Chapter Summaries

After the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Venerables awakened, they learned that Song Zhong had wiped out hundreds of clans and become stronger than them. As Bai Ruorou returned to Prison Suppressing Peak and saw its newly recruited disciples and abundant resources, seven Toad Demon Clan Venerables set out to hunt Song Zhong.

• Ouyang Yi told the awakened Venerables that Song Zhong had exterminated hundreds of clans and intended to wipe out every clan that had attacked the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Shen Lichu and the other cultivators described Song Zhong’s overwhelming strength, leaving the awakened Venerables astonished and Bai Ruorou realizing her disciple had surpassed her.
• Bai Ruorou returned to Prison Suppressing Peak and learned that Song Zhong had ordered the recruitment of talented disciples and brought back abundant resources from conquered sects and clans.
• Seven Toad Demon Clan Venerables awakened, learned that their clansmen had fled for fear of Song Zhong, and vowed to kill him.
• After a returning cultivator revealed Song Zhong was near the Great Thousand World’s exit, the seven Toad Demon Clan Venerables rushed out to pursue him and seize his plundered resources.

Song Zhong rescued Feng Yu Quasi-Saint and the other Human Race cultivators by killing the Demonic Beasts and the Quasi-Saints attacking them. Feng Yu Quasi-Saint explained how people could cross into another Universe, and Song Zhong learned that his Great Thousand World might recognize fellow Human Race cultivators and let them enter.

• Song Zhong killed the remaining Demonic Beasts after Feng Yu Quasi-Saint and the other Human Race cultivators watched him slay ten Quasi-Saints in one move.
• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint thanked Song Zhong and realized that his lightning had also killed the Demonic Beasts in the Forget Dao Realm.
• Song Zhong said the Beast Race in his Universe had been wiped out and claimed he was the strongest cultivator in his Great Thousand World.
• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint asked which Universe Song Zhong came from and whether she could visit his Great Thousand World.
• Feng Yu Quasi-Saint explained that a Void-Piercing Blade, knowledge of a Universe's location, and special items could allow someone to cross into another Universe, though the Great Thousand World might admit fellow Human Race cultivators directly.

Wu Zhi obtained the True Lord of Pure Water’s inheritance and learned he had to kill Song Zhong, the inheritor of the True Lord of Thunderclap. Song Zhong was swept into the vortex and landed on the island, where Wu Zhi tried to trick him into attacking first before launching a strike himself.

• Wu Zhi absorbed the Prayer Beads’ mental power and received the True Lord of Pure Water’s Grand Path of Water inheritance.
• Wu Zhi learned that he had to kill Song Zhong to claim the inheritance’s remaining treasures, and decided to wait for him at the island.
• Song Zhong arrived at the vortex with Song Qingwei and Ma Jin, and a column of seawater carried him to the island.
• Wu Zhi told Song Zhong to attack him first, claiming that the two ruins required them to determine a winner before they could leave.
• Song Zhong saw through Wu Zhi’s lie, cursed him, and refused to attack.
• Wu Zhi became enraged and struck at Song Zhong.

Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King entered the fourth level of the Heaven-Reaching Crystal, where worsening gravity and a challenge to defeat another cultivator made progress difficult. They found signs of earlier battles and encountered a spherical cultivator as Song Zhong warned that seven cultivators had already been sent back.

• Song Zhong helped Baihua Immortal King prepare her bone segment, and they each carried nine segments into the fourth level.
• Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King heard that they had to defeat a cultivator and break their Substitute Death Talisman to reach the fifth level.
• As gravity increased, Baihua Immortal King could no longer fly, so Song Zhong landed and continued forward with her on foot.
• Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King saw battle-scarred ground, and Song Zhong said seven cultivators had already been sent back.
• A small, spherical cultivator appeared in front of Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King.

Song Zhong fought Wei Yangqiu, a Golden Body Realm expert, and used his Thunder of Azure Nothingness to overpower and kill him. The chapter ended with Song Zhong dismissing Wei Yangqiu’s shattered golden body.

• Wei Yangqiu attacked Song Zhong with corrosive ink, but Song Zhong’s lightning destroyed it.
• Wei Yangqiu drew a towering mountain to crush Song Zhong, but Song Zhong’s lightning split it apart.
• Song Zhong charged Wei Yangqiu at close range, and their weapons clashed with overwhelming force.
• Song Zhong’s lightning shattered Wei Yangqiu’s golden body and tore through his body.
• Song Zhong struck again, and Wei Yangqiu exploded beneath the lightning; Song Zhong mocked his golden body.

Song Zhong and the others entered The Ruins, where they regrouped and learned that the site held the inheritance of the Spirit Race’s legendary Myriad Life Immortal King. The inheritance was open to all races, and whoever reached the deepest part first would face his trial.

