Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng’s bounty for golden divine statues stirred the Zhao clan’s Dao Children, while his insight into Primordial One Qi let him create a Law Crystal. As he remained on Dragon Transformation Island, Zhao Qingwen and his ancestor tried and failed to reach him.

• Zhao Tianyi ordered a Heaven-rank bounty offering merit for golden divine statues, and cultivators across the Ancestral Land began gathering them.
• Zhao Dingji learned that Zhao Sheng had issued the bounty and ordered Zhao Lie to investigate, while other Zhao Dao Children also began probing Zhao Sheng’s intentions.
• Zhao Sheng comprehended the Primordial One Qi Cave Truth Scripture, advanced his Dao understanding, and condensed a Law Crystal from a vast green flame.
• Zhao Qingwen and his Long-Bearded Old Ancestor arrived at Heavenly Wave Lake to visit Zhao Sheng, but repeated attempts to find Dragon Transformation Island failed under watchful eyes.

A hidden attack wiped out the agents monitoring the secluded cultivator at Heavenly Wave Lake, while Zhao Qingwen received a cultivation method after repeatedly kowtowing to the fog. Three years later, Zhao Tianyi visited Zhao Sheng on Dragon Transformation Island and entered meditation after drinking his tea.

• A white-haired old man and Si She argued over their failed attempt to lure a secluded cultivator out, then fought until a Five-Colored Giant Palm annihilated them and other agents nearby.
• The Long-Bearded Old Man told Zhao Qingwen to kneel and repay the cultivator who had saved his life, and Zhao Qingwen kowtowed toward Dragon Transformation Island.
• A voice from the fog gave Zhao Qingwen a Jade Slip containing a cultivation method and challenged him to reach Spirit Transformation with it.
• Zhao Qingwen took the Jade Slip, kowtowed nine more times, and left for Nine Glow Mountain with the Long-Bearded Old Man.
• Three years later, Zhao Tianyi visited Zhao Sheng on Dragon Transformation Island, drank his tea, and began meditating as the spiritual energy helped him perceive a ripple of law.

Zhao Sheng forged Incense Gold Coins, helped Zhao Tianyi advance toward Return to Void, and awakened the Grand Sun Mirror’s wisdom. A century later, he returned to the Supreme Clarity Sect with three candidates, but the disciple selection exposed his own extraordinary cultivation to the sect’s leaders.

• Zhao Tianyi delivered thousands of Golden Divine Statues, and Zhao Sheng smelted them into Incense Gold Coins while demonstrating the Dao of Fire.
• Zhao Sheng used the Life and Death Broken Brush to write “Wisdom” on the Grand Sun Mirror, awakening its spirit and triggering a brief tribulation-cloud phenomenon.
• Over the following decades, Zhao Tianyi repeatedly received Zhao Sheng’s guidance, resigned from the External Affairs Hall, and eventually transcended his Return to Void tribulation.
• Zhao Sheng reunited with his perfected Spirit Transformation clone, resumed his role as master of Spirit Jade Temple, and took Zhong Ji, Zhong Dao, and Zhong Yi to the Supreme Clarity Disciple Selection Assembly.
• At the assembly, Zhao Sheng secretly restrained his power as Grand Dao Spiritual Opportunities gathered around him and a Dao flower appeared above his head.
• The Supreme Clarity Sect’s sect master identified Zhao Sheng as an infiltrator and, after discussing the matter with Junior Brother Fa Xin, decided to let him proceed under the old rule.

Zhao Sheng entered the Supreme Clarity Sect as an inner disciple after surviving the spiritual-energy trial and swearing the sect’s oaths, then settled in Evening Glow Valley and practiced the Primordial One Qi Great Capture. He befriended neighboring disciple Shentu Jue by selling him seventeen mature Nine Yin Nine Yang Flowers, and Shentu left after sharing information about the inner sect.

