Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xuanjing helped Zhao Sheng overcome the Five Emotions Demonic Fire and showed him his Dongtian, inspiring Zhao Sheng to prepare to open one of his own. After decades of gathering Law Crystals and refining his power, Zhao Sheng entered Chaos and began creating a new world.

• Zhao Xuanjing used the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range’s earth vein to suppress Zhao Sheng’s Five Emotions Demonic Fire, restoring vitality to the mountain and announcing his successful tribulation to the Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Sheng emerged from the earth-vein dragon head, learned from Zhao Xuanjing that he had reached Great Completion in the Body Integration Realm, and received guidance on Opening Dongtian.
• Zhao Xuanjing brought Zhao Sheng into his Dongtian and demonstrated how he had created and evolved its landscape, laws, and protective formation.
• Over the next thirty years, Zhao Sheng collected Law Crystals across Divine Palace Sky and cultivated within the Five Thunder Rings as Zhao Xuanjing stood guard.
• Zhao Sheng entered Chaos, used his Primordial Spirit and Willpower Light to force open heaven and earth, and began forming the crystal wall and the world’s earth, water, wind, and fire.

Zhao Sheng opened his Dongtian and endured the Five Elements Tribulation, using his accumulated insights and Five Thunder Rings to withstand the destruction. He emerged having achieved Body Integration, while Phoenix sensed his presence and Zhao Sheng later revealed that his demonic fire had resurfaced.

• Zhao Sheng shaped a new world from Chaos, merging his Primordial Spirits with its laws as its heaven, land, rivers, plants, and stars took form.
• The Five Elements Tribulation struck Zhao Sheng and his Dongtian, but he diverted most of the lightning into the Five Thunder Rings and used his past experiences to repair and strengthen the world.
• Zhao Xuanjing confronted Tuo Xian, then welcomed the Painting Saint Wu Hua as they watched Zhao Sheng survive the weakening tribulation.
• Zhao Sheng emerged victorious and achieved Body Integration, and Zhao Xuanjing celebrated by asking him to become his sworn equal and call him Elder Brother.
• Phoenix sensed Zhao Sheng from a distant Great Sun and pursued him using the Great Sun Shift.
• After Wu Hua and Tuo Xian departed, Zhao Sheng suffered a brief flare of demonic fire, then assured Zhao Xuanjing that he could suppress it again.

Zhao Sheng opened the Five Thunders dongtian after reaching Integration, then accepted a guest elder position in the Tai Yi Spirit Palace from Xue Yunqing without breaking his oath to the Nine Questions Immortal Sect. More than ten years later, the Zhao Clan began populating the new dongtian with spirit beasts and plants.

• A star observatory detected Zhao Sheng’s breakthrough, and Bai Qi sent Zheng Beichen and Xue Yunqing to identify and recruit the new Integration cultivator.
• Bai Qi learned that the cultivator was Zhao Xi of the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan, and Xue Yunqing recognized him from a secret mission they had shared centuries earlier.
• Zhao Sheng showed Zhao Xuanjing the harsh Five Thunders dongtian and improved its laws and climate with his guidance.
• Xue Yunqing arrived at Dragon Head Peak and invited Zhao Sheng to join the Tai Yi Spirit Palace; he refused discipleship because of his Dao Oath but accepted its guest elder position and received a jade token.
• More than ten years later, Zhao Clan members moved spirit beasts, herbs, and flowers into the dongtian to establish its new ecosystem.

Zhao Sheng split off two great incarnations to develop the Five Thunder Dongtian, then traveled to Immortal Qi Lake to meet other Body Integration cultivators and trade Weak Water. The chapter ended as a newcomer recognized his Immortal Awareness Cauldron.

