Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng escaped detection after arriving at the Ascension Realm and shifted to Four Saints Continent, where he learned about the region from the Water Jiao King before killing it. He reached Hundred Peace City seeking information about the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect and entered Azure Dragon Pavilion.

• Zuo Caihe began registering Zhao Sheng at the Ascension Plaza, but a True Immortal's aura exposed him, and Zhao Sheng escaped using the Space-Time Grand Shift.
• Zuo Caihe received an Immortal Venerable's order to conceal Zhao Sheng's arrival and obeyed.
• Zhao Sheng landed in Dragon Snake Marsh, killed the Water Jiao King after forcing it to reveal the region's location, and extracted its memories before leaving.
• Zhao Sheng arrived in Hundred Peace City and read a Jade Slip about Four Saints Continent, finding little information about the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect.
• Kang Min spotted Zhao Sheng atop a palace in Hundred Peace City but arrived after he had left.
• Zhao Sheng entered Azure Dragon Pavilion, where an attendant welcomed him and described the shop's treasures.

Zhao Sheng bought maps and transmission tokens in Hundred Peace City, then took Kang Min as his concubine and brought her to the Zhao Clan’s Divine Craftsman Island. There, three Spirit Transformation elders recognized him as Ancestor Xi and prepared to tell him about Zhao Xuanjing.

• Zhao Sheng failed to find a suitable ape demon soul at the Azure Dragon Pavilion but used Zhao Xuanjing’s token to meet the chief shopkeeper and acquire a spirit domain map and transmission tokens.
• The chief shopkeeper revealed that a true spirit Bai Ze descendant could be found, and Zhao Sheng encountered Kang Min, who asked to become his disciple; he instead offered to take her as his concubine.
• Zhao Sheng took Kang Min to the City Lord’s Manor, where her father and forefathers readily agreed to the match after he revealed his cultivation.
• Half a month later, Zhao Sheng and Kang Min arrived at Divine Craftsman Island, where Zhao Gao Huai recognized Zhao Xuanjing’s personal token and escorted them inside.
• Zhao Zhongping, Zhao Jinmin, and Zhao Xuanji recognized Zhao Sheng as Ancestor Xi and knelt to greet him; Zhao Sheng asked after Zhao Xuanjing.

Ren Jinzi and Ren Yinfu were chosen as concubines for Zhao Sheng as the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan expanded its influence across the Ten Thousand Peaks Spirit Domain. Zhao Sheng then forced the Qin Family to become the Zhao Clan’s vassal, leaving the clan bound by a Dao contract.

• Ren Yinfu urged Ren Jinzi to flee their family’s marriage alliance, but Ren Shouzhong caught the sisters eavesdropping and ordered them back.
• The Zhao Clan’s marriage-alliance campaign drew thousands of women to Divine Craftsman Island, and Zhao Sheng selected six, including the Ren sisters.
• The Zhao Clan expanded over the next three hundred years, and its conflicts unsettled the Ten Thousand Peaks Spirit Domain.
• Zhao Qingfeng and Zhao Huaji demanded that the Qin Family surrender Gold Crystal Fire Carp Lake, but Qin Gong invoked Lady Feng Xian to deter them.
• Zhao Qingfeng revealed Zhao Sheng’s divine sense avatar, and Qin Gong and Qin Fang agreed to sign a vassal Dao contract rather than face the Zhao Clan’s threat.
• Qin Gong and Qin Fang imprinted their divine souls onto the contract, making the Qin Family a vassal of the Zhao Clan, and Zhao Sheng departed.

Zhao Xiandu and the Zhao Clan’s Nascent Soul elders entered the Nine Underworlds Pagoda to undergo Ancestor Xi’s test, which measured their state of mind and comprehension of the Great Dao. Zhao Xiandu found himself in a convincing grassland illusion and discovered that the Demon Wolves within it left behind what appeared to be Law Crystals.

