Chapter Summaries

Aboard the Flying Boat, Song Zhong learned about the races and dangers of the Outer Battlefield from Duan Xue while contemplating how to modify Forget-Thunder True Lord's spells. After arriving at the Human Race's city, the disciples received communication Jade Pendants and set out for the Venerable Realm battlefield.

• Song Zhong asked Duan Xue about the Outer Battlefield, and she warned him about the Insect Clan, Tentacle Clan, and Spirit Race.
• Duan Xue explained that Immortal Realm, Venerable Realm, and True Lord Realm cultivators often operated in overlapping areas.
• Song Zhong spent more than a hundred days aboard the Flying Boat working out ways to alter Forget-Thunder True Lord's spells, but could not test them.
• Piaomiao Sect's Flying Boat reached a large city at the Outer Battlefield, where cultivators gave the disciples communication Jade Pendants and urged them to unite as the Human Race.
• A middle-aged man directed the disciples north toward the Venerable Realm battlefield and warned them not to go west into the True Lord Realm battlefield.

Song Zhong learned that Forget-Thunder True Lord had killed a late-stage Immortal King and was taught the Lightning Nurturing Art, a secret technique that required its user to save lightning for a powerful strike. Song Zhong realized his extra stream of Immortal Qi could nurture the lightning without hindering him, and that his rapid cultivation could make the art ideal for him.

• Forget-Thunder True Lord revealed that he had killed a late-stage Immortal King while in the True Lord Realm.
• Song Zhong told Forget-Thunder True Lord about a four-eyed cultivator who had killed an Immortal King with a raised finger, and Forget-Thunder True Lord reflected on how far cultivation could extend.
• Forget-Thunder True Lord explained the vast gap between cultivation realms and taught Song Zhong the Lightning Nurturing Art, which built power by continuously nurturing lightning.
• Song Zhong learned that using the lightning would reset its nurturing, so Forget-Thunder True Lord advised him to return to the Piaomiao Sect and avoid fighting.
• Song Zhong realized he could use his smaller, second stream of Immortal Qi to nurture the lightning and benefit from his unusually fast cultivation.

Human Race cultivators returned from the Demonic Beast Battlefield and searched for their companions, learning that Lord Wanlan had died protecting others. Lord Pure Light and his companions described meeting another Universe’s Human Race and mocked their claims about Song Zhong, drawing the attention of cultivators who had also encountered them.

• Returning cultivators searched for their companions, and Daoist Weixin learned that Lord Wanlan had sacrificed himself alongside Daoist Yiyan.
• Lord Biqing recalled Lord Wanlan and Lord Weixin’s long history and their plan to become Dao Companions after reaching the Dao Seeking Realm.
• Lord Pure Light and his companions told their master that Lord Zhengyi and Lord Wutian had saved them in the Demonic Beast Battlefield.
• Lord Biqing complained that the other Human Race had refused their help and claimed Song Zhong was invincible among Forget Dao Realm cultivators and even within the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Several nearby cultivators heard Lord Biqing mention Song Zhong and asked whether she had encountered the Human Race from another Universe.

Song Zhong used his clones to exploit the limits of Saint of Chaos's techniques, self-destructing two clones to kill the remaining cultivators of the Five Great Other Clans and challenge Saint of Chaos. Saint of Chaos contained the second blast, but recognized Song Zhong's unusual resilience and wondered how much stronger he might become after a breakthrough.

• Song Zhong concluded that Saint of Chaos's chaos could affect spells but not physical bodies, then sent a clone toward the gathered cultivators of the Five Great Other Clans.
• As Saint of Chaos's attacks battered the clone, Song Zhong enlarged it and self-destructed, killing the gathered cultivators and briefly dispelling the chaos.
• Song Zhong's other clone unleashed lightning infused with spatial and Yin-Yang energies, and Saint of Chaos used a multicolored ray to disperse it.
• Song Zhong's remaining clone charged Saint of Chaos through the chaotic air, then self-destructed when Saint of Chaos's attacks began tearing it apart.
• Saint of Chaos blocked the blast with a chaotic light curtain and reflected on Song Zhong's powerful body and potential to resist chaos after reaching the Forget Dao Realm.

After Strange Demon Quasi-Saint died, the Demon Clan Great Thousand World lost its protection, allowing Song Zhong to enter and guard its Godstone. He overwhelmed the Demon Race defenders, and the chapter ended with him killing a Tiger Demon Clan Forget Dao Realm cultivator with one slash.

