Chapter Summaries

Rain Peak Quasi-Saint overwhelmed two opposing Quasi-Saints, while Strange Demon Quasi-Saint tried to exploit the distraction by trapping Song Zhong and his nearby avatars in an illusion. Song Zhong broke free with help from his other avatars, causing Strange Demon Quasi-Saint to suffer a severe backlash.

• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint used two Immortal Artifacts to attack the elephant-bodied, human-faced Quasi-Saint, and the sheep-bodied, human-faced Quasi-Saint intervened to block them.
• Seeing Rain Peak Quasi-Saint occupied, Strange Demon Quasi-Saint targeted Song Zhong and his nearby avatars with an illusion of Xia Kening.
• Song Zhong recognized the scene as an illusion after his other avatars sent him doubts, and he broke free of it.
• Strange Demon Quasi-Saint suffered a violent backlash, spat blood, and watched his aura plummet.

After the five major sects agreed to reopen the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm, Hundred Peaks Sect worried that Daoxuan Sect’s Huang Weidao would dominate the competition. Song Zhong learned about Phenomenal Immortal Bridges, then broke through from the peak of the Qi Guiding Realm and began forming an Immortal Bridge.

• The Great Elder of Cloud Wave Sect and the Great Elder of Twin Absolute Sect parted ways with Huang Yu after discussing Daoxuan Sect’s plan to pressure Hundred Peaks Sect and secure the secret realm.
• Hundred Peaks Sect disciples worried that Huang Weidao, who had eight Phenomenal Immortal Bridges, would overpower their generation, and Tang Qianzi explained how Phenomenal Immortal Bridges worked.
• Song Zhong returned to Prison Suppressing Peak, sent a letter through Tang Qianzi, gave spirit stones to Song Qingwei, and studied the True Lords’ spells while absorbing Thunder Crystals.
• After ten days at the peak of the Qi Guiding Realm, Song Zhong broke through a shackle, blew the roof off his room, and formed a bridge of spiritual energy behind him.

Song Zhong learned that the Saint of Chaos had destroyed his two clones, then broke through to the Forget Dao Realm and prepared to take revenge. Before confronting the Saint, he planned to investigate the spatial formation and crystal in his cave residence.

• Song Zhong told Rain Peak Quasi-Saint that his clones had self-destructed after the Saint of Chaos attacked them in the Chaotic Lands.
• Song Zhong vowed to kill the Saint of Chaos after reaching the Forget Dao Realm, while Rain Peak Quasi-Saint explained that The Ruins suppressed his own breakthrough to sainthood.
• News spread across the Universe that Song Zhong's clones had been destroyed and that they carried Earth Rank Immortal Artifacts, prompting cultivators to seek him out.
• Song Zhong broke through to the Forget Dao Realm and declared that he would take revenge on the Saint of Chaos.
• Song Zhong decided to send a clone to the Benevolence Dao Alliance to investigate the spatial formation and crystal, but a heavenly tribulation descended.

Song Zhong demanded Thunder Crystals in exchange for helping others obtain Divine Weapons, and Yu Yingxiao agreed to pay him eighteen Extreme Frost Profound Ice Thunder Crystals. At Hundred Peaks Cliff, Song Zhong began the process and summoned a blue umbrella, leaving everyone eager to see what Divine Weapon had emerged.

• Jian Kong and the other Zen cultivation peak representatives left after Song Zhong refused to help without Thunder Crystals.
• Song Zhong agreed to help Qian Yu and others, insisting that they provide Thunder Crystals, preferably Starburst Sky Thunder Crystals or Dark Prison Thunder Crystals.
• Yu Yingxiao offered eighteen Extreme Frost Profound Ice Thunder Crystals, and Song Zhong accepted them in exchange for helping her.
• Song Zhong asked Tang Qianzi to take him to Hundred Peaks Cliff, where the Mountain Guardian Elder allowed him to help Yu Yingxiao.
• Song Zhong held Yu Yingxiao's hand and guided spiritual energy into the cliff, causing a blue radiance to appear and a blue umbrella to fly up.

After reaching the third level of the Immortal Realm, Song Zhong overwhelmed the invading foreign races while Hundred Peaks Sect disciples defended their sect through desperate self-destruction. The Hundred Flowers Sect and Hanging Sky Sect arrived with reinforcements, and the embattled defenders renewed their attack.

