Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng chose to become the Garrison Commander of No. 3 Jia Netherworld Fortress rather than join a Demon Subjugation Squad, then used his space-time ability to reach the fortress and take command. After overcoming a show of force from its ship masters, he ordered them to follow his rules and began questioning Qi Wuxiu about the fortress.

• Zhao Sheng and Huang Hongxiang met Ancestor Bi Fang, and Zhao Sheng requested the Garrison Commander post at a Netherworld Fortress.
• Ancestor Bi Fang assigned Zhao Sheng to No. 3 Jia Netherworld Fortress, while Huang Hongxiang chose to join a Demon Subjugation Squad.
• Huang Hongxiang reported to Huang Shi Gong that Zhao Sheng had not taken the bait, and Huang Shi Gong told him to proceed with the original plan.
• Zhao Sheng used his Space-Time Grand Shift to reach the fortress and entered with the dark-gold appointment token.
• Qi Wuxiu, Jiang Haichao, Yue Longpeng, and the fourth ship master tried to pressure Zhao Sheng, but his aura broke their formation and forced them to submit.
• Zhao Sheng ordered the ship masters to perform their duties and asked Qi Wuxiu for details about the fortress and its facilities.

Zhao Sheng took control of the Netherworld Fortress, learned how the Alien Demons threatened the Vermilion Bird Star System, and received notice of a Heaven Grade bounty to reclaim a captured fortress. Disguised as the rogue cultivator Yan Chixia, he joined Ji Tian Du and Hundred Birds Daoist to attempt the dangerous mission, while rival claimants remained a concern.

• Zhao Sheng named the Fortress Illusory Spirit White Deer and spent three days gaining control of seventy percent of the Netherworld Fortress.
• Zhao Sheng studied the fortress database and learned that the Demonic Thought Maze Realm was steadily encroaching on the Vermilion Bird Star System.
• White Deer informed Zhao Sheng of a Heaven Grade bounty to recover the captured E-2 Void Realm Fortress, and Zhao Sheng decided to pursue it in disguise.
• Zhao Sheng transformed himself into the rogue cultivator Yan Chixia and met Ji Tian Du and Hundred Birds Daoist in Nether Dark Sky.
• Ji Tian Du offered to use his Heaven Bearing Bowl to store the fortress and proposed that the three share the reward; Yan Chixia and Hundred Birds Daoist agreed to join him with reservations.

Zhao Sheng searched for Yi Er Fortress and discovered that it had been moved to the Current World Star Region, then reunited with Ji Tian Du and Hundred Birds Daoist. Since searching the vast region would take too long, the three agreed to seek information from the Cunning Demons, and Ji Tian Du summoned one.

• Ji Tian Du gave Zhao Sheng and Hundred Birds Daoist Heavenly Mystery Compasses, and the three set out to search for Yi Er Fortress.
• At the fortress’s last known location, the group split up, with each cultivator taking a direction and carrying a Nine Gods Gu for communication.
• Zhao Sheng searched the surrounding space with his Space-Time Grand Shift, found no fortress, and inferred it had been moved to the Current World Star Region.
• Zhao Sheng subdued a Worm Emperor, learned it knew nothing about the fortress, killed the demonic shadow possessing it, and used a Nine Gods Gu to summon the others.
• Zhao Sheng told Ji Tian Du and Hundred Birds Daoist that the fortress had been moved to the Current World, and they realized a full search would take too long to meet the mission deadline.
• Ji Tian Du proposed trading with the Cunning Demons for the fortress’s location, then crushed a dark green bead and summoned a strange demonic head.

Zhao Sheng, Ji Tian Du, and Hundred Birds Daoist followed a Treacherous Demon's information to a space-time beacon, only to discover the Otherworld Demon Race had turned the system into a trap. Their divine projections were overwhelmed, and Ji Tian Du failed to withdraw in time; back in their own bodies, Zhao Sheng and Hundred Birds Daoist faced another attack.

• Ji Tian Du paid a Treacherous Demon for the location of a Space-Time Beacon, then led Zhao Sheng and Hundred Birds Daoist toward it.
• Zhao Sheng urged the others to send divine projections first, and the three entered present-world space-time using a fire luan, a Ten Thousand Year Corpse Emperor, and a tiger-headed Spirit Puppet.
• The group found a star system filled with Demon Nests and infiltrated the nearest one, but Zhao Sheng realized the Alien Demons had been watching them all along.
• The trap activated, surrounding them with demonic fog, millions of Stone Men, and six powerful auras; Zhao Sheng and Hundred Birds Daoist detonated their divine projections, while Ji Tian Du failed to withdraw in time.
• Zhao Sheng and Hundred Birds Daoist returned to their main bodies, but gray arms emerged from the void and attacked them; Zhao Sheng destroyed the arms with his fists.