• Strange Demon Quasi-Saint died, and the protective light screen around the Demon Clan Great Thousand World vanished.
• Song Zhong flew into the world and headed for the Godstone to stop the Demon Race from restoring its protection.
• Demon Race cultivators gathered at the Godstone, recognized Song Zhong, and attacked as he unleashed a vast Lightning World that killed several weaker cultivators.
• A Rabbit Demon Clan Forget Dao Realm expert told the others to attack Song Zhong while the remaining cultivators tried to reach the Godstone.
• Song Zhong appeared before the Tiger Demon Clan Forget Dao Realm cultivator and split him in two with a single saber slash.

Song Zhong was attacked by the Insect Clan Immortal Emperor, but Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and the newly revealed Wutian Immortal Emperor protected him. The alien Immortal Emperors withdrew, and Moth Immortal Emperor revealed that they intended to exploit the coming death of a powerful Human Race figure to destroy the Human Race.

• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor blocked attacks from four alien Immortal Emperors while the Insect Clan’s flying insects swarmed toward Song Zhong.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor appeared, used Black Water to destroy the poisonous stingers, and revealed that he had become the Human Race’s second Immortal Emperor.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor exposed the Insect Clan Immortal Emperor’s true form, but Moth Immortal Emperor escaped and warned that Song Zhong would eventually die.
• The other four alien Immortal Emperors withdrew with Moth Immortal Emperor, and Nine Infant questioned why they had abandoned their advantage.
• Moth Immortal Emperor said the Human Race was divided and claimed that a powerful figure would soon die, giving the aliens a chance to seize the Human Great Thousand World and exterminate the Human Race.

Lord of Cherished Flowers invited Song Zhong to enter the Sage Ruins, where entrants’ power would be balanced according to their strength within their own cultivation realms. Song Zhong learned the ruins required a man and a woman to enter together, but he had not agreed to join her.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers entered Baihua Immortal King's cave abode and misread Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King's compromising-looking position.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers sent Baihua Immortal King away and asked Song Zhong whether he wanted to enter a secret realm.
• Song Zhong refused to enter the Sage Ruins, suspecting Lord of Cherished Flowers wanted him to die and take his treasures.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers explained that the Dual Sage Ruins of Shared Tribulation and Destiny admitted cultivators up to the Forget Dao Realm and required a man and a woman to enter together.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers described how the ruins balanced entrants' power according to their combat strength in their respective cultivation realms, and Song Zhong summarized the rule as averaging their coefficients.

Song Zhong challenged the Flower Clan’s Immortal Emperors for a wager of God Crystals, and Lord of Flourishing Life accepted on the clan’s behalf. Apex Root Immortal Emperor arrived to fight him, leaving the cultivators to clear space for their duel.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers stopped Lord of Flourishing Life’s God Crystals from striking Song Zhong, and Song Zhong collected them.
• Song Zhong invited an Immortal Emperor to challenge him for one thousand God Crystals and taunted Lord of Flourishing Life into wagering two thousand.
• Lord of Flourishing Life called on Apex Root Immortal Emperor, the Flower Clan’s strongest Immortal Emperor, to defend the clan’s honor.
• Apex Root Immortal Emperor agreed to fight Song Zhong, while Lord of Flourishing Life promised to provide the God Crystals.
• The cultivators cleared a space for the fight as Lord of Myriad Beings watched without intervening.

Lord of Cherished Flowers arrived to protect the Human Great Thousand World after Song Zhong asked for her help, and lent the Human Race the God Crystals they lacked. The Human Race celebrated its rescue, while Song Zhong remained missing in the Realm of the Heavens.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers told Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor that Song Zhong had asked her to help, and said he might be trying to clear the nearly impossible eleventh level.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor revealed that the Human Race had only forty-six God Crystals, far short of the thousand needed to protect their world.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers agreed to lend the Human Race a thousand God Crystals and protect it for three hundred years on behalf of her disciple.
• At sunrise, Lord of Cherished Flowers infused the Human Race's Godstone with her mana and the thousand God Crystals, creating a protective light curtain before leaving.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor announced that Song Zhong had found their protector, and the Human Race rejoiced at being saved while wondering where Song Zhong was.

Song Zhong entered Xingyi Sect’s selection, where participants had to gather number plates in the Fengchi Mountain Range over five days. The new rules offered the top ten a chance to compete for Hundred Peaks Sect, and Song Zhong entered the mountain aiming for that opportunity.

• Song Zhong joined the crowded registration line and broke through to the Qi Control Realm Eighth Layer while cultivating.
• Song Yichen boasted to Song Dingxiong and the clan elders that he would enter Xingyi Sect and rise above Chuanze City.
• Shi Weiqing announced that participants had five days to seize number plates, with the thousand highest-ranking advancing to Xingyi Sect.
• Shi Weiqing added that the top ten could participate in Hundred Peaks Sect’s selection, and Song Zhong decided to pursue a place among them.
• Song Zhong entered the Fengchi Mountain Range, while Shi Weiqing used the Ten Thousand Miles Mirror to show the spectators what happened inside.

