Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng traveled to Yue Wu Mountain and accepted the Three Absolutes Zhao Clan’s offer to join its expedition into the outer regions. After the Mountain River Sect announced that the expedition would begin in ten years, the Zhao Clan’s Ancestor returned with an exploration map and gathered the clan’s Golden Core cultivators.

• Zhao Sheng decided to visit Yue Wu Mountain with Chen Polu to hear the Zhao Clan’s terms for the expedition.
• At Yue Wu Mountain, Zhao Zhenzhen explained the clan’s preparations and offered Zhao Sheng access to its Scripture Depository, a top-grade magical treasure, and a future cultivation land if he joined the expedition.
• Zhao Sheng accepted and met Venerable Mingyue, one of the Zhao Clan’s Golden Core guest elders.
• More than a year later, the Mountain River Sect announced at its Heaven Sacrifice Grand Ceremony that it would launch an expedition into the outer regions ten years later and gave guests exploration maps.
• Two months afterward, Zhao Zhuang Gong returned to Yue Wu Mountain with the map and two Golden Core juniors, including Zhao Zhongnan, a Mountain River Sect True Inheritance Disciple whose cultivation had reached Golden Core Great Perfection.

As the reclamation war expanded beyond the Red Cloud Spirit Domain, Zhao Sheng prepared life-saving talismans for his clan and learned that the Zhao, He, and Wei Families would join the third batch of supporting forces. Over twenty-nine years, the human armies suffered heavy losses, Zhao Sheng advanced toward Nascent Soul, and the supporting forces received orders to march into the wilderness.

• Zhao Sheng refined Thunder Pearls and Thousand Mile Void Escape Talismans, then gave Zhao Yongxian one in exchange for treasures and his promise to keep the secret.
• Zhao Zhuang Gong and Zhao Zhongnan told the Zhao Clan that the Zhao, He, and Wei Families had been assigned to the third batch of supporting forces.
• The vanguard army set out, and the main force later suffered a devastating ambush by Green Winged Great Peng Birds that cost the human race warships and many cultivators.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Burial Immortal Ruins twice, reached Golden Core Great Perfection, completed refining the Five Directions Mirror, and later tempered his body through his Nascent Soul lightning tribulation.
• In the twenty-ninth year of reclamation, the third batch of supporting forces received a True Lord's decree to march into the wilderness during winter.

The Zhao, He, and Wei Clans reached Sky Rift Valley and established a stronghold around its Three Yin Fiend Den, where Zhao Sheng helped construct defenses and a deadly formation. Their hunt for the valley’s Two-Winged Giant Lizards yielded enormous demon corpses, while the Zhao Clan began refining corpses and the other clans used the meat to strengthen their cultivators.

• Zhao Zhongnan showed the Ancestors and Golden Core cultivators Sky Rift Valley and explained its resources, Three Yin Fiend Den, and Flying Giant Lizard threat.
• Zhao Sheng struck Venerable Mingyue with a Divine Sense attack after sensing her gaze, and the others resumed discussing how to exterminate the lizards.
• The three clans reached Sky Rift Valley, established a barrier around their base, and Zhao Yongxian and Zhao Sheng set up formations to defend it.
• Zhao Sheng’s Xian Kong Golden Saber Array killed a third-rank Two-Winged Giant Lizard, while the He Family Ancestor and Zhao Zhuang Gong slaughtered others and fought two enormous lizards.
• Zhao Zhuang Gong and the He Family Ancestor returned with two giant lizard corpses, and the Zhao Clan refined their flesh in Yin Corpse Coffins as He and Wei Clan cultivators ate it to improve their strength.

Zhao Sheng and the three families defeated the Two-Winged Giant Lizards of Sky Rift Valley, secured its rich cultivation resources, and sent refined spirit metals to the front lines. At Inverted Mountain, Zhao Sheng met Stone Spirit’s Ancient Yu Clan friend, Gu Yu Fangliu, who offered him a genuine True Immortal Finger Bone containing the Great Dao of Wind.

• The Zhao, He, and Wei Families held their outpost against the Two-Winged Giant Lizards while Zhao Zhuang Gong and the He Family Ancestor battled their half-dragonized commander.
• Zhao Sheng and the two Nascent Soul cultivators trapped the giant lizard commander with the Yin Sha Mist Array and the Inverted and Upright Five-Element Thunder Array, then captured it alive.
• The three families drove the surviving giant lizards from Sky Rift Valley and discovered rich spirit mines, including a Spirit Stone mine in the lizards’ lair.
• Zhao Sheng refined ore from seven mines into spirit metals, which Zhao Zhuang Gong carried aboard the Silver-White Giant Boat toward the Great Desolate Marsh front line.
• At Inverted Mountain, Zhao Sheng met Stone Spirit and its Ancient Yu Clan friend, Gu Yu Fangliu, who tossed him a crystal-clear bone.
• Zhao Sheng recognized the bone as a genuine True Immortal Finger Bone containing the Great Dao of Wind.

