Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng arranged for the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild to present his treasures at the Treasure Appraisal Convention while keeping his return secret, then nearly died when he tried to wield the Life and Death Broken Brush. After recovering from writing only a radical of his name, he met Jun Tianxing in Nine Profound City and sent a sealed ring to the Zhao Clan.

• Zhao Sheng agreed to consign nine Spirit Treasures and the Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token to the Treasure Appraisal Convention through the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, and asked Bitter Fig Ancestor to conceal his return from outsiders.
• Zhao Sheng entered Cave Residence Number Three, sent information to Jun Tianxing through a crystal sphere, and attempted to contact the Life and Death Broken Brush in his Soul Sea.
• The Life and Death Broken Brush nearly drained Zhao Sheng of his power, then returned the energy; guided by the Hundred Lifetimes Book, he wrote a simplified Chinese radical before collapsing.
• Zhao Sheng recovered over several months and advanced from the second level of Spirit Transformation to the peak of the sixth level.
• Jun Tianxing met Zhao Sheng in a Black Market courtyard and presented the treasures Zhao Sheng had requested.
• Zhao Sheng gave Jun Tianxing a gray Sumeru Ring to deliver personally to Zhao Yongxian, who was to unseal it with Heart Blood.

Jun Tianxing’s attempt to obtain a Heavenly Demon Great Curse revealed that Demon Emperor Jun Beiming had used him to lure out Zhao Sheng, who captured and subdued Jun Beiming’s Divided Spirit. More than a year later, the Treasure Appraisal Convention began in Nine Profound City, where the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild prepared its offerings and watched for the appraisal of Zhao’s Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token.

• Jun Tianxing told Zhao Sheng that Jun Beiming planned to possess him, but Zhao realized Jun Tianxing had been permitted to leave as part of a trap.
• Jun Beiming’s Divided Spirit took control of Jun Tianxing, and Zhao used the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors and Annihilation Divine Lightning to destroy its body and capture its Primordial Spirit.
• Zhao searched the Divided Spirit’s soul and learned that Jun Beiming had exposed Jun Tianxing’s secret to draw out the person behind him, then resolved to contact the Mountain Sea Sect and prepare for a confrontation.
• More than a year later, Nine Profound City celebrated Great Venerable Hong Yun’s birthday as the Treasure Appraisal Convention opened beneath a vast light curtain.
• Deng Wenqiu and his companions discussed Zhao’s Thunder Emperor Tribulation Averting Token, while Bitter Fig Ancestor sent tens of thousands of treasures onto the Bagua Altar’s first level.

Zhao Sheng watched the Treasure Appraisal Convention and discovered that the red flowers cast by cultivators nourished the spirituality of the treasures. His Five Thunder Axe unexpectedly rose to the sixth tier, drawing Qi Tian Ancestor’s attention and leaving Zhao Sheng expecting trouble.

• The Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild began the convention by distributing red flowers throughout Nine Profound City, and Qi Tian Ancestor appeared above the Bagua Altar.
• Qi Tian Ancestor started the appraisal, and the treasures rose through the altar’s tiers as the major clans chose prizes and prepared to cast their flowers.
• Zhao Sheng spotted his Five Thunder Axe on the fifth tier and suspected Qi Tian Ancestor had arranged the convention to help treasures grow.
• Cultivators cast red flowers onto the treasures, accelerating their growth, and the Nine Aperture Treasure Pearl broke through to the sixth tier.
• The Five Thunder Axe surged past the other treasures and rose to the sixth tier, while Zhao Sheng realized its sudden advancement would bring him trouble.

After the Treasure Appraisal Convention, Zhao Sheng declined an invitation to the grand auction and met with Deng Wenqiu, Yao Yue, and Yuan Feng, who sought his help and favor. He continued exchanging cultivation insights with Deng Wenqiu while preparing to leave, and received six Sumeru Rings containing the materials he needed.