• A Zhao Clan descendant learned that the Fourth Direct Line would move into the Five Thunder Dongtian and apologized after insulting the harsh territory.
• Zhao Sheng created the incarnations Zhao Ximing and Zhao Xihou, sending Zhao Ximing outside the Dongtian and assigning Zhao Xihou to develop its land and spiritual veins.
• Zhao Sheng brought a giant beast's skeleton into the Dongtian and spent years adding ruins until its area approached twenty-four thousand li.
• Zhao Sheng traveled to Immortal Qi Lake, introduced himself as Sky Dome Wanderer, and joined the Hundred Immortals Assembly.
• Zhao Sheng traded Weak Water to Master Gu Xiang for fifty cubic measures of Dongtian Jade and more than two thousand Law Crystals.
• An unfamiliar cultivator recognized Zhao Sheng's Immortal Awareness Cauldron as he prepared to deliver the Weak Water.

Zhao Sheng refused Lu Huanyang’s offer for the Immortal Awareness Cauldron, then defeated and killed him after Lu Huanyang ambushed him with Lu Hu and Lu Bao. Zhao Sheng returned to the Five Thunder Dongtian and reached the Jade Void Cave, where Zhao Xuanjing was meditating.

• Zhao Sheng refused to trade the Immortal Awareness Cauldron to Lu Huanyang at the Hundred Immortals Assembly.
• Lu Huanyang sent Lu Hu and Lu Bao to meet him and help kill Zhao Sheng, then ambushed Zhao Sheng after the assembly ended.
• Zhao Sheng fought Lu Huanyang, Lu Hu, and Lu Bao, using his Thunder Roaring Lion incarnation to devastate Lu Hu and Lu Bao.
• Lu Huanyang merged with Lu Hu and Lu Bao and attacked Zhao Sheng, but Zhao Sheng’s Five Thunder Rings trapped and destroyed him with Five Elements Divine Lightning.
• Zhao Sheng collected Lu Huanyang’s Empty Pupil Bead and returned to the Five Thunder Dongtian.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Jade Void Cave and found Zhao Xuanjing meditating above the Jade Void Spirit Pool.

Zhao Sheng defeated Zhao Xuanjing’s Profound Yellow Mountain and asked him to investigate the mysterious attacker, while a divine ape avatar returned to Sky Pillar World and left contingencies across several realms. Decades later, Zhao Sheng’s cave heaven had flourished, but his jade token suddenly shattered, prompting him to vanish after naming Chi Long Zi.

• Zhao Sheng lifted and struck Zhao Xuanjing’s Profound Yellow Mountain, then told him about the ambush and gave him an Empty Pupil Bead and an image of the attacker.
• Zhao Xuanjing recognized a crystal statue among the attacker’s belongings and departed to ask the Spirit Controlling Immortal Sect for information.
• After learning that the attacker was Lu Huanyang, Zhao Sheng’s memories of Immortal Cave returned.
• The Sun Moon Divine Ape avatar returned to the Zhao Clan Secret Estate, showed Zhao Xuange the patriarch’s token, and built a Jade Void Spirit Pool to restore the estate’s spiritual qi.
• The divine ape avatar left contingencies across Sky Pillar World and several other realms before settling in the Tai Su Spirit Realm.
• Decades later, Zhao Sheng’s cave heaven had grown prosperous, but his jade token broke, and he vanished after saying Chi Long Zi’s name.

After Zhao Sheng killed Crimson Dragon Child, the demonic scripture trapped him in an illusion, but he escaped by refining the Five Emotions Demonic Fire. Phoenix traced the flame to his world, forcing Zhao Sheng into his Five Thunder Dongtian, where he turned to the Broken Brush for a way to escape her pursuit and was gravely injured by touching it.

• Crimson Dragon Child slaughtered his family while chanting the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Scripture, and Zhao Sheng killed him, triggering a bloodline-based demonic ambush.
• Zhao Sheng was trapped in an illusion where his descendants' chanting and bloody light tried to convert him, but he used Demon Refining Heart Fire to burn away the illusion and regain his powers.
• Phoenix awakened, tracked a trace of Five Emotions Demonic Fire to Zhao Sheng's world, and appeared above the Four Saints Continent as he sensed imminent danger and retreated into his Five Thunder Dongtian.
• Zhao Sheng realized Phoenix was pursuing him and concluded that she could keep finding him unless he disposed of the Kui Ox Treasure, while fearing the Ten Thousand Forms Immortal Lord behind her.
• Zhao Sheng touched the suppressed Broken Brush with a strand of divine sense, lost consciousness, and awoke with bloodied eyes and a severely cracked Primordial Spirit Dharma Body.