Zhao Sheng, Hundred Birds Daoist, and Ji Tian Du escaped the ambush, but Ji Tian Du insisted on seeking help to rescue his trapped Corpse Emperor avatar. Meanwhile, Huang Hongxiang and two fellow Return to Void cultivators fought for their lives inside a demon-filled planetary core, where their captain spotted a chance to survive.

• The Azure Phoenix Immortal Venerable judged the attack a routine probe, ordered a retaliation, and directed Great Venerable Hao Pi to send three Body Integration Realm cultivators to the Divine Palace Sky Battlefield.
• Ancestor Bi Fang realized that he was likely to be sent to the main battlefield and dismissed Phantom Spirit Enlightenment before he could issue her an order.
• Zhao Sheng blasted back a Void Realm Demon Old One and led Hundred Birds Daoist and Ji Tian Du away from the battlefield after Ji Tian Du explained that his Corpse Emperor avatar was under attack.
• Ji Tian Du begged Zhao Sheng and Hundred Birds Daoist to help rescue his trapped avatar, but they refused until he contacted someone through a milky-white conch and announced that there was hope.
• Huang Hongxiang, Bai Feihong, and their captain fought off demonized Stone Monsters in the planetary core, and their captain warned them not to split up because Void Realm Demon Old Ones were waiting to trap them.
• As the surviving Stone Monsters grew stronger and Huang Hongxiang ran low on mana, their captain suddenly declared that there was hope.

Zhao Sheng arrived just in time to save Xin Bulie and turn the battle in the Earth Core space against the Alien Demons, though Bai Feihong and Hundred Birds Daoist were lost. After clearing the battlefield, Zhao Sheng learned that Yi Er Fortress lay beneath the magma sea, then sensed more Void Realm Demon Old Ones approaching and went to confront them.

• A purple-black Demon Corpse ambushed the group, gravely wounded Bai Feihong and Xin Bulie, and captured Bai Feihong after the Stone Monsters detonated themselves.
• Zhao Sheng, Ji Tian Du, and Hundred Birds Daoist arrived, and Zhao Sheng’s attacks forced the Demon Corpse commander back while his allies engaged the Void Realm Demon Old Ones.
• Zhao Sheng destroyed hidden demonic thought Sub-bodies and defeated several Demon Old Ones, while the Demon Corpse commander escaped and later devoured Bai Feihong.
• Zhao Sheng wiped out the remaining Stone Monsters and demonic Sub-bodies, then Xin Bulie thanked him and told him Yi Er Fortress was beneath the magma sea.
• Zhao Sheng sensed more Void Realm Demon Old Ones approaching, told the others to retrieve Yi Er Fortress, and vanished to meet the newcomers.

Zhao Sheng annihilated the Void Realm Demon Old Ones, but a Tribulation Demon named Luo Ye nearly killed him before Yang Sword intervened. After surviving and advancing his cultivation, Zhao Sheng returned to the human defensive zone with Ji Tian Du and the others, then disappeared under the identity of Yan Chixia.

• Zhao Sheng broke free of the Demon Old Ones’ Immortal Execution Formation and destroyed the formation and its Demon Corpse commander with a single strike.
• Zhao Sheng hunted down and killed the fleeing Void Realm Demon Old Ones, but Luo Ye appeared and unleashed a blood-red torrent that devastated Planet Two and the surrounding star system.
• Yang Sword attacked Luo Ye and cut apart the Blood Sea, while Zhao Sheng survived by regenerating his body deep within the planet’s core.
• Zhao Sheng recovered, advanced from the seventh level of the Void Return Realm to the middle stage of the eighth, and found Ji Tian Du, Hundred Birds Daoist, and the others sheltered in Yi Er Fortress.
• Zhao Sheng guided the battered fortress back to the human defensive zone, where the survivors received fame and increased rewards for the destruction of an important demon-operated star system.
• Months later, Ji Tian Du and the others realized that their companion Yan Chixia had vanished without a trace.

Zhao Sheng accepted a guest elder position in the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect and later received a top-secret mission from Ancestor Bi Fang to retrieve a Sumeru Ring from an infiltrator on an Alien Demon-occupied star. He escaped with the ring as Qiong Qi’s disguise and the wolf demon hosting him began to collapse.