• Qi Tian Ancestor ended the Treasure Appraisal Convention, praised the two promising seedlings he had found, and departed as the grand auction began.
• Bitter Fig Ancestor reported that Zhao Sheng had refused an auction invitation, prompting Deng Wenqiu to visit him with Yuan Feng and Yao Yue.
• Yao Yue asked Zhao Sheng to refine a Peach Cloud Robe, while Yuan Feng offered him a gift and Deng Wenqiu exchanged insights with him about the Way of Five Elements.
• Deng Wenqiu gained new understanding from Zhao Sheng's cultivation insights, while Bitter Fig Ancestor kept visitors away from Heaven No. 3 Cave Dwelling during the month-long auction.
• After the auction ended, Zhao Sheng reaffirmed his desire to leave, and Bitter Fig Ancestor delivered six Sumeru Rings of materials gathered by Deng Wenqiu.

Zhao Sheng received and swiftly dismantled layers of an intricate golden pill, then sent away Bitter Fig Ancestor and knocked nearby cultivators unconscious. On Silent Immortal Island, he continued trading with Immortal Ruins Travelers as Senior Nameless, rewarding useful salvage and punishing a stranger who tried to haggle.

• Bitter Fig Ancestor delivered Zhao Sheng a mysterious golden pill from the Proprietor and urged him to unravel it for a possible opportunity.
• Zhao Sheng used several artifact-refining methods to strip away the pill’s outer layers, revealing a smaller silver-white object.
• Zhao Sheng abruptly ended the meeting, hid the pill, and escorted Bitter Fig Ancestor out; afterward, he swept his divine sense across the area and knocked nearby cultivators unconscious.
• On Silent Immortal Island, Immortal Ruins Travelers queued to trade salvaged goods with Zhao Sheng, who exchanged useful items for Dongtian Jade or medicinal pills.
• A Black Robe Stranger tried to argue over the value of his haul, so Zhao Sheng flung him out and buried him under his junk before calling for the next traveler.

Zhao Sheng completed a new Spirit Treasure and accepted Qi Tian Ancestor’s broken Green Phoenix Bell for repair, then grew wary of the forces behind the ancient treasures and left Nine Profound City. At Sky Rift Valley, he reunited with Chen Polu and learned that Jun Beiming had vanished after the Green Peng Demon Kingdom fell.

• Zhao Sheng fed treasures into the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors and continued refining Spirit Treasures for influential cultivators in Nine Profound City.
• Zhao Sheng completed a fire-law Spirit Restriction, prompting Qi Tian Ancestor to appear and entrust him with the damaged Green Phoenix Bell and an eight-trigram compass.
• Zhao Sheng examined the bell’s nine collapsing Spirit Restrictions, suspected Qi Tian Ancestor belonged to a hidden alliance of awakened treasures, and decided to leave Nine Profound City.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Sky Rift Valley and surprised Chen Polu, who told him the Zhao Clan had grown rapidly and Zhao Zhuang Gong had fallen in battle.
• Chen Polu told Zhao Sheng that Zhao Zhongnan had become a Nascent Soul Cultivator and that Jun Beiming disappeared after the human army captured Sky-Scraping Cliff and destroyed the Green Peng Demon Kingdom.

Zhao Sheng gained the two ancestors’ authority to lead the clan’s Immortal Ruins Travelers and received a cryptic warning from Zhao Hongyun. At his first meeting with the travelers, Zhao Dashan gave him the Gold Saber Talisman, angering Zhao Chonghe, who vowed revenge.

