Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng gathered prisoners from the Ten Lands Zhao Clan’s Nether Prison into the Five Directions Mirrors, then sent his avatars onward while his true body adjusted the laws of the Five Elements Dongtian. One Zhao Sheng arrived in Divine Sound Valley and began learning about the unfamiliar place from Zhangsun Nineteen.

• Zhao Sheng entered the Cold Ice Prison and offered its prisoners a chance to leave the Grand Yi Spirit Realm; just over three thousand chose to go, and he drew them into the Five Directions Mirrors.
• Zhao Sheng collected the prisoners from the Ghost Tree Prison, Soundless Prison, Eight Sufferings Prison, Spirit-Severing Domain, and Vowed Wish Domain, while finding the Sinful Demon Domain and Karmic Fire Domain empty and avoiding the Chaos Domain.
• Zhao Sheng’s true body met his two avatars above the sea of clouds, gave them instructions, and sent them away with the Central Thick Earth Mirror and Eastern Kongsang Mirror.
• Zhao Sheng arrived in a silent valley of stone buildings and discovered seven living beings gathered inside one of them.
• Zhao Sheng introduced himself to Zhangsun Nineteen, who identified the place as Divine Sound Valley and warned him not to trust a humanoid lizard selling treasures.

Zhao Sheng traded a Top-Grade Spirit Stone for Zhangsun Nineteen’s pill, then followed him to the Lichen Realm and surveyed its weak cultivation world. After finding no promising place to begin, Zhao Sheng summoned three Golden Core cultivators from the Thick Earth Mirror and confronted them with his divine sense.

• Zhangsun Nineteen told Zhao Sheng about Divine Sound Valley’s cleansing divine sound and tried to sell him a Dragon-Tiger Pride Sun Pill.
• Zhao Sheng gave Zhangsun Nineteen a Top-Grade Spirit Stone for the pill, and Zhangsun Nineteen hurriedly returned to the lower realm.
• Zhangsun Nineteen revealed himself as Zhangsun Wuji, a Nascent Soul Ancestor of the Mysterious Star Sect, while Zhao Sheng appeared above the sect’s mountain gate.
• Zhao Sheng surveyed the Lichen Realm and found it had only thirty-six Nascent Soul cultivators and no Spirit Transformation True Lord.
• Zhao Sheng traveled to a spiritual island and released three Golden Core cultivators from the Thick Earth Mirror, then overwhelmed them with his divine sense.

After infiltrating the Red Sea World, Zhao Sheng traveled to Duckweed Continent and questioned Lu Haichao about the Sea God. He learned that the coming apocalyptic calamity involved the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles and a mature Sea God, and became interested in investigating them before the calamity arrived.

• Over eight hundred ruin-days, Zhao Sheng explored Immortal Ruins markets and followed Guhai Pearl from Tide Forest into the Red Sea World.
• Zhao Sheng traveled aboard a Hump Mountain Turtle with Guhai Pearl’s envoy group, observed the crimson great sun, and gained a little more comprehension of the Great Dao of fire.
• Near Duckweed Continent, Zhao Sheng secretly branded Gulhai Mingzhu and left the group for High Cliff City.
• Zhao Sheng entered Lu Haichao’s Daoist field and asked about the Sea God; when Lu Haichao stalled and asked whether Zhao Sheng came from the upper realm, Zhao Sheng took control of his Primordial Spirit.
• From Lu Haichao’s memories, Zhao Sheng learned that the Sea God was a collective mind of algae and that Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles caused the ten-thousand-year calamity by laying eggs and consuming seaweed.
• Zhao Sheng learned that the coming calamity offered opportunities for cultivators and resolved to investigate the Sea God, the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles, and the Starry Sky Human Race.

Zhao Sheng opened Heavenly Intent Workshop, a hidden shop that only people with fate could enter, and let its first customer, Li Qingping, choose a treasure for free. The shop later drew Gu Hong, while Zhao Sheng continued using its visitors to investigate the world's Heavenly Dao.

• After leaving Lu Haichao bewildered by his sudden appearance and disappearance, Zhao Sheng bought Chongyang Hall from Cen Baixiang and renamed it Heavenly Intent Workshop.
• Zhao Sheng had Muzha staff the shop with four former sinners, stocked it with treasures collected across the heavens, and instructed them to serve only customers with fate.
• After weeks without customers, Li Qingping entered the shop while seeking shelter from the rain, and Zhao Sheng recognized him as favored by the world's Heavenly Dao.
• Li Qingping chose a Great Venerable Jade Bone over more powerful-looking treasures, and Zhao Sheng gave it to him with instructions for refining it and placed a spiritual brand in his body.
• Over the next three years, only one other customer entered: Gu Hong, the Zhou Tian Sect's supreme sect master, who repeatedly exchanged trinkets for valuable treasures and angered Muzha.

