World, and he refused to intervene in the clan’s internal disputes while preparing to retrieve them. He left Zhao Dingshan with Spirit Stones to help promising cultivators ascend, then arrived above Heaven Burial Plain and witnessed Ghost God Sect’s ten-thousand-person blood sacrifice.

• Zhao Dingshan told Zhao Sheng that traitorous Zhao Clan branches had taken most of the ancestral treasures to Spring Birth World, and Zhao Sheng decided to pursue them rather than settle the clan’s disputes.
• Zhao Dingshan begged Zhao Sheng to avenge the Zhao Clan’s humiliation and gave him intelligence about Spring Birth World and Ghost God Sect’s mountain gate.
• Zhao Sheng rewarded Zhao Dingshan with Spirit Stones and ordered the Zhao Clan branches to cultivate one or two Spirit Transformation True Lords who could ascend.
• Zhao Sheng teleported away, leaving Zhao Dingshan to reflect on the rare opportunity he had been given.
• The chapter recounted how Heaven Burial Plain became the stronghold of demonic forces and how Ghost God Sect rose to dominate it.
• Zhao Sheng appeared above the Central Basin and witnessed Ghost God Sect conducting a blood sacrifice involving ten thousand people.

Zhao Sheng uncovered Ghost God Sect’s human-sacrifice cultivation and destroyed its sect in Sky Pillar World before traveling to Spring Birth World. He attacked Ghost God Sect’s hidden mountain gate in the No Return Mountain Range, where a colossal blood banner and its monstrous spirit emerged to resist him.

• Zhao Sheng erased the old man, blood clouds, and ghosts in the sacrificial valley, then took the blood-red ghost banner and entered Ghost God Sect’s sacred grounds.
• He read the memories of Ghost God Sect’s three Nascent Soul Ancestors, learned that the sect’s cultivation depended on sacrificing millions of people, and killed everyone within a thousand li.
• Zhao Sheng looted Ghost God Sect’s treasure vaults and Scripture Depository, then used Space-Time Grand Shift to travel to Spring Birth World and its Western Ink Continent.
• He found Ghost God Sect’s hidden mountain gate in the No Return Mountain Range and summoned a storm of heavenly lightning that broke its defenses and devastated the sect.
• A colossal blood banner rose from underground, and a six-armed, three-eyed blood shadow emerged to shield the mountain gate from the lightning.

Zhao Sheng confronted the Red God Spirit Venerable, the true spirit of the Ghost God Sect’s Red God Banner, and fought it inside its Despair World. After Zhao Sheng broke through its attacks, the banner’s power gathered into a terrifying Ghost Chi Giant that emerged from the Blood Sea.

• Zhao Sheng recognized the Red God Spirit Venerable as the true spirit of a powerful treasure and repelled its blood-cloud defense with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• The Red God Spirit Venerable drew Zhao Sheng into its Despair World and attacked his soul with ghostly howls, but Zhao Sheng resisted the despair.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a Thunder Giant, broke the Despair Chains, and cleaved the Blood Sea apart with a thunderous strike.
• The Red God Spirit Venerable’s form collapsed, then its blood tides merged with a crystalline Ghost Chi skeleton to create a nine-zhang-tall Ghost Chi Giant.

Zhao Sheng fought Red God Spirit Venerable, survived the Chi God Life Severing Curse and the Despair World's collapse, and drove the Red God Banner into the Nether Dark Sky. He caught up with the fleeing banner and revealed the Five Elements Thunder Ring, erasing Red God Spirit Venerable's blood-shadow doubles.

• Red God Spirit Venerable trapped Zhao Sheng in blood claws and unleashed the Chi God Life Severing Curse, but Zhao Sheng's Kui Insect scales and Sun Moon Divine Ape transformation let him survive.
• Zhao Sheng overpowered Red God Spirit Venerable in combat, while Red God Spirit Venerable collapsed the Despair World in a final attempt to kill him.
• Zhao Sheng escaped the collapsing world, and the wounded Red God Spirit Venerable fled into the Nether Dark Sky inside the Red God Banner.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a Thunder Giant and pursued the Red God Banner through the Nether Dark Sky.
• Red God Spirit Venerable sent hundreds of blood-shadow doubles at Zhao Sheng, but the Five Elements Thunder Ring emerged and erased them.

Zhao Sheng subdued the Red God Banner, looted the Ghost God Sect, and learned that the Nine Underworlds Pagoda was not there. He found the Zhao Clan in Mountain Continent and left Zhao Xingyu and Zhao Lian'er with precious pills and cultivation treasures.