• Zhao Zhongping announced that the Nine Underworlds Pagoda held nine layers of illusions and that the elders would enter according to their generations.
• The Yan and Qing Generation elders entered the pagoda, but none emerged after their allotted half-hours.
• Zhao Xiandu entered with the Xian Generation and found himself on a vast grassland whose spiritual energy and scenery seemed real.
• Zhao Sheng watched the entrants from the ninth level and silently assessed their performances as they wandered through illusions resembling places in Moon Essence Dongtian.
• Zhao Xiandu attacked a pack of Demon Wolves and recognized the crystals they left behind as possible Law Crystals.

Zhao Xiandu and other Zhao Clan cultivators advanced through Ancestor Xi’s tower trial, while Zhao Sheng sought someone who could awaken the hidden Great Saint Hair. Zhao Sanyue triggered it and vanished into the Nether Dark Sky, but the tower’s sudden transformation ended the trial and caused Zhao Yanguo to die from a cultivation backlash.

• Zhao Xiandu broke through to the Nascent Soul Seventh Level after a Law Crystal showed him the cycles of life and death, then continued across the grassland to test his theory about the illusion.
• Zhao Sheng watched the contestants and revealed that the trial sought talented cultivators, insights for his own Dao, and someone capable of triggering the Great Saint Hair; Zhao Yanguo formed a Taiji Two Forms Array and received a black-and-white Light Sphere from Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Changhu failed to escape the seventh-floor illusion, Zhao Sanyue dismissed him and pressed onward, and Zhao Qiongjin became the first contestant eliminated.
• Zhao Xiandu understood the cycle linking destruction and life, repaired the illusion’s flaw, and reached the stairs leading upward; over the following months, the contestants were gradually eliminated until Zhao Sanyue alone reached the ninth floor.
• Zhao Sanyue sensed the Great Saint Hair only after Zhao Sheng sent the Nine Underworlds Pagoda into the Nether Dark Sky, then seized its golden light and vanished, delighting Zhao Sheng.
• The pagoda’s illusion realms collapsed and ended the trial, while Zhao Yanguo’s uncontrolled Mana and disintegrating Nascent Soul Dharma body killed him.

Zhao Sanyue returned from the Nine Underworlds Pagoda with the insights of seven thousand years and rapidly advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm. After she survived her heavenly tribulation, Zhao Sheng concealed her breakthrough by spreading word that Zhao Yanguo had perished instead.

• The Nine Underworlds Pagoda expelled its cultivators, and Zhao Zhongping rebuked the clan elders for complaining about the trial.
• Zhao Sanyue reappeared before Zhao Sheng, revealed her profound transformation, and absorbed enough spiritual energy to reach Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Sanyue the Red God Banner and sent her from the tower to undergo her Spirit Transformation tribulation.
• Zhao Sanyue entered the tribulation clouds and survived, while Zhao Sheng announced that the clan would gain another Spirit Transformation True Lord in a few years.
• Zhao Sheng ordered Zhao Zhongping to keep the breakthrough secret, and the Zhao Clan spread a false report that Ancestor Yanguo had died in tribulation.

Kang Min's fear of losing her place in Zhao Sheng's favor deepened when Ren Jinzi's pregnancy elevated the Ren sisters, though she concealed her resentment and gave Jinzi a precious ganoderma. Meanwhile, Zhao Sheng studied the Jade Void Spring Eye and reflected on Zhao Xuanjing's long absence on the front lines of the war against the Otherworld Demon Race.

• Kang Min received a Ten Thousand Year Five-Colored Ganoderma from the Qin Family but ordered Sword Bearer to store it away.
• Ren Yinfu and Ren Jinzi entered Kang Min's bedchamber, and Yinfu took the ganoderma after Sword Bearer was knocked down.
• Kang Min presented the ganoderma to pregnant Ren Jinzi, then erupted in anger after the Ren sisters left.
• Zhao Sheng studied the Jade Void Spring Eye and recalled that Zhao Xuanjing had created it.
• Zhao Sheng considered Zhao Xuanjing's nearly two-hundred-year deployment maintaining the Stars Demon Sealing Formation and wondered whether the Otherworld Demon Race had been created to spur the lower realms toward producing more True Immortals.