• Wang Yang and Yu Rui helped Song Zhong’s group withstand the spells before the suction force pulled them into The Ruins.
• Pang Meng killed several foreign-race cultivators who had attacked them, then returned to the group as they explored.
• Qiao Yingpei noted that they had found almost no beasts or treasures when The Ruins began shaking and a powerful phantom appeared.
• The phantom identified himself as the Myriad Life Immortal King, prompting Dongfang Youzhi to explain his fearsome reputation.
• The Myriad Life Immortal King announced that his only treasure was his life’s inheritance, which would go to the first person of any race to reach the deepest part and pass his trial.

Song Zhong and Tang Qianzi drew a Seventh Grade Upper Tier Divine Weapon, the Hundred Dragon Evil Shaking Seal, from beneath Hundred Peaks Cliff. Tang Qianzi took Song Zhong back to Prison Suppressing Peak and showed the weapon to Bai Ruorou, urging her to let Song Zhong help her catch a Divine Weapon too.

• The Mountain Guardian Elder allowed Tang Qianzi to lend Song Zhong a small amount of spiritual energy as he fished at Hundred Peaks Cliff.
• Song Zhong released his spiritual energy into the abyss, and the Hundred Dragon Evil Shaking Seal emerged in a blaze of golden light.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder identified the seal as a Seventh Grade Upper Tier Divine Weapon once used by the Great Elder of the Azure Firmament Sect.
• Tang Qianzi claimed the seal, praised Song Zhong, and flew with him back to Prison Suppressing Peak while holding him close.
• Tang Qianzi showed the seal to Bai Ruorou and suggested that Song Zhong hold her master's hand and help her catch a Divine Weapon.

Song Zhong and Xie Wenying prepared for the Six Sects Tournament final after both used the delay to break through, while Song Zhong mocked Daoxuan Sect’s Great Elder Deng Yuanfang for inadvertently giving him time to improve. The chapter ended with both fighters revealing powerful Divine Weapons before the match began.

• Song Zhong agreed to delay the final for five days, and Great Elder Chen Lu learned that Song Zhong expected to break through during that time.
• Song Zhong reached the fourth layer of the Star River Realm before the final against Xie Wenying.
• Xie Wenying revealed that she had reached the sixth layer, prompting observers to suspect she had forced her breakthrough with a special pill.
• Song Zhong revealed his own breakthrough and teased Great Elder Deng Yuanfang for helping him by delaying the final.
• Xie Wenying drew the seventh-tier mid-grade Qingfeng Soulchaser Sword, and Song Zhong countered with a higher-grade seventh-tier saber.

After the Mountain Guardian Elder saved Song Zhong from an assassination attempt, he recovered in a life-energy pool while the Hundred Peaks Sect investigated the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s attack. Once reunited with Bai Ruorou and Tang Qianzi, Song Zhong insisted on taking revenge himself.

• The Mountain Guardian Elder placed Song Zhong in a pool beneath a life-giving tree, discovered the strength of Song Zhong’s physique, and left him to recover.
• Great Elder Chen Lu ordered a thorough investigation after news spread that Song Zhong had been attacked inside the sect, and the Mountain Guardian Elder confirmed the assassin belonged to the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect.
• Jian Kong heard the Ancestor criticize the failed assassination, then praise it for revealing the Mountain Guardian’s true God body.
• After seven days, Song Zhong had nearly recovered, and the Mountain Guardian Elder visited him in the cave abode.
• Bai Ruorou and Tang Qianzi arrived and found Song Zhong bathing naked; after he dressed, the Mountain Guardian Elder accepted responsibility for failing to protect him.
• Tang Qianzi vowed to kill Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples, but Song Zhong told her to leave the revenge to him.

Song Zhong revealed that he had killed the cultivators who threatened his parents and explained that his enemies made it unsafe for them to remain in Chuanze City. After arranging to take his parents to Hundred Peaks Sect, he packed their belongings and discovered an unusually durable ore among the items in several Universe Rings.

• Song Zhong revealed his identity to Song Shilian and Mother Song, then explained that he had killed the Golden Body Realm cultivators who attacked them.
• Song Zhong told his parents that his enemies could target them, and urged them to leave Chuanze City for the safety of Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Song Shilian agreed to resign as City Lord and leave with Mother Song, while Song Zhong told him to arrange their departure as soon as possible.
• Mother Song tried to pack their belongings, so Song Zhong used a Universe Ring to store everything in the house.
• While waiting for Song Shilian, Song Zhong examined the Heavenly Fiend Blades and found that he could use twenty-four of the thirty-six blades.
• Song Zhong searched several Universe Rings and discovered an ore that neither the Heavenly Fiend Blades nor the Thunder Fury Dragon Blade could crack.