• Zhao Sheng used the Five Elements Thunder Ring to capture and seal the Red God Banner, then stored the ring in his Purple Palace.
• Zhao Sheng searched the Ghost God Sect ruins and collected its treasures, then captured and soul-searched eight surviving members before killing them; none knew where the Nine Underworlds Pagoda was.
• Zhao Xingyu told Zhao Lian'er that their clan had declined to the point of having only one Nascent Soul Ancestor and too few resources for another Nascent Soul Pill.
• Zhao Sheng appeared before Zhao Xingyu and Zhao Lian'er in Hundred Flowers Valley, revealed that he was a Zhao Clan descendant, and gave them treasures before leaving.
• Zhao Xingyu and Zhao Lian'er discovered that Zhao Sheng had given them Nascent Soul Pills, Core Formation Pills, a medicine pestle, and cultivation-art Jade Slips, including the Evergreen Longevity Scripture.

After the Ghost God Sect was destroyed, Zhao Dingshan’s visit to the Ascension Platform led the Supreme Induction Sect to suspect the Zhao Clan was involved. The sect prepared for a powerful intruder while Zhao Sheng reached the Cloud Mist Zhao Clan and questioned Zhao Menghan about his origins.

• The Ghost God Sect’s destruction spread panic through Central Continent, and Zhao Dingshan secretly visited the Ascension Platform, where Daoist Qishan suspected the Zhao Clan was responsible.
• Daoist Qishan alerted the Supreme Induction Sect, which activated its defenses and discussed the destruction of its plans and a replacement for the Ghost God Sect.
• True Lord Fengyi feared Zhao Sheng’s power because the sect’s Primal Yang Spirit Treasure had failed to stop him, though the other Nascent Soul Ancestors focused on finding a replacement sect.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Zhao Menghan’s hidden cultivation grounds, passed through the arrays, and appeared before him.
• Zhao Sheng asked Zhao Menghan whether he had any Zhao Clan blood, and Zhao Menghan inferred that his visitor might be a Zhao Clan elder or ally.

Zhao Sheng granted Zhao Menghan a chance to defy his approaching death and tasked him with seeking the Zhao Clan’s inherited treasures from the Supreme Induction Sect. After finding no clue to the Nine Underworlds Pagoda, Zhao Sheng sent Zhao Menghan to negotiate for the other treasures, with force as a possible next step.

• Zhao Sheng revealed that he was Zhao Xi from the Tai Su Spirit Realm and offered Zhao Menghan a dangerous opportunity to change his fate.
• Zhao Menghan told Zhao Sheng that the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron remained at the ancestral vein, while the Sun Chasing Bow and Sumeru Ring were held by the Supreme Induction Sect and the Nine Underworlds Pagoda was missing.
• Zhao Sheng left a mountain of plundered Ghost God Sect treasures with Zhao Menghan, who discovered a dangerous damaged puppet and a copy of the Nine Revolutions Controlling God Art.
• Zhao Sheng searched the Scripture Depository but found no records of the Nine Underworlds Pagoda, then decided to target the Supreme Induction Sect.
• Zhao Menghan agreed to go to the Supreme Induction Sect’s mountain gate, and Zhao Sheng gave him exchange goods, sent a divided spirit into him, and instructed him to negotiate before using force.

Zhao Sheng analyzed the Spirit Pivot cores and gained a chance to restore one, while Zhao Menghan went to the Supreme Induction Sect to negotiate for his clan’s ancestral treasures. After the sect let Zhao Menghan enter its hidden mountain gate, Daoist Qing Qiu suddenly attacked and captured him, leaving Zhao Sheng outside and unable to intervene.

• Zhao Sheng dismantled the Spirit Pivot Puppets and studied their Central Spirit Pivots, discovering Great Dao True Scripts associated with the Void and a possible way to restore one core.
• A Spirit Pivot released radiance that triggered a celestial disturbance over the Zhao Clan, but Zhao Sheng contained it and continued his analysis.
• Zhao Menghan reached the Supreme Induction Sect’s Dead Star mountain gate and asked Daoist Qing Qiu to exchange for the Sun Chasing Bow, the Sumeru Ring, and the Nine Underworlds Pagoda.
• True Lord Fengyi instructed Daoist Qing Qiu to lead Zhao Menghan into the mountain gate while Nascent Soul Ancestors watched through a Spirit Light Mirror.
• Zhao Sheng followed Zhao Menghan to the circular mountain but could not enter its hidden heaven, then sensed Zhao Menghan’s danger.
• Daoist Qing Qiu attacked Zhao Menghan as soon as he entered the mountain gate and subdued him.