• Zhao Xuanjing visited Zhao Sheng, revealed that the upper ranks had exposed his Yan Chixia identity, and recruited him as a guest elder of the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Xuanjing discussed obtaining true spirit souls and choosing Return Origin Star as Zhao Xuanjing’s Star Lord domain.
• Two years later, Ancestor Bi Fang ordered Zhao Sheng to secretly meet Qiong Qi on an Alien Demon-occupied spirit star and bring back a Sumeru Ring.
• Zhao Sheng infiltrated the star and waited until Qiong Qi arrived in the form of a wolf-headed Void Return demon emperor.
• Qiong Qi verified Zhao Sheng’s identity, handed him the Sumeru Ring while suffering an attack, and urged him to flee.
• Zhao Sheng escaped with the ring as Qiong Qi withdrew into the wolf demon, which transformed into a gigantic two-headed wolf.

After delivering the Sumeru Ring’s contents, Zhao Sheng was recruited for a secret mission with Xue SuSu and Wu Yue to find Xue SuSu’s master, Yun Qing, on Demon Suppression Star. Their search ended in a trap when Wen ShiFei captured all three and imprisoned them in an unfamiliar world.

• Zhao Sheng delivered the Sumeru Ring to Ancestor Bi Fang, who ordered him to keep its contents secret and summoned him three days later.
• Yang Sword Great Lord and Ancestor Bi Fang assigned Zhao Sheng to follow Xue SuSu’s orders on a secret mission, with Wu Yue joining them.
• Xue SuSu, Wu Yue, and Zhao Sheng traveled to Demon Suppression Star and approached Demon Prosperity City to find Xue SuSu’s master, Yun Qing.
• Wen ShiFei appeared before the group and, after Xue SuSu demanded to know where Yun Qing was, attacked them with red law-light.
• Wen ShiFei’s attack swept Zhao Sheng, Xue SuSu, and Wu Yue into an unfamiliar world and left them trapped by spatial power.

Xue SuSu defeated Wen ShiFei’s resistance, learned where to continue searching for Great Lord Yun Qing, and found her master’s lingering spirit in the ruins of Qi Feng Region. After receiving Yun Qing’s final legacy, Xue SuSu set out with Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue for Qiong Sea Star’s Fallen Immortal Sea.

• Xue SuSu used the Zhu Mo Sword to break Wen ShiFei’s cave-heaven defenses, then the Emotion Extreme Immortal Mushroom subdued him and forced him to reveal what he knew about Great Lord Yun Qing.
• Wen ShiFei warned that a Tribulation Demon had detected his vanishing aura, so Xue SuSu, Zhao Sheng, and Wu Yue escaped using their Ten Directions Earth Escape Talismans.
• Several days later, Xue SuSu uncovered ruins beneath the Death Desert and found an underground chamber containing fourteen statues of the same woman.
• Xue SuSu awakened the eighth statue, and Great Lord Yun Qing appeared as a fading spirit, told her that only the Supreme Unity Immortal Lord could restore her, and passed on her final legacy.
• Xue SuSu emerged transformed and told Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue to meet Wen ShiFei before traveling to Qiong Sea Star and searching Fallen Immortal Sea.

Xue SuSu, Zhao Sheng, and Wu Yue reached Demon Prosperity Island to enter the Demon Soul Tower while keeping the Otherworld Demon Race from interfering. Xue SuSu entered the tower, and as a vast demon force gathered, Wu Yue unleashed his corpse army while Zhao Sheng guarded the island.

• Xue SuSu, Zhao Sheng, and Wu Yue crossed the demonic vortex to reach Demon Prosperity Island, then concealed their giant demon octopus.
• Xue SuSu captured and interrogated the island's guards, learning that Jiu Luo Demon Old One could arrive within three breaths and that a teleportation array lay inside the Demon Soul Tower.
• Xue SuSu entered the mirrored pyramid, while Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue incapacitated the guards; the tower transformed into a vast sphere of light bearing countless images of Xue SuSu.
• Powerful sea demons and countless Demon Puppets surfaced around the island, so Wu Yue released his corpse army to fight them while Zhao Sheng waited above the sphere for the enemy's arrival.

Zhao Sheng defeated a Void Realm Demon Old One and then fought Jiu Luo Demon Old One, who had devoured Qiao Fengnian and warned that the Demon Emperor would arrive within an hour. After finding and crushing Jiu Luo, Zhao Sheng tore through the Nether Dark Sky and revealed Qiong Sea Star beyond it.