Zhao Sheng refused to accept the Immortal Bone and refining method until he could safely refine the Lesser Wind-Calming Pearl, then left with three other treasures. Back at Sky Rift Valley, he helped the Zhao Clan consolidate its territory and forged Sword Wings, while a hostile force tracked the He Family Ancestor and Zhao Zhuang Gong departed for the front-line headquarters.

• Zhao Sheng examined the Lesser Wind-Calming Pearl refining method but refused the Immortal Bone and scroll until his cultivation was strong enough, then traded three Top-Grade Spirit Stones for Dongtian Marrow Jade, a black meteorite, and a Stone Sword.
• A glazed bird named Aurora tracked the He Family Ancestor’s Silver-White Giant Boat for an azure-robed young master, who ordered her to locate its home base.
• Zhao Sheng tested the Stone Sword and discovered it could pass through earth and stone and cut through a cliff with ease.
• After the He Family Ancestor returned, the Zhao, He, and Wei Families divided Sky Rift Valley and the He and Wei Families withdrew to their assigned regions.
• Zhao Sheng forged Sword Wings for the Zhao Clan’s Golden Core cultivators and obtained rare materials in exchange.
• Zhao Zhuang Gong left Sky Rift Valley aboard the Silver-White Giant Boat and headed for the Great Desolate Marsh front-line headquarters.

Jun Tianxing led a devastating assault on the Zhao Clan camp, forcing Zhao Yongxian and Venerable Mingyue to flee through underground passages as the camp fell. When Jun Tianxing pursued them, Zhao Sheng appeared and confronted him with the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors, opening a battle with the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.

• Jun Tianxing sent Mountain-Drilling Pangolins and Pitch-Black Poison Bees against the Zhao Clan camp while the Green Winged Great Peng Bird summoned a destructive gale.
• Zhao Yongxian and Venerable Mingyue watched the barrier collapse and retreated into the towers as the hurricane battered the camp.
• Zhao Yongxian opened the hidden underground passages, and the Zhao Clan cultivators fled while Mountain-Drilling Pangolins ambushed them; Golden Armor Corpses joined the fighting.
• Zhao Yongxian and Venerable Mingyue escaped with several Foundation Establishment juniors, but Jun Tianxing spotted them and ordered Cheap Nine to pursue.
• Zhao Sheng ambushed Jun Tianxing and pinned the Green Winged Great Peng Bird with a stone mirror, then summoned the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors and unleashed the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.

Zhao Sheng used the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors to defeat Jun Tianxing and suppress him inside the Kongsang Mirror rather than kill him. After the demon beasts fled from the underground passageways, Zhao Yongxian and Venerable Mingyue rescued seven surviving clansmen and returned to the ruined camp.

• Zhao Sheng survived Jun Tianxing's sword attacks by emerging from a treasure mirror, then used the mirrors' light to break Jun Tianxing's Divine Wind Domain and bind him in Five-Colored chains.
• Zhao Sheng knocked Jun Tianxing unconscious and suppressed him inside the Kongsang Mirror, choosing not to kill the son of the Golden Winged Great Peng King.
• The Mountain-Drilling Pangolin demon beasts abruptly lost their will to fight and fled the underground passageways after Jun Tianxing was suppressed.
• Zhao Yongxian searched the passageways and rescued seven Foundation Establishment clansmen, though three had suffered injuries that would likely prevent them from recovering their former strength.
• Zhao Yongxian and Venerable Mingyue led the seven survivors back to the camp at dawn and found the Three Yin Fiend Den more than half collapsed.

Zhao Sheng captured a Nascent Soul Green Winged Great Peng Bird and rescued the He and Wei Families from the Demon Race raid before vanishing from the camp. More than forty days later, Zhao Zhuang Gong learned of Zhao Sheng’s immense strength and sought him, while Zhao Sheng continued torturing Jun Tianxing inside the Shenyun Grand Formation.