After healing in seclusion, Zhao Sheng set out for Tai Yi Spirit Palace’s new Palace Master inauguration, while Phoenix prepared a hidden formation to draw down a mysterious power. Phoenix later cornered Zhao Sheng, forced him to return with her to Guiyuan Ruins, and brought him to an eerie street filled with powerful, hostile strangers.

• The Thunder Roaring Lion incarnation destroyed the hall at Hundred Sons Peak, silenced the guards, and secretly gave Zhao Xiandu a message before rejoining Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng spent more than a hundred years healing his injuries and refining the damaged Five Thunder Rings, then decided to attend Tai Yi Spirit Palace’s inauguration ceremony in two jiazi.
• After searching the Four Saints Continent in vain for Kui Ox, Phoenix performed a ritual that summoned a mysterious presence and concealed the plain from detection.
• When Zhao Sheng emerged from seclusion, Phoenix appeared and sealed the surrounding space-time, but the heavenly tribulation clouds forced her to regain her own awareness and let him escape.
• Phoenix pursued Zhao Sheng through the void, demanded that he return to Guiyuan Ruins for the Master’s judgment, and Zhao Sheng surrendered rather than fight her.
• Phoenix brought Zhao Sheng through a gray-white vortex to an ancient street in Guiyuan Ruins, where strange, powerful pedestrians watched with Killing Intent.

Phoenix brought Zhao Sheng into a cloud realm, where Myriad Forms Old Ghost used the Kui Ox Treasure to seize control of his Primordial Spirit. Zhao Sheng’s attempt to counterattack with the Hundred Lifetimes Book failed, so he used the Broken Brush to destroy the treasure in a blast that erased him and sixteen veteran Divine Beast Envoys, leaving Ruined-Wall Market to decline.

• Phoenix took Zhao Sheng into the cloud realm, where an enormous eye identified the Kui Ox Treasure and shattered its seal.
• Myriad Forms Old Ghost’s Kui Ox Treasure sent countless threads into Zhao Sheng’s Primordial Spirit and began pulling him in.
• Zhao Sheng brought out the Hundred Lifetimes Book, but it passed through the Kui Ox Treasure without harming it.
• Zhao Sheng seized the Bald Broken Brush and used its death character against the Kui Ox Treasure as it struck his Primordial Spirit hand.
• Blood light engulfed the Kui Ox Treasure, Zhao Sheng’s Soul Sea, and the threads, while a shrill scream sounded from the void.
• The scarlet tower and shops in Ruined-Wall Market vanished, and Phoenix, Dijiang, Chaos, and thirteen other veteran Divine Beast Envoys died; Ten Thousand Forms Immortal Lord fell silent and the Market declined.

After Zhao Sheng’s eighth life ended, the Hundred Lifetimes Book settled his achievements and rewards, revealing that the Bald Broken Brush was a Quasi-Dao Artifact and that the Myriad Forms Old Ghost had survived. Zhao Sheng prepared for his next reincarnation by inheriting and promoting a skill, drawing physiques, and arranging to carry the Life and Death ## Brush into his next life.

• The Hundred Lifetimes Book rated Zhao Sheng’s eighth life Epic and awarded him two Hong Grade rewards, alongside other achievement rewards.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that the Bald Broken Brush was a Quasi-Dao Artifact and realized the Myriad Forms Old Ghost had not been killed.
• Zhao Sheng merged rewards from his previous life and synthesized them into higher-grade privileges.
• Zhao Sheng inherited the Cosmic Sky Immortal Realm Projection skill and promoted it into the Hong Grade Infinite Cosmic Sky Gate.
• Zhao Sheng used six Yellow Grade privileges to draw physiques, including Five Spiritual Roots.
• Zhao Sheng designated the Life and Death ## Brush to transfer onto his body in his next life, then began reincarnating.

