Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong and Duan Xue confronted Shadowfiend Demon, a True Lord Pinnacle who planned to kill them and seize the treasures in Duan Xue’s master’s slumber site. Song Zhong struck back with the Thunder Fury Dragon Blade and split Shadowfiend Demon’s giant phantom, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Shadowfiend Demon revealed that she had discovered Duan Xue’s master sleeping in the feng shui treasure ground and intended to kill her for her treasures.
• Song Zhong tried to leave, but Shadowfiend Demon refused to let him and Duan Xue escape with her secret.
• Shadowfiend Demon learned that Duan Xue’s master was a Half-Step True Monarch and decided to kill both witnesses before the master awakened.
• Shadowfiend Demon summoned an enormous demon phantom and sent its claw crashing toward Song Zhong and Duan Xue.
• Song Zhong wielded the Thunder Fury Dragon Blade and split the phantom with a lightning strike.

Song Zhong killed Ice Soul Saint and Lihuo Saint with his lightning attack, then questioned Rain Peak Quasi-Saint about his inability to become a Saint. After learning that another cultivator from the Eighty-One Universes used spells and mountain ranges identical to Rain Peak Quasi-Saint’s, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint left to find him.

• Song Zhong and his eight clones struck Ice Soul Saint with a combined lightning attack that shattered his shield and killed him.
• Lihuo Saint tried to flee, but Song Zhong pursued him with lightning and killed him as well.
• Song Zhong asked Rain Peak Quasi-Saint why he remained a Half-Step Saint, and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint said he repeatedly fell short of breaking through.
• Song Zhong told Rain Peak Quasi-Saint that he had seen a cultivator from the Eighty-One Universes use nearly identical spells and mountain ranges.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint decided to seek out the cultivator on the Quasi-Saint Demonic Beast battlefield and flew away.

The Venerables awakened after the Era of Cosmic Reversal and learned that Hundred Peaks Sect had been devastated by an attack. They discovered that Song Zhong had already destroyed the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect and Daoxuan Sect and had gone to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to exterminate foreign races.

• The Hundred Peaks Sect Venerables emerged from their Tombs, and Bai Ruorou reunited with the sect’s cultivators.
• Ouyang Yi told the Venerables that Li Huaying and many others had died defending the sect against the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, the Daoxuan Sect, and foreign races.
• Ouyang Yi revealed that only a few Immortal Realm cultivators remained in the Hundred Peaks Sect, aside from Song Zhong.
• Ouyang Yi explained that Song Zhong had wiped out the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect and the Daoxuan Sect to avenge the fallen.
• Ouyang Yi said that Song Zhong had gone to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to exterminate foreign races and had already destroyed several.

Song Zhong studied the Divine Weapons he had obtained while peaks across the Hundred Peaks Sect scrambled to find Thunder Crystals and seek his help. Meanwhile, Absolute Dust Peak faced trouble over its connection to Song Qingwei, and several Flying Boats approached the sect demanding answers for their losses.

• Chu Jingyao told Song Zhong that her Senior Sister would come to see him, then left as the crowd resolved to gather Thunder Crystals.
• Tang Qianzi worried that Song Zhong might run out of Lightning Divine Weapons to claim, but Song Zhong believed helping others could eventually benefit him.
• Song Zhong returned to his room, examined the Heavenly Skill blade, and decided to absorb Thunder Crystals before fusing with its lightning.
• Ninety-four peaks began searching for Thunder Crystals, while the five Zen Cultivation Peaks worried they had alienated Song Zhong and would miss out on Divine Weapons.
• An elder of Absolute Dust Peak reprimanded Song Qingwei and Ma Jin for their connection to Song Zhong and the Sealed Ruins.
• Several Flying Boats headed toward the Hundred Peaks Sect as their passengers demanded explanations for deaths and stolen belongings.

Song Zhong slaughtered every alien cultivator in the space, leaving only himself and Wang Yang alive. After collecting the dead cultivators’ treasures, they waited for the space to break apart and returned outside.

• Song Zhong continued killing despite the other cultivators’ pleas, insisting that he would repay everyone who had attacked him.
• Several cultivators fled or fought one another, and Song Zhong killed them until only ten remained.
• Song Zhong killed the final alien cultivators, leaving only himself and Wang Yang in the space.
• Wang Yang lowered his shields and marveled at Song Zhong’s strength, while Song Zhong collected the dead cultivators’ magic treasures and Universe Rings.
• After half an incense stick’s time, the space broke apart, and Song Zhong and Wang Yang returned outside.

