Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong negotiated with Baihua Immortal King over the remaining bone segments, securing a promise that her master would protect the Great Thousand World for three hundred years. They sealed their agreement with an Oath-Sworn Jade and prepared to continue deeper into the Realm of the Heavens.

• Baihua Immortal King offered to improve Song Zhong's cultivation aptitude and physical body in exchange for the remaining bone segments and his help reaching deeper levels.
• Song Zhong demanded that Baihua Immortal King's master protect the Great Thousand World until it produced a Supreme Realm cultivator, and they settled on three hundred years of protection.
• Baihua Immortal King explained how the Oath-Sworn Jade worked and warned that the Heavenly Dao punished anyone who broke its oath.
• Song Zhong and Baihua Immortal King each swore to fulfill their agreed duties, then channeled Immortal Qi into the jade and sealed the oath.

Song Zhong passed the Glacial Immortal King's test, and she approved his Dao Companion Ceremony with Moonrise True Monarch and asked him to join the Piaomiao Sect. As Song Zhong considered Star-Thunder True Lord as his Lightning Dao master, an aged man from the foot of the mountain offered to take him as a disciple.

• Song Zhong struck the Glacial Immortal King with a palm, and she declared that he had won the test.
• The Glacial Immortal King told Elder Qintian to calculate a date for Moonrise True Monarch's Dao Companion Ceremony, surprising the gathered disciples.
• Song Zhong agreed to join the Piaomiao Sect, and the Glacial Immortal King told him to choose a Lightning Dao cultivator as his master.
• Star-Thunder True Lord offered to take Song Zhong as her disciple, and Wu Qingqing explained that she was the strongest and youngest of the sect's Lightning Dao True Lords.
• An aged man at the foot of the mountain said that he also cultivated the Lightning Dao and invited Song Zhong to become his disciple.

When ten Immortal Emperors from the Seventh Great Thousand World invaded the Human Great Thousand World, Zhengyi Immortal Emperor resolved to protect the Human Race by breaking through to the Supreme Realm. His breakthrough summoned a terrifying heavenly tribulation, and the invaders flew to stop him.

• Ten Immortal Emperors from the Seventh Great Thousand World arrived and searched for powerful Human Race cultivators.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor and Zhengyi Immortal Emperor realized the invaders could overwhelm the Human Race without Song Zhong.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor blamed himself for relying on others and decided to break through to the Supreme Realm.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor forced his Yin-Yang Energy to churn, triggering a heavenly tribulation across the Human Great Thousand World.
• The ten invaders recognized the Supreme Realm tribulation and flew together to stop Zhengyi Immortal Emperor from completing his breakthrough.

Song Zhong entered the Cosmos Crystal and discovered that it contained an abandoned Great Thousand World. A remnant of White Feather Quasi-Saint revealed how Saint Zhe Kong had imprisoned and tormented the world before wiping out its inhabitants, leaving Song Zhong with a powerful but now largely useless treasure.

• Lord of Chaos Island warned Song Zhong not to seek revenge on the Saint of Chaos until Song Zhong became a Quasi-Saint, and Song Zhong promised to wait while secretly remaining resolved to act when he chose.
• Song Zhong entered the cave dwelling, crossed the overlapping spaces, and reached the crystal.
• Song Zhong entered the crystal and explored the lifeless Great Thousand World inside it.
• At the ruined mountain gate, White Feather Quasi-Saint's phantom recounted how Saint Zhe Kong had captured the world in the Cosmos Crystal and repeatedly slaughtered its strongest cultivators.
• Song Zhong concluded that Saint Zhe Kong had likely died and noted that the crystal could no longer help him capture the already destroyed Great Thousand Worlds of the Five Great Other Clans.

The Glacial Immortal King used her newly absorbed Primordial Chaos Qi to overwhelm the Blood Fiend Immortal King when he arrived at Hundred Peaks Cliff. After he withdrew, she asked Song Zhong whether the Hundred Peaks Sect had any other unusual places, and he said it did not.