Zhao Sheng reincarnated as Zhao Ergou, a poor boy with Five Spiritual Roots who had been sold to the Three Absolutes Zhao Clan, and quickly took control of his dormitory while beginning cultivation. After passing the clan’s scripture-recitation trial and learning about the academies, he chose to bide his time and investigate the clan’s origins.

• Zhao Sheng woke in Geng Nine Room, used his Divine Sense and accumulated power to subdue Chen Polu, and became the dormitory’s boss.
• At White Stone Plaza, Zhao Sheng watched the fat old man’s sutra incapacitate most of the gathered youths and noticed the man’s attention briefly linger on him.
• Zhao Sheng absorbed medicinal porridge, reached the Qi Refining First Layer, and learned that the youths had three months to begin cultivating or be reassigned as servants.
• After another dormitory challenged Geng Nine Room, Zhao Sheng defeated its leader and left Chen Polu to handle further visitors.
• Zhao Sheng endured the fat old man’s sutra and received a wooden plaque for the Scripture Depository, but declined to spend an entry opportunity before learning the spirit characters.
• Zhao Sheng learned about the clan’s nine academies and its cultivation ranks, and suspected the Three Absolutes Zhao Clan was an obscure branch related to the Divine Craftsman Zhao Clan.

Zhao Sheng agreed to Wu Chengsi’s alliance as the Lower Six Academies prepared for the Battle of Contention, then secretly connected with a strand of starlight and vanished. The chapter leaves his whereabouts unknown.

• Wu Chengsi proposed an alliance to Zhao Sheng and demonstrated his strength by attacking Chen Polu, but Zhao Sheng deflected the attack and agreed to join.
• Three months later, only five people remained in Geng Nine Room, and the Lower Six Academies opened the Battle of Contention with rewards for the final ten survivors.
• The obese elder announced that students had five years to reach Qi Refining Level Four and that the first Battle of Contention would begin in seven days.
• At night, Zhao Sheng used his Divine Sense to confirm the others were asleep, then connected with the brightest strand of starlight and vanished.

Zhao Sheng discovered that Inverted Mountain was an upside-down world and obtained Ten Thousand Year Mystic Iron, which helped him reach Qi Refining Great Perfection. Three years later, he kept his abilities concealed during Battle of Contention and considered which hall to join after leaving the Lower Six Academies.

• Zhao Sheng met Stone Spirit at Inverted Mountain, learned its taboos, and found that the mountain's ironstone was Ten Thousand Year Mystic Iron.
• Zhao Sheng returned from Inverted Mountain and used the spiritual qi surge to advance to Qi Refining Great Perfection, expanding his Divine Sense to one hundred and eighty zhang.
• Three years later, Zhao Sheng used his Black Tortoise Shield to repel Chan Fei during Battle of Contention, then yielded when three Striving Alliance members closed in on him.
• Zhao Sheng advised Chen Polu to learn from Wu Chengsi and focus on reaching Qi Refining Level Four, while warning him not to draw attention to himself.
• Chen Polu asked Zhao Sheng which hall he planned to join, and Zhao Sheng named the Outer Affairs Hall, Artifact Refining Hall, or Pill Cauldron Hall.
• Zhao Sheng finished last among the top ten in Battle of Contention and received one hundred Spirit Stones and a bottle of Essence Nurturing Pills.

After becoming the Island Lord of Seven Stars Island, Zhao Sheng established control over the island and repelled an assassination attempt. The chapter left him welcoming Hu Yuanqiao, the neighboring Island Lord of Cold Spring Island, for a visit.