• Zhao Sheng remained among the top cultivators in Spirit Stone Square until he was transported to the Founder’s Hall and sworn in as an inner disciple.
• Zhao Sheng received his inner-disciple items, chose Evening Glow Pavilion in Evening Glow Valley as his cultivation home, and practiced the Primordial One Qi Great Capture by absorbing Great Sun Purple Qi.
• Shentu Jue visited Zhao Sheng after sensing his divine ability, and Zhao Sheng confirmed that he had used the Primordial One Qi Great Capture.
• Shentu Jue explained that he needed Nine Yin Nine Yang Flowers to refine a Wuji Pill, and Zhao Sheng had Wood Spirit bring out the seventeen mature flowers in the valley.
• Zhao Sheng sold all seventeen flowers to Shentu Jue for 170 Pure Coins, and Shentu shared stories and information about influential inner disciples before leaving at dusk.

After ten years of cautious living, Zhao Sheng searched Book Sea Tower and uncovered evidence that the Innate Divine Continent sank during the Ancient Demon God Tribulation Era, possibly in a battle involving the Golden Sun Demon Saint. He left Supreme Clarity Sect using his talent, and the sect master witnessed his disappearance but suspected he was an Immortal Ruins Traveler.

• After ten years in Evening Glow Valley, Zhao Sheng visited Purple Cloud Mountain and paid the Book-Attending Boy to enter Primeval Tower.
• Zhao Sheng searched historical records and learned that the Innate Divine Continent had lain between Upper Huang Continent and Lower Huang Continent before it sank.
• Zhao Sheng found records linking the Golden Sun Demon Saint to Golden Wind Cave and inferred that his subjugation by the Dao Ancestor coincided with the end of the Ancient Demon God Tribulation Era.
• Zhao Sheng suspected that the battle surrounding the continent’s sinking had created the Baleful Yin Ocean, but wondered why the World Honored One had not saved the land and its inhabitants.
• Months later, Zhao Sheng departed Evening Glow Valley and used his Infinite Cosmic Sky Gate talent to disappear after flying away from the sect.
• The sect master searched for Zhao Sheng, confirmed the Two Poles Dust Void-Trapping Realm had not activated, and suspected Zhao Sheng was an Immortal Ruins Traveler.

After searching the Storm Sea for Golden Wind Cave, Zhao Sheng realized the Golden Swan Great Saint’s remnant soul was linked to the Nine Underworlds Pagoda. The pagoda led him to a hidden spirit realm, whose entrance he discovered in a stretch of sea he had already searched.

• Zhao Sheng used the locations of the surviving Blessed Lands to narrow down where Golden Wind Cave had once stood, then searched the Storm Sea for a month without finding its ruins.
• Zhao Sheng recalled that the Golden Swan Great Saint had hidden its Refreshing Soul Remnant in Golden Wind Cave and realized the Great Saint Hair in the Nine Underworlds Pagoda could help locate it.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the Divine Continent and asked Zhao Dashan to borrow the Nine Underworlds Pagoda from Zhao Sanyue.
• Zhao Dashan brought Zhao Sheng the pagoda seven months later, and Zhao Sheng immediately returned to the Storm Sea.
• The Nine Underworlds Pagoda guided Zhao Sheng to a stretch of sea where he discovered the entrance to a previously undetected spirit realm.

Zhao Sheng entered the First Dark Heaven, survived an assault by Human-Headed Golden Ants, and negotiated his way into the Spirit Realm with Hu Sanqian and his companions. He located the Great Saint’s remnant soul disguised as a mountain, but Hu Sanqian appeared before he could act further.

• Zhao Sheng crossed into the First Dark Heaven and endured attacks from swarms of Human-Headed Golden Ants, capturing them with the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors.
• Hu Sanqian and two white-robed elders confronted Zhao Sheng, and he suspected they were remnants of the Formless Demon Sect.
• Zhao Sheng threatened to leave unless allowed into the Spirit Realm, prompting Hu Sanqian to invite him through the gateway.
• Inside the Spirit Realm, Zhao Sheng followed the Nine Underworlds Pagoda’s guidance to a distant mountain and recognized it as the Great Saint’s remnant soul.
• Hu Sanqian suddenly appeared beside Zhao Sheng, who angrily rebuked him for interrupting his discovery.