Song Zhong and the Rain Peak Quasi-Saint fought through the Blood Corpses guarding a sect gate, with Song Zhong killing them at close range while the Rain Peak Quasi-Saint suppressed their spells. They reached the tallest mountain, where a vast swarm of red figures descended toward them.

• Song Zhong drew the Blood Corpses’ attention with lightning spells while the Rain Peak Quasi-Saint attacked with two mountain ranges.
• Song Zhong broke through the Blood Corpses’ spatial defenses and cleaved through them with his lightning-charged saber as the Rain Peak Quasi-Saint suppressed six Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses.
• Song Zhong and the Rain Peak Quasi-Saint killed all thirty-odd Blood Corpses, and Song Zhong warned that larger groups could pose a serious threat.
• The two continued into the sect gate, where every Blood Corpse they encountered cultivated Spatial Power and used varied spatial spells.
• Song Zhong and the Rain Peak Quasi-Saint reached the tallest mountain, and a vast swarm of red figures flew down from it.

Song Zhong slaughtered Demon Race cultivators in the Demon Clan Great Thousand World while insisting their Immortal Emperors had already been killed. Fleeing cultivators reached the battlefield and saw a Human Race Immortal Emperor defeating the five races’ Immortal Kings, leaving them terrified that Song Zhong had told the truth.

• Song Zhong used Phantom Lightning Body and the Human Formation to kill Demon Race cultivators as they fled and urged him to return to defend the Human Race.
• Song Zhong told the Demon Race cultivators that their Immortal Emperors were dead and that the Human Race Immortal Emperor was killing their Immortal Kings.
• Song Zhong continued his pursuit through the Demon Clan Great Thousand World, while fleeing Demon Race cultivators escaped into the Human Great Thousand World.
• The fleeing cultivators headed toward the Immortal Kings’ battlefield and saw a black-robed Human Race Immortal Emperor killing Immortal Kings with his saber.
• The Demon Race cultivators realized their Immortal Emperors were absent and watched in horror as their Immortal Kings fell in greater numbers than the Human Race’s.

Song Zhong met Peak Quasi-Saint on the Quasi-Saint battlefield and discovered that Peak’s mountain spells matched Rain Peak Quasi-Saint’s, suggesting both had inherited the same techniques. After Song Zhong flew off, Peak met Human Race cultivators who became alarmed that a Forget Dao Realm cultivator was on the battlefield and asked who he was.

• Song Zhong noticed Peak Quasi-Saint using mountain-shaped Immortal Artifacts and asked where he had learned his spells.
• Peak said his techniques came from an inheritance, and Song Zhong told him that Rain Peak Quasi-Saint claimed to have created identical spells himself.
• Song Zhong gave Peak Rain Peak Quasi-Saint’s name, then left to hunt Demonic Beasts; Peak wondered whether Song Zhong had been lying and marveled at his speed.
• Peak encountered six Human Race cultivators, including Chang Yi and Feng Yu, and told them he had met a Forget Dao Realm cultivator.
• Feng Yu criticized the cultivator for entering the Quasi-Saint battlefield and asked Peak for his name so she could reprimand him.

Song Zhong used his lightning formation and Primordial Chaos Qi to overwhelm the True Immortal Realm prodigies. He killed Qian Fuzhi and then turned his saber toward the Immovable Immortal King.

• Song Zhong's lightning bombardment suppressed the True Immortal Realm cultivators while Feng Meier restrained a Spirit Race cultivator.
• Song Zhong struck the Spirit Race cultivator with a pillar of lightning and killed him.
• Song Zhong overwhelmed Qian Fuzhi's defenses, severed all six of his arms, and cut off two of his three heads.
• Song Zhong struck Qian Fuzhi's remaining head and killed him.
• Song Zhong turned and slashed his saber toward the Immovable Immortal King.

Song Zhong was identified as the Death-Sending Immortal Emperor, prompting the cultivators in the Ruins to unite against him. As their joint attack began, Lord of Cherished Flowers met it head-on, and Song Zhong emerged from a Spatial Rift with his silver longblade.

• The Lord of Illusions urged the cultivators to kill Song Zhong first, and Lord Liekong praised her plan.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers asked Song Zhong how they should fight, and he told her to avoid being killed while he handled the rest.
• Two unfamiliar cultivators appeared as the light screens vanished, and the surrounding cultivators told them to attack Song Zhong.
• Eighteen cultivators unleashed Immortal Artifacts at Song Zhong, but Lord of Cherished Flowers struck back with her Rose Whip and pierced through their spells.
• Song Zhong emerged from a Spatial Rift and slashed down with his silver longblade.