• Demon Prosperity Island’s restrictions activated, but Zhao Sheng shattered the black pillar and destroyed the descending beast claw.
• Zhao Sheng seized the Void Realm Demon Old One, killed it with lightning, and captured its demon soul in an Otherworld Crystal.
• Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue drove back the demons and Demon Puppets around Demon Prosperity Island.
• Jiu Luo Demon Old One appeared before the multicolored light sphere, struck Zhao Sheng, and revealed that he had devoured Qiao Fengnian.
• Zhao Sheng overpowered Jiu Luo’s axe attack, but Jiu Luo escaped into the void and warned that the Demon Emperor would arrive within an hour.
• Zhao Sheng found Jiu Luo hiding in the Nether Dark Sky, killed him, and punched through the darkness to reveal Qiong Sea Star.

Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue guarded Xue SuSu as she emerged with Great Lord Yun Qing’s remains and confronted Po Taotie Demon Emperor. Xue SuSu revealed her true plan, struck the Demon Emperor’s main body with the Zhu Mo Sword, and escaped with the corpse, while Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue were trapped inside Taotie Demon Sky.

• Zhao Sheng obliterated Jiu Luo Demon Old One’s hidden sub-bodies with a punch, then unleashed a vast storm of lightning across Fallen Immortal Sea while waiting for Xue SuSu.
• Zhao Sheng warned Wu Yue that a Void Realm Demon Emperor was approaching, and Xue SuSu emerged from the Light Sphere beside Great Lord Yun Qing’s half-corpse.
• Po Taotie Demon Emperor arrived and covered much of Qiong Sea Star in dark devil radiance, but Xue SuSu used the Great Lord’s remains to block its attack.
• Xue SuSu sent azure lights carrying Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue away, then used the Zhu Mo Sword to strike Po Taotie Demon Emperor’s main body after it opened Taotie Demon Sky.
• Xue SuSu seized Great Lord Yun Qing’s corpse and escaped, while Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue were swallowed by Taotie Demon Sky.

After escaping the Demon Emperor’s Origin Dongtian through the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm, Zhao Sheng offered a lavish reward for a way to defeat or escape a Body Integration Realm cultivator. He spread the offer across the Immortal Ruins markets and waited for help, and the chapter ended with Qi Wuyan arriving to meet him.

• Zhao Sheng summoned a passage to the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm and escaped while Wu Yue was trapped and captured by the Demon Emperor.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Endless Tower and set up a banner offering a heavy reward for a method to escape from or kill a Body Integration Realm cultivator.
• Zhao Sheng disclosed his predicament to visitors at the Market, but no one could offer a workable solution.
• Zhao Sheng carried the reward offer to markets across the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm, spreading news of it among Immortal Ruins Travelers and powerful figures in the lower realms.
• After more than ten Ruins Days, Qi Wuyan of the Pixiu Rhinoceros Clan came to see Zhao Sheng, treating the late Return to Void cultivator with caution and reverence.

After returning to the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan, Zhao Sheng restored the clan’s standing and prepared a grand Dharma assembly, where he preached the Dao of thunder. The assembly was interrupted by ominous clouds, thunder, and yin wind, leaving Zhao Sheng and the clan’s True Lords facing an unknown disturbance.

• Zhao Sheng’s return caused cultivation families around Yellow Wind Immortal City to send envoys to congratulate the Zhao Clan, while the Huang Clan and Feng Bo Clan increased their exchanges.
• Zhao Sheng fed the Immortal Awareness Cauldron the True Spirits of the Nine-Colored Divine Deer and other True Spirit Bloodline Descendants, strengthening the cauldron and reviving its artifact spirit.
• The Zhao Clan held a lavish Dharma assembly on Dragon Head Peak, where Zhao Sheng demonstrated his power and began preaching about the Great Dao of thunder.
• Dark Clouds, thunder, yin wind, withering flowers, and frost disrupted the assembly, and Zhao Xiandu, Zhao Sanyue, and the other Zhao Clan True Lords turned their attention to Ancestor Xi.

Zhao Sheng transformed into a forty-nine-zhang giant and faced Feng Long, who appeared through the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to seize the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan’s demonic disciples. Zhao Sheng stopped Feng Long’s first two attacks with ease, leaving the thunder eye silent as he waited for the third.

• Zhao Sheng grew into a forty-nine-zhang giant, astonishing the people gathered in the hall and prompting some to reconsider their clan’s conflict with the Zhao Clan.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared above Dragon Head Peak, and Feng Long declared that he would apprehend the demonic disciples and execute anyone who resisted.
• Zhao Sheng challenged Feng Long to defeat him after three attacks, then caught and shattered Feng Long’s thunder spear with one hand.
• Feng Long unleashed a rain of lightning weapons that shattered the space-time barrier, but Zhao Sheng froze the weapons and Space-Time Storm before making them vanish and restoring the barrier.
• Zhao Sheng counted the attack as Feng Long’s second move, while the thunder eye fell silent and Zhao Sheng reflected on his immense power.