Zhao Sheng’s cultivation advanced rapidly in the Jade Void Cave, and his son Hong'er was born amid extraordinary heavenly signs. Zhao Sheng accepted the Huang Family’s invitation to the Kun Yuan Gathering and arrived at Five Emperors Mountain with Zhao Sanyue and Zhao Qingfeng, where Huang Liang led them into Five Elders Palace.

• Zhao Sheng consumed the Profound Essence Source Qi in the Jade Void Cave, advancing to the fifth level of Return to Void and bringing his Golden Muscle Jade Bone Dharma Body close to perfection.
• Zhao Xuanji presented the Huang Family’s invitation to the eight Spirit Transformation True Lords, who decided that Ancestor Xi would choose whether to attend the Kun Yuan Gathering.
• Ren Jinzi gave birth to Hong'er, whose dragon horns and extraordinary birth signs astonished Zhao Sheng and the gathered ancestors.
• Zhao Sheng named his son Hong and Crimson Dragon Child, then accepted the Huang Family’s invitation to the Kun Yuan Gathering.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Five Emperors Mountain with Zhao Sanyue and Zhao Qingfeng, and Huang Liang led them toward Five Elders Palace.

Zhao Sheng attended the Kun Yuan Gathering at Five Elders Palace, withstanding Feng Bo Jiexing’s test and impressing the gathered cultivators with a discourse on the mortal martial path. The gathering ended with Huang Shi Gong producing the Kun Yuan Immortal Fruit and distributing twelve fruits to the Void Return Half Immortals.

• Zhao Sheng pierced the law barrier with his lightning gaze and took his seat in the hall alongside Zhao Sanyue and Zhao Qingfeng.
• Feng Bo Jiexing tested Zhao Sheng with Demonic Sound and an oppressive aura, but Zhao Sheng resisted and protected his companions.
• Zhao Sheng challenged Di Wu Que’s hostility by invoking Jing Old Ancestor, and Huang Shi Gong restored a cordial atmosphere.
• Huang Shi Gong and the other Void Return Half Immortals expounded the Dao before Zhao Sheng discussed mortal martial cultivation and its potential beyond Martial Godhood.
• Huang Shi Gong summoned the Kun Yuan Immortal Tree and distributed twelve five-colored fruits to the attending Void Return Half Immortals.

At the Kun Yuan Gathering, Di Wu Que proposed a wagering duel between the Zhao and Di families, and Zhao Sheng chose Zhao Sanyue to fight Di Wu Xuanye. Sanyue revealed formidable powers after Huang Shi Gong suppressed both fighters to the fourth level of Spirit Transformation, and the duel ended with her whereabouts uncertain.

• Di Wu Que challenged Zhao Sheng to wager their Kun Yuan Immortal Fruits on a duel between their juniors, and Huang Shi Gong arranged for both fighters to have their cultivation suppressed to the fourth level of Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Sheng selected Zhao Sanyue instead of Zhao Qingfeng to face Di Wu Xuanye, while the gathered cultivators bet heavily against the Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Sanyue used a green branch to unleash water mist and a willow-tree attack that bound Di Wu Xuanye, surprising the watching Return to Void Half Immortals.
• Di Wu Xuanye broke free, charged Zhao Sanyue, and struck her with a storm of blade light; when he retreated, Zhao Sanyue had vanished, leaving only wood chips in her place.

Zhao Sanyue defeated Di Wu Xuanye at the Kun Yuan Gathering, winning Zhao Sheng the Kun Yuan Immortal Fruits and a large wager in Law Crystals. As the Zhao party left Five Emperors Mountain, Huang Shi Gong warned that Zhao Sheng was unfathomable and should not be made an enemy of.