Song Zhong endured the Ninth-Ninth Tribulation Lightning falling on Xia Kening, using its power to temper his body while surviving strikes meant for Immortal Realm cultivators. On the eighteenth day, he broke through to the seventh layer of the Star River Realm, faster than he expected, and suspected the Divine Water had greatly improved his aptitude.

• Xia Kening and three Immortal Realm cultivators recognized the lightning as the Ninth-Ninth Tribulation, while Xia Kening worried that Little Fox might not survive it.
• Song Zhong used Thunder Impervious Art to withstand the tribulation lightning, which shattered his defenses and damaged his meridians before the Lightning Power inside him began devouring it.
• The three Immortal Realm cultivators were astonished that Song Zhong, a Star River Realm cultivator, survived multiple strikes of the Ninth-Ninth Tribulation Lightning.
• Song Zhong stayed at the edge of the tribulation instead of fleeing, enduring the lightning because it tempered his physical body and the three Immortal Realm cultivators waited outside.
• As the lightning strengthened over eighteen days, Song Zhong's body grew stronger, and he broke through to the seventh layer of the Star River Realm.
• Song Zhong realized the breakthrough took eighteen days instead of the expected twenty-six and wondered whether the Divine Water had improved his aptitude.

Song Zhong flew back toward Eastern Barrens Province after learning that Daoxuan Sect members had gone there, fearing for his family. In Chuanze City, the Daoxuan Sect visitors noticed a crowd outside a Song family shop, leaving Song Zhong's arrival and their encounter unresolved.

• Song Zhong decided to bring his family to Hundred Peaks Sect to protect them from enemies and learned that Eastern Barrens Province lay southeast of his location.
• Song Zhong passed Xingyi Sect, where two cultivators mistook him for a Daoxuan Sect member and told him Daoxuan Sect cultivators had recently gone to Eastern Barrens Province.
• Song Zhong hurried toward his home province and reached Chuanze City in the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• A guide told six Daoxuan Sect visitors that Chuanze City had grown prosperous since the Song family sent two young people to Hundred Peaks Sect.
• A disdainful Daoxuan Sect woman noticed mortals queuing outside a shop bearing the Song name.

Song Zhong brought his parents toward the Hundred Peaks Sect and stopped at the Xingyi Sect to ask for directions, alarming its cultivators with his powerful aura. After he left, a Golden Body Realm expert arrived seeking a Demon Sect cultivator and pursued the route toward the Hundred Peaks Sect.

• Song Zhong flew to the Xingyi Sect with Song Shilian and his mother, releasing an aura that made the sect’s guards sound the alarm.
• Song Zhong asked the Xingyi Sect’s cultivators for directions to the Hundred Peaks Sect, and the middle-aged cultivator pointed the way.
• Song Zhong left with his parents, while the Xingyi Sect’s cultivators wondered why such a powerful Hundred Peaks Sect cultivator needed directions.
• Song Shilian questioned Song Zhong about alarming the sect and asked whether his sister was safe; Song Zhong reassured him that she was doing well.
• A Golden Body Realm expert arrived at the Xingyi Sect and asked whether anyone had seen a Demon Sect cultivator or mortals traveling with a cultivator.
• A Xingyi Sect cultivator told the expert that Song Zhong had asked for directions to the Hundred Peaks Sect, and the expert immediately flew after him.

Chu Yuan revealed that he had discovered a flaw in Song Zhong’s Phantom Lightning Body and helped Hu Yuxi and the other cultivators restrain him. Song Zhong stopped dodging and attacked, while the cultivators’ spells engulfed him in a cloud of dust lit by violet light.

• Chu Yuan emerged and identified himself as the Tentacle Clan’s lightning prodigy, then told Hu Yuxi how to target Song Zhong’s spell.
• Chu Yuan urged the cultivators to attack together while Hu Yuxi sent a deadly bolt of black lightning toward Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong found that the attackers’ lightning had disrupted his connection to the surrounding lightning, preventing him from moving through it as before.
• Song Zhong stopped trying to dodge and swung his longsword at an alien cultivator as lightning spells descended around him.
• The cultivators believed Song Zhong had been struck down, and violet light shone through the dust and smoke.

Song Zhong faced Xiao Jing of the Subduing Tiger Sect in a one-on-one duel, hiding his overwhelming strength as he tried to follow the Mountain Guardian Elder’s advice. After Song Zhong’s lightning shattered Xiao Jing’s tornado, Xiao Jing launched a devastating staff strike, leaving their duel unresolved.