• Song Zhong killed a ninth-level Immortal Realm foreign race cultivator with two saber strikes, then continued slaughtering enemies as the survivors fled.
• Hundred Peaks Sect disciples self-destructed to halt the foreign races' advance, while the various races' Heavenly Prodigies recognized Song Zhong as a threat to them.
• The Hundred Flowers Sect and Hanging Sky Sect arrived outside Hundred Peaks Sect and saw its ruined gate, scattered corpses, and defending cultivators self-destructing.
• The two sects' leaders announced their aid and sent their Immortal Realm cultivators to attack the foreign races.
• Hundred Peaks Sect's defenders heard reinforcements had arrived, their morale rose, and they fought on.

Xia Kening began her breakthrough after recovering, and Song Zhong gave her space while she prepared for the heavenly tribulation. She entered the Immortal Realm, but her enormous tribulation struck the palace and reached Song Zhong hiding nearby.

• Xia Kening told Song Zhong she was about to break through and gave him several treasures to protect him from the heavenly tribulation.
• Song Zhong warned Xia Kening to change into clean clothes so the other cultivators would not see her exposed when the tribulation destroyed the cave dwelling.
• After several days, Xia Kening's aura surged and she broke through into the Immortal Realm.
• Three Immortal Realm cultivators outside recognized the terrifying tribulation clouds and decided to wait until Xia Kening finished before attacking her.
• The heavenly tribulation shattered the palace and engulfed Xia Kening and Song Zhong, leaving Song Zhong shocked that the lightning reached him.

Song Zhong drew the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning out from beneath the waterfall cave while cultivators rushed toward a newly revealed Ninth-Rank Divine Weapon. As he reached for the lightning, the cave’s Beast Race master returned and threatened to eat him.

• Song Zhong saw a Ninth-Rank Divine Weapon appear in the distance, and the cultivators changed course to pursue it.
• Song Zhong returned to the waterfall, entered the cave, and broke through the ground after sensing Lightning Power beneath it.
• The Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning erupted from below, drawing cultivators toward its violet radiance.
• Song Zhong tried to seize the Divine Lightning, but the cave’s Beast Race master appeared and revealed that he had been searching for it.
• The Beast Race creature recognized Song Zhong as Human Race and threatened to eat him bite by bite.

Song Zhong overwhelmed Yao Beichen with the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade, repeatedly breaking through his spells and shattering both layers of his Golden Body. After Yao Beichen lost the ability to defend himself, Song Zhong cleaved him in two.

• Yao Beichen attacked Song Zhong with a flaming dragon, but Song Zhong's combined lightning spells shattered the flames and both of Yao Beichen's Golden Bodies.
• Song Zhong pressed the attack without defending, forcing Yao Beichen to block repeated lightning strikes as his spiritual energy and strength dwindled.
• Yao Beichen realized he could neither flee nor target Song Zhong's parents without leaving himself open to a decisive attack.
• Song Zhong struck again, broke through Yao Beichen's spells and Golden Bodies, and wounded him severely.
• Song Zhong's final slash cleaved Yao Beichen in two after Yao Beichen failed to form another Golden Body.

Song Zhong went to the Land of Ceasing Strife to ask the Saint of Ceasing War for a Bodhi Sacred Fruit, but his thoughts about her earned him a crushing warning. The chapter ended with the Saint of Ceasing War crouching beside him and teasing him as he tried to explain himself.

• The Lord of Illusory Eyes told Song Zhong that only the Saint of Ceasing War possessed Bodhi Sacred Fruits and that she would wait while he went to request one.
• Song Zhong crushed the Ceasing War Token and entered the Land of Ceasing Strife alone.
• The Saint of Ceasing War appeared as a beautiful woman, sensed Song Zhong's impudent thoughts, and struck him down with overwhelming killing intent.
• The Saint of Ceasing War warned Song Zhong not to think about Saints until he reached the Dao Seeking Realm, explaining that they could sense such thoughts.
• Song Zhong recovered enough to notice the Saint of Ceasing War's revealing clothes, and she crouched beside him and invited him to look closer.

Song Zhong developed the Human Formation, a formation inscribed on his body that could enhance his strength, and passed the Array Clan Forefather’s trial. He received the clan’s formation inheritance and learned that he had ten years before the remaining power of the world’s grand formation disappeared.