• The Blood Fiend Immortal King found the Glacial Immortal King and Song Zhong beneath the cliff and wondered what opportunity she had gained.
• The Glacial Immortal King attacked the Blood Fiend Immortal King with an icy technique, forcing him to defend himself with blood qi and a blood shadow.
• The Glacial Immortal King explained that she attacked because he had trespassed on the Hundred Peaks Sect, which the Piaomiao Sect protected.
• The Blood Fiend Immortal King withdrew from the cliff and said he would wait for the Hundred Peaks Sect to leave.
• The Glacial Immortal King asked Song Zhong whether the sect had other unusual places, and he answered that it did not.

Song Zhong repeatedly broke through the True Lord Realm in a matter of days, drawing continuous heavenly tribulations that Piaomiao Immortal King concealed inside the Forbidden Ground. He reached the legendary tenth level of the True Lord Realm while Blood Fiend Immortal King decided to force him out of Piaomiao Sect to seize the Prosperity Token.

• Song Zhong broke through to the second and then third level of the True Lord Realm, with new heavenly tribulations appearing after each breakthrough.
• Piaomiao Immortal King concealed the Forbidden Ground and its repeated heavenly tribulations so others would not notice what was happening.
• Song Zhong continued breaking through until he reached the tenth level of the True Lord Realm, astonishing Glacial Immortal King, Wu Qingqing, and Piaomiao Immortal King.
• Blood Fiend Immortal King learned that Song Zhong remained in Piaomiao Sect and decided to go to Nether Spirits Demonic Sect to force him to come out and take the Prosperity Token.

After the foreign-race retaliation was suppressed, the Zhengyi Immortal Emperor revealed the Heavens-Dwelling Realm and its deadly trials to Song Zhong. Song Zhong learned that even the Lord of Witchcraft Power had failed to reach the final level, leaving the trials as a formidable challenge for future Heavenly Prodigies.

• Foreign cultivators attacked Humans across the world, and Song Zhong and the Wutian Immortal Emperor hunted them until the surviving invaders were mostly exterminated.
• Song Zhong returned to the Zhengyi Sect with his injuries nearly healed, while the Zhengyi Immortal Emperor remained gravely wounded.
• The Wutian Immortal Emperor wondered whether Song Zhong could help heal the Zhengyi Immortal Emperor, but Song Zhong explained that his recovery method could not help others.
• The Zhengyi Immortal Emperor told Song Zhong that exceptional Immortal Kings could enter the Heavens-Dwelling Realm, pass nine initial trials, and compete for God Crystals and a Substitute Death Talisman.
• The Zhengyi Immortal Emperor recounted how the Wutian Immortal Emperor had reached only the third level and he himself the fifth, while the Lord of Witchcraft Power had reached the tenth.
• The Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained that the Heavens-Dwelling Realm had eleven levels and that only one of every thousand entrants could become the Child of the Heavens.

Song Zhong followed a group of cultivators pursuing a Bloodbone Demon Ape through the Sealed Ruins, learning that two ruins had become connected. The group found the demon ape after it recovered from poison and attacked it, but its wounds triggered a violent transformation.

• Song Zhong overheard cultivators discuss the Bloodbone Demon Ape’s valuable bloodbone and realized the Qi Guiding and Qi Transformation Sealed Ruins were connected.
• A Daoxuan Sect disciple criticized Song Zhong for entering the ruins at the first layer of the Qi Guiding Realm, while Hundred Peaks Sect disciples wondered if they recognized him.
• The group tracked the Bloodbone Demon Ape to a valley, where they found it recovered from poison after eating Clear Spirit Cypress Fruits and accompanied by Gale Wind Demon Apes.
• More than forty cultivators charged the beasts, and three ninth-layer Qi Guiding Realm sword users surrounded and wounded the Bloodbone Demon Ape.
• The Bloodbone Demon Ape’s eyes turned crimson, a savage aura surged from it, and its body began to expand.