• Zhao Sheng traded over a hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones with Stone Spirit and found a rare Breathing Soil stone among the collected treasures, prompting him to suspect Stone Spirit had concealed its true nature.
• Zhao Sheng absorbed a surge of spiritual energy and advanced to the peak of the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.
• After the Lower Six Academies’ disciples graduated and chose their destinations, Zhao Sheng gave Chen Polu a Flowing Moon Sword and handed magic tools to his other roommates before leaving for Seven Stars Island.
• Zhao Sheng arrived at Seven Stars Island, confirmed his appointment with Zhou Chu, and took charge of the island and its people.
• Five Masked Men tried to assassinate Zhao Sheng with poison, but he killed four, captured the last, and learned they had acted on an unknown bounty.
• Zhao Sheng caught a Spirit Carp and welcomed Hu Yuanqiao, the Island Lord of Cold Spring Island, who had come to offer wine and meet his new neighbor.

Zhao Sheng improved Seven Stars Island’s spirit fields, reforged Chen Polu’s broken sword, and secretly advanced to Golden Core. After Hu Yuanqiao died attempting Foundation Establishment, Zhao Sheng protected Cold Spring Island from intruders as Hu Yuer became its new island master.

• Zhao Sheng used a Five-Colored Stone to strengthen the spirit vein beneath his fields, then welcomed Chen Polu and agreed to forge him a new sword in exchange for Samadhi True Fire.
• Zhao Sheng forged the Bright Moon Sword, a spirit artifact, for Chen Polu, who left Seven Stars Island after learning Zhao Sheng was only at Qi Refining Late Stage.
• Zhao Sheng gave Hu Yuer Five Aggregates Beads and later shared Golden Jade Rice seeds with Hu Yuanqiao in exchange for ten jars of Hundred Year Red Dust Brew.
• Zhao Sheng secretly passed the Golden Core Tribulation and became a Golden Core True Person, while Chen Polu returned to Seven Stars Island at Qi Refining Great Perfection.
• Hu Yuanqiao died after failing to break through to Foundation Establishment, and Zhao Sheng secretly killed Rogue Cultivators who trespassed on Cold Spring Island.
• Hu Yuer succeeded Hu Yuanqiao as island master and married a Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator, while a sword light from beyond the heavens killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator who appeared at the wedding.

Disguised as Master Shaoling, Zhao Sheng traded newly refined spirit artifacts for rare materials and began a three-month commission, while Zhao Jincheng arrived at Seven Stars Island and tested the restrictions protecting its Spirit Fields. During artifact refinement, Zhao Sheng entered a strange realm and contemplated the Glazed Jade Wall; he returned with a major cultivation breakthrough and discovered that the Hundred Lifetimes Book had recorded the experience.

• Zhao Sheng presented the Autumn Water Sword and Floating Cloud Wings to Pavilion Master Qi, then accepted materials to refine two spirit artifacts for the Zhao Clan.
• Zhao Jincheng arrived at Seven Stars Island with Elder Yang and searched for Zhao Sheng, who was away in the Earth Fire Chamber.
• Zhao Jincheng discovered the protected Spirit Fields, was repelled by their restrictions, and vowed to settle matters with Zhao Sheng when he returned.
• Zhao Sheng entered a strange mountain valley and became absorbed in the Dao Sound and the Glazed Jade Wall.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the Earth Fire Chamber and advanced from the first level of Golden Core to the late second level.
• Zhao Sheng summoned the Hundred Lifetimes Book and saw that it had recorded the scenes from his experience.

Zhao Sheng comprehended the Five Directions Five Elements Dong Zhen Scripture, then returned to Seven Stars Island and defeated two main-branch visitors before a Golden Core True Person arrived. He entered the pavilion with Zhao Yongxian for a private conversation, while the Zhao Clan members outside questioned whether he was really the Zhao Sheng in their records.

