Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong overwhelmed Lie Xun with lightning and saber strikes as the battlefield descended into chaos. After Lie Xun’s Golden Bodies shattered, he dodged the final blow, but Song Zhong’s saber severed his shoulder and sent Lightning Power surging through him.

• Song Zhong clashed with Lie Xun, whose bone spear and deathly aura were overwhelmed by Song Zhong’s lightning.
• Hyena Clan cultivators and Wolf Bats joined the battle, turning the battlefield into chaos as spells and attacks struck around Song Zhong and Lie Xun.
• Song Zhong ignored the incoming attacks and pressed his assault on Lie Xun, who struggled to dodge the Wolf Bats and spells.
• Song Zhong’s saber shattered Lie Xun’s Golden Bodies one after another, including his ninth Golden Body.
• Lie Xun dodged Song Zhong’s final strike, but the saber severed his shoulder and sent Lightning Power raging through his body.

Xia Kening used her heavenly tribulation to kill the three Immortal Realm cultivators, then survived its final day and broke through to the Immortal Realm. Song Zhong took the map from the ruined palace and set off with Xia Kening toward the Human Race's Great Thousand World, while she insisted on accompanying him.

• Xia Kening drew the three Immortal Realm cultivators into the center of her Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, where the lightning reduced them to ash.
• Song Zhong entered the tribulation’s edge to temper himself with lightning, then retreated when Xia Kening faced the overwhelming final day.
• After the tribulation ended, Xia Kening retrieved a map from beneath the ruined palace’s throne, but Song Zhong took it and put it in his Universe Ring.
• Xia Kening revealed she had reached the Immortal Realm and grabbed Song Zhong when he tried to leave alone.
• Xia Kening carried Song Zhong into the air toward the Human Race's Great Thousand World, while Song Zhong asked why she had not collected the dead cultivators’ Universe Rings.

Lord You Shui received a sage's inheritance suited to her Saint Armor, while Lord of Cherished Flowers insisted on opening her own Mysterious Cloud despite Song Zhong's worries. The cloud shattered and a golden ray entered her body, leaving her inheritance unknown.

• Lord You Shui's Mysterious Cloud split apart and sent a golden ray into her mind, granting her a sage's inheritance suited to her Saint Armor.
• Song Zhong congratulated Lord You Shui, who said she believed Song Zhong would become a sage before her.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers declared that she wanted to open her own Mysterious Cloud so she could pursue her cultivation and help Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong considered her reasons, then agreed and moved away with Lord You Shui.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers opened the Mysterious Cloud, which shattered and sent a golden ray into her body.

Song Zhong accepted Feng Yu Quasi-Saint’s Void-Piercing Blade and token, which could take him to Universe Eighty-One, then left to hunt more Demonic Beasts. As he approached the Saint Realm battlefield, his actions helped plunge the Quasi-Saint battlefield into chaos.

• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint gave Song Zhong a one-use Void-Piercing Blade and a token marked for Universe Eighty-One, inviting him to visit her Great Thousand World.
• Song Zhong thanked Feng Yu Quasi-Saint, collected the Demonic Beast corpses, and flew off to continue hunting, confirming that he planned to enter the Sage Battlefield.
• Quasi-Saint Bai Zhi teased Feng Yu Quasi-Saint for not asking whether Song Zhong had a dao companion, and Feng Yu Quasi-Saint blushed before directing everyone to tend their injuries and resume hunting.
• As Song Zhong hunted Demonic Beasts, the Quasi-Saint battlefield grew chaotic, with some Quasi-Saints attacking Forget Dao Realm cultivators after struggling to find prey.
• Song Zhong’s main body and avatars reached the boundary between the Quasi-Saint Realm Demonic Creature Battlefield and the Saint Realm Demonic Creature Battlefield.

Song Zhong fought Silverlight Immortal Emperor and ten Supreme Realm cultivators who joined forces against him. Lord of Mad Sands urged the Supreme Realm cultivators to conserve their Immortal Qi and wait for Song Zhong to tire, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ten Supreme Realm cultivators emerged from hiding and surrounded Song Zhong as Silverlight Immortal Emperor agreed to join forces with them.
• Silverlight Immortal Emperor and the ten cultivators attacked Song Zhong, who used spatial arts to strike at them but could not finish off any one of them before the others intervened.
• Song Zhong and the Supreme Realm cultivators struggled to wear each other down as both sides recognized his speed and spatial movement made him difficult to contain.
• Lord of Mad Sands told the Supreme Realm cultivators to save their strength and let Silverlight Immortal Emperor and Song Zhong exhaust each other.

