Chapter Summaries

Xie Wenying defeated Ouyang Xin with a single sword strike, revealing Daoxuan Sect’s strength and provoking Song Zhong. On the second day, Song Zhong drew Daoxuan Sect’s Zhou Chaoyang as his opponent and warned him that he might hit hard.

• Ouyang Xin unleashed Solitary Peak’s Cloud Dragon Pierces the Sky, but Xie Wenying shattered the dragon phantom and his protective spell with a barrage of sword shadows, severely wounding him.
• Chen Lu’s Great Elder conceded defeat and healed Ouyang Xin, while the spectators praised Xie Wenying and predicted Daoxuan Sect would claim the secret-realm qualification.
• Xie Wenying gave Song Zhong a provocative look after defeating Ouyang Xin.
• The Six Sects tournament resumed on the second day, and Song Zhong drew Zhou Chaoyang of Daoxuan Sect, who was at the fourth level of the Star River Realm.
• Song Zhong explained that Zhou Chaoyang had run into him because Xie Wenying had provoked him, then warned that he might hit hard; Zhou Chaoyang grew angry but remained wary of Song Zhong’s lightning.

Song Zhong gathered cultivators from the major sects and led them to besiege the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, breaking through to the fifth layer of the Immortal Realm on the way. As the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect sealed its gates and turned away fleeing Daoxuan Sect disciples, Song Zhong arrived with the allied forces and launched the attack.

• Song Zhong agreed to let the major sects join his attack on the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, provided they kept the plan secret.
• The major sects assembled and returned Divine Weapons, and Song Zhong broke through to the fifth layer of the Immortal Realm during the journey.
• Escaped Daoxuan Sect disciples asked to join the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect, but its guards refused them because the sect had sealed its mountain gate.
• The Daoxuan Sect disciples spotted Song Zhong and the major sects approaching, then fled from the area.
• Song Zhong arrived at the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's mountain gate and declared that he had come to destroy it.
• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect activated its grand formation, rang the Blood Demon Bell, and summoned its experts to defend the gate.

Song Zhong refined his control over the Tribulation Lightning during Xia Kening’s tribulation, gradually strengthening the lightning within his body while surviving its attacks. Meanwhile, Immortal Realm cultivators waited to ambush him, and four Devil Dao experts prepared to kill him near the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm.

• Three Immortal Realm cultivators agreed to kill Song Zhong and Xia Kening after their tribulations ended, hoping to seize Song Zhong’s Universe Ring.
• Xia Kening noticed Song Zhong’s breakthrough, then refocused when another bolt struck her.
• Song Zhong realized that the lightning in his body was consuming most of the Tribulation Lightning, so he reduced its absorption and let the Thunder of Azure Nothingness take in more, but the stronger lightning made him spit blood.
• The Immortal Realm cultivators expected Song Zhong to succumb, but over the following days he survived and gained finer control over the lightning entering his body.
• Four Devil Dao experts gathered near the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm and discussed killing Song Zhong, with one hoping to turn his skull into part of a bone belt.

After the cultivators learned that Song Zhong had overwhelmed the other races in the Sealed Ruins, they demanded that the Human Race hand him over. Song Zhong returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect with the Myriad Beasts Tower and began exploring its floors, where the Strange Beasts grew stronger with each level.

• Cultivators from the various races demanded that the Human Race hand over Song Zhong, and the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's Deputy Sect Master directed them toward the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• On the Flying Boat, Song Zhong explained that the Myriad Beasts Tower was an auxiliary Divine Weapon containing more than ten thousand Strange Beasts and Blood Crystals.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder flew Song Zhong back to the Hundred Peaks Sect, where he and the Great Elder summoned the sect's experts and upper echelons for a meeting.
• Song Zhong released the Myriad Beasts Tower on Prison Suppressing Peak and killed the first floor's thousand Strange Beasts, collecting a thousand Blood Crystals.
• Song Zhong found that the first three floors held Strange Beasts at successive layers of the Qi Guiding Realm, and he began to suspect something was wrong.