• Zhao Sheng explained his innate ability to follow an Immortal Ruins Traveler back to the Supreme Clarity Spirit Realm, and Zhao Hongyun and Zhao Dashan gave him clan tokens and command authority.
• Zhao Hongyun vanished as a lightning tribulation approached, but first warned Zhao Sheng of a strange calamity linked to the Burial Immortal Ruins and left him a cryptic verse.
• Zhao Dashan brought Zhao Sheng to meet the clan’s Immortal Ruins Travelers, where Zhao Jincheng discussed the Supreme Clarity Spirit Realm and its possible connection to an Ancient Immortal’s wishes.
• Zhao Dashan seated Zhao Sheng beside him and announced that Zhao Sheng held the Gold Saber Talisman, prompting Zhao Chonghe to object before backing down under his great-grandfather’s rebuke.
• Zhao Sheng introduced himself to the travelers, revealed that he was an Immortal Ruins Traveler, and began building ties with Zhao Quanhua and the others.
• Zhao Chonghe returned to his cave residence in a fury and vowed to repay the humiliation tenfold.

Zhao Sheng repaired the Green Phoenix Bell, used the Broken Brush to reveal descendants from two of his past lives, and recovered before investigating the force that kept Divine Continent afloat. He traced an abnormal fluctuation to the Despair Sea Region and appeared above it.

• Zhao Chonghe changed his name to Zhao Chongxu and ordered Little Seventeen to make another person with that name change it.
• Zhao Sheng reasoned that revealing himself as Zhao Xi reincarnated could expose the Zhao Clan and the Life and Death Broken Brush to Myriad Forms Old Ghost.
• Zhao Sheng spent months repairing the Green Phoenix Bell until more than half its cracks healed and its true spirit rejoiced.
• Zhao Sheng wrote the character Zhao on the Hundred Lifetimes Book and discovered ninety-three descendants from his First Life, then only nine descendants from his Second Life, none of them surnamed Zhao.
• Zhao Sheng recovered his strength by absorbing spiritual energy from Dragon Transformation Island, then sensed the force repelling Divine Continent from heaven and earth and identified an abnormal fluctuation.
• Zhao Sheng teleported to the Despair Sea Region at the center of Divine Continent.

Zhao Sheng discovered that Zhao Xuanjing was secretly teaching the Universal Frequency Law through his stone carving on Stone Mountain, allowing Zhao Sheng to advance his cultivation and revise his understanding of opening a Dongtian. He later learned from Zhao Changying that the ancestor had passed the Heavenly Fire Tribulation and was preparing to face the Bi Wind Tribulation.

• Zhao Sheng found Old Stonemason carving stone on Rocky Mountain and realized he was Zhao Xuanjing, who guarded a trapped Gravity Source beneath the island.
• Zhao Sheng watched Zhao Xuanjing carve through the night and, after returning the next day, entered a state of insight that raised his Willpower Light and advanced his cultivation to the second level of Return to Void.
• Zhao Sheng perceived the fluctuation frequencies of all things, shattered a boulder by striking a weak point in its frequency, and recognized flaws in the laws governing his Five Thunder Dongtian.
• Zhao Xuanjing returned to Stone Mountain, saw the shattered boulder, and silently approved of Zhao Sheng's comprehension.
• Zhao Sheng brought wine to the Ancestral Hall and persuaded Zhao Changying to reveal that the ancestor had passed the Heavenly Fire Tribulation and planned to attempt the Bi Wind Tribulation.
• Zhao Changying warned Zhao Sheng to keep the ancestor's tribulation progress secret, and the two drank until they fell asleep in the hall.

Zhao Sheng traced the Divine Continent’s hidden super formation, then learned that Zhao Jinhua had found an Immortal Ruins Traveler and confirmed Golden Swan Great Saint’s final wish. He traded with the Black Robe Stranger for a True Immortal Finger Bone and began refining it after returning to the Dragon Transformation Blessed Land.