• Zhao Sheng returned with the Green Winged Great Peng Bird, bound it with five-colored chains, and left Zhao Yongxian and Venerable Mingyue to guard it.
• Zhao Sheng traveled to the He and Wei Families’ strongholds and killed two Nascent Soul demon birds, though both families suffered devastating losses.
• More than forty days later, Zhao Zhuang Gong returned to camp, learned of the disaster, and asked Zhao Yongxian to take him to Senior Shaoling.
• Zhao Yongxian told Zhao Zhuang Gong that Zhao Sheng had vanished but had not said he was leaving, leaving the ancestor uncertain where to find him.
• Inside the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors, Jun Tianxing repeatedly failed to escape the Shenyun Grand Formation as Zhao Sheng activated the mirrors to torment him.

Zhao Sheng subdued Jun Tianxing with a curse and made the demon emperor’s son serve as his mount before returning with him to Sky Rift Valley. Years later, the Zhao Clan was ordered to send cultivators to the coming war, and the chapter ended with Jun Tianxing delivering rare treasures Zhao Sheng had requested.

• Zhao Sheng trapped Jun Tianxing in the Central Thick Earth Mirror, bound him with the Five Manifestation Heavenly Demon Great Curse, and forced him to submit as his master.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Sky Rift Valley with Jun Tianxing, astonishing Zhao Zhuang Gong, who then brought them to a hidden cave to talk.
• Over the following years, Zhao Zhuang Gong warned Zhao Sheng that the Mountain River Sect had ordered the Zhao Clan to send one Nascent Soul cultivator and three Golden Core cultivators to its main camp or face extermination.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Zhuang Gong Dragon Tiger Soul Nurturing Pills and Core Formation Pills for the Zhao Clan juniors, and a Golden Core Tribulation began a month later.
• Jun Tianxing brought Zhao Sheng a Sumeru Ring containing twenty-six treasures and spirit stones, but reported that nineteen especially rare items remained uncollected.

Zhao Sheng rewarded Jun Tianxing with the Blood Scripture, then learned that the Bei Ming Legion and Jun Tianhuang had secretly returned to Sky-Scraping Cliff. He traveled there and built a Ten Thousand Mile Flight Array underground, then waited for an opportunity.

• Zhao Sheng gave Jun Tianxing the Blood Scripture and warned him that cultivating it could cause him to suffer cultivation deviation, but Jun Tianxing chose to pursue bloodline purification regardless.
• Jun Tianxing reported that the Bei Ming Legion, Jun Tianhuang, and nearly thirty Nascent Soul-level commanders had secretly returned to Sky-Scraping Cliff, though he could not discover why.
• Zhao Sheng ordered Jun Tianxing to take him to Sky-Scraping Cliff, and Jun Tianxing carried him there in his Green Winged Great Peng Bird form.
• Zhao Sheng hid in a cavern near Sky-Scraping Cliff and constructed a Ten Thousand Mile Flight Array that could carry him ten thousand li in an instant.
• Zhao Sheng laid additional restrictions and formations around the cavern, then cultivated while waiting for an opportunity.

Zhao Sheng infiltrated Sky-Scraping Cliff and looted its hidden treasure vault, including a True Dragon Skeleton, before escaping when he triggered a deadly defense. His theft released Jun Beiming’s sealed father, while Jun Beiming learned of the breach as Demon Suppressing City faced destruction, leaving him torn between pursuing the escapee and completing his attack.

• Zhao Sheng watched Jun Beiming lead nearly a hundred powerful demon birds away from Sky-Scraping Cliff, then slipped through the summit’s defenses and found the treasure vault beneath the sovereign’s throne.
• Zhao Sheng used the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors to collect the vault’s treasures, including the True Dragon Skeleton, but noticed the ground shift beneath where it had rested.
• Zhao Sheng escaped the vault’s lethal pressure with an Earth Escape Talisman, then used a Thousand Mile Void Escape Talisman and a prepared formation to flee beyond Jun Beiming’s reach.
• The collapse of the vault’s seal released Jun Beiming’s father, a Void Return Divided Spirit who had been imprisoned there.
• Jun Beiming learned that the seal had broken while his demon birds were ravaging Demon Suppressing City, and he hesitated between returning to Sky-Scraping Cliff and continuing the attack.

After escaping the demon emperor’s divided spirit, Zhao Sheng hid underground for a year and then visited the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild in Nine Profound City. He negotiated with Bitter Fig Ancestor to trade a True Dragon Skeleton for Dongtian Jade and Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Zhao Sheng escaped underground after the demon emperor’s divided spirit destroyed the mountain ridge while searching for him.
• Sovereign Jun Beiming’s Bei Ming Legion fought Mountain River Sect’s elite force, then fled into the First Dark Heaven after a human Return to Void cultivator arrived.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and revealed enough of his aura to persuade Bitter Fig Ancestor to meet him.
• Zhao Sheng brought out a massive True Dragon Skeleton and asked Bitter Fig Ancestor to exchange it for Dongtian Jade.
• Zhao Sheng and Bitter Fig Ancestor agreed on five cubic measures of Dongtian Jade and eleven cubic measures of Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the skeleton.