Song Zhong agreed to enter the Sage Ruins with Lord of Cherished Flowers, which would open in thirty years, then began an immense heavenly tribulation that astonished the Flower Clan. As the tribulation continued, a mysterious voice suddenly reached every Immortal Emperor Realm cultivator in the Universe.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers invited Song Zhong into the Sage Ruins, and he agreed to accompany her when it opened in thirty years.
• Baihua Immortal King helped Song Zhong improve his aptitude, and he absorbed Barren Dragon Marrow Fluid that accelerated his cultivation.
• Three days later, Song Zhong began an Immortal Emperor Realm breakthrough beneath terrifying Tribulation Clouds, shocking Baihua Immortal King and Lord of Cherished Flowers.
• Lianhua Master and distant Flower Clan cultivators watched Song Zhong endure a tribulation that surpassed even the trials faced by Supreme Realm cultivators.
• A voice suddenly rang in the minds of every Immortal Emperor Realm cultivator throughout the Universe.

Song Zhong slaughtered the strongest cultivators of nearly every race, then left for the tower where a Divine Weapon awaited. When the Winged Race and several other races tried to hold back and let him face the Strange Beasts alone, he forced them to advance with him.

• Song Zhong killed the last Heavenly Prodigy of the Giant Stone Clan and collected the fallen cultivators’ Universe Rings.
• Song Zhong spotted cultivators near the tower and sped toward it, killing Strange Beasts and collecting their Blood Crystals along the way.
• Song Zhong caught up with the Winged Race, whose leader secretly planned to let him charge ahead and become a target for the Strange Beasts.
• Song Zhong ordered the Winged Race and the other races at the front to advance with him, threatening to kill anyone who refused.
• The Winged Race leader ordered his cultivators to move forward under Song Zhong’s threat.

After Song Zhong saved the Human Race, Zhengyi Immortal Emperor pledged to pursue the Supreme Realm while Wutian Immortal Emperor hunted down hidden foreign races. In the Realm of the Heavens, Song Zhong broke through to the mid-stage Immortal King Realm, defeated his mirror image, and encountered a vision of a Void Vortex destroying a Great Thousand World.

• The Human Race celebrated Song Zhong’s protection, while foreign races hiding among them panicked at the prospect of waiting another three hundred years.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor entered seclusion and vowed to reach the Supreme Realm within three hundred years, while Wutian Immortal Emperor began exterminating hidden foreign races.
• Song Zhong’s prolonged battles on level eleven helped him break through from the early to the mid-stage Immortal King Realm.
• Song Zhong defeated his mirror image with a single slash and followed the staircase that appeared after it vanished.
• Song Zhong stepped onto a cloud-like expanse and saw a Void Vortex descend on a Great Thousand World and grind it into dust.

Song Zhong accompanied Wu Qingqing to the Piaomiao Sect, where the Grand Elder opposed their relationship and ordered him to undergo an assessment. The sect chose Zhou Shuning, a powerful Venerable, to fight him, and Song Zhong followed everyone outside for the match.

• Wu Qingqing introduced Song Zhong to the Sect Leader and Grand Elder, and Song Zhong mistakenly identified the two women before Glacial Immortal King corrected him.
• Glacial Immortal King and the elderly Sect Leader said Song Zhong had to pass the sect's assessment to become Wu Qingqing's dao companion.
• Glacial Immortal King ordered Song Zhong to fight a Venerable Realm cultivator and invited the sect members to recommend candidates.
• Carefree True Monarch proposed Zhou Shuning, the Piaomiao Sect's strongest Venerable, and Glacial Immortal King approved the choice.
• Glacial Immortal King led everyone outside to watch the assessment, while Song Zhong suspected Carefree True Monarch wanted a second dao companion.