Immovable Immortal King and Ice-Eyed True Lord plotted to secretly kill Song Zhong and seize his Array Clan inheritance for the Fox Demon Clan. After nearly four years of waiting, Immovable sensed Song Zhong handling his saber and set out with Ice-Eyed to attack him.

• Immovable Immortal King recruited Ice-Eyed True Lord to help locate and kill Song Zhong, explaining that his stolen saber would let him sense Song Zhong when it was used.
• Immovable warned Ice-Eyed that the Lin Demon Clan could not be trusted with Song Zhong’s inheritance and proposed secretly claiming it for the Fox Demon Clan.
• Immovable and Ice-Eyed hid and waited for nearly four years, while Immovable advanced to Half-Step True Monarch.
• Song Zhong searched his Universe Rings for resources and discovered a powerful Mystic Rank saber that he recognized as Immovable’s artifact.
• Immovable sensed Song Zhong touching the saber and hurried with Ice-Eyed to attack before other cultivators could arrive.

Song Zhong learned that the weakened Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade could grow stronger if he infused it with his own Lightning Power, and discovered its origins in the vanished Absolute Thunder Demonic Sect. After Song Zhong stored the weapon, Tang Qianzi asked him to use her Peak Cliff Token to find a Divine Weapon for her, and the Mountain Guardian Elder allowed her to join him at the cliff.

• The Mountain Guardian Elder explained that the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade had lost much of its power and could be strengthened with Lightning Power from its owner.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder said the Absolute Thunder Demonic Sect had vanished, leaving behind the Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect, Fearful Thunder Demonic Sect, and Profound Thunder Demonic Sect.
• Song Zhong stored the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade when other disciples arrived, then walked back toward Tang Qianzi.
• Tang Qianzi gave Song Zhong her Peak Cliff Token and asked him to pull up a Divine Weapon for her.
• Song Zhong asked the Mountain Guardian Elder to let Tang Qianzi approach so he could hold her hand while releasing spiritual energy, and the elder agreed.

Song Zhong and the three cultivators cleared the second trial, then received tokens that allowed them to change Dao companions. The Lord of Ink Flames offered to fight the Lord of Cherished Flowers to persuade Song Zhong to switch partners.

• Song Zhong tested the Lord of Blazing Flames’ fire attack and found that it could not harm him, while their attacks helped kill the Strange Beasts.
• The four cultivators defeated the remaining Pangolin Beasts and Poisonous Bee Beasts, then flew to a Golden Light that presented them with four tokens.
• A voice explained that the Twin Fate Tokens could let cultivators of opposite sexes change Dao companions, and announced that they could now attack one another.
• The Lord of Ink Flames decided she wanted to replace the Lord of Blazing Flames with Song Zhong, while the Lord of Blazing Flames asked her to leave.
• The Lord of Ink Flames disparaged the Lord of Cherished Flowers and challenged her to a fight so Song Zhong could judge whether to switch partners.

Song Zhong refused Lord of Cherished Flowers's offer to join his revenge campaign and planned to hunt the Five Great Other Clans' cultivators while she cultivated. As the clans debated the Human Race's victory, the Armor Clan decided to ally with the Humans, and its Ancestor explained why he ranked Song Zhong alongside the Saint of Ceasing War.

• Song Zhong told Lord of Cherished Flowers he would target the Five Great Other Clans' cultivators alone, and she agreed to cultivate until she could help him.
• The Five Great Other Clans' Ancestors wondered how the Humans had defeated the invading Dao Seeking Realm cultivators and feared Song Zhong would keep growing, while the Insect Clan Old Ancestor expected the Nether Scale Sage to attack him again.
• News of the Human Race's victory spread, and the Armor Clan Ancestor ordered Lord You Shui to deliver an offer of alliance to the Humans.
• Lord You Shui asked who the other Heavenly Prodigy was, and the Armor Clan Ancestor named the Saint of Ceasing War, recalling his defeat by the Saint and his discovery that the Saint had at least one hundred avatars.