Feng Yu Quasi-Saint and Changyi Quasi-Saint found a small group of Demonic Beasts, but ten Beast Race cultivators led by the Half-Step Saint Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint arrived and attacked them. With Demonic Beasts still pressing them, the Human Race cultivators were caught between two assaults.

• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint and Changyi Quasi-Saint saw a battlefield crowded with cultivators and corpses, with few Demonic Beasts remaining.
• Changyi Quasi-Saint led five Human Race cultivators to a group of fewer than a hundred Demonic Beasts, and they began attacking.
• Ten Beast Race cultivators spotted the fight and surrounded the Human Race group, with Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint among them.
• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint told her companions to break away toward the northeast as Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint ordered his group to attack.
• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint used a Jade Pendant to deflect incoming flames, but her companions were struck by attacks while the Demonic Beasts launched another assault.

Strange Demon Quasi-Saint allied with a powerful cultivator from another Universe to attack Song Zhong, while Rain Peak Quasi-Saint declared his loyalty to Song Zhong. Rain Peak blocked the opening strike and launched a counterattack, leaving the battle underway.

• Strange Demon Quasi-Saint asked Rain Peak Quasi-Saint not to interfere in his dispute with Song Zhong, but Rain Peak denied knowing him and sided with Song Zhong.
• A cultivator from another Universe proposed joining forces with Strange Demon Quasi-Saint to kill Song Zhong and claim his treasures, and Strange Demon agreed while planning to seize the Abyssal Blade for himself if he could.
• The elephant-bodied, human-faced cultivator attacked Song Zhong with a Mystic Rank, High Grade axe, judging the strongest of the three Song Zhongs to be the true body.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint summoned a mountain wrapped in flowing water to block the axe, then formed an ice dragon that flew toward the attacker.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint attacked with killing intent after realizing the cultivators meant to kill his lucky star.

Lord of Cherished Flowers told Song Zhong that she had gained a Saint’s Inheritance of the Great Dao of Wood, and the three cultivators returned to Primal Chaos Island to report Lord of Confinement’s attempted assassination of Lord of the Afterlife. Lord of Chaos Island traced the attack to the Nether Scale Sage of the Wild Dao Alliance and vowed that the Benevolence Dao Alliance would respond.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers told Song Zhong and Lord You Shui that she had obtained a Saint’s Inheritance of the Great Dao of Wood.
• Song Zhong, Lord You Shui, and Lord of Cherished Flowers returned to Primal Chaos Island and privately reported their encounter with Lord of Confinement and the attack on Lord of the Afterlife.
• Lord of Chaos Island inspected Lord of Confinement’s Universe Ring and found a World Passage Stone, which he identified as a gift from the Wild Dao Alliance.
• After investigating for a day, Lord of Chaos Island identified the Nether Scale Sage as the one behind the assassination attempt.
• Lord of Chaos Island told Song Zhong that the Benevolence Dao Alliance would not ignore the Wild Dao Alliance’s attack.

Song Zhong overwhelmed the Luminous Flower Immortal King with lightning while insisting he would not move, but she continued advancing to force him to break that condition. He unleashed an even stronger barrage that shattered her defenses and left her on the brink of death.

• The Luminous Flower Immortal King shielded herself with layers of petals as Song Zhong’s lightning tore through space and cracked her defenses.
• Flower Clan cultivators feared the Luminous Flower Immortal King might lose, while others expected Song Zhong to tire because he had promised not to move.
• Song Zhong let the lightning’s pace slow, and the Luminous Flower Immortal King advanced, hoping to get close enough to make him move.
• Song Zhong saw her approach and poured more Lightning Power into the Human Formation, unleashing a faster and stronger barrage.
• The lightning shattered the Luminous Flower Immortal King’s petals, made her spit blood, and filled her with the certainty of death.

Song Zhong fought Ice-Eyed True Lord, who unleashed a Glacial Tempest that threatened to freeze and crush him. Song Zhong awakened his witchcraft power, broke through the tempest, and faced Ice-Eyed True Lord and the Immovable Immortal King with killing intent.

• Ice-Eyed True Lord attacked Song Zhong with repeated waves of ice, but Song Zhong blocked them with lightning.
• Ice-Eyed True Lord gathered the surrounding cold into a Glacial Tempest that trapped Song Zhong and began freezing his body.
• Song Zhong brought out witchcraft patterns from the cultivation path contained in the Longevity Pagoda.
• Song Zhong charged through the Glacial Tempest with his blade, shattering the ice and escaping with shallow wounds.
• Ice-Eyed True Lord and the Immovable Immortal King recognized Song Zhong's witchcraft, and Song Zhong declared that he would send them to their deaths.

Song Zhong negotiated with Baihua Immortal King, who offered to improve his body and aptitude in exchange for his help reaching deeper levels of the Realm of the Heavens. He agreed to take her along as his first backup, and they headed toward the entrance to the fourth level, where he planned to approach other cultivators in an undisclosed way.