Song Zhong fought the Daoxuan Sect cultivators who attacked him in Chuanze City and revealed the terrifying power of his Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade. He killed three Star River Realm cultivators with one slash, while their Golden Body Realm senior brothers failed to stop him in time.

• Xu Zihua called Song Zhong a rogue cultivator and ordered her companions to cripple him after he broke her spell.
• A Daoxuan Sect cultivator attacked Song Zhong with a spear, but Song Zhong shattered the spear shadow with a palm strike, and the shockwaves damaged nearby stalls and residents.
• Song Zhong flew into the sky to draw the attackers away from the city and his father, but three Daoxuan Sect cultivators pursued him.
• Song Zhong drew the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade and unleashed a lightning slash at the three cultivators.
• Zhang Liran tried to intervene with his whip, but Song Zhong's lightning shattered the three attackers' spells and killed them before he could reach them.

The Jeweled Sage and Many Treasures Sage explained that Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers needed to cultivate Yin and Yang Energy separately before merging them, then revealed the Sacred Water pool that would help them begin. Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers entered the pool as the two Saints’ remnant souls passed their knowledge to them.

• The Jeweled Sage explained that Song Zhong’s lightning could grow stronger with Yin Energy and that he should cultivate Yin while Lord of Cherished Flowers cultivated Yang.
• Song Zhong asked how their different realms and strength would affect merging Yin and Yang, and Lord of Cherished Flowers admitted she feared he would outgrow her.
• The Many Treasures Sage said they should merge in the Saint Realm if possible, but could do so earlier when their strengths were close, at the cost of making future cultivation harder.
• The Jeweled Sage and Many Treasures Sage revealed a Yin-Yang pool of Sacred Water and explained that it contained their Yin-Yang Energy and would help the pair cultivate.
• Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers entered the pool, and the Saints’ remnant souls entered their minds to pass on their knowledge as Yin Energy surged into Song Zhong.

Song Zhong left the Piaomiao Sect group after Duan Xue struck Xu Xining for insulting him. Xu Xining and her Dao companion were captured and killed by Dao Xuan Sect cultivators, who confirmed Song Zhong had entered the Venerable Realm battlefield and set out to track him.

• Song Zhong rebuked Xu Xining, and Duan Xue slapped her for questioning her master's Dao companion.
• Yu Yujing mocked Xu Xining, while Xu Xining's Dao companion urged Song Zhong to travel with them; Song Zhong refused and flew away.
• Xu Xining and her Dao companion stayed behind, worried that they would fail to complete Grand Martial Uncle's task without finding Song Zhong.
• More than ten Dao Xuan Sect cultivators attacked, captured, and interrogated Xu Xining and her Dao companion about Song Zhong's destination.
• After verifying that Song Zhong had entered the Venerable Realm battlefield, the Dao Xuan Sect cultivators killed the pair and decided to follow Song Zhong without confronting him.

Song Zhong broke through to the tenth layer of the Golden Body Realm as he approached the pillar of light, where a Ninth-Rank Divine Weapon was revealed. The Strange Beasts went berserk and attacked the gathered cultivators, while Song Zhong rushed toward the pagoda before someone else could claim it.

• After flying for another ten-odd days, Song Zhong neared the pillar of light and broke through to the tenth layer of the Golden Body Realm, condensing his tenth Golden Body.
• At the pillar, Daoxuan Sect disciples Jin Ranhuan and others wondered why so few Blood Fiend Demonic Sect members and Song Zhong had arrived.
• The pillar of light shattered, revealing a pagoda that cultivators recognized as a Ninth-Rank Divine Weapon.
• The pagoda fell among the Strange Beasts, which immediately went berserk and charged the cultivators, triggering a chaotic battle that killed many on both sides.
• Song Zhong saw the light shatter, killed a Strange Beast with purplish-red lightning, and hurried toward the fallen Divine Weapon.

After Song Yichen drained his cultivation, Song Zhong discovered that his cultivation technique ran on its own and rapidly rebuilt his strength, reaching Qi Control Sixth Layer. He confronted Song Dingfeng when the elder demanded compensation from Song Zhong’s family, and left the courtyard ready to fight.

• Song Zhong returned home, confirmed his injured parents were out of danger, and discovered his cultivation technique cultivated automatically.
• Song Zhong rapidly advanced through the realms, reaching Qi Control Sixth Layer after ten days while lightning tempered his body.
• Song Zhong’s parents woke, and he decided to tell them about his cultivation before heading to the Xingyi Sect.
• Song Dingfeng demanded the Thousand-Year Cloud Mica Lotus from Song Shilian as compensation for his injuries.
• Song Zhong struck Song Du with a palm before it landed, revealing his Qi Control Realm strength and astonishing the gathered family members.
• Song Zhong drew his blade and challenged Song Dingfeng, promising to help the elder meet his end.