Zhao Sheng attacked the Formless Demon Sect and broke Hu Sanqian’s Six Desires Heaven-Touching realm, then unleashed devastating attacks across the Spirit Realm. When Hu Sanqian and two other Void Returning demonic cultivators emerged to negotiate, Zhao Sheng refused and sealed their escape as the White Bone Heavenly Demon Umbrella summoned eight powerful projections.

• Hu Sanqian opened Six Desires Heaven-Touching, but Zhao Sheng destroyed his apparent body with Primordial One Qi Great Capture.
• Hu Sanqian reappeared atop a Giant Toad and attacked Zhao Sheng with the Soul-Parting Hook while the realm tried to devour him.
• Zhao Sheng transformed into a forty-nine-zhang Giant Spirit Battle Body and shattered the false realm, then destroyed another false Hu Sanqian.
• Zhao Sheng swept his divine sense across the Spirit Realm, killing thousands of Formless Demon Sect disciples and destroying its Demonic Beasts.
• Hu Sanqian and two Void Returning demonic cultivators emerged beneath the White Bone Eight-Treasure Umbrella and pleaded for mercy, but Zhao Sheng refused and sealed their escape.
• The two demonic cultivators fed their mana, Primordial Spirits, and Lifespans to the White Bone Heavenly Demon Umbrella, which summoned eight projections of the Formless Demon Sect’s strongest past members.

Zhao Sheng survived the bald ancestor’s attack and discovered that Feng Fengzi, long believed dead, still lived as a withered head beneath the earth. After Feng Fengzi formed a golden body and challenged him, Zhao Sheng unleashed Ten Directions Annihilation, but Feng Fengzi endured the attack and emerged healed, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Zhao Sheng killed seven of the eight figures, but a bald old man used a halo to swallow him and erase him from the Spirit Realm.
• Hu Sanqian and Cheng Dashi celebrated Zhao Sheng’s apparent death until Feng Fengzi rose from beneath the earth and devoured Chen.
• Zhao Sheng escaped into Silent Immortal Island, returned unharmed, and recognized Feng Fengzi, who demanded that he acknowledge him as master.
• Zhao Sheng attacked Feng Fengzi and broke the Spirit Realm’s barrier, but Feng Fengzi repaired it with black qi and formed a golden body.
• Feng Fengzi killed Hu Sanqian with one strike, and Zhao Sheng’s six giant spirits hit him with Ten Directions Annihilation.
• Feng Fengzi survived the destructive blow, healed his cracked golden body, and laughed as Zhao Sheng and his mirror clones retreated.

Zhao Sheng defeated Feng Fengzi, seized the Formless Demon Sect’s treasures, and discovered that the Golden Swan Great Saint had schemed to use the Nine Underworlds Pagoda to return. After entering the ancient world, Zhao Sheng met the Great Saint, who recognized him as the reincarnation of the Zhao Sheng he had met in the past.

• Feng Fengzi destroyed three of Zhao Sheng’s mirror-image avatars, but Zhao Sheng used the As-You-Will Size Combat Body and the Life and Death Broken Brush to fix Feng Fengzi in place.
• Zhao Sheng removed Feng Fengzi’s head, collected the four Western Golden Light Mirrors, sealed Feng Fengzi and the Green Phoenix Bell, and looted the Spirit Realm.
• Zhao Sheng used the Nine Underworlds Pagoda to absorb the mountain, then stopped the pagoda from escaping and discovered a Golden Swan Great Saint remnant inside.
• Zhao Sheng realized the remnant in the pagoda was distinct from the true Golden Swan Great Saint in Forgotten Heaven and touched the golden light, traveling to an ancient world.
• The Golden Swan Great Saint recognized Zhao Sheng as the same person he had met more than two hundred thousand years earlier, and Zhao Sheng admitted he was that person’s reincarnation.