Zhao Sheng traded rare treasures with Bitter Fig Ancestor, gained the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's support, and agreed to forge a Spirit Treasure for Daoist Fire Dragon. Three months later, a dragon's roar rang through Immortals' Gathering Residence, signaling the result of Zhao Sheng's work.

• Zhao Sheng exchanged treasures with Bitter Fig Ancestor and shared cultivation insights that left the old tree demon deeply impressed.
• Bitter Fig Ancestor spread word that Zhao Sheng was a master of many arts, attracting Wind Brokers and bringing Daoist Fire Dragon to Zhao Sheng's cave abode.
• Daoist Fire Dragon tested Zhao Sheng with a scorching divine sense, but Zhao Sheng dispelled it and earned his respect.
• Daoist Fire Dragon asked Zhao Sheng to forge a Spirit Treasure-grade Fire Dragon Spear, and Zhao Sheng agreed after inspecting the ore and learning about his mana and divine sense.
• Zhao Sheng led Daoist Fire Dragon into the artifact-refining chamber, and three months later a dragon's roar sounded through Immortals' Gathering Residence.

As rumors of Zhao Sheng’s Spirit Treasure and pill-refining skills drew powerful visitors to Nine Profound City, he shut his doors and entered a mysterious star-realm. There, he met the One-Eyed Giant Bahemu and learned that the place was Silent Immortal Island, a ruin-filled island beneath a perilous sea.

• Cultivators in Delicacies House discussed Zhao Sheng’s Spirit Treasure refinements and speculated that Daoist Fire Dragon might reach the top of the Mystic Spirit Pagoda.
• True Person Ruolin left after receiving a Jade Slip listing treasures that could earn Zhao Sheng’s services, while Liu Wu began offering the same information to other cultivators.
• Spirit Transformation True Lords brought Zhao Sheng visiting cards and treasures, but Zhao Sheng refused visitors after spotting more than seventy materials he needed.
• Zhao Sheng meditated in his cave residence, chose the deep-blue star, and vanished into a crystalline world beneath a dark, ominous sky.
• Zhao Sheng met Bahemu, paid him in Top-Grade Spirit Stones for information and directions, and learned about Silent Immortal Island, its Markets, and the dangerous objects that fell there from the Gun Sea.

Zhao Sheng discovered that he alone could see the vortex left when Immortal Ruins Travelers logged off, explored the Silent Immortal Island Market, and bought an ancient Dragon Scale. Later, he agreed to meet Qingxuzi and forge a Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token, then led him into a volcanic realm beneath nine suns.

• Bahemu brought Zhao Sheng to the Silent Immortal Island Market, where Zhao Sheng saw a grayish-white vortex appear when Bahemu logged off and realized he alone could see it.
• Zhao Sheng surveyed the Market’s stalls and ice houses, then bought a Dragon Scale for three pieces of Dongtian Jade.
• Zhao Sheng tested how deeply his sword could cut into different ice layers, collected a piece of pure water, and returned to the lower realm.
• Bitter Fig Ancestor urged Zhao Sheng to meet Qingxuzi, and Zhao Sheng agreed after learning of the cultivator’s standing and potential.
• Qingxuzi presented Zhao Sheng with Ten Lands Tainted Fiend and plans for a Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token, which Zhao Sheng agreed to forge.
• Zhao Sheng entered a golden mirror with Qingxuzi and led him into a volcanic realm beneath nine suns.

Zhao Sheng refined a Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token for Qingxuzi and traded Jade Void Primordial Spirit Pills for a promise of rare treasures. He then recruited Huangfu Yuli to help find a Half Immortal’s rib and followed him through a spacetime vortex back to the Great Marsh Realm.

• Zhao Sheng used the World Cleansing Glazed Flame and Qingxuzi’s flesh, blood, and rib to refine the Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token, which Qingxuzi received after a thousand-year wait.
• A pill cauldron arrived with three Jade Void Primordial Spirit Pills, and Zhao Sheng agreed to trade all three to Qingxuzi for five-element and spacetime treasures while keeping the pills’ existence secret.
• Several cultivators tried to contact Zhao Sheng, but he shut himself inside his cave abode; Qingxuzi returned later and departed again.
• Zhao Sheng had Huangfu Yuli excavate an ice cliff, where they found a jade-like rib that had belonged to a Return to Void Half Immortal.
• Zhao Sheng sent Huangfu Yuli back through a spacetime vortex, then followed him into it.