Zhao Sheng’s divided spirit confronted the Supreme Induction Sect over Ancestor Qiong Tian’s relics, binding the sect’s leaders and forcing True Lord Fengyi to summon Chun Jun Ancestor. Chun Jun Ancestor appeared as a powerful treasure spirit and imprisoned Zhao Sheng, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Daoist Qing Qiu restrained Zhao Menghan with golden needles while Qing Yuan, Qing Jue, and Bai Lin arrived to question him about his purpose.
• Zhao Sheng secretly freed Zhao Menghan, then exposed the sect’s hostility and demanded the return of Ancestor Qiong Tian’s relics.
• Zhao Sheng’s lightning bound the four Nascent Soul leaders, and True Lord Fengyi appeared to apologize and offered the Sun Chasing Bow and Sumeru Ring while withholding the Nine Underworlds Pagoda.
• Zhao Sheng rejected Fengyi’s offer and demanded the Nine Underworlds Pagoda, prompting Fengyi to summon Chun Jun Ancestor.
• Chun Jun Ancestor appeared as a drunken childlike treasure spirit, and Zhao Sheng recognized the grotto-heaven as a Primal Yang Spirit Treasure.
• Chun Jun Ancestor commanded the surrounding space to imprison Zhao Sheng, freezing him in place.

Zhao Sheng battered the Chun Jun Pot from outside the Supreme Induction Sect’s Dongtian, forcing Chun Jun Ancestor to negotiate before his treasure was damaged further. Chun Jun Ancestor agreed to return Qiong Tian Ancestor’s relics, and the chapter ended with him demanding that True Lord Fengyi surrender the Sumeru Ring.

• True Lord Fengyi praised Chun Jun Ancestor, who warned that Zhao Sheng’s true body was attacking the sect from outside.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a Sun Moon Divine Ape and repeatedly struck the Chun Jun Pot, shaking its Dongtian and frightening the Supreme Induction Sect’s disciples.
• Chun Jun Ancestor worried that his treasure body might be damaged, ordered the Nascent Soul cultivators to restore order, and released Zhao Sheng’s restrained avatar of divine sense.
• Zhao Sheng’s avatar agreed to stop the attack if Chun Jun Ancestor returned Qiong Tian Ancestor’s Sun Chasing Bow, Sumeru Ring, and Nine Underworlds Pagoda.
• Chun Jun Ancestor sent Daoist Qing Qiu and two others to fetch the Sun Chasing Bow, then demanded that True Lord Fengyi hand over the Sumeru Ring.

Zhao Sheng recovered the three treasures from True Lord Fengyi and defeated Chun Jun Child’s resistance by revealing the Five Elements Thunder Ring. He took Fengyi away for questioning, then asked whether Fengyi had visited the Great Sage Thought Realm, but Fengyi did not understand the question.

• Zhao Sheng forced True Lord Fengyi to surrender the Sumeru Ring and reveal the Nine Underworlds Pagoda, while Daoist Qing Qiu returned the Sun Chasing Bow.
• Chun Jun Child tried to stop Zhao Sheng from taking Fengyi, but Zhao Sheng merged with his Thunder God Ape body and used the Five Elements Thunder Ring to overpower it.
• Zhao Sheng took True Lord Fengyi from Chun Jun Dongtian and returned to the Cloud Mist Mountain Range; Chun Jun Child began planning to alert its superiors and flee.
• Zhao Sheng threatened Fengyi with death after questioning and asked whether he had been to “there,” but Fengyi said he did not know what place Zhao Sheng meant.

Zhao Sheng returned Zhao Menghan and True Lord Fengyi to the Zhao Clan, whose reputation and strength grew rapidly after the Ghost God Sect’s destruction. He repaired the Spirit Pivot using Fengyi’s Primordial Spirit, turned him into a spirit puppet, and sent him to fight an ancient Sea Spirit.