• Baihua Immortal King said she could improve Song Zhong’s physical body and aptitude if he helped her descend several more levels.
• Song Zhong questioned Baihua Immortal King about her world and learned that her master was in the Dao Seeking Realm and valued her highly.
• Song Zhong decided to make Baihua Immortal King his first backup and said he would judge what else she needed to provide by how much she helped him improve.
• Song Zhong led Baihua Immortal King toward the entrance to the fourth level, where cultivators with bone joints were likely to pass.
• Baihua Immortal King worried that Song Zhong might face a stronger cultivator or a group attack, but Song Zhong claimed he had not shown his full strength and did not plan to rob everyone.

Lord Wutian praised Song Zhong as the universally acknowledged strongest Forget Dao Realm cultivator, but Lord Pure Light and the others doubted his claims. When allied Armor Clan cultivators arrived, they seemed unaware of any such Forget Dao Realm expert and instead named an invincible Supreme Path Realm cultivator from Lord Zhengyi and Lord Wutian’s Great Thousand World.

• Lord Wutian claimed that Song Zhong was invincible in the Forget Dao Realm and had single-handedly conquered the Slaughter Battlefield.
• Lord Pure Light and the others questioned how such a powerful cultivator could belong to a weak Great Thousand World.
• Ten armored cultivators arrived and greeted Lord Zhengyi’s group as allies from their Great Thousand World.
• Lord Zhengyi explained that Lord Pure Light and her companions came from another Great Thousand World, and Lord Biqing declined the invitation to travel together.
• Lord Biqing asked about the supposed invincible Forget Dao Realm cultivator, and the leading Armor Clan cultivator said he knew of no such figure.
• The leading Armor Clan cultivator pointed out that Lord Zhengyi and Lord Wutian’s Great Thousand World did have an invincible Supreme Path Realm cultivator from the Human Race.

Song Zhong killed all ten Supreme Realm cultivators from the Slaughter Battlefield and met the golden figure who revealed that it had helped him because it believed he was dissatisfied with his Universe. The figure identified itself as the ruler of another Universe and asked Song Zhong how the Slaughter Battlefield had formed.

• Song Zhong killed the ten Supreme Realm cultivators one after another and collected their Universe Rings.
• A blood-red light and immense pressure filled the world as an indistinguishable golden figure appeared before Song Zhong.
• The golden figure said it had kept the ten cultivators alive until the end so Song Zhong could claim all their treasures.
• Song Zhong questioned why the figure had helped him, and it said it favored cultivators dissatisfied with their own Universes.
• The golden figure revealed it was the ruler of another Universe, and Song Zhong suspected it was recruiting him as a potential ally.
• The ruler of another Universe asked Song Zhong whether he knew how the Slaughter Battlefield had formed.

Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained the Realm of the Heavens, gave Song Zhong twenty-one God Crystals, and urged him to use them to advance rather than heal Zhengyi’s injuries. Song Zhong then headed toward Hundred Peaks Sect to prepare for its coming Sect Tribulation, but stopped at Piaomiao Sect, where its cultivators did not recognize him.

• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor warned Song Zhong that the Realm of the Heavens held formidable Heavenly Prodigies and rare opportunities, and said he should save his God Crystals for his own cultivation.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor gave Song Zhong the Human Race’s twenty-one God Crystals and discussed seeking outside help if their people faced annihilation.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained that Hundred Peaks Sect’s Sect Tribulation had not arrived because its disciple count had not yet qualified it as a true sect, but that its tribulation was likely near.
• Song Zhong left Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and flew toward Hundred Peaks Sect, intending to prepare a grand array to help it withstand the Sect Tribulation.
• Song Zhong stopped at Piaomiao Sect and was greeted by its cultivators, who sensed his aura but did not recognize him.

Song Zhong used thunder arts to crack open what he recognized as a Cosmos Ruler’s Tomb, but its contents erupted in a devastating storm of lightning. Rain Peak Quasi-Saint fled the world while Song Zhong remained behind, and Rain Peak then encountered three cultivators whose techniques reminded him of Song Zhong’s Dao companion.

• Song Zhong found that his sword and Spatial Power barely damaged the Tomb, so he and his clones bombarded it with thunder until cracks spread across its surface.
• Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint sensed the overwhelming aura of a Cosmos Ruler, and Rain Peak warned that opening the Tomb might be dangerous.
• Rain Peak urged Song Zhong to retreat and use a clone to finish opening the Tomb, but a violent force burst from inside before they could act.
• Lightning engulfed the world, and Rain Peak fled beneath a mountain shield as Song Zhong stood motionless without defending himself.
• After escaping into another world, Rain Peak saw two female cultivators fighting a male cultivator and recognized their combined Yin-Yang and Wood techniques.