Ten sects gathered outside the Hundred Peaks Sect to seize its resources and capture Song Zhong, but the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect arrived with an Immortal Qi Realm expert intent on killing him. Wu Qingqing emerged and declared Song Zhong was her husband, revealing she was a disciple of the Piaomiao Sect, and the Blood Fiend leader threatened her if she protected him.

• Ten sects surrounded the Hundred Peaks Sect, and their Orthodox and Devil Dao representatives nearly fought over how to divide its resources.
• An old man urged the sects to stop arguing and attack the Hundred Peaks Sect before more cultivators arrived.
• The Orthodox Sects demanded that the Hundred Peaks Sect hand over Song Zhong, while the Devil Dao Sects called for an immediate attack.
• Wu Qingqing asked who dared to arrest her husband, Song Zhong, as the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect arrived and announced it would kill him.
• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect leader ordered the other cultivators to guard the gate and threatened Wu Qingqing when she revealed her Piaomiao Sect identity and defended Song Zhong.

Lord of Illusory Eyes escorted Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers toward the Mysterious Realm, explaining its dangers, resources, and mysterious clouds. Song Zhong realized that the Benevolence Dao Alliance’s map could help Lord of Ceaseless Battles explore the realm through his many avatars.

• Lord of Chaos Island sent Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers into the Mysterious Realm and gave Song Zhong a map of a region the Benevolence Dao Alliance had explored.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes warned them that deadly undercurrents had swallowed thirteen Saints and explained that the map’s contents would vanish from their memories after they read it.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes described the Mysterious Realm’s Chaos Strangling Domains, powerful World Beasts, and mysterious formations, noting that the map marked many of these hazards.
• Song Zhong suspected that Lord of Ceaseless Battles could use his many avatars to explore the Mysterious Realm and map it out despite the alliance’s safeguards.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes explained that the realm contained resources, inheritances, and Mysterious Clouds that could yield valuable treasures or deadly dangers.

Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers received mysterious Yin-Yang marks before two Light Wing Clan cultivators attacked them, confident their Immortal Artifacts would secure an easy victory. Lord of Embersmoke trapped Song Zhong in darkness and cut off his senses, leaving his response uncertain.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers felt her strength surge after Song Zhong shared his combat power with her, and they each received a Yin-Yang mark that she suspected might bind their lives together.
• Song Zhong speculated that the marks might enable dual cultivation, while Lord of Cherished Flowers wondered uneasily if they were meant to join a master and disciple.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers identified the approaching pair as Light Wing Clan cultivators and warned Song Zhong that their clan was exceptionally fast.
• Lord of Suspended Sky and Lord of Embersmoke decided to kill Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers to seize their treasures, then attacked with golden wheels and a smoke-shrouding silk artifact.
• Lord of Embersmoke enveloped Song Zhong in darkness that suppressed all his senses and moved behind him, believing he could not break her Immortal Artifact.

Song Zhong slaughtered the invading clans’ Immortal Emperors as they fled the Human Great Thousand World, while their Supreme Realm experts watched helplessly from outside. He continued killing them despite their threats, leaving the five clans unable to rescue their people.

• Demon Thorn Immortal Emperor fled toward the edge of the Human Great Thousand World as Song Zhong killed other cultivators and counted each death.
• Song Zhong killed a Tentacle Clan Immortal Emperor even after the man begged for mercy.
• The Supreme Realm cultivators of the five clans waited outside the Human Great Thousand World, expecting their five hundred Immortal Emperors to have destroyed the Human Race.
• Song Zhong caught up with the fleeing Immortal Emperors and killed several while the Supreme Realm cultivators realized they could not open the barrier to rescue them.
• Song Zhong rejected the Supreme Realm cultivators’ threats and killed an Insect Clan Immortal Emperor, counting his victims up to eighty.

Song Zhong pursued the Venerables who had fled into the Extraterritorial Battlefield, and his heavenly tribulation devastated the Great Thousand Worlds of other clans as he passed through them. As his tribulation neared its end, awakened Venerables prepared to kill him, though some clans refused to join the attack.