Song Zhong, the Immovable Immortal King, and Qian Fuzhi fought through the Strange Beasts guarding the ruins’ magic treasure. Qian Fuzhi tried to seize the lead, but the Immovable Immortal King attacked him and left him exposed to the beasts.

• Song Zhong killed a Rhino Beast with a blade strike, though its horn tore a large wound in his body as it fell.
• Song Zhong fought off the attacking Strange Beasts and realized his sacred-fruit-enhanced vitality made him tougher than the injured Immovable Immortal King.
• Qian Fuzhi used his Three Heads Six Arms to push ahead, boasting that he would claim the magic treasure and reveal his ambition to revive the Great Qian Dynasty.
• The Immovable Immortal King struck Qian Fuzhi, forcing him backward into the surrounding Strange Beasts.
• A crocodile-headed, cheetah-bodied Strange Beast bit Qian Fuzhi's leg as the Immovable Immortal King attacked again, declaring him unworthy of the treasure.

A mysterious early-stage Forget Dao Realm cultivator annihilated the Demonic Beasts with overwhelming lightning and took the beasts’ shells, leaving Lord Chaofeng and his companions stunned. Suspecting he was the Cosmos Ruler’s descendant, they changed direction to avoid competing with him, but soon heard his thunder again.

• The unknown cultivator killed the remaining Demonic Beasts with lightning, collected their shells, and flew away without acknowledging Lord Chaofeng’s group.
• The butterfly-armored female cultivator and the others wondered how a Forget Dao Realm cultivator could wield such power, while Lord Chaofeng doubted his own standing.
• Lord Chaofeng speculated that the cultivator was a descendant of the Cosmos Ruler, and the group feared they could not beat him in the competition.
• Lord Chaofeng led the cultivators in another direction to hunt Demonic Beasts and avoid the unknown cultivator’s path.
• As they attacked a newly found group of Demonic Beasts, the terrifying sound of thunder rang out again.

Song Zhong’s dagger regained its ability to open rifts, while he shared resources with his loved ones and fought alongside Human Race Immortal Kings. Wu Qingqing gave birth to their daughter, Song Yunhe, and the day after her hundred-day banquet, Song Zhong noticed a figure at the edge of the Human Great Thousand World.

• After ten days, Song Zhong’s dagger became usable twice a day, and he continued studying the Spatial Power it revealed.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers released Demonic Beasts for Lord Wutian and Lord Zhengyi to fight, and Human Race Immortal Kings joined the battles to seek breakthroughs.
• Song Zhong gave resources to the Piaomiao Sect, the Hundred Peaks Sect, his family, and Wu Qingqing, who became pregnant after half a year.
• Wu Qingqing gave birth to a daughter, and Song Zhong named her Song Yunhe.
• Human Race experts and midwives celebrated Song Yunhe’s birth, and her hundred-day banquet became a grand gathering.
• One day after the banquet, Song Zhong opened his Universe Ring and saw a figure appear at the edge of the Human Great Thousand World.

Song Zhong fought the Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint and the Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint as their attacks shattered the tomb formations and exposed Saints’ inheritances. He blocked the Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint’s two strongest tentacles, but the remaining tentacles pressed in as his clones tried to defend him.

• Song Zhong’s lightning and Spatial Turbulences collided with the Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint’s Five Elements Rainbow, and their shockwaves shattered the nearby tomb formations.
• Ancient Spirit Saint saw the exposed Saints’ tombs and their inheritances, then attacked Song Zhong more fiercely in hopes of claiming them.
• The Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint attacked Song Zhong with all ten tentacles while Song Zhong was occupied resisting the Five Elements Rainbow.
• Song Zhong blocked the chain-wrapped tentacle with his blade, but the impact forced him to stagger back.
• Song Zhong’s clone stopped the bone-bead tentacle with its blade, lightning, and Spatial Power.
• The Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint sent his remaining tentacles at Song Zhong, and a second clone rushed in to meet them.

Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers defeated Lord of Suppressing the Wilds, Lord of Immaculate Purity, and the other cultivators in their space. As the Boundless Star River arrived, Lord of Absolute Sword and Lord of Vanishing Shadows expected nearly everyone in the ruins to die, despite Lord of Absolute Sword regretting that her newly recruited Death-Sending Immortal Emperor would likely be lost.

• Song Zhong used his Spatial Dao and Shattering Void Blade to kill Lord of Suppressing the Wilds while Lord of Cherished Flowers held off Lord of Immaculate Purity.
• Lord of Immaculate Purity died with Lord of Suppressing the Wilds, and Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers swiftly killed the remaining cultivators in their space.
• Lord of Bone Wings and Lord of Ice Wings watched Song Zhong’s strength and considered him a useful ally against Lord of Absolute Sword and Lord of Vanishing Shadows.
• Lord of Vanishing Shadows and Lord of Absolute Sword discussed how the other entrants would die, while Lord of Absolute Sword regretted losing the newly recruited Death-Sending Immortal Emperor.
• The Boundless Star River appeared in the void where Song Zhong was.

Shadowfiend Demon tried to bargain with Song Zhong, then fled when Duan Xue’s master awakened. Duan Xue’s master killed Shadowfiend Demon with a distant strike and asked Song Zhong why he was there.

• Shadowfiend Demon offered Song Zhong power and a chance to marry Feng Meier if he helped her, but he resisted her illusion.
• Shadowfiend Demon fled as Duan Xue regained consciousness and the aura around the tomb grew stronger.
• Duan Xue’s master emerged from the tomb, and Duan Xue warned her that Shadowfiend Demon had fled west after trying to dig it open.
• Duan Xue’s master sent a streak of freezing energy after Shadowfiend Demon and returned with her ice-encased body.
• Duan Xue’s master destroyed Shadowfiend Demon and asked Duan Xue why she was there and who Song Zhong was.

Song Zhong entered the first layer of the Realm of the Heavens and crossed a volcanic trial before reaching a frozen world. There, he encountered a cultivator from Great Thousand World rank 4,999, who targeted him after seeing Song Zhong’s rank of ten thousandth.

• After waiting three days, Song Zhong entered the ninth-floor staircase and arrived in a world dominated by a volcano.
• A powerful force dragged Song Zhong to the ground, so he walked across the scorching terrain, protecting himself with lightning and crossing the volcano.
• Song Zhong entered a world of ice and continued forward, his lightning causing loud explosions as he moved.
• An ice-like cultivator heard Song Zhong approaching and waited, hoping to attack someone from a low-ranked Great Thousand World.
• The ice-like cultivator saw Song Zhong’s rank of ten thousandth and mocked him, while Song Zhong noticed the cultivator’s rank of 4,999.

As the Centenary Day approached, the Human Race learned that Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor had no way to stop their world’s destruction, while Song Zhong remained trapped in the Realm of the Heavens. On the final night, the two Immortal Emperors went to the edge of the Human Great Thousand World and saw five Supreme Realm invaders waiting outside its failing barrier.

• Human experts gathered at the Zhengyi Sect, where the injured Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor admitted they had found no solution to the coming disaster.
• The experts learned Song Zhong had not returned from the Realm of the Heavens, and many despaired while others flew off to hunt the foreign races still hiding in their world.
• Two hidden Ant Beast Clan cultivators celebrated the Human Race’s panic and anticipated the Human Great Thousand World’s destruction.
• On the final day, Forget-Thunder True Lord prepared to fight, while Wu Qingqing wondered whether Song Zhong was still alive and Glacial Immortal King warned that he might be left alone.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor flew to the world’s edge, where they found five foreign Supreme Realm cultivators and their armies waiting beyond the thinning barrier for the Centenary Day.