Zhao Sheng returned the Refreshing Soul Remnant to the Golden Swan Great Saint, who discovered that Zhao Sheng possessed the Samsara Pen and revealed its immense danger and the hidden history of the Dao Ancestors. The Great Saint began passing on his knowledge and assigned Zhao Sheng the task of guiding the remnant’s rebirth as a monkey, leaving Zhao Sheng with powerful immortal arts and a perilous connection to Samsara.

• Zhao Sheng showed the Golden Swan Great Saint the Nine Underworlds Pagoda containing the Refreshing Soul Remnant, and the Great Saint recognized the Samsara Pen’s seal.
• Zhao Sheng summoned the broken brush, causing the Thought Realm to shake until the Golden Swan Great Saint stabilized it with the white light at the end of his braid.
• The Golden Swan Great Saint asked Zhao Sheng to help the purified soul be reborn in an unborn monkey and later teach it the Heaven Supporting One Qi Art and Size Altering Immortal Art.
• The Golden Swan Great Saint warned Zhao Sheng to conceal the Samsara Pen and recounted how Samsara Dao Ancestor and Cosmic Dao Ancestor were defeated after a cataclysmic battle with the other Dao Ancestors.
• The Golden Swan Great Saint explained that modern cultivation could not produce new Dao Ancestors, revealed Zhao Sheng’s chance to merge with Samsara, and began teaching him the Heaven Supporting One Qi Art.

Golden Swan Great Saint taught Zhao Sheng the Heaven Supporting One Qi Art and Unimpeded Heaven Roaming Art, then guided him in transforming his Great Five Elements Annihilation Domain into a Creation Domain. Zhao Sheng reached the ninth level of Void Returning at great perfection and demonstrated that his new domain could also destroy what it created.

• Golden Swan Great Saint passed the Heaven Supporting One Qi Art to Zhao Sheng, who sensed the Heaven Supporting Great Saint's incarnation of force.
• Golden Swan Great Saint demonstrated how to construct the Heaven and Earth Furnace, and Zhao Sheng ignited all ninety-nine nodes in his stomach.
• Golden Swan Great Saint passed Zhao Sheng the Unimpeded Heaven Roaming Art, and Zhao Sheng revealed that his talent let him see Gravitational Arc Light.
• Golden Swan Great Saint explained that five-element creation required thunder, and Zhao Sheng used the insight to form his Creation Domain and break through to the ninth level of Void Returning at great perfection.
• Zhao Sheng turned the Creation Domain's vitality into darkness, which consumed the flowers and grass and hollowed out the ground.

Golden Swan Great Saint sacrificed himself to purify his soul and leave Zhao Sheng a primordial metal-nature treasure for his reincarnation. After a century of cultivation, Zhao Sheng returned to the Divine Continent and visited Great Saint Ridge, where he began investigating the descendants of the Ten Divine Apes and focused on Yuan Chijiu.

• Golden Swan Great Saint shattered the Nine Underworlds Pagoda, captured the Refreshing Soul Remnant, and sacrificed himself to purify it and condense a primordial metal-nature pearl for his reincarnation as Yuan.
• Zhao Sheng awoke in the Formless Demon Sect secret realm with the purified soul and metal-nature pearl, hid them in the Western Golden Light Mirror, and meditated for nearly a hundred years.
• Zhao Sheng returned to Evening Glow Valley, entrusted his divided body Zhao Chonghe with cultivating the Heaven and Earth Furnace while keeping a low profile, and departed for the Divine Continent.
• Zhao Sheng visited Great Saint Ridge and asked Zhao Xuanye about the numbers, bloodlines, and reproduction of its Ten Divine Ape descendants.
• Zhao Xuanye described the rare descendants and identified Yuan Chijiu, a powerful Red Goblin Horse Monkey descendant who ruled nearly thirty percent of Great Saint Ridge; Zhao Sheng began forming a plan around him.

Zhao Sheng subdued Yuan Chijiu and arranged for Zhao Xuanye to help fulfill a task connected to the Golden Swan Great Saint. He then gave Zhao Dashan several immortal-art scrolls to study, before returning to Dragon Transformation Blessed Land to collect its Law Crystals.