• Song Zhong’s tribulation lightning killed five of six Immortal Realm cultivators caught in its aftermath, and he continued pursuing the fleeing Venerables.
• Song Zhong flew into the Giant Stone Clan’s Great Thousand World, where his tribulation nearly turned the world upside down.
• The fleeing Venerables urged other clans to attack Song Zhong after his tribulation ended, but some clans refused to provoke him.
• Song Zhong entered Great Thousand Worlds of other clans and destroyed them as more than one hundred and ninety days passed.
• Fourth- to sixth-layer Venerables awakened and learned that Song Zhong had exterminated many clans; some welcomed the weakened competition for resources.
• The awakened Venerables planned to find and kill Song Zhong when his tribulation ended after two hundred days.

After Song Zhong killed Wu Ci in a sparring match, he defended himself by claiming he could not control his newly acquired strength and challenged Formless Peak’s ranked disciples. He then went with Tang Qianzi to Golden Coin Peak to discuss commerce, where Wan Mushu arrived and Song Zhong began explaining how free offerings could make money.

• Song Zhong’s killing of Wu Ci shocked the crowd, and a Formless Peak disciple threatened to report him to the Enforcement Hall.
• Tang Qianzi argued that Song Zhong had killed Wu Ci accidentally because he had only just entered the Immortal Bridge Realm and could not judge his strength.
• Song Zhong dared Formless Peak’s Immortal Bridge Realm Peak Ranking disciples to face him, then asked Qian Yu to take him to Golden Coin Peak to discuss commerce.
• Qian Yu escorted Song Zhong and Tang Qianzi to Golden Coin Peak’s council hall and warned Song Zhong that taking a Divine Weapon could harm his reputation.
• Wan Mushu arrived and scoffed at Song Zhong’s offer to teach commerce, while Tang Qianzi introduced her as Golden Coin Peak’s top Myriad Longevity Realm cultivator.
• Song Zhong told Qian Yu that monopolies made money and that offering things for free could be even more profitable.

Song Zhong and the other cultivators found themselves surrounded by Strange Beasts in The Ruins, where they could not use Immortal Qi and had to fight on foot. As Song Zhong battled alongside a nimble, barefoot female cultivator, he watched her skillfully kill two beasts.

• Strange Beasts appeared in every direction, forcing Song Zhong and the other cultivators to fight rather than flee.
• Song Zhong used the Nine Dragons Lightning Scythe to slash a Strange Beast, then split it in two after his first strike failed to kill it.
• A female cultivator from the Cat Demon Clan was pierced through the chest by a Strange Beast's horn and fell.
• A nimble female cultivator retrieved a sword lodged in a Strange Beast and fought off attacks from two beasts at once.
• Song Zhong noticed that the female cultivator killed two Strange Beasts with precise sword strikes and was fighting barefoot.

Baihua Immortal King returned from the Realm of the Heavens after reaching the tenth floor with Song Zhong’s help, astonishing her master and Senior Sister Lianhua. She explained their oath, and her master prepared to honor it by learning about and protecting Song Zhong’s Great Thousand World.

• Baihua Immortal King’s master and Senior Sister Lianhua waited in disbelief as she remained away from the Realm of the Heavens far longer than expected.
• Baihua Immortal King returned unharmed and revealed that she had reached the tenth floor and used her Substitute Death Talisman to leave.
• Baihua Immortal King explained that Song Zhong, a cultivator from the Ten Thousandth Great Thousand World, had escorted her there after they swore an oath.
• Lianhua Master and Baihua Immortal King’s master praised Song Zhong’s talent, while her master warned that clearing the eleventh floor was exceptionally difficult.
• Baihua Immortal King’s master said she would investigate Song Zhong’s Great Thousand World and protect it as required by the oath.

Song Zhong refused to leave the True Immortal Battlefield despite warnings that other races might hunt him for obtaining the Immovable Immortal King's inheritance. Star-Thunder True Lord taught him Starlight Lightning Lock, and Forget-Thunder True Lord began passing down the Immortal King Slaying Art.