Gu Hong failed to gain an audience with the Master of Heavenly Will Pavilion, while Spirit Transformation cultivators debated the coming calamity and the Pavilion’s mysterious master. Far away on the sun, Zhao Sheng examined treasures Muzha had collected and recognized a carapace bearing patterns like Great Dao True Scripts.

• Gu Hong tried to persuade Zhao Zhongzhen to approach Shopkeeper Mu, then asked Muzha to arrange an audience with the Master of Heavenly Will Pavilion, but Muzha refused and sent her away.
• Gu Hong returned to a Super Sky Fortress, where Spirit Transformation True Lords questioned her about Heavenly Will Pavilion and Lu Haichao recounted his strange encounter with its master.
• Gu Hong and the others concluded that the Pavilion’s master might be an otherworldly half-immortal, unaware that Zhao Sheng had already left the Red Sea World.
• At the sun, Muzha brought Zhao Sheng treasures gathered from the fire sea, including a black carapace covered in intricate patterns.
• Zhao Sheng compared the carapace’s patterns with Great Dao True Scripts, identified similarities to seven scripts, and realized who its former owner might have been.

After nine years of seclusion, Zhao Sheng discovered a swarm of Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles entering the star system and investigated the hostile civilizations hidden inside their meteorite shells. Meanwhile, the Red Sea World suffered catastrophic floods and storms, and the turtles’ arrival at the great sun triggered the Black Obsidian Sun Halo and the apocalypse.

• Zhao Sheng sensed abnormal gravitational waves, watched a vast meteorite swarm emerge from a space crack, and followed it as it traveled toward the star system’s center.
• Lu Haichao and Gu Hong prepared for the coming calamity, organizing evacuations and discussing plans to save people as the Spirit Race began preparing to awaken the Sea God.
• Zhao Sheng learned the meteorites concealed Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles and explored their underground cavern worlds, finding brutal societies dominated by demonic cultivators, including Void Return Realm cultivators.
• The astronomical tide devastated the Red Sea World with storms and rising seas, killing billions and swallowing at least half its islands before the Sea God or the turtles had arrived.
• The Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles reached the great sun and settled into its sea of fire, causing black sunspots to appear and the Black Obsidian Sun Halo calamity to begin.

Zhao Sheng watched the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles recover, mate, and lay eggs in the Red Sea World, devastating its human population and ecosystems. The Sea God awakened and briefly calmed the catastrophe, but the Dragon Turtle Commander shattered the Sea God’s power, and the female turtles left the world to await their hatchlings.

• Muzha failed to return to the Great Sun Fire Sea, and Zhao Sheng explained that even he could not defeat the largest Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles.
• Over ten years, the Dragon Turtles consumed the sun’s energy, recovered their vital energy, and began their spiritual mating season.
• More than sixty Dragon Turtles descended into the Red Sea World, destroying Floating Fortresses and treasure ships and killing most of the human population.
• The female Dragon Turtles dug into the seabed and laid eggs in undersea magma lakes while Zhao Sheng watched from nearby.
• After the female turtles fed on the world’s algae, the Sea Spirit race awakened the Sea God, who restored the atmosphere and calmed the seas.
• The Dragon Turtle Commander shattered the Sea God’s divine sense, and the female turtles flew beyond the atmosphere to await their hatchlings.

Zhao Sheng watched the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle grow inside its enormous egg as spiritual-energy vortices drained the Red Sea World and rival forces gathered to seize the hatchling. After more than a hundred years, the egg began to crack, and red light shone through its shell.

• Zhao Sheng comprehended the Dragon Turtle’s Water-Fire Dao Body and learned a method for transforming a fetus while the egg drew vitality from the surrounding life.
• Zhao Sheng sensed the Sea God watching the egg and him, but the Sea God did not contact him.
• Ximen Xianfang told Ximen Ni that the Ximen Clan planned to kill the Dragon Turtle after it hatched and seize its bloodline, while Zhao Sheng detected other factions gathering nearby.
• A hundred years later, the spiritual-energy vortex collapsed, and cracks spread across the Dragon Turtle’s egg as red light burst from within.

Zhao Sheng watched the sixty-three young dragon turtles hatch, survive a slaughter, and face their mothers’ test of flight, while two were left behind. After a thunder strike nearly split one of the failed turtles in half, Zhao Sheng rescued it and summoned Muzha as the Sea God’s influence transformed the surrounding sea.