• A Subduing Tiger Sect cultivator questioned why the Hundred Peaks Sect had agreed so readily to the duel, but the others dismissed his concerns.
• Song Zhong assured the Mountain Guardian Elder that he could defeat Xiao Jing, and the elder warned him to win narrowly without killing his opponent.
• Xiao Jing unleashed his Gale Force Subduing Tiger Art, creating a tornado that tore through trees, earth, and stone.
• Song Zhong summoned Ten Directions Extinction Lightning, which struck the tornado until it burst apart.
• Xiao Jing acknowledged Song Zhong’s strength, then raised his staff and brought down a tiger-shaped attack.

Song Zhong returned with Liu Mu to the Piaomiao Sect’s gathering and learned that the Seven Paths Ruins produced essences of seven Great Daos. Sun Lifeng urged him to stay, while Song Zhong suspected he wanted him killed and resolved to remember him.

• Liu Mu brought Song Zhong back to the Piaomiao Sect cultivators, where Ning Wan mistook him for Liu Mu’s prospective dao companion.
• A disciple recognized Song Zhong as Moonrise True Monarch’s dao companion, and Ning Wan questioned why someone at his realm had come to the Immortal Affinity Battlefield.
• Sun Lifeng encouraged Song Zhong to remain and seek opportunities, and Song Zhong suspected Sun Lifeng was trying to get him killed for Carefree True Monarch.
• Ning Wan explained that the Seven Paths Ruins appeared roughly once every ten thousand years and produced essences of seven different Great Daos.

Song Zhong killed Ji Qitian with his lightning-infused blade after shattering the Sen'gu cultivator’s bone attacks. Ji Qizong and Ji Qiheng fled as Duan Xue realized how powerful the unfamiliar Rogue Cultivator was.

• Ji Qitian attacked Song Zhong with a storm of bone blades, but Song Zhong shattered them with a lightning-infused slash.
• Ji Qitian formed a bone shield, but Song Zhong split him in two and destroyed his body with lightning.
• Ji Qizong and Ji Qiheng were shocked that Song Zhong had killed their powerful third brother.
• Duan Xue realized Song Zhong had been strong enough to stay and that Chang Xi and the others were likely already dead.
• Ji Qizong and Ji Qiheng attacked fiercely, then turned and tried to flee.

Song Zhong unleashed the Yin-Yang World-Shattering Calamity, wiping out the Lord of Myriad Forms and many Demon Race cultivators across the World of Bizarre Stones. After the power dissipated, he collected the fallen cultivators’ belongings and flew onward to exterminate the remaining Demon Race.

• The expanding Black Vortex swept in several Demon Race cultivators and the Lord of Myriad Forms, blasting them to dust.
• Song Zhong named his devastating strike the Yin-Yang World-Shattering Calamity, then endured injuries when the Black Vortex's power collided with the Yin-Yang Energy around him.
• The Black Vortex's power caught fleeing Demon Race cultivators and killed many of them as it spread across the world.
• Song Zhong resolved to refine the spell so its secondary explosions would not injure him and flew into the sky to survey the devastation.
• Song Zhong used the Funeral Bell to absorb wandering souls, collected the fallen cultivators’ Immortal Artifacts and Universe Rings, and flew into the distance.

Song Zhong broke through the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s spell barrage and fought his way toward Ruan Zhicui. He killed Ruan Zhicui in two strikes, leaving the sect’s disciples terrified and fleeing.

• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators blanketed Song Zhong with spells, but he endured them with Thunder Impervious and his Golden Bodies while the barrage also killed many of their own fighters.
• Song Zhong advanced as Strange Beasts attacked the sect’s cultivators, then charged toward Ruan Zhicui with five newly condensed Golden Bodies.
• Ruan Zhicui blocked Song Zhong’s first strike with his spear, but Song Zhong’s lightning shattered all nine of his Golden Bodies and left him badly injured.
• Song Zhong killed Ruan Zhicui with a second slash, took his Universe Ring, and attacked another disciple as the remaining sect members panicked and fled.

Song Zhong overwhelmed the Immovable Immortal King, severing both his arms before a sudden surge of Immortal Qi restored the wounded fighters. The Myriad Beasts Tower vanished as The Ruins erupted, and Song Zhong was exposed as an Immortal Qi Realm cultivator.

• Song Zhong battered the Immovable Immortal King and shattered his shoulder with a powerful strike.
• Song Zhong seized the Immovable Immortal King's arm, then cut off both of his arms as he tried to escape.
• Chen Jia watched in shock as Song Zhong defeated the reincarnated Immortal King.
• A rift opened overhead and Immortal Qi surged across the battlefield, restoring the Immovable Immortal King and Qian Fuzhi.
• Song Zhong collected the Immovable Immortal King's dropped blade and activated the Myriad Beasts Tower, which vanished as The Ruins exploded.
• The Immovable Immortal King and Qian Fuzhi recognized Song Zhong's Immortal Qi Realm cultivation, and Song Zhong realized he had been exposed.