• Thunderclap True Lord urged Song Zhong to return to the Human Race's Great Thousand World before other races confirmed he had obtained the inheritance, but he refused.
• Song Zhong said he would stay in the True Immortal Battlefield until he reached the True Immortal or True Lord Realm, and learned that the Hundred Peaks Sect was protected and Moonrise was in the True Immortal Battlefield.
• Forget-Thunder True Lord asked Star-Thunder True Lord to leave so he could fulfill his duty as Song Zhong's master and teach him their lineage's true art.
• Star-Thunder True Lord offered to teach Song Zhong a spell, and he chose Starlight Lightning Lock, which he learned almost instantly.
• Forget-Thunder True Lord revealed that he had killed an Immortal King and announced that he would teach Song Zhong the Immortal King Slaying Art.

Song Zhong joined Forget-Thunder True Lord after revealing that the Sect Master had directed him to choose his new master. Glacial Immortal King discovered that Song Zhong cultivated witchcraft and questioned him about its origins, leaving his past and the fate of witch cultivators under scrutiny.

• After the gathering ended, cultivators questioned Song Zhong's choice of the elderly Forget-Thunder True Lord over Star-Thunder True Lord.
• Forget-Thunder True Lord told Song Zhong to return with Glacial Immortal King and have Moonrise bring him to visit later.
• At the lineage hall, Song Zhong told Glacial Immortal King and Wu Qingqing that the Sect Master had told him to choose Forget-Thunder True Lord.
• Glacial Immortal King sent Wu Qingqing outside, tore Song Zhong's clothes, and confirmed that he cultivated witchcraft.
• Song Zhong explained that he had gained witchcraft after a witch cultivator's spell backfired while trying to claim his body, and Glacial Immortal King reacted to his origins in the Forgotten Land.

Song Zhong drew a Hyena Clan force into pursuit after killing their kin, then used Wind Sparrow Wings and his lightning-charged fists to attack their weaker cultivators. He had killed three more Hyena Clan cultivators when the chapter ended, with the rest still chasing him.

• Three Hyena Clan cultivators attacked Song Zhong, but he dodged their spells with Wind Sparrow Wings and left an afterimage in their path.
• A Golden Hyena Clan cultivator in a golden robe rallied the arriving Hyena Clan cultivators to pursue Song Zhong for his treasures.
• Song Zhong heard the Hyena Clan cultivators boast about violating Human Race women and resolved to punish them.
• Song Zhong drew the pursuing cultivators after him, then abruptly sped away from their leader and reached two Golden Body Realm fifth-layer cultivators.
• Song Zhong killed the two cultivators with lightning-cloaked punches, then killed a third with a single punch as the others attacked.

After leaving the Knocking Immortal Battlefield, Song Zhong entered the Immortal Affinity Battlefield and headed toward the True Immortal Battlefield. He stopped when a spreading darkness engulfed the world, and after waiting inside the Myriad Beasts Tower, he saw golden light emerge on the horizon.

• Song Zhong told Yu Rui and the others he would leave for the Immortal Affinity Battlefield, and they invited him to visit their sects.
• Wang Yang distributed half of the collected Universe Rings to Song Zhong, who continued traveling with the group and broke through to the Second Layer of the Immortal Qi Realm.
• After more than a hundred days of travel, Song Zhong received the sects’ Invitation Tokens, bid farewell to the group, and entered the Immortal Affinity Battlefield.
• Song Zhong disguised his cultivation as the Ninth Layer of the Immortal Affinity Realm and flew toward the True Immortal Battlefield without encountering anyone.
• When darkness engulfed the battlefield, Song Zhong landed and entered the Myriad Beasts Tower to challenge it and absorb Blood Crystals.
• After ten days, Song Zhong emerged and saw golden light appear on the horizon, which he believed marked a Ruins unrelated to him.