• Zhao Sheng gained profound insight from the Glazed Jade Wall, formed an embryonic Law World, and manifested a Five-Colored Spirit Lotus whose fragrance spread through the Treasure Gathering Pavilion.
• After three months in the Earth Fire Chamber, Zhao Sheng gave two top-grade spirit artifacts to Pavilion Master Qi and returned to Seven Stars Island.
• Zhao Sheng found Zhao Jincheng and Elder Yang on the island, slapped Zhao Jincheng by force, killed Elder Yang, and subdued the Black Centipede before letting Zhao Jincheng flee.
• Zhao Sheng failed to find the mysterious brilliant star in his soul search and named the Singularity in the Burial Immortal Ruins Xiang Er Cliff.
• Zhao Yongxian arrived on a Silver-White Giant Boat with Zhao Clan members, including Chen Polu, and Zhao Sheng invited him into the lakeside pavilion to speak alone.
• Outside the pavilion, Chen Polu and the Zhao Clan members doubted that Zhao Sheng could be the young cultivator described in their Life Record.

Zhao Sheng defeated Zhao Yongxian at formation chess, declined to acknowledge the Zhao Clan as his ancestors, but agreed to become a guest elder. Later, as forces gathered for the Water Mansion’s opening, a huge whirlpool appeared and cultivators rushed inside.

• Zhao Sheng defeated Zhao Yongxian in formation chess, convincing him that Zhao Sheng was a powerful cultivator reborn through body possession.
• Zhao Yongxian urged Zhao Sheng to acknowledge his Zhao Clan ancestry and explained the clan’s connection to the Ten Lands Zhao Clan, but Zhao Sheng refused.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to serve as a guest elder in exchange for Seven Stars Island and an annual stipend of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Yongxian announced Zhao Sheng’s appointment to the people waiting outside the water pavilion, and they bowed to their new guest elder.
• As forces gathered at Crouching Tiger Island for the Water Mansion to emerge, a giant whirlpool opened and cultivators hurried into it.

Zhao Sheng attended the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s auction, traded for rare materials, and arranged to acquire more through the guild. Three days later, a Spirit Transformation cultivator attacked the lake and killed several strange Golden Core cultivators, while a red light escaped into the water and a clash of pillars began; Zhao Sheng recognized clues about the attacker as the white pillar started to falter.

• Zhao Sheng secretly used the Star God Thousand Hearts Art to gather information about the Golden Core cultivators at the auction.
• Su Zhaobai announced the guild’s rules, and the auction sold treasures including Ten Thousand Year Azure to a dying Golden Core Great Perfection cultivator.
• Zhao Sheng traded for Sumeru Stone, Empty Mulberry Tree Heart, and Uranium Light Marrow, then asked Su Zhaobai to obtain more rare materials.
• Zhao Yongxian returned secretly to the tower ship after Zhao Sheng left, while Zhao Sheng noticed but did not stop him.
• A burly Spirit Transformation cultivator arrived over the lake, used a Bronze Ancient Mirror to expose and kill several strange Golden Core cultivators, and pursued a red light that escaped from the guild’s ship into the water.
• The burly cultivator’s azure light clashed with a white pillar rising from a lake vortex, and Zhao Sheng recognized clues in the man’s crimson robe and chains as the azure pillar gained the upper hand.

Zhao Sheng suspected the Water Mansion had been part of a long-running scheme by the Otherworld Demon Race, then forged his first Natal Treasure and advanced to the late Golden Core stage. Years later, Chen Polu arrived on the Zhao Clan’s behalf to ask him to help with an upcoming outer-region development.

• An Imperial Sky Guard envoy captured the giant snail demon, freed the Foundation Establishment cultivators trapped inside it, and left with the demon and an iron-blue crab.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yongxian discussed the Water Mansion and its victims, while Zhao Sheng privately suspected the Otherworld Demon Race had used the site to infiltrate human society.
• Zhao Sheng received supplies from the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and later forged the Central Sumeru Mirror as his first Natal Treasure.
• Over the next five years, Zhao Sheng returned to the Burial Immortal Ruins, advanced to the late Golden Core stage, and forged the Eastern Kongsang Mirror and Western Tanguang Mirror.
• Chen Polu told Zhao Sheng that the Zhao Clan had prepared to join an outer-region development and asked him to lend the clan a hand.