• After reaching the fourth layer of the Knocking Immortal Realm, Song Zhong formed a lightning formation on his body, then devised another formation to enhance his strength and Immortal Qi.
• Song Zhong activated the body formation before the Array Stone, and the Array Clan Forefather sensed it and asked why he had created it.
• Song Zhong explained his idea of carrying a grand formation within himself and eventually becoming a living formation eye; the Array Clan Forefather praised the idea and learned that Song Zhong had named it the Human Formation.
• The Array Clan Forefather judged the Human Formation crude but accepted Song Zhong’s concept, granting him the Array Clan’s inheritance through the Array Stone.
• The Array Clan Forefather told Song Zhong that no resources remained and that the world’s grand formation would lose its power in about ten years.
• Song Zhong resolved to study the inheritance and cultivate for ten years, expecting to reach the Immortal Affinity Realm before The Ruins opened.

Song Zhong hunted down Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators throughout The Ruins as his cultivation advanced to the Ninth Layer of the Golden Body Realm. He exposed four Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators disguised as disciples of the Daoxuan Sect and struck them with lightning.

• After Song Zhong left, cultivators from the Hundred Peaks Sect and Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect discussed his claim that an existence above the True Lord had taught him.
• Song Zhong searched The Ruins for Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators, killing them and Strange Beasts as his cultivation advanced through the Seventh and Eighth Layers of the Golden Body Realm.
• Song Zhong encountered four white-robed Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators disguised as disciples of the Daoxuan Sect and demanded that they demonstrate Daoxuan Sect spells.
• When the four fled and revealed their demonic qi, Song Zhong summoned lightning that shattered their Golden Bodies.
• Song Zhong's aura surged as he broke through to the Ninth Layer of the Golden Body Realm.

Song Zhong killed Liu ZhengHao and drew the foreign races’ attacks, then plunged among them and slaughtered more than a hundred cultivators. As the survivors realized they could not stop him, they turned on one another to secure their own survival.

• Song Zhong beheaded Liu ZhengHao and destroyed his body with Lightning Power, leaving Wang Yang stunned by his strength.
• Foreign cultivators focused their attacks on Song Zhong, while Wang Yang hid behind his shields and fled.
• Song Zhong charged into the foreign cultivators, dodged or endured their spells, and killed more than a hundred with his blade.
• The cultivators panicked and questioned whether Song Zhong was truly in the Knocking Immortal Realm.
• A Bear Demon Clan cultivator attacked a Horse Beast Clan cultivator, explaining that survival mattered more than joining forces against Song Zhong.

Song Zhong fought through the chaotic battle between the Strange Beasts and the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, killing the sect’s cultivators with overwhelming ease as he charged toward Ruan Zhicui. Ruan Zhicui recognized the danger, called for everyone to join forces against Song Zhong, and attacked him with his spear as spells converged from every direction.

• The Strange Beasts and Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators exchanged spells, then clashed in close combat amid deadly shockwaves.
• Song Zhong spotted Ruan Zhicui, drew the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade, and charged toward him.
• Song Zhong cut down Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators in single strikes, causing nearby fighters to flee from his path.
• Ruan Zhicui grew afraid as Song Zhong approached and shouted for everyone to attack him together.
• Ruan Zhicui thrust his spear at Song Zhong while Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators unleashed spells from every direction.

Song Zhong returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect and challenged the Subduing Tiger Sect's attempt to demand resources through a contest. The two sides agreed to settle the dispute in one match between Song Zhong and Xiao Jing, while another group of Daoxuan Sect cultivators emerged from a rift across the ocean.

• The Subduing Tiger Sect's Liu Tingchen proposed a nine-person martial contest, with the winner taking the other's resources.
• Song Zhong returned and objected that the contest was unfair because the Subduing Tiger Sect had nothing to lose.
• A ninth-layer Venerable from the Subduing Tiger Sect challenged Song Zhong, then asked Liu Tingchen to let Xiao Jing fight him in a single match.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder tried to avoid the fight, but Liu Tingchen insisted that Song Zhong and Xiao Jing compete, with the loser’s sect surrendering its treasury.
• Cultivators wearing the Daoxuan Sect emblem emerged from a huge rift at the far end of the ocean.

Song Zhong exchanged thousands of God Crystals in the Realm of the Heavens for body-enhancing resources, cleansing water, and several kinds of lightning, then bought a pill to heal Zhengyi Immortal Emperor. Saint One sent him back to the Human Great Thousand World, where Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor rushed to meet him.

• Song Zhong chose two thousand God Crystals’ worth of Barren Dragon Marrow Fluid and one pool of Nine Netherworld Spring.
• Song Zhong bought additional precious resources and several kinds of lightning until Saint One refused to let him buy the final lightning on credit.
• Song Zhong exchanged one type of lightning and bought a Return-Origin Tracing-Root Pill for Zhengyi Immortal Emperor’s injuries.
• Song Zhong gave Saint One his remaining God Crystals and explained that he had destroyed worlds during the trials because he thought it was required.
• Saint One opened a Spatial Vortex that returned Song Zhong to the Human Great Thousand World, where Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor flew to him.