Zhao Sheng reached Nascent Soul Ninth Level, gave Huangfu Yuli a protective jade talisman, and secluded himself to cultivate as the Great Marsh Realm’s twin suns approached a catastrophic alignment. A hundred years later, Huangfu Yuli was exposed to three Golden Core cultivators, while Zhao Sheng emerged beneath a sky filled with Tribulation Clouds.

• Zhao Sheng refined the spiritual energy in Huangfu Yuli’s cave dwelling and advanced to Nascent Soul Ninth Level while Huangfu Yuli remained unaware.
• Zhao Sheng learned that Huangfu Yuli was hiding from enemies of his vanished master, Old Man Nanhuai, then gave him a jade talisman before departing.
• Zhao Sheng entered a formation inside a stone mirror beneath a lake and cultivated there for a hundred years as Pine Mountain Market grew increasingly tense.
• Daoist Xuanguang told Cang Yanzi and Twin-Prodigy Scholar that Huangfu Yuli had been found near Qinglu Peak, and the three set out to capture him.
• An old white-haired Daoist appeared above Pine Mountain Market and vanished after watching the three cultivators depart.
• Zhao Sheng emerged from the lake as immense Tribulation Clouds gathered across the sky and lightning filled the heavens.

Zhao Sheng endured the Spirit Transformation tribulation, used its power to expand the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors’ worlds, and tore open the barrier into the Nine Nether Void Realm. Meanwhile, Tao Kan captured Huangfu Yuli after his battle with three Golden Core cultivators, but the chapter ended as Tao Kan’s disciples saw something terrifying behind him.

• Zhao Sheng absorbed the tribulation lightning as his Five Directions Treasure Mirrors expanded their worlds and laws.
• After the Thunder Eye vanished, Zhao Sheng absorbed the remaining thunderlight and tore open the space-time barrier to enter the Nine Nether Void Realm.
• Cang Yanzi, Twin-Prodigy Scholar, and Daoist Xuanguang ambushed Huangfu Yuli at Qinglu Peak, but his Profound Abyss Illusory Sea trapped them.
• Tao Kan appeared, sealed Huangfu Yuli’s Golden Core, and examined the jade talisman fragments that fell from his robes.
• Tao Kan scolded his three disciples and ordered them to return to Apricot Grove, but they stared in horror at something behind him.

Zhao Sheng subdued Old Daoist Tao Kan, cursed him into obedience, and sent him to plunder the Great Marsh Realm's major sects with the Golden Light Mirror. Eight years later, Tao Kan had collected treasures from thirty-eight sects, while Zhao Sheng gathered the treasures cultivated within the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors and inspected Tao Kan's haul.

• Zhao Sheng defeated Old Daoist Tao Kan, placed the Five Manifestation Heavenly Demon Great Curse on him, and gave Huangfu Yuli Tao Kan's three disciples to deal with.
• Huangfu Yuli compelled Cang Yanzi, Twin-Prodigy Scholar, and Daoist Xuanguang to swear loyalty, while Zhao Sheng ordered Tao Kan to raid the realm's sect treasure vaults with the Golden Light Mirror.
• Over eight years, Tao Kan defeated more than seventy Nascent Soul cultivators and plundered thirty-eight ancient sects, earning the name Golden Light Ancestor.
• Zhao Sheng traveled through the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors and collected the treasures they had been nurturing in their mirror realms.
• Zhao Sheng met Tao Kan in the Outer Sea, inspected the more than a thousand treasures he had gathered, and found the haul disappointing.

Zhao Sheng killed a Sea Demon in the Burial Immortal Ruins, traded its hide for Law Crystals, and returned to Nine Profound City. He showed Bitter Fig Ancestor a collection of treasures, including a Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token, leaving the ancestor stunned.

• Zhao Sheng killed a Sea Demon, cleaned and collected its hide and bone spikes, then entered a Market of Immortal Ruins Travelers.
• Zhao Sheng traded the Sea Demon hide to Ghost Come for five Law Crystals and sold the bone spikes for two Dongtian Jade.
• Zhao Sheng searched the Market for damaged magic treasure fragments, then logged out and returned near Nine Profound City.
• Zhao Sheng met Bitter Fig Ancestor, accepted his invitation to a banquet, and showed him several dozen boxes of precious treasures.
• Bitter Fig Ancestor recognized a Bronze Token as a Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token and reacted with shock.