• The first little dragon turtle hatched, devoured its shell, and grew rapidly as the Sea God drew spiritual energy and food toward it.
• Sixty-three little dragon turtles survived a brutal encirclement by sea beasts, and a heavenly moo scattered two Spirit Transformation-level demon emperors.
• The young dragon turtles flew toward their mothers beyond the atmosphere, but two failed to pass through the lightning tribulation and were left behind.
• An Azure Firmament Divine Thunder struck one of the stranded young turtles, nearly splitting it in half, and Zhao Sheng arrived to pull it from the sea.
• The dying turtle’s blood transformed nearby sea life and raised the local spiritual energy, while Zhao Sheng’s bronze mirror shattered and Muzha rushed to answer his summons.

Zhao Sheng negotiated with the Sea God to save and claim the Dragon Turtles in exchange for spreading Spirit Algae and swearing a Dao-heart oath. After he planted the algae in three spiritual realms, he returned to the Red Sea World to receive the first portion of the Sea God's memories.

• Zhao Sheng subdued the Azure Firmament Thunder Dragon and bargained with the Sea God, promising to spread Spirit Algae in exchange for the Dragon Turtles and the Sea God's memories.
• Zhao Sheng swore a Dao-heart oath, surrendered a wisp of his divine soul, and received the Sea God's guidance before the Sea God and thunder vanished.
• Zhao Sheng had Muzha rescue the dying Baili Dragon Turtle and gather sea creatures, then found another little Dragon Turtle and placed it in Kongsang Grotto-Heaven.
• Zhao Hualin led Zhao Yueru and the other prisoners to Sang Sea, where they cared for the two injured Dragon Turtles as the grotto-heaven's sea life fed them.
• Zhao Sheng collected Spirit Algae and sowed it across the Xuandou, Taiyi, and Pixie spiritual realms, then returned to the Red Sea World to receive the first transmission of the Sea God's memories.

Zhao Sheng attended the Heart-Guarding Hall gathering with Jiang Qianyuan and traded valuable treasures and cultivation materials with powerful Immortal Ruins Travelers. He left with an incomplete Immortal Scripture, an artifact-refining method, and more than two thousand eight hundred Great Dao Golden Beads.

• Jiang Qianyuan brought Zhao Sheng to Heart-Guarding Hall and introduced him to the gathered Immortal Ruins Travelers.
• Zhao Sheng offered Dongtian Marrow Jade, Law Crystals, cultivation methods, magic treasures, True Immortal Remains, and an incomplete immortal art for exchange.
• Great Venerable Yuzhang traded an incomplete Immortal Scripture and the refining method for the Nine Suns Divine Fire Stake for Zhao Sheng's True Immortal Remains and Eight-Nine Mystic Art.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to bring Dongtian Marrow Jade and earth-attribute Law Crystals to a future gathering in exchange for an Ancient Immortal qi-refining method.
• After the lower-level travelers departed, Zhao Sheng exchanged Great Dao Golden Beads with the remaining powerful cultivators and obtained more than two thousand eight hundred beads.

Zhao Sheng continued expanding and refining Five Elements Dongtian while his avatar returned from the myriad heavens with treasures and memories of the Red Sea World. After clashing with Mori Jueye in the Hongsi Spirit World, Zhao Sheng returned to the dongtian and began discovering Great Dao True Scripts in the golden beads his avatars had collected.

• Zhao Tianyue and Zhao Xuanhe led their descendants to investigate the upheaval at Sunset Glow Peak, where the expanding terrain revealed treasures and ancient artifacts.
• Zhao Sheng's avatar returned with Muzha, scattered treasures across Five Elements Dongtian, released two Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles into the East Sea, and delivered a memory sphere containing the Red Sea World's million-year evolution.
• Zhao Sheng tracked Mori Jueye to the frozen north of the Hongsi Spirit World, but Mori Jueye attacked before Zhao Sheng could explain himself.
• Zhao Sheng used the Central Thick Earth Mirror to crush Mori Jueye beneath the weight of the land, then escaped back to Five Elements Dongtian.
• After digesting the Sea God's memories, Zhao Sheng examined the Great Dao Golden Beads and recognized Earth Dao and Karma Dao True Scripts within them.

Zhao Sheng strengthened the Five Elements Dongtian and advanced to the middle stage of the Body Integration Realm before traveling to Desolate Island. There, Zhao Xuanjing tasked him with delivering a casket containing Chaos Divine Blood to Mount Tai Immortal Venerable in the hidden Canghai Realm, and Zhao Sheng began climbing the immortal mountain.