After recovering from the assassination attempt with the Mountain Guardian Elder’s help, Song Zhong became the Star River Realm Peak Ranking’s number one without a fight. More than forty days later, he began breaking through to the Golden Body Realm as tribulation clouds gathered overhead.

• Bai Ruorou explained that the Mountain Guardian Elder had used life-extending dew to heal Song Zhong, and Song Zhong resolved to repay his kindness.
• Song Zhong went to the arena and challenged Liu Xiaoyi, but Liu Xiaoyi conceded rather than fight him.
• Song Zhong returned to Prison Suppressing Peak to continue recovering from his injuries.
• More than forty days after reaching the peak of the Star River Realm, Song Zhong’s aura surged and his house exploded as tribulation clouds gathered for his breakthrough to the Golden Body Realm.

Xia Kening condensed her ninth tail after absorbing the spirit water, while Song Zhong and Bai Ruorou returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect. Bai Ruorou began forming a Venerable tribulation, and a hidden enemy resolved to report Song Zhong’s return and have him killed.

• Xia Kening broke free of Song Zhong’s Divine Weapon restraints after becoming a Nine-Tailed Fox, then left to return to her clan and cultivate.
• Song Zhong and Bai Ruorou flew for more than forty days to reach the Hundred Peaks Sect, where disciples opened the gate to welcome them.
• A hidden man watched Song Zhong and Bai Ruorou return and decided to notify his sect that Song Zhong must die.
• The Hundred Peaks Sect’s leaders gathered at Prison Suppressing Peak and saw tribulation clouds forming above it.
• The leaders recognized the clouds as a tribulation formation and realized Bai Ruorou was about to break through to become a Venerable.

Song Zhong faced a Five Thunder Tribulation Array as he broke through into the Immortal Realm, but he absorbed its lightning and felt his body, spiritual energy, and spells transform. The Hundred Peaks Sect watched him endure the tribulation, then left to resume cultivating while Song Zhong continued.

• The Hundred Peaks Sect counted the clouds and realized Song Zhong's breakthrough had summoned a Five Thunder Tribulation Array.
• The array's lightning struck, and Song Zhong found it easy to withstand as it reforged his body and strengthened his spiritual energy.
• Song Zhong absorbed the lightning and sensed that his Immortal Realm breakthrough had transformed the spells he had learned from the True Lords.
• Ouyang Yi reminded the Hundred Peaks Sect not to rely solely on Song Zhong and urged everyone to keep tempering themselves.
• The Hundred Peaks Sect members departed, and Ouyang Yi left Song Zhong to complete his tribulation.

Song Zhong joined the cultivators preparing for the Demonic Tide, and his breakthrough to the Forget Dao Realm gave the Benevolence Dao Alliance hope that their Universe would be safe. He learned that his avatars could enter the Demonic Creature Battlefield and that the battlefield also held valuable resources and Mysterious Clouds.

• The cultivators recognized that Song Zhong had advanced to the Forget Dao Realm and praised him as their strongest hope against the Demonic Beasts.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes asked Song Zhong to leave her some Demonic Beasts to kill, and he agreed.
• Song Zhong asked Lord of Chaos Island how his nine avatars would count under the battlefield entry rules.
• Lord of Chaos Island explained that Song Zhong could send his avatars into the battlefield, while one avatar could remain behind in the Human Great Thousand World.
• Lord of Chaos Island told the cultivators that powerful Demonic Beasts' body parts and Mysterious Clouds could be found in the Demonic Creature Battlefield.

Song Zhong broke through to the Immortal Affinity Realm and endured a terrifying heavenly tribulation while Feng Meier watched in astonishment. After the tribulation ended, his aura surged again, and the grand formations throughout the world collapsed.

• Song Zhong advanced through the eighth and ninth layers of the Knocking Immortal Realm while studying his Human Formation.
• Nearly five years later, Song Zhong broke through to the Immortal Affinity Realm and faced a heavenly tribulation without the protection of a grand formation.
• Feng Meier entered Song Zhong’s layer to watch the tribulation and recognized the formations covering his body.
• Feng Meier watched Song Zhong endure the tribulation for two years and realized his power could rival True Lord Realm cultivators.
• The tribulation ended, Song Zhong’s aura surged again, and the grand formations throughout the world collapsed.

Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King entered the ninth level, where Song Zhong eliminated a cultivator who demanded one of them sacrifice themselves. On the tenth level, Demon Shadow Immortal King attacked Baihua Immortal King, and Song Zhong’s attempt to block him was bypassed as the attacker stretched his arm toward her Universe Ring.

• Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King arrived on the ninth level, where they learned that only ten cultivators could enter the tenth level.
• A steel-bodied cultivator demanded that one of them detonate a Substitute Death Talisman, but Song Zhong killed him with the Space Severing Blade.
• Song Zhong took the dead cultivator’s Universe Ring, and a pillar of light appeared to lead the remaining ten cultivators onward.
• Song Zhong held Baihua Immortal King’s hand as they entered the tenth level together, while Demon Shadow Immortal King prepared to attack her.
• Song Zhong blocked Demon Shadow Immortal King’s blade, but the attacker bent and stretched his arm around the blade toward Baihua Immortal King’s arm bearing the Universe Ring.

Song Zhong was besieged by Wild Dao Alliance Quasi-Saints until Smoke Road Quasi-Saint appeared and launched a deadly sneak attack. Song Zhong blocked the strike with his Earth Grade Peak Quality Immortal Artifact, the Thunder Shield, and unleashed a storm of lightning Sword Qi.

• The Life-Death Quasi-Saint’s weakened Life-Death Vortex failed to stop Rain Peak Quasi-Saint’s mountain range, and he spat blood.
• Song Zhong met a Wild Dao Alliance Quasi-Saint’s spear thrust with his saber, then blasted the opponent with lightning that shattered his frost defenses and damaged his meridians.
• Smoke Road Quasi-Saint concealed himself until Song Zhong was surrounded, then struck with a sword of smoke powerful enough to slice through the void.
• Song Zhong replaced his Immortal Artifact with the Thunder Shield and blocked Smoke Road Quasi-Saint’s attack without the shield budging.
• Song Zhong revealed the Thunder Shield was an Earth Grade Peak Quality Immortal Artifact and sent hundreds of millions of lightning Sword Qi toward his attackers.

Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint trapped two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses inside mountains and fought them while the mountains shook under attacks from outside. Song Zhong discovered that the Blood Corpses weakened when they regenerated limbs, then went to help Rain Peak Quasi-Saint as his clones continued attacking the other one.

• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint sealed Song Zhong, his two clones, and two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses inside mountains, and Song Zhong asked him to hold off one Blood Corpse while he fought the other.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint stabilized the mountains and blocked one Blood Corpse while Song Zhong and his clones attacked the other, cutting off its leg, arm, and chest before it regenerated and weakened.
• Song Zhong realized the Blood Corpse’s regenerated limbs were weaker and that it had dropped its magical artifact instead of retrieving it.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint called for help as he struggled to defend against the Blood Corpse inside and the attacks on the mountains outside.
• Song Zhong teleported to help Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, while his two clones kept fighting the weakened Blood Corpse and cut off its remaining arm.

Song Zhong fought off the Demon Sect disciples who attacked him for the True Lord's treasures, using his shield and Purple Light Blade to cut through their ranks. He killed Qu Fu with one slash and continued slaughtering the remaining disciples.

• The Demon Sect disciples recognized Song Zhong's rapid cultivation breakthrough and attacked him to seize his Universe Ring.
• Song Zhong dodged their spells, then used his shield's Black Tortoise phantom to withstand their widened bombardment.
• Song Zhong charged through the Demon Sect ranks, while the statues' lightning and the disciples' own spells struck and killed many of them.
• Qu Fu attacked Song Zhong with his halberd, but Song Zhong cut through his chest and killed him with one slash.
• Song Zhong continued rushing among the Demon Sect disciples and killing them with his Purple Light Blade.

Song Zhong discovered that Instant Eternity let him endure the lightning and used the Wind Sparrow Wings as a shield to advance toward the Taiyi Spirit Water. Nearby, four cultivators prepared to collect the water at dawn, but one spotted an approaching figure.

• Ji Junxiao explained the Taiyi Spirit Water’s healing and life-giving properties and envied it, while Song Zhong dismissed it as rainwater from the sky.
• Two men and two women near the pool planned to fill their Universe Bag with Taiyi Spirit Water once dawn arrived, unaware of a slender figure meditating in a nearby cave.
• Song Zhong tested his resistance to the lightning and charged out of the cave, stunning Bao Dating, Fan Meier, and Ji Junxiao.
• As repeated lightning strikes slowed him, Song Zhong used the Wind Sparrow Wings as a shield and sprinted toward the water.
• One of the four cultivators near the pool spotted what looked like a person approaching.

Song Zhong defeated and tortured a fifth-layer Golden Body Realm cultivator from the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, learning that the sect had ordered its powerful disciples to find and kill him in the Sealed Ruins. After killing the cultivator, Song Zhong changed clothes and flew toward a distant battle, hoping to find an opportunity.