• Zhao Sheng asked Zhao Xuanye how to make Yuan Chijiu mate, then insisted on meeting the Red Goblin Horse Monkey in person.
• At Cloud Peach Mountain, Yuan Chijiu attacked Zhao Sheng, who caught his punch, restrained him with law power, and planted two curses in his body.
• Zhao Dashan arrived and, after learning of the Golden Swan Great Saint's art and final wish, assigned Zhao Xuanye to handle Yuan Chijiu in exchange for access to the Scripture Pavilion's top three floors.
• Zhao Dashan took Zhao Sheng to Heavy Mountain Grotto-Heaven, where Zhao Sheng handed him the Heaven Supporting One Qi Art and several other immortal-art scrolls to examine.
• Two months later, Zhao Sheng returned to Dragon Transformation Blessed Land and gathered more than a thousand Law Crystals from the Dew Collecting Plates.

Zhao Sheng received the Five Elements Law Crystals and wonders from Zhao Tianyi and Zhao Chongjing, then used them to strengthen the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors. Ten years later, he brought the mirrors into Divine Palace Sky to undergo their transformation tribulation, where they faced vast Tribulation Clouds with a powerful display of Five Elements law.

• Zhao Tianyi and Zhao Chongjing arrived at Dragon Transformation Island, quarreled over who would meet Zhao Sheng first, and were summoned to see him together.
• Zhao Tianyi presented 2,832 incense-fire divine statues, while Zhao Chongjing delivered ten thousand Five Elements Law Crystals and three thousand Five Elements wonders.
• Zhao Sheng offered both hall masters cultivation guidance and directed them to seek specific arts in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Zhao Sheng buried portions of the Law Crystals and Five Elements wonders in the spiritual pivot nodes of the five mirror worlds, strengthening the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors over the next ten years.
• Zhao Sheng crossed into Divine Palace Sky and summoned the Five Directions Treasure Mirrors to undergo tribulation.
• The mirrors absorbed and tore apart the Tribulation Clouds, then formed five whirlpools and a colossal lotus whose Five Elements halos ground away the thunderbolts.

Zhao Sheng created the Five Spirit Children, named them, and used his Broken Brush to help them comprehend emotions that could lead them toward the Primal Yang realm. After rewarding Zhao Xuanye for reporting a pregnant Red Goblin Horse Monkey, Zhao Sheng waited at Yuanxu Market for the Heavenly Secret Star Lord, who finally arrived.

• Zhao Sheng's Five Spirit Children survived the tribulation, gained intelligence, and received the names Jin Zha, Muzha, Shui Zha, and the other two Zhas.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the Grand Yi Spirit Realm, while a heavenly sweet rain transformed the Long River World and greatly increased its spiritual energy and cultivation population.
• Zhao Xuanye reported that a female Red Goblin Horse Monkey had conceived a spirit embryo, and Zhao Sheng rewarded him with access to the Heavenly Demon Transformation Method.
• Zhao Sheng used his Broken Brush to write the character for sorrow on Jin Zha, prompting Jin Zha to weep and rush into the Jade Pool to comprehend the emotion.
• Zhao Sheng waited at Yuanxu Market for the Heavenly Secret Star Lord, and Qi Ye announced the Star Lord's arrival after a beam of starlight descended.

Zhao Sheng traded Ninety-Nine Types of Heavenly Fiend Clear Spirit Qi to Heavenly Secret Star Lord for a Fiend Star Order, then attended a Zhao clan gathering where the elders began voting on the next master of Eternal Night Grotto-Heaven. The vote remained unfinished as Zhao Hongyun studied the eighteen elders who had not yet cast their ballots.

• Zhao Sheng gave Heavenly Secret Star Lord a Jade Purification Bottle containing Ninety-Nine Types of Heavenly Fiend Clear Spirit Qi and received a Fiend Star Order.
• Zhao Sheng left immediately after obtaining the order, while the Immortal Ruins Travelers reacted with envy.
• Fifty years later, Zhao Sheng joined the Zhao clan elders at the Ancestral Hall and met with familiar clan members, including Zhao Changying and Zhao Xuanyu.
• Zhao Hongyun announced that Zhao Mingzhe was near death and that the elders would vote to choose the next master of Eternal Night Grotto-Heaven.
• After a half-hour campaign for votes, the clan elders began casting ballots, and Zhao Hongyun examined the eighteen who had not yet voted.