• Zhao Sanyue used mist, decoys, and a hidden strike to overcome Di Wu Xuanye’s weapons and transform him into a moss-covered tree bearing peach blossoms.
• Zhao Sheng dispersed the mist, and Di Wu Que burned away the growth before Di Wu Xuanye returned to his seat in shame.
• Zhao Sheng collected the Kun Yuan Immortal Fruits and more than seven hundred Law Crystals from Master Jie Bu De, with further wagers still unpaid.
• Zhao Sanyue’s victory established her reputation in the Ten Thousand Peaks Spirit Domain and secured her status as a Zhao Clan immortal seed.
• Zhao Sheng declined Huang Shi Gong’s invitation and departed aboard the Golden Dragon Divine Palace for the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range.
• A middle-aged Daoist questioned Huang Shi Gong about his goodwill toward Zhao Sheng, and Huang Shi Gong said Zhao Sheng was unfathomable and must not be provoked.

After two centuries of Zhao Clan growth, Zhao Sheng reached the late Return to Void stage, but a catastrophe in the Demon Suppression Star Region appeared to have begun with a True Immortal’s death. Zhao Sheng feared for Zhao Xuanjing, who was serving on the front lines.

• Huang Shi Gong found Zhao Sheng and Zhao Sanyue’s fortune and Karma impossible to perceive, so he ordered his family to stop targeting the Zhao Clan and keep its distance.
• Zhao Sheng secretly kept the Kun Yuan Immortal Fruit for his son Zhao Hong, while telling the clan he had consumed it.
• Over two centuries, the Zhao Clan strengthened its foundations and produced new cultivators as Zhao Hong fathered thirteen gifted children and Zhao Sheng cultivated in seclusion.
• Zhao Sheng broke through to the late Return to Void stage after two hundred years of cultivation.
• On a distant star, an Alien Demon activated nine hundred and ninety-nine summoning platforms to seal the planet and prepare an assault on the Grand Yi Spirit Realm.
• Blood rain and the cries of ghosts and gods spread across the Four Saints Divine Continent, and Zhao Sheng told Zhao Sanyue that a True Immortal had likely fallen and feared for Zhao Xuanjing.

After surviving the Demon Suppression Star Region’s collapse, Zhao Xuanjing returned to the Zhao Clan and revealed the scale of the crisis, including infiltrating demons and a struggle over Earth Lord Immortal Venerable’s Immortal Heaven. He then showed Zhao Sheng the Tai Yi Merit Virtue Tablet, a supreme treasure said to grant immortality to anyone who gathered enough merit virtue.

• Zhao Sheng ordered the Zhao Clan to secure its territory, prepare supplies, and recall its clansmen after a True Immortal’s death triggered a bloody heavenly phenomenon.
• The Zhao Clan learned that the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect had sealed its mountain gate, while news spread that Loose Immortal Tu Bo, also called Earth Lord Immortal Venerable, had fallen.
• Zhao Xuanjing returned safely to Divine Craftsman Island and told Zhao Sheng that an insider had sabotaged the Demon Sealing Array, allowing nine Alien Demon armies to break through the defenses.
• Zhao Xuanjing explained that the Spirit World’s immortals had intercepted the enemy armies, but powerful demons had infiltrated the retreating forces and entered the Spirit World.
• Zhao Xuanjing revealed that Earth Lord Immortal Venerable’s Immortal Heaven remained intact and that the Tai Yi Spirit Palace had brought forth the Tai Yi Merit Virtue Tablet.
• Zhao Xuanjing told Zhao Sheng that the tablet could help cultivators or even mortals become immortal, then showed him the tablet’s dazzling true form.

Zhao Sheng learned that Zhao Xuanjing and other cultivators would enter Earth Lord Immortal Venerable’s fallen Immortal Heaven Continent to stop the Alien Demons from claiming it. Zhao Xuanjing and Little Gold arrived safely, but the continent’s demonic forces mobilized against the incoming cultivators, and casualties began mounting.