• Zhao Sheng formed secret realms and Spiritual Lands throughout the Five Elements Dongtian by sending out Great Dao Golden Beads.
• Jin Zha, Shui Zha, and Huozha presented Zhao Sheng with treasures they had collected, while Muzha complained that they had escaped the hardships he and Tu Zha endured.
• Zhao Sheng absorbed Law Crystals and Dongtian Marrow Jade, expanding the Five Elements Dongtian and increasing his cultivation speed.
• Zhao Sheng reached the middle stage of the Body Integration Realm, then sent his two avatars, Jin Zha, and Huozha to lead millions of Zhao Clan members on a journey through the heavens.
• On Desolate Island, Zhao Xuanjing gave Zhao Sheng a sealed stone casket containing Chaos Divine Blood and asked him to deliver it to Mount Tai Immortal Venerable in the Canghai Realm.
• Zhao Sheng entered the hidden Canghai Realm and climbed the jade stairs toward its immortal mountain.

Zhao Sheng delivered the Chaos Divine Blood to Mount Tai Immortal Venerable, who asked him to search Gun Sea for Gun God Bone and promised him the Fire-Avoiding Immortal Art in return. After organizing the search through his avatars, Zhao Sheng returned to Silent Immortal Island and began excavating its ice to uncover what lay beneath.

• Zhao Sheng met Mount Tai Immortal Venerable, delivered the Chaos Divine Blood, and learned that the Immortal Venerable wanted him to find Gun God Bone in Gun Sea.
• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable showed Zhao Sheng an enormous Gun God Bone and promised to teach him the Fire-Avoiding Immortal Art if he found one.
• Zhao Sheng told Zhao Xuanjing about the offer, then ordered Tu Zha, Muzha, and Shui Zha to search for Gun God Bone while he remained in Five Elements Dongtian to cultivate and nurture an avatar.
• The First Avatar returned to Silent Immortal Island with Jin Zha and hired Immortal Ruins Travelers to dig through its ice.
• After the travelers struggled against the increasingly hard ice, Zhao Sheng stepped in to continue the excavation himself.

Zhao Sheng failed to dig through the rapidly reforming ice beneath Silent Immortal Island, then continued cultivating the Great Dao True Script and collecting Tribulation Lightning Crystals in Five Elements Dongtian. Zhao Zhuojun discovered a lake full of Azure Spirit Grass and Kanli True Water, found a mysterious golden bead, and began her fortuitous encounter.

• Zhao Sheng used the Central Thick Earth Mirror to excavate deeper beneath Silent Immortal Island, but the ice rapidly regrew and forced him to abandon the tunnel.
• Zhao Sheng created spells, cultivation arts, and divine abilities based on Great Dao True Scripts so living beings could help him comprehend their principles.
• Zhao Dianli passed his Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation with the protection of the Longevity Seal and the Endless Life Formation, while Zhao Sheng collected the resulting Tribulation Lightning Crystal.
• Zhao Zhuojun found thousand-year Azure Spirit Grass and Kanli True Water at the bottom of a lake, then discovered a golden bead in a deep spring and began harvesting the spirit grass.
• Zhao Sheng continued scattering Great Dao Golden Beads across the human continents while focusing on the Great Dao True Script and the laws of Five Elements Dongtian.

Zhao Yuyan and three other Spirit Transformation True Lords divided the remaining icebergs after the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles devoured most of them. On Silent Immortal Island, Zhao Sheng met the Fire Spirit Lu Qing, learned that the coming Sea Disaster would reveal the Gun God Bone, and formed an alliance with him to claim a fragment.

• The Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtles ate most of the icebergs, then submerged as four Spirit Transformation True Lords arrived to choose from what remained.
• Zhao Baizhen demanded a larger share, but Zhao Yuyan urged the group to follow their old rules and avoid fighting before other cultivators arrived.
• After waiting three Ruins Years, Zhao Sheng sensed someone break his Heart Light Imprint and went to meet the Fire Spirit Lu Qing.
• Zhao Sheng and Lu Qing discussed the Gun God Bone, and Lu Qing explained that it would become accessible when the Sea Disaster made it revive from its otherwise untouchable state.
• Zhao Sheng and Lu Qing swore a Great Dao vow to cooperate in seizing the Gun God Bone, while leaving its division undecided.

Zhao Sheng waited on Silent Immortal Island for the Gun God Remains to become solid, then narrowly escaped the freezing power that consumed his Mirror Clone as the Five Zhas killed Lu Qing and seized a bone fragment. He led the Five Zhas toward another contested fragment as a terrifying force rose from beneath the black water.