Feng Long unleashed his Ten Thousand Tribulations Return Together against Zhao Sheng, but Zhao Sheng used the Five Thunder Rings to subdue him and protect Dragon Head Peak. Zhao Sheng demanded compensation from the Qintian Sha and turned toward a bronze coffin that appeared nearby.

• Feng Long formed a colossal nine-colored Thunder Sun and sent it crashing toward Zhao Sheng and Dragon Head Peak.
• Zhao Sheng used the Five Thunder Rings to suppress the attack and seize Feng Long in the form of a small eyeball.
• The cultivators inside the main hall survived and celebrated as the destructive aura vanished.
• Zhao Sheng threatened to refine Feng Long unless he explained the damage he caused, and Feng Long offered to act for him three times.
• Zhao Sheng questioned whether Feng Long would keep his promise and noticed a bronze coffin appear eight hundred zhang away.

Zhao Sheng discovered that Wu Yue had survived through his Life Corpse and learned more about Xue SuSu’s rise, but realized Wu Yue knew nothing about her suspected possession by Great Lord Yun Qing. After Wu Yue departed, Zhao Sheng worried about what Xue SuSu might do if she learned he was alive and resolved to reach the Body Integration Realm quickly.

• Zhao Sheng recognized the voice in the bronze coffin as Wu Yue’s, then threatened the coffin when he realized its occupant had not recognized him.
• Wu Yue explained that his true body had died in the Demon Emperor Dongtian, but a divided soul had revived inside his Life Corpse and joined the Imperial Sky Guard to lessen Heaven’s punishment.
• Zhao Sheng accepted Wu Yue’s explanation, let the Eye of Thunder Tribulation leave, and departed with Wu Yue, ending the Dao lecture gathering early.
• The Zhao Clan cultivators apologized to their guests, who instead sought alliances and marriages, helping the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan resume its expansion.
• Zhao Sheng learned from Wu Yue that Xue SuSu had become an Immortal Venerable’s disciple, but that Wu Yue knew nothing of her suspected possession by Great Lord Yun Qing.
• Half a month later, Wu Yue left; Zhao Sheng feared Xue SuSu might silence him and resolved to break through to the Body Integration Realm.

Zhao Sheng used the Spirit Washing Technique to erase Crimson Dragon Child’s memories and ordered Zhao Rixiao to keep him confined at Hidden Dragon Peak. More than seven hundred years after the first trial, the Nine Underworlds Pagoda opened for a second time, and the clan’s younger generation entered as Zhao Sheng watched from within.

• Zhao Sheng used the Spirit Washing Technique on Crimson Dragon Child, leaving him with a muddled, innocent expression and no memories.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Rixiao to take Crimson Dragon Child to Hidden Dragon Peak and keep him under strict watch, then gave him a Sumeru Ring and vanished.
• More than seven hundred years later, over three thousand Zhao Clan members gathered at Dragon Claw Peak for the second Pagoda Trial.
• Zhao Xiandu and Zhao Sanyue arrived, and Zhao Xiandu announced the trial’s start; the clan juniors entered the Nine Underworlds Pagoda.
• Zhao Xiandu wondered whether anyone would reach the ninth floor, while Zhao Sanyue noted that someone had already reached the second floor and Zhao Xiandu guessed who it might be.

Zhao Tianlin emerged from the Nine Underworlds Pagoda with a Thunderous Hound and was recognized as a rare cultivator who had comprehended the Spirit Controlling Great Dao. Later, Zhao Sheng broke into Divine Palace Sky to collect Grand Dao Spiritual Opportunity and encountered an old Daoist in a floating pavilion.

• Zhao Tianlin left the pagoda after reaching Golden Core Great Perfection, and his Thunderous Hound shocked the Zhao Clan by emerging with him.
• Zhao Sanyue realized Zhao Tianlin had comprehended the Spirit Controlling Great Dao, and she and Zhao Xiandu kept his existence secret while arranging spirit-beast lands for the clan.
• Zhao Tianlin later became a True Inheritance Disciple of the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect, bringing fame to the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Sheng entered Divine Palace Sky, captured three wisps of Grand Dao Spiritual Opportunity, and found an old Daoist seated in a stone pavilion.
• The old Daoist invited Zhao Sheng into the pavilion for a chat, and Zhao Sheng slowly flew toward him.