• Song Zhong shattered the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivator’s five Golden Bodies, overwhelmed him with lightning, and pinned him to the ground.
• Song Zhong tortured the cultivator until he revealed that the sect’s disciples had been ordered to kill Song Zhong for rewards if he was in the Sealed Ruins.
• The cultivator said the sect had also ordered its disciples to avoid conflicts and search for treasures, but he did not know how many had entered the ruins.
• Song Zhong killed the cultivator, took his Universe Ring, and wondered whether the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect had entered the ruins to find something beyond him.
• Song Zhong changed into black clothes and flew toward a distant battle, planning to watch and look for something to gain.

Song Zhong collected the Starburst Thunder Crystals and searched the fallen cultivators’ belongings, finding a mysterious seed in a cauldron. Later, he and his companions sheltered in a cave with Ji Junxiao as a brilliant blue droplet of water appeared in the ruins, and Song Zhong pressed Ji Junxiao to explain what it was.

• Song Zhong caught up with Bao Dating and Fan Meier after killing Fang Jingting and Yang Tao, then reassured them that the fleeing cultivators would not pose a threat.
• Song Zhong gathered all thirty-three Starburst Thunder Crystals and searched the dead Five Elements Sect disciples, finding a seed stored in an ornate cauldron and deciding to ask Senior Sister about it.
• A black-robed figure inspected the corpses, realized the Starburst Sky Thunder Crystals had been taken, and left to find a powerful helper.
• After a day of finding no treasures, Song Zhong, Bao Dating, and Fan Meier took shelter in a cave, where Ji Junxiao arrived and had to stay as night fell.
• Thunder struck across the ruins, and a brilliant blue light formed an enormous water droplet surrounded by a green glow before it fell and shook the earth.
• Song Zhong asked Ji Junxiao what the mysterious droplet was after seeing her astonished expression.

Song Zhong collected Taiyi Spirit Water, killed four cultivators who ambushed him, and continued gathering the treasures that fell at night. After reaching Qi Transformation Level Ten and finding lightning had little effect on him, he saw a Prayer Bead fall near the boundary of The Ruins.

• Song Zhong filled his Universe Ring with Taiyi Spirit Water while Li Ji and three fellow disciples plotted to steal his treasure and ambushed him with a poisoned arrow.
• Song Zhong dodged Li Ji’s arrow, killed all four cultivators in their cave, took their belongings, and collected the pool’s remaining water.
• A slender woman inspected the dead cultivators and considered seeking out Huo Chuanxing of the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect.
• Song Zhong returned to Ji Junxiao, then left with Bao Dating and Fan Meier; he later gathered the nightly Starburst Sky Thunder Crystals and noticed that treasures alternated between crystals and Taiyi Spirit Water.
• On the eleventh day, Song Zhong broke through to Qi Transformation Level Ten, found his body had grown resistant to lightning, and wondered why Instant Eternity still circulated in the sealed ruins.
• On the twenty-first day, a golden Prayer Bead fell near the boundary of The Ruins.

Song Zhong beat Chen Zhidong and Chen Zhiliang after they tried to rob the Hundred Peaks Sect disciples, then demanded their Universe Rings. The brothers refused because their father’s Divine Weapon was inside, and Song Zhong attacked despite Chen Zhidong invoking his father’s Immortal Realm cultivation.

• Song Zhong slapped Chen Zhiliang to the ground and demanded that the brothers hand over their Universe Rings.
• Song Zhong struck Chen Zhidong despite his attempt to block, and the Twin Absolute Sect disciples warned the brothers that Song Zhong had killed Huo Chuanxing and Yin Daiqi.
• Bao Dating accused the brothers of robbing him, and Chen Zhidong challenged him to name what they had taken before handing over their rings.
• Chen Zhidong tried to negotiate with Song Zhong, but Song Zhong insisted they return the rings.
• Chen Zhidong revealed that their father was an Immortal Realm expert, and Song Zhong stepped forward and struck at him anyway.

Song Zhong, the Immovable Immortal King, and Qian Fuzhi fought through waves of ground and flying Strange Beasts toward the tower. Song Zhong’s superior vitality let him pull ahead and break through the encirclement, while the other two fell behind.

• The Immovable Immortal King wounded Qian Fuzhi, and a Strange Beast knocked him into another beast as Song Zhong caught up.
• Qian Fuzhi called for Song Zhong to join forces, but Hawk-Tiger Beasts descended and forced all three cultivators to focus on defending themselves.
• The three cultivators pressed toward the tower as the Strange Beasts grew stronger and most of the other cultivators retreated.
• Song Zhong endured more attacks than the others but suffered less from his injuries, allowing him to take the lead as the Immovable Immortal King and Qian Fuzhi slowed.
• Song Zhong broke through the Strange Beasts' encirclement near the tower, and the beasts did not pursue him.