• Zhao Sheng sent his avatar and the Five Zhas to Silent Immortal Island to wait for the Sea Disaster and the Gun God Remains.
• After the Sea Disaster submerged the island, Zhao Sheng and Lu Qing watched the ice melt and the massive Gun God Bone emerge.
• Seventeen powerful wills gathered around the bone, and Zhao Sheng secretly prepared for a betrayal as its divinity neared revival.
• When the Gun God Bone turned solid, Zhao Sheng cut a bone pillar with the Cold Li Sword, but its freezing force swallowed his Mirror Clone.
• Lu Qing tried to claim the severed bone, but the Five Zhas struck him down and stored the fragment in Zhao Sheng's grotto-heaven.
• Zhao Sheng led the Five Zhas toward another fight over a bone fragment as a terrifying fluctuation rose beneath the black water.

Zhao Sheng used the Hundred Lifetimes Book to survey the Zhao Clan’s descendants across the heavens and learned that Zhao Sanyue had fallen during her tribulation, though she survived as the blade spirit Zhao Guangyin. After discovering that the Gun God Bones produced immense Cold Ice Source Qi and that Gun God might not be entirely dead, Zhao Sheng divided the bones between the East and West Seas and spent centuries managing their effects on his Five Elements Dongtian.

• Zhao Sheng read the Hundred Lifetimes Book’s rankings and saw that Zhao Sanyue was missing, then sent his First Avatar to notify Zhao Xuanjing and help save her.
• Zhao Sheng’s First Avatar returned with two Gun God Bones, which Zhao Sheng found were generating pure Cold Ice Source Qi.
• Zhao Sheng observed a vast, uncanny presence among the Law Threads and concluded that Gun God might not be completely dead, so he sent one bone to each of the East and West Seas.
• The Gun God Bones increased water-element spiritual energy and accelerated the Five Elements Dongtian’s expansion, forcing Zhao Sheng to use the Five Elements Transformation Array to preserve its balance.
• Over the following eight hundred years, Zhao Sheng learned that Zhao Sanyue had become the blade spirit Zhao Guangyin after merging her final wisp of soul with the Time-Light Blade.
• Zhao Sheng compiled the Zhao Clan’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Ranking Lists and reviewed the names on the Human Ranking List.

Zhao Sheng’s Human Ranking List appeared in the Zhao Clan’s Ancestral Land, setting the clan and outside powers searching for the newly ranked cultivators. After eight hundred years, Zhao Sheng delivered Gun God Bone to Mount Tai Immortal Venerable and received the Fire-Avoiding Immortal Art.

• Zhao Sheng sent the Human Ranking List Jade Tablet into the Divine Continent’s Ancestral Land, where Zhao clansmen gathered to read the names and spread the news.
• The Zhao Clan’s branches searched for Zhao Xiuyan, Zhao Lian, and the other ranked cultivators, while those they found received rewards and attention from their elders.
• Eight hundred years later, Zhao Yuyan and three fellow Spirit Transformation cultivators received the Ancestor’s decree to leave the Five Elements Dongtian and agreed to raid the sea abyss before their deadline.
• Zhao Sheng’s avatar obtained two more pieces of Gun God Bone during a Sea Disaster, and Zhao Sheng decided to give the smaller piece to Mount Tai Immortal Venerable.
• Zhao Sheng visited Mount Tai Immortal Venerable and handed over the requested item; the Immortal Venerable praised him and presented him with the Fire-Avoiding Immortal Art.

Zhao Sheng’s clone attended the Heart-Guarding Hall gathering with a vast collection of treasures, including a hundred-zhang Gun God Bone, hoping to trade for Five Elements Law Crystals and Dongtian Marrow Jade. Great Venerable Yuzhang opened a temporary auction for the bone, but another bidder outbid him as the chapter ended.

• Mount Tai Immortal Venerable offered Zhao Sheng one Star Lord quota for every matching piece of Gun God Bone he found, and Zhao Sheng agreed to keep searching.
• Zhao Sheng learned from his clone about the offer and wondered whether Mount Tai Immortal Venerable’s interest in Gun God Bone was connected to the Golden Immortal Fruit Status.
• Zhao Yuyan led more than a hundred Spirit Transformation True Lords out of the Five Elements Dongtian, beginning the rise of Zhao Clan’s eleventh main branch.
• Zhao Sheng sent his third clone to the Heart-Guarding Hall gathering with treasures to trade for Five Elements Law Crystals and Dongtian Marrow Jade.
• At the gathering, Zhao Sheng’s clone displayed a hundred-zhang Gun God Bone, drawing intense interest from the Immortal Ruins Travelers.
• Great Venerable Yuzhang proposed an auction and bid eighty thousand Earth Elemental Law Crystals, but another cultivator countered with one hundred thousand Dongtian Marrow Jade.