Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong witnessed the Boundless Star River, a torrent of Void Turbulence carrying treasures and a crimson bell that drew him with irresistible force. As Lord of Ice Wings and Lord of Bone Wings attempted to seize its treasures, Ice Wings’s powerful formation was instantly destroyed by the river.

• The heavens split open, revealing the Boundless Star River filled with Immortal Artifacts, herbs, pills, and stones.
• Song Zhong became fixated on the crimson bell, while Lord of Cherished Flowers explained the river’s origins and its connection to the challengers who had rebelled against the Universe’s rulers.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers identified the winged experts as Lord of Ice Wings and Lord of Bone Wings, powerful inheritors of the challengers from the Black Wing Clan.
• Lord of Ice Wings unleashed a formation of icy feathers into the Boundless Star River to seize its treasures.
• The river’s Void Turbulence instantly ground Lord of Ice Wings’s formation to pieces, and Lord of Bone Wings began to move.

Song Zhong used Spatial Power to collect the bone segments, then tested Baihua Immortal King's method for absorbing their power and strengthened one of his bones. After the test succeeded, Baihua Immortal King offered another way to improve his body and aptitude so she could remain useful to him.

• Song Zhong used lightning infused with Spatial Power to sever the bone segment's connection to the white bones and store it in his Universe Ring.
• Song Zhong told Baihua Immortal King to gather the fallen bones, and they returned to the cave to test whether he could absorb their power.
• Baihua Immortal King coated Song Zhong with bone powder and flower-based substances, then had him expose a bone while she activated the bone pearl.
• The bone pearl's power flowed into Song Zhong's exposed bone, making it tougher and stronger, and Baihua Immortal King confirmed that her method worked.
• Fearing Song Zhong might no longer need her, Baihua Immortal King claimed that she could further strengthen his body and improve his aptitude.

Song Zhong and the Glacial Immortal King survived the vortex and reached a sea of Primordial Chaos Qi, where Song Zhong absorbed it rapidly and transformed all his spiritual qi into Immortal Qi while still in the Venerable Realm. The Glacial Immortal King warned him to hide this power and cultivate in seclusion, but Song Zhong expected to advance far sooner than her estimate.

• Song Zhong and the Glacial Immortal King broke through the vortex’s bottom and landed in the sea of chaos, while the other cultivators were nowhere to be seen.
• The Glacial Immortal King recognized the surrounding power as Primordial Chaos Qi and urged Song Zhong to absorb it.
• Song Zhong absorbed Primordial Chaos Qi far faster than the Glacial Immortal King, astonishing her despite his lower cultivation realm.
• Song Zhong’s spiritual qi transformed into Immortal Qi, and the Glacial Immortal King realized he possessed it while still in the Venerable Realm.
• The Glacial Immortal King warned Song Zhong to keep his Immortal Qi secret and cultivate in seclusion until he reached the Immortal Qi Realm.

Wu Zhunjin unleashed his full strength against Song Zhong, but the Mountain Guardian Elder revealed himself as a True Lord and rescued him. The Elder took Song Zhong and Wu Zhunjin away, ordering the Hundred Peaks Sect to investigate how an assassin had attacked within its grounds.

• Wu Zhunjin's blood-colored palm shattered Song Zhong's defenses and severely wounded him, but Song Zhong survived the Longevity Realm attack.
• Wu Zhunjin sent a blood beast to finish Song Zhong, but the Mountain Guardian Elder's strike dispersed it and restrained Wu Zhunjin.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder healed Song Zhong and revealed to the arriving Hundred Peaks Sect experts that he was a True Lord.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder seized Wu Zhunjin and left with him and Song Zhong, demanding a thorough cleaning of the Hundred Peaks Sect.

The Glacial Immortal King told Song Zhong that the Myriad Beasts Tower was incomplete and arranged for the Hundred Peaks Sect to relocate to the Thousand Peaks Sect. She agreed to accompany Song Zhong back to the Forgotten Land, suspecting it held something special.

• The Glacial Immortal King examined Song Zhong’s Myriad Beasts Tower and told him it was an incomplete magic treasure with another half missing.
• The Glacial Immortal King said the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect would stop targeting Song Zhong and his former sect if the Hundred Peaks Sect left the Forgotten Land.
• The Glacial Immortal King recommended that the Hundred Peaks Sect relocate to the Thousand Peaks Sect, where it could search for surviving inheritances and treasures.
• Song Zhong asked to return to Hundred Peaks Cliff to retrieve the Divine Weapons beneath it, and the Glacial Immortal King agreed to go with him.
• The Glacial Immortal King said she wanted to investigate the Forgotten Land because she suspected it was special.

Song Zhong entered The Ruins with Liu Mu and Sun Lifeng, where a lightning storm and a pack of Thunder Shadow Panthers appeared. As Liu Mu fought to protect Song Zhong, Sun Lifeng turned his sword on her.

• Liu Mu explained that each passage’s dangers kept cultivators who lacked the corresponding Dao from entering it, but Song Zhong refused to abandon his plan to enter The Ruins.
• The Ruins opened, and Song Zhong entered alongside the Piaomiao Sect cultivators while Sun Lifeng secretly planned to kill him.
• Inside The Ruins, Song Zhong found himself separated from the other cultivators, with only Liu Mu and Sun Lifeng nearby.
• A sudden lightning storm struck, and Liu Mu used a Bronze Mirror to shield Song Zhong, Sun Lifeng, and herself.
• More than thirty Thunder Shadow Panthers charged the group, and Liu Mu ordered Sun Lifeng to help keep them away.
• Sun Lifeng instead thrust his sword into Liu Mu’s back, intending to leave Song Zhong unprotected.