• Zhao Sheng learned about the merit tablet’s rewards and agreed to guard Zhao Xuanjing’s body while Zhao Xuanjing’s Primordial Spirit ventured into the Immortal Heaven Continent.
• Zhao Xuanjing secured the Jade Void Cave with powerful formations, entrusted Zhao Sheng with the control token, and left his body in his care.
• Zhao Xuanjing entered Little Gold’s body, and the two traveled through the Tai Yi Merit Virtue Tablet to the Immortal Heaven Continent.
• Zhao Xuanjing discovered that the masterless continent contained scattered immortal qi and went into seclusion inside a concealed mountain fissure to absorb it.
• Other cultivators arrived across the continent, where Alien Demons spread demonic thoughts, raised armies of demonic beasts, and began hunting them.
• The first cultivators were killed, and even Return to Void Half Immortals faced deadly odds when surrounded by multiple Alien Demon powerhouses.

Three years later, Bai Li Shouguang fled Mo Xingkong and a massive demon beast horde, then trapped himself inside his Grand Five Elements Killing Array. Mountain Dragon Little Gold emerged from hiding, swallowed Mo Xingkong and many beasts, and Zhao Xuanjing ended his seclusion and dismantled Bai Li Shouguang’s array.

• Bai Li Shouguang tried to escape Mo Xingkong and the demon beast horde, but circled back and found himself surrounded.
• Bai Li Shouguang activated the Grand Five Elements Killing Array, trapping the approaching beasts in its maze.
• Mo Xingkong sent an azure python and a ghost-faced spider through the maze while Little Gold swallowed tens of thousands of beasts from underground.
• Mo Xingkong tried to capture Little Gold, but the Mountain Dragon froze and swallowed him and his tiger; the remaining demon-thought sub-bodies were also destroyed.
• Zhao Xuanjing emerged from seclusion, dispersed the array and its traps, and left Bai Li Shouguang bewildered.

Zhao Sheng completed his Golden Muscle Jade Bone Dharma Body, creating a vast heavenly phenomenon that drew Feng Bo Jiexing and Huang Shi Gong to Hidden Dragon Valley. After confronting the two cultivators, Zhao Sheng struck Huang Shi Gong with a single punch, leaving the chapter with Huang Shi Gong departing in anger.

• Zhao Sheng completed his Golden Muscle Jade Bone Dharma Body, and the spiritual energy vortex above the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range erupted in auspicious flames and light.
• Feng Bo Jiexing mistook the phenomenon for Zhao Xuanjing’s return, then was swept by a space-time storm as Zhao Sheng emerged from Hidden Dragon Valley.
• Zhao Sheng stopped Feng Bo Jiexing from fleeing and called out Huang Shi Gong, who had been hiding nearby.
• Huang Shi Gong praised Zhao Sheng’s achievement and hinted at his own strength, while Zhao Sheng recognized the powerful essence concealed beneath his aged exterior.
• Zhao Sheng punched Huang Shi Gong, cracking both his arms and sending him flying back several hundred zhang.
• Huang Shi Gong left in golden light after Zhao Sheng apologized, while Feng Bo Jiexing watched in shock.

Zhao Sheng dealt with Feng Bo Jiexing and returned to Jade Void Cave, while Zhao Xuanjing’s forces battled the Alien Demons at a Demon Nest on the Immortal Heaven Continent. The cultivators waited anxiously as Zhao Xuanjing and Mountain Dragon Little Gold fought in a spatial interlayer, until the mirrored pyramid cracked and Bai Li Shouguang recognized the Venerable One’s breathing.