• Zhao Sheng spent more than ten years mapping the Divine Continent’s spirit veins and pieced together a vast formation centered on the Gravity Source beneath Nameless Stone Mountain.
• Zhao Sheng received Zhao Jincheng’s message that Zhao Jinhua had found a suitable candidate in Wuchang City, and Zhao Dashan told him to wait while the matter was confirmed.
• Zhao Dashan later confirmed that Zhao Jinhua had found an Immortal Ruins Traveler from the Supreme Clarity Spirit Realm and gave Zhao Sheng the Golden Plate recording Golden Swan Great Saint’s final wish.
• Zhao Sheng visited Inverted Mountain, met Stone Spirit and a bandaged young man, and asked Stone Spirit to contact the Black Robe Stranger for another transaction.
• The Black Robe Stranger gave Zhao Sheng a True Immortal Finger Bone, and Zhao Sheng sealed it in a cloth bag with a paper talisman before returning to the lower realm.
• Zhao Sheng used Willpower Light to burn the sealed bone, and strange black mist began rising from the cloth bag.

Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Dashan the Wind-Calming Pearl refinement method and traveled with Zhao Jinhua to Wuchang City to meet Tong Xin, who claimed he could return Zhao Sheng to the Supreme Clarity Spirit Realm. After Zhao Sheng followed Tong Xin into the realm, the Heavenly Demon Sect ambushed him, but he broke their formation and killed dozens of elders.

• Zhao Sheng gave Zhao Dashan a jade slip containing the Wind-Calming Pearl refinement method and a sealed bag holding a True Immortal Finger Bone.
• Zhao Dashan ordered Zhao Jinhua to protect Zhao Sheng as they traveled to Wuchang City, where they hid from the Wuchang Ghosts overnight.
• Zhao Jinhua brought Zhao Sheng to meet Tong Xin at the Hidden Court, and Tong Xin accepted their payment before returning to the Supreme Clarity Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Sheng followed Tong Xin into a valley where Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators had prepared a lightning formation and barriers to capture him.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a giant, shattered the formation and barriers, and crushed dozens of Heavenly Demon Sect elders in his hand.

Zhao Sheng subdued Tong Xin and the Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators, learned that the Supreme Clarity Spirit Realm had no known record of the Innate Divine Continent, and cursed them into serving him. He then infiltrated Carefree City, won a place in the Supreme Clarity Sect’s outer disciple selection, and arrived at Liezi Hall with the other reserve disciples.

• Zhao Sheng destroyed the Heavenly Demon Sect’s formation, captured Tong Xin and the surviving cultivators, and interrogated them about the realm and the Innate Divine Continent.
• Zhao Sheng cursed Tong Xin and the others with the Five Manifestation Heavenly Demon Great Curse, forcing them to serve him.
• Zhao Sheng searched the Heavenly Demon Sect’s scripture repository and found no information about the Innate Divine Continent, then sent Tong Xin to deliver collected scriptures to Zhao Jinhua.
• Zhao Sheng disguised himself and traveled to Carefree City to infiltrate the Supreme Clarity Sect through its outer disciple selection.
• Zhao Sheng defeated tens of thousands of opponents and secured a position among the reserve disciples.
• Supreme Clarity Sect envoys brought their selected reserve disciples to Liezi Hall, where Zhao Sheng joined them.

Zhao Sheng battered the Chun Jun Pot from outside the Supreme Induction Sect’s Dongtian, threatening to destroy the sect’s mountain gate despite the treasure’s defenses. Inside, the Chun Jun Child negotiated to stop the attack by promising to return Ancestor Qiong Tian’s legacy treasures, and demanded that True Lord Fengyi hand over the Sumeru Ring.

• True Lord Fengyi urged the Chun Jun Child to repel the enemy outside, while Zhao Sheng’s attacks shook the Dongtian and devastated the dead star surrounding it.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into the Sun Moon Divine Ape and hammered the Chun Jun Pot deeper into the dead star, causing its core to melt and cracks to appear in the Dongtian walls.
• The Chun Jun Child ordered the Nascent Soul cultivators to return to their posts, then released Zhao Sheng’s imprisoned divine clone and offered to stop the fighting by returning Ancestor Qiong Tian’s treasures.
• Zhao Sheng named the Sun Chasing Bow, the Sumeru Ring, and the Nine Underworlds Pagoda as the treasures he wanted, and dissolved the thunder restraints around Daoist Qing Qiu and the others.
• Daoist Qing Qiu and the others left to retrieve the Sun Chasing Bow, while the Chun Jun Child demanded that True Lord Fengyi surrender the Sumeru Ring.