• Zhao Sheng questioned True Lord Fengyi about the Nine Underworlds Pagoda, spared him, and knocked him unconscious before taking him back with Zhao Menghan.
• Over three years, the Zhao Clan’s connection to the Ghost God Sect’s destruction became an open secret, drawing visitors and returning branches as the clan gained three Golden Core cultivators, more than fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Zhao Xingyu as its second Nascent Soul Ancestor.
• Zhao Sheng used True Lord Fengyi’s Primordial Spirit to repair the Spirit Pivot and completed a leopard-headed spirit puppet named Feng Yi.
• Zhao Sheng took Feng Yi to the Red Sea and ordered him to kill an ancient Sea Spirit.
• Feng Yi drew a Horse Chopping Saber and struck toward the Sea Spirit.

Zhao Sheng tested Feng Yi’s Spirit Transformation-level combat strength by having the spirit puppet kill an Ancient Crocodile Turtle, then secretly incapacitated and retrieved Feng Yi. A year later, Mount Tai Immortal Venerable appeared before Zhao Sheng, tested his defenses, and revealed that the Five Thunder Rings were the relic of his old friend Lei Jiuyuan and were tied to the Primordial Simplicity Spirit Palace.

• Zhao Sheng awakened the Ancient Crocodile Turtle so Feng Yi could demonstrate the spirit puppet’s combat strength, and Feng Yi killed it in a brief, brutal battle.
• Feng Yi presented the turtle’s demon core to Zhao Sheng, who praised Feng Yi before using a painful attack on his Primordial Spirit and taking the spirit puppet away.
• Rumors spread that the True Lord of Luo Family had vanished after a battle at Qi Luo Mountain, while Zhao Menghan repeatedly asked Zhao Sheng to refine his Nascent Soul into a Spirit Pivot and was refused.
• A year later, Mount Tai Immortal Venerable appeared in Zhao Sheng’s cave dwelling and attacked his Primordial Spirit with divine light, but the Five Thunder Rings protected him.
• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable recognized the Five Thunder Rings as Lei Jiuyuan’s relic and explained that the damaged immortal artifact fell under the jurisdiction of the Primordial Simplicity Spirit Palace, while he belonged to the Tai Yi Spirit Palace.

Mount Tai Immortal Venerable sealed the Kui Ox Treasure afflicting Zhao Sheng and sent him to seek Gun God Bone in the Gun Sea. Two years later, Severed Nature Old Ancestor secluded himself to resist a monster attached to his Nascent Soul.

• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable recognized the Kui Ox Treasure as an Immortal Descent Artifact and warned Zhao Sheng that it would eventually assimilate his consciousness.
• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable offered to seal the treasure in exchange for Zhao Sheng finding Gun God Bone in the Gun Sea, and gave him an Orbital Instrument Jade Plate to reach it.
• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable sealed the Kui Ox Treasure for at least eight thousand years, while Zhao Sheng endured the soul-wrenching process and advanced in cultivation.
• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable warned Zhao Sheng to avoid Guiyuan Ruins and departed, leaving Zhao Sheng to meditate on the insights from their encounter.
• Two years later, Severed Nature Old Ancestor built a concealed cave and began secluded cultivation while an indigo-faced monster clung to his Nascent Soul Dharma Body.

Zhao Sheng refined Zhao Menghan’s Nascent Soul into a Spirit Pivot, triggering heavenly condemnation, then helped Zhao Menghan undergo a lightning tribulation in a tiger-headed spirit puppet. As the tribulation ended, Severed Nature Old Ancestor and a red-robed young man arrived, unaware that Zhao Sheng was watching from concealment.

• Severed Nature Old Ancestor struggled against the Red God Banner’s influence as it drew him toward the Cloud Mist Mountain Range.
• Zhao Sheng used the Red God Banner’s true spirit to practice Five Elements lightning arts, reaching a profound understanding of the laws and forming Law Crystal on the banner.
• Zhao Sheng refined Zhao Menghan’s Nascent Soul into a Spirit Pivot, causing heavenly condemnation to strike New Zhao City before he moved the crystal orb away and the first storm dissipated.
• Zhao Xingyu reassured the Zhao Clan’s cultivators that Zhao Menghan’s Lifebound Soul Lamp remained lit, and Zhao Sheng emerged from the dojo with Zhao Menghan controlling a tiger-headed spirit puppet.
• Zhao Menghan flew the puppet into a Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation and endured the lightning while its sword strikes tore through the clouds.
• Severed Nature Old Ancestor and an arrogant red-robed young man arrived to watch the puppet descend as Zhao Sheng concealed himself.

Zhao Sheng’s spirit puppet defeated Wusheng Zi and Severed Nature Old Ancestor, securing the Cloud Mist Zhao Clan while Zhao Sheng prepared to visit Chun Jun Child. Their reunion ended with Chun Jun Child threatening him with its powerful spirit-treasure relatives.