Peak Quasi-Saint and the other Human Race cultivators failed to identify the Forget Dao Realm cultivator who had entered the Quasi-Saint Realm Demonic Creature Battlefield. Song Zhong’s second clone killed hundreds of Demonic Beasts and fled when the cultivators arrived, leaving them wondering who he was and why he could move so quickly.

• Peak Quasi-Saint told the other cultivators he had not learned the Forget Dao Realm cultivator’s name, and they said they had never heard of Rain Peak Quasi-Saint.
• Song Zhong’s second clone entered the battlefield, found four or five hundred Demonic Beasts, and killed them all with lightning containing Spatial Power and Yin-Yang Energy.
• Changyi Quasi-Saint and five other Human Race cultivators arrived and were shocked to find the Demonic Beasts dead.
• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint recognized Song Zhong as the Forget Dao Realm cultivator Peak Quasi-Saint had encountered and demanded to know why he was there.
• Song Zhong flew away before Feng Yu Quasi-Saint could question him, and the other cultivators wondered why he had run.

After the Flower Clan’s cultivators demanded revenge for their dead relatives, the Lord of Myriad Seeds ordered Song Zhong to leave the clan’s Great Thousand World rather than let them attack him. The Lord of Cherished Flowers escorted him to the Land of Ceasing Strife, where Song Zhong encountered an old man who looked like a Human Race cultivator.

• The Lord of Myriad Seeds stopped the cultivators from attacking Song Zhong and told him to leave the Flower Clan’s Great Thousand World.
• The Lord of Cherished Flowers decided to leave with Song Zhong and asked the Lord of Myriad Seeds to protect her disciples.
• After they left the Flower Clan’s territory, the Lord of Cherished Flowers warned Song Zhong that returning to the Human Race could expose him to an ambush.
• The Lord of Cherished Flowers used two tokens to take Song Zhong to the Land of Ceasing Strife, where fighting was forbidden.
• An old man appeared and explained that anyone who broke the Land of Ceasing Strife’s rules would be blasted to death, leaving Song Zhong wondering whether other Human Races existed in the Universe.

Song Zhong let the Scale Touch Clan’s Immortal Kings attack him, then overwhelmed them with his own lightning. The Lord of All Lightning intervened and recognized him as the Death-Sending Immortal Emperor.

• Scale Touch Clan cultivators launched lightning attacks at Song Zhong, hoping to prove themselves to their Ancestor.
• Song Zhong stood unharmed as their lightning struck him and taunted them for being too weak.
• Song Zhong unleashed his own lightning, shattering the attacks and driving the Scale Touch Clan cultivators into terror.
• The Lord of All Lightning raised an electric net to contain Song Zhong’s lightning, but it nearly broke apart.
• The Lord of All Lightning reinforced the net and identified Song Zhong as the Death-Sending Immortal Emperor.

Lord of All Lightning attacked Song Zhong, believing him to be the Death-Sending Immortal Emperor, but Song Zhong survived the Scale Touch Clan ancestor’s lightning. The chapter left Lord of All Lightning escalating his assault after Song Zhong’s body adapted to the lightning.

• Lord of All Lightning ordered the Scale Touch Clan’s Immortal Kings to retreat and accused Song Zhong of killing one of their Immortal Emperors.
• Lord of All Lightning unleashed a storm of purple Lightning Dragons that scorched Song Zhong and battered him across the battlefield.
• Song Zhong’s Lightning Power absorbed and devoured the lightning, and he recovered after the attack ended.
• Lord of All Lightning was shocked that Song Zhong survived and fired an even stronger Thunder Spear from his tentacles.
• Song Zhong endured the Thunder Spear’s impact as his body resisted the lightning, though its force made him sway and churned his blood and qi.

After entering the ninth level, the Demon Shadow Immortal King found himself among powerful cultivators waiting for the trial to begin. He learned that only ten could advance to the tenth level and that no one could leave, while the assembled cultivators chose to wait rather than fight immediately.

• The Demon Shadow Immortal King destroyed over a hundred vicious beasts at the ninth-level entrance and entered the level.
• He found twenty-six cultivators already there, including representatives of the ninth- and seventh-ranked Great Thousand Worlds.
• The Realm of the Heavens told the Demon Shadow Immortal King that the trial would begin only after all surviving cultivators able to reach the fifth level had entered or been eliminated, and only ten could advance.
• The Demon Shadow Immortal King tried to return to the previous level, but another cultivator told him that leaving the ninth level was impossible.
• A cultivator suggested that they fight early to decide who would advance, but the group agreed to wait for more arrivals.