Zhao Sheng advanced his thunder cultivation and physique, then visited the Lightning Avoidance Tower before receiving an estate from Chen DaCheng. He told his father he would focus on Cloud Firmament Thunder Power, but privately planned to cultivate three layers of Firmament thunder and prioritize Zi Firmament Lightning Power.

• Zhao Sheng spent three days cultivating with his Lightning-Attracting Bottle, reaching Foundation Establishment Tier 2 and refining his Tier 1 Thunder Battle Body to Great Completion.
• After resting with his wives, Zhao Sheng flew to the Lightning Avoidance Tower during a thunderstorm and cultivated under Chen DaXiang's guard.
• A sudden surge of lightning scorched Zhao Sheng, but he recovered quickly, leaving Chen DaXiang shocked by his resilience.
• Chen DaCheng granted Zhao Sheng an estate with fields, mines, and a large fief, and offered Chen Fu to manage its properties.
• Zhao Sheng told Chen DaCheng he would cultivate Cloud Firmament Thunder Power, while privately intending to cultivate Cloud, Divine, and Zi Firmament thunder and focus on Zi Firmament Lightning Power.

Zhao Sheng traveled aboard Hu Jiutong’s desert ship as a black sandstorm and a massive scorpion tide approached, while sand pirates prepared to attack the fleet. The ships rose above the beasts and raced north, but Zhao Sheng had already spotted the pirates hidden in the storm.

• Zhao Tai Zhong awoke after Zhao Yuedu used an ice pill to clear the fire poison from his body, then warned that the Bei Ming Clan might target the Zhao Clan.
• Three days later, Zhao Sheng watched the approaching black sandstorm from Hu Jiutong’s ship and considered Sha Sheng’s poisonous constitution.
• Hu Jiutong warned Zhao Sheng that sand pirates attacked during storms and invited Sha Sheng to a feast, which Sha Sheng eagerly accepted.
• Jin Tian Hou visited Hu Jiutong, handed him a Storage Bag, and returned to the fleet’s lead ship.
• A huge beast tide, led by tens of thousands of Giant Pincer Black Death Scorpions, approached as sand pirate warships emerged within the storm.
• Hu Jiutong ordered the passengers below and the crew to raise the Wind Control Banners; the fleet ascended above the scorpions and raced north while Zhao Sheng watched the pirates.

Zhao Sheng refused to take sides in the Zhao Clan’s internal feud, but gave Zhao Dingshan spiritual stones and instructions to prepare promising cultivators for ascension. He then teleported to the Heaven Burial Plain and witnessed the Ghost God Sect performing a ten-thousand-person blood sacrifice.

• Zhao Dingshan told Zhao Sheng that Zhao Clan relics had been stolen and given to outside sects, with most now in the Spring Birth World.
• Zhao Sheng rejected Zhao Dingshan’s appeal to avenge the clan and asked for intelligence about the Nine Underworlds Pagoda and the Ghost God Sect.
• Zhao Dingshan gave Zhao Sheng jade slips detailing the Spring Birth World, and Zhao Sheng rewarded him with spiritual stones and ordered the clan to cultivate new Spirit Transformation True Lords for ascension.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Dingshan he would stay at the Ascension Platform for a time to answer cultivation questions, then vanished by spatial teleportation.
• Zhao Sheng arrived above the Heaven Burial Plain’s central basin and witnessed the Ghost God Sect conducting a ten-thousand-person blood sacrifice.

Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue were caught between Xue SuSu and Po Taotie Demon Emperor as Xue SuSu emerged with the Great Lord’s remains and fought the Demon Emperor. She used the two men as decoys to make him expose his main body, then struck it with the Zhu Mo Sword before escaping, leaving Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue trapped in the Taotie Demon Sky.

• Zhao Sheng annihilated Jiu Luo Demon Old One’s hidden sub-bodies and summoned a vast storm of lightning over the Fallen Immortal Sea while waiting for Xue SuSu.
• The mottled light sphere vanished, revealing Xue SuSu, a towering luminous figure, and the black-marked half-corpse as an azure light entered the corpse’s skull.
• Po Taotie Demon Emperor arrived and attacked, but Xue SuSu blocked its strike with the nine-colored divine flames.
• Xue SuSu sent azure lights into Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue and urged them to flee as she fought the Demon Emperor with the power of the Great Lord’s corpse.
• Po Taotie Demon Emperor opened the Taotie Demon Sky and swallowed Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue, while Xue SuSu struck its exposed main body with the Zhu Mo Sword and escaped.
• Po Taotie Demon Emperor recovered and turned its attention to Zhao Sheng and Wu Yue, who were trapped inside its domain.

Zhao Sheng and the others fought ancient puppets while Dijiang located a hidden grotto-heaven, only to discover it was a mausoleum protected by powerful grave guardians. The group fled after Teng Snake was dragged underground, and Zhao Sheng suspected Dijiang had concealed a secret as the mausoleum entrance remained above the ruins.

• Dijiang summoned a chaotic divine beast to locate the hidden grotto-heaven, while Zhao Sheng and the others formed a barrier against surrounding battle puppets.
• A yellow cloud appeared as Dijiang found the grotto-heaven, but blood-red markings surfaced on the platform and he revealed it was the mausoleum of a pre-ancient mighty figure.
• Gray-skinned grave guardians emerged and attacked the group, absorbing most spiritual-sense attacks through their stone shells.
• Teng Snake was overwhelmed and dragged underground, so Dijiang ordered the others to flee; he escaped with Huo Dou, while Wu Zhiqi sacrificed his limbs to get away.
• Zhao Sheng escaped to a ruined palace, saw the mausoleum entrance still hovering above the platform, and suspected Dijiang had held back and discovered a secret.

Thirty years later, Zhao Qingwen and Zhao Xiuxin sneaked to Dragon Transformation Lake to fish and were caught in the thunder tribulation of a thousand-year Red Carp. Zhao Sheng protected them as the carp became a Blood Flood Dragon, then subdued it and sent a jade talisman westward.

• Zhao Qingwen and Zhao Xiuxin secretly went to Dragon Transformation Lake, where Zhao Qingwen hooked a powerful creature.
• Dark clouds gathered, and the siblings fled when they realized a thunder tribulation was beginning over the lake.
• Zhao Sheng shielded Zhao Qingwen and Zhao Xiuxin from falling thunderfire and sent them away from the danger.
• The thousand-year Red Carp endured the tribulation and transformed into a nine-zhang-long Blood Flood Dragon.
• Zhao Sheng seized the Blood Flood Dragon, judged its bloodline impure, and sent a jade talisman westward before disappearing.

Zhao Tianyi received an urgent request from a powerful figure for as many ancient golden divine statues as possible and summoned the External Affairs Hall’s deputy hall masters to decide how to fulfill it. He ordered them to make the bounty grand enough to satisfy that person.

• Zhao Tianyi received a jade talisman that bypassed the External Affairs Hall’s defenses and summoned the deputy hall masters.
• Zhao Riyi and the other deputies read the talisman and learned that the request called for as many ancient golden divine statues as possible.
• The deputy hall masters debated issuing a Heaven Grade bounty and argued over its quantity and reward.
• Zhao Tianyi told them to carry out the request on a grand scale until the powerful figure was satisfied.