Song Zhong mastered the Prison Suppressing True Thunder Method and advanced to the third layer of the Star River Realm while Tang Qianzi began facing an Eighth-Ninth Tribulation Lightning breakthrough. As the major sects learned of Song Zhong’s strength and the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm contest, leaders plotted to kill him if he participated.

• Song Zhong mastered the Prison Suppressing True Thunder Method instantly, then continued cultivating away from Tang Qianzi.
• After forty-three days, Song Zhong broke through to the third layer of the Star River Realm as Tang Qianzi’s Eighth-Ninth Tribulation Lightning gathered over Prison Suppressing Peak.
• Disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect discussed Tang Qianzi’s tribulation and Song Zhong’s chances of securing entry to the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm.
• Informants carried news about Song Zhong to other sects, and a Daoxuan Sect elder decided that Song Zhong must die if he joined the contest.
• A Five Elements Sect elder told Xiao Wu to kill Song Zhong without hesitation if they met, while prioritizing qualification for the secret realm.

Song Zhong discovered that Black One was the Lord of Absolute Sword and activated a Killing Society mission talisman. He read several missions, including one targeting himself and another to kill the World of Bizarre Stones.

• Song Zhong found Black One’s black outfit and identity plaques in the Lord of Absolute Sword’s Universe Ring and realized that Absolute Sword had been Black One.
• The Lord of Cherished Flowers suggested checking the mission talisman, and Song Zhong activated his own without touching Black One’s talismans.
• Song Zhong read the mission to recover Black One’s identity talisman and plaque, and the Lord of Cherished Flowers explained the risks outsiders would face if they obtained them.
• Song Zhong read a mission to kill the Lord of Flashing Lightning, whom the Lord of Cherished Flowers identified as a peak Supreme Path Realm expert.
• Song Zhong found a mission to kill the Death-Sending Immortal Emperor and objected to its reward of five hundred Assassin Society Tokens.
• Song Zhong continued reading and found a mission to kill the World of Bizarre Stones, which had been occupied by the Demon Race.

Song Zhong and the other cultivators fled as a massive beast tide swept through the Sealed Ruins, leaving them surrounded with no clear escape. Song Zhong urged them to attack the Spider Lizards, and the resulting barrage killed the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators caught among them.

• Song Zhong spotted hundreds of powerful Spider Lizards pursuing fleeing cultivators and escaped as their spikes pierced many of the slower fighters.
• Song Zhong and the fleeing cultivators repeatedly changed direction to avoid more Strange Beasts, gathering into a crowd of over a thousand people as the beast tide surrounded them.
• When cultivators began attacking in scattered directions, Song Zhong called for everyone to target the supposedly weakest Spider Lizards and break out that way.
• The crowd launched spells toward the Spider Lizards, and the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators near them were struck by both the spells and the beasts' spikes, killing them all.

Song Zhong encountered Li Fei and the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples, who disguised themselves and tried to lure him into an attack. Li Fei unleashed his Soul-Calling Banner, but Song Zhong countered with lightning blades that tore through the Vengeful Souls.

• Li Fei recognized Song Zhong and urged the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples to change out of their uniforms so Song Zhong would not flee.
• Li Fei approached Song Zhong under the pretense of asking questions, while his junior brothers and junior sister flew up behind him.
• Li Fei confirmed Song Zhong's identity and attacked with his Soul-Calling Banner, surrounding him with over ten thousand Vengeful Souls.
• Song Zhong swung his saber and sent out lightning blades that destroyed the Vengeful Souls on contact.

Song Zhong entered the third layer of the Realm of the Heavens and learned that he needed nine bone segments to advance. He encountered a bone dragon carrying two segments and fought back as another cultivator approached the battle.

• Song Zhong heard that the Dragon Slayer Clan’s power lay in its spines, then learned he needed to collect nine bone segments to reach the fourth layer.
• Song Zhong flew across a vast, desolate land and found scattered bones assembling into a bone dragon with two bone segments on its spine.
• The bone dragon attacked Song Zhong with a gale and poisonous mist, but Song Zhong’s lightning dispersed the mist.
• An armored cultivator marked with the number 1087 sensed the fight and flew toward Song Zhong.
• The bone dragon lunged at Song Zhong with its claw, and Song Zhong swung his Lightning Blade at its back.