• Wusheng Zi and Severed Nature Old Ancestor confronted Zhao Xingyu, demanding the Zhao Clan’s Ghost God Sect treasure and refusing to leave.
• Zhao Xingyu summoned the tiger-headed spirit puppet, which swiftly defeated both Nascent Soul Ancestors and took them prisoner.
• Zhao Sheng gave the puppet a Sumeru Ring, imposed restrictions on the prisoners, and entrusted Zhao Xingyu and Zhao Menghan with the clan’s affairs.
• Zhao Xingyu ordered the Golden Core True Persons to conceal Zhao Menghan’s return and explain the tribulation as the work of a passing Spirit World ancestor.
• Zhao Sheng went to Chun Jun Dongtian, where Chun Jun Child angrily told him to leave and threatened him with its spirit-treasure siblings.

Zhao Sheng intimidated Chun Jun Child into apologizing and giving him Pure Yang Wine, then questioned him about the Red God Banner and the stages of Spirit Treasure advancement. Chun Jun Child explained how treasures reached Primal Yang and Heaven-Reaching stages before examining the Immortal Awareness Cauldron, leaving Zhao Sheng waiting for his assessment.

• Zhao Sheng frightened Chun Jun Child with the Five Colors Thunder Light, and Chun Jun Child knelt to apologize and offered him a flask of Pure Yang Wine.
• Zhao Sheng asked how to make the Red God Banner submit, and Chun Jun Child taught him the Spirit Cleansing Art as an alternative to destroying its true spirit.
• Chun Jun Child explained how Spirit Treasures advanced through True Form and Primal Yang to Heaven-Reaching status, and described the potential of Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures and Dao Artifacts.
• Zhao Sheng showed Chun Jun Child the Immortal Awareness Cauldron and asked whether it could become a Primal Yang Spirit Treasure.
• Chun Jun Child examined the Immortal Awareness Cauldron with his transformed hands, illuminating its inscriptions and revealing twelve-petaled green lotus flames before he finished exhausted.

Zhao Sheng left the Dead Star after learning how to repair the Immortal Awareness Cauldron, then refined the Red God Banner during fifteen years of seclusion. He returned to Sky Pillar World, found its Ascension Platform badly damaged, and offered Zhao Dingshan a chance to become a spirit puppet.

• Chun Jun Child explained how Zhao Sheng could repair the Immortal Awareness Cauldron, and Zhao Sheng ended their grievances before departing.
• Zhao Sheng spent fifteen years cleansing and refining the Red God Banner, then told Meng Han he was leaving for Sky Pillar World.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the Ascension Platform, punished Daoist Qishan for challenging him, and discovered the Ascension Tower and its grand array were severely damaged.
• Zhao Dingshan reported the Zhao Clan's progress toward unification, and Zhao Sheng told him he would remain in Sky Pillar World for now.
• Zhao Sheng offered Zhao Dingshan a long-lived spirit-puppet body, and Zhao Dingshan agreed to consider the costs before returning in one month.

Zhao Sheng studied the Ascension Grand Array, helped reunite the Zhao Clan, and spent years refining sun-forged metal to repair the Immortal Awareness Cauldron. He then traveled to the Spring Birth World and drained its intact Ascension Grand Array, leaving its guardian unable to ascend.

• Zhao Sheng studied the complete Ascension Grand Array in the Nether Dark Sky until Zhao Dingshan arrived with four Zhao Clan Nascent Soul Cultivators, whom Zhao Sheng welcomed and advised.
• Zhao Sheng fused Zhao Dingshan's Nascent Soul with a Spirit Pivot and installed it in a spirit puppet, while the Zhao Clan's branches increasingly reunited under Ancestor Xi's influence.
• After more than forty years of seclusion, Zhao Sheng concluded that the damaged Ascension Tower in the Sky Pillar World could not be restored without rare materials and Space-Time Law Crystals.
• Zhao Sheng repeatedly entered the sun's outer reaches to refine spirit metals, gradually adapting to the heat and gathering enough platinum-colored essence to repair the Immortal Awareness Cauldron's broken leg.
• Zhao Sheng entered the intact Ascension Grand Array beneath Boundless Lake in the Spring Birth World and activated it, draining its Profound Essence Source Qi and cracking many formation pillars.
• The Spirit Transformation True Lord guarding the array found it ruined and cursed Zhao Sheng, fearing he could no longer ascend.