Zhao Tongxuan won the vote to inherit the Eternal Night Grotto-Heaven, while Zhao Hongyun privately invited Zhao Sheng and Zhao Luomo to consider taking over as Supreme Sect Protector. Zhao Luomo accepted after learning Zhao Sheng had brought the clan a fragment of the Supreme Yin Talisman Scripture, and Zhao Hongyun gave him the scroll after he swore an oath.

• Zhao Hongyun saw that Zhao Chonghe and Zhao Luomo had unusual, unreadable fates, then secretly spoke with Zhao Sheng and Zhao Luomo.
• Zhao Dashan counted the seventy-eight votes and announced Zhao Tongxuan as the winner of the Eternal Night Grotto-Heaven inheritance.
• Zhao Hongyun brought Zhao Sheng and Zhao Luomo to the Ancestral Altar and asked whether either would take over as Supreme Sect Protector.
• Zhao Luomo initially refused but changed his mind after Zhao Hongyun revealed that Zhao Sheng had brought the clan a fragment of the Supreme Yin Talisman Scripture.
• Zhao Sheng explained the scripture's teachings until Zhao Hongyun stopped him and asked Zhao Luomo to swear an oath before receiving it.
• Zhao Luomo swore the oath, read the incomplete scripture, and thanked Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng studied the Supreme Yin Talisman Scripture, received Zhao Hongyun’s Heavenly Fortune art, and avoided traveling to Guiyuan Ruins while his fortune was being drained. Seventy-eight years later, he witnessed a golden monkey’s miraculous birth at Great Saint Ridge and subdued it with a golden hoop.

• Zhao Sheng explained the Supreme Yin Talisman Scripture’s three realms and learned that the incomplete scripture could not lead directly to the Supreme Immortal Realm.
• Zhao Hongyun gave Zhao Sheng a Glazed Bead containing the Heavenly Fortune art and warned him that using it would bring prolonged misfortune while his fortune accumulated.
• Zhao Sheng decided to postpone his trip to Guiyuan Ruins and stayed away for seventy-eight years.
• At Great Saint Ridge, Yuan Chijiu waited outside his cave as Muzha barred him from entering, until a newborn’s cry unleashed a dazzling celestial phenomenon.
• A golden-furred monkey was born in Zhao Sheng’s cave, absorbed immense metal qi, formed a golden core, and displayed the Golden Light Ground-Traversal ability.
• Zhao Sheng caught the monkey, placed a restrictive golden hoop on its head, and used the Mirage Cloud Mirror to gather its mother.

Zhao Sheng took Great Saint Ridge into the Vast Earth Realm, raised Yuan Hong as his disciple, and later began opening a world to prove the Body Integration Dao. The chapter ended as his newly formed heaven and earth began to take shape amid the chaos.

• Zhao Sheng ordered Tu Zha to take the defeated little monkey as a disciple and pushed Yuan Chijiu thirty thousand li away before Tu Zha stored Great Saint Ridge in the Vast Earth Realm.
• Yuan Chijiu returned to find Great Saint Ridge gone and cursed Zhao Sheng, whose deed soon became known throughout Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.
• After decades of training Yuan Hong, Zhao Sheng taught him the Golden Light Myriad Armaments Art and the Eight-Nine Indestructible Golden Body.
• Yuan Hong tested his new art by summoning countless golden weapons and wielding a golden cudgel before Zhao Sheng began instructing him.
• Twenty years later, Zhao Sheng gathered the Five Zhas in a remote star system and entered the chaos to open heaven and earth with the Great Fortune Pearl.
• Zhao Sheng expanded the embryonic world, while earth, water, wind, and fire emerged and the first clouds, thunder, and barren land formed.