• Zhao Sheng hosted Feng Bo Jiexing for fifteen days of Dao discussions, then sent two promising descendants to Zhao Sanyue for guidance before returning to Jade Void Cave.
• Bai Li Shouguang and the human cultivators, aided by demon beasts, slaughtered the Demon Nest’s forces while Zhao Xuanjing fought powerful enemies in the valley’s depths.
• A Pale Demon Ape froze the cultivators and beast army, but Mountain Dragon Little Gold petrified and swallowed it, then gave Bai Li Shouguang several Otherworld Crystals.
• Mountain Dragon Little Gold entered the spatial interlayer to aid Zhao Xuanjing, while Bai Li Shouguang and the others guarded the valley for more than half a month.
• The mirrored pyramid cracked, and Bai Li Shouguang recognized the long breath from within as the Venerable One’s voice.

Zhao Xuanjing destroyed the Otherworld Demon Race’s arrangements but was struck by a Tribulation Demon Lord’s demonic thought, which he shared with Mountain Dragon Little Gold to avoid possession. After Zhao Sheng gave him the Demon Refining Heart Incantation, Zhao Xuanjing began refining the demonic thought with its heart fire.

• Zhao Xuanjing shattered the pyramid and buried the valley, freeing its spirit veins and destroying the demons’ arrangements.
• A terrifying face emerged from the Otherworld Crystal and sent its demonic thought into Zhao Xuanjing, while Mountain Dragon Little Gold was also infected.
• Zhao Xuanjing suppressed the demonic thought and transferred half of it to Little Gold, then returned with him to the Spirit World.
• Zhao Sheng examined their condition, learned what had happened, and offered Zhao Xuanjing the Demon Refining Heart Incantation.
• Zhao Xuanjing began chanting the incantation, but the demonic thought fought back as the Demon Refining Heart Fire burned it.

Zhao Sheng used the Five Thunder Rings to save Mountain Dragon Little Gold from demonic thoughts while Zhao Xuanjing refined his own demonic thoughts and reached the great perfection of Return to Void. After Zhao Xuanjing passed on his experiences of the Immortal Heaven Continent, he revealed that he intended to exchange Merit Virtue for a Star Lord Position.

• Zhao Sheng unleashed Five Elements Divine Lightning from the Five Thunder Rings, driving the demonic thoughts out of Little Gold and shielding Zhao Xuanjing with Zi Firmament lightning.
• Zhao Sheng controlled the Five Thunder Rings as they pursued and destroyed the demonic thoughts, while Little Gold recovered from its injuries with Profound Yellow Earth Qi.
• After several months, Zhao Xuanjing refined the last of his demonic thoughts, reached the limit of Return to Void, and warned that a faint mark remained within him.
• Zhao Xuanjing shared his experiences of the Immortal Heaven Continent with Zhao Sheng and cautioned him about the dangers posed by infiltrating Devil Race mighty ones.
• Zhao Sheng asked what Zhao Xuanjing wanted to obtain with Merit Virtue, and Zhao Xuanjing said he had set his sights on the Star Lord Position.

Zhao Sheng and Zhao Xuanjing discussed earning enough Heavenly Merits to obtain a Star Lord Position before Zhao Sheng traveled with Huang Hongxiang to the Vermilion Bird Star front. They reached Enlightenment City and headed to the Dongtian Tower to report in and meet Ancestor Bi Fang.

• Zhao Xuanjing discovered he had 471 Heavenly Merits, and he and Zhao Sheng agreed to exchange some for Return to Void Pills for the Zhao Clan.
• Two years later, Zhao Sheng and Zhao Xuanjing received orders to deploy to the front line, and Huang Shi Gong visited to propose an alliance between the Zhao and Huang Families.
• Zhao Sheng declined to travel as part of the Huang Family's party, but later journeyed with Huang Hongxiang to the Vermilion Bird Star System.
• Huang Hongxiang explained that the Vermilion Bird Main Star was a fortified base, and the two arrived at Enlightenment City to register for their assignments.
• The city guards examined Zhao Sheng and Huang Hongxiang with a Soul Reflection Mirror, then let them enter and proceed to the Dongtian Tower.
• Huang Hongxiang warned Zhao Sheng to be careful with Ancestor Bi Fang, and Zhao Sheng entered the tower.