Lord of Bone Wings and Lord of Ice Wings failed to seize an Immortal Artifact from the Boundless Star River, and another pair of cultivators met the same fate. Song Zhong realized that only one pair among the five in his space would survive, where Lord of Suppressing the Wilds and Lord of Immaculate Purity posed a formidable threat.

• Lord of Bone Wings used Vengeful Souls and bone rings to reach for an oil-lamp-like Immortal Artifact, but the Void Turbulence destroyed her arm and the rings before she could secure it.
• Lord of Bone Wings and Lord of Ice Wings lamented that their Supreme Realm strength was insufficient to claim treasures from the Boundless Star River, which then flowed away.
• Song Zhong saw the river's projection shift to another space, where five pairs of cultivators fought until a pair of humanoid, legless, snake-headed cultivators won.
• The winning pair tried to seize treasures from the Boundless Star River but failed, as Lord of Bone Wings and Lord of Ice Wings had.
• Lord of Suppressing the Wilds mocked the failed cultivators, while the others in Song Zhong's space realized that only one of the five pairs there could survive.

Song Zhong killed Inextinguishable Immortal Emperor and seized the Abyssal Blade, stopping the rift from spreading, but a vast horde of Demonic Beasts attacked him and the Human Race. Lord of Cherished Flowers unleashed her Yin-Yang power to destroy the horde, leaving only three Supreme Path Realm Demonic Beasts alive.

• The ancestors of the Five Great Other Clans watched the Human Great Thousand World and expected Song Zhong to die amid the Demonic Beasts.
• Song Zhong vanished, appeared before Inextinguishable Immortal Emperor, and killed him with a slash.
• Song Zhong seized the fallen Abyssal Blade and stopped the rift from spreading.
• Demonic Beasts surged toward Song Zhong, Lord Zhengyi, and Lord of Cherished Flowers as the Human Race cultivators despaired at the attackers’ strength.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers attacked with her whip and Yin-Yang flowers, destroying every Demonic Beast except the three at the Supreme Path Realm.

Song Zhong overwhelmed the Beast Race Quasi-Saints and Demonic Beasts with lightning, leaving seven Beast Race cultivators alive to question. One captive invoked the Cosmos Ruler’s ban on killing cultivators from the same Universe and threatened punishment if Song Zhong did not release them.

• Song Zhong struck a Pig Beast Race Quasi-Saint and gravely wounded him, shocking the nearby Beast Race cultivators.
• Song Zhong unleashed a storm of lightning that shattered the nine Quasi-Saints’ spells and struck down the Beast Race cultivators and Demonic Beasts.
• The lightning stopped after killing every Demonic Beast and leaving the battlefield cratered and scorched.
• Song Zhong lifted the seven surviving Beast Race cultivators into the air and mocked them for being so weak despite his restraint.
• A Beast Race cultivator appealed to the Cosmos Ruler’s order against killing allies from the same Universe and warned Song Zhong that he would be punished.

Song Zhong killed Great Horn Immortal Emperor and obtained his Primordial Thunder Sound lightning while continuing to break the grand formation. Far away, Phantom Horn Quasi-Saint learned of Great Horn Immortal Emperor’s death and appointed Lord of Smoked Horn to replace him.

• Song Zhong resisted Great Horn Immortal Emperor’s soundwave attack and severed his head with the Space Severing Blade.
• Song Zhong destroyed Great Horn Immortal Emperor’s body with lightning, claimed the Primordial Thunder Sound, and learned that it contained Spatial Power.
• The Native cultivators watched Song Zhong return to the grand formation, while Lord of Mad Sands and the others chose not to confront him.
• Great Horn Immortal Emperor’s lamp of life went out, and Phantom Horn Quasi-Saint announced that Lord of Smoked Horn would take his place.
• The Golden Horn Clan’s cultivators recalled how highly Great Horn Immortal Emperor had been valued and considered the resources that might become available after his death.

Song Zhong and the Silverlight Immortal Emperor became the last apparent survivors in the Slaughter Battlefield, where the Silverlight Immortal Emperor revealed that he had been saving his strongest power for their final duel. As hidden Supreme Realm cultivators watched underground, the Silverlight Immortal Emperor unleashed a terrifying sword technique against Song Zhong.

• Song Zhong held back some of his power while he and the Silverlight Immortal Emperor fought the other cultivators, wary of hidden Supreme Realm experts.
• After the other cultivators died, the Silverlight Immortal Emperor told Song Zhong that he had waited until only the two of them remained to use his strongest power.
• The Silverlight Immortal Emperor drew down a vast silver radiance from beyond the heavens, greatly increasing his aura.
• Supreme Realm beings of various races watched from underground and hoped Song Zhong would delay the Silverlight Immortal Emperor until his secret art ended.
• The Silverlight Immortal Emperor attacked Song Zhong with a sword technique that summoned a three-winged divine bird phantom and unleashed countless devastating silver feathers.

Song Zhong killed Myriad Life Immortal King by breaking his spell and severing the tubes sustaining him, then entered a white fruit and collapsed as its life aura poured into him. After The Ruins vanished, Wang Yang stopped the others from removing Song Zhong, believing the fruit could heal him from the backlash of his secret art.

• Song Zhong shattered Myriad Life Immortal King's vines with a powerful strike and burst the IV tubes keeping him alive.
• Myriad Life Immortal King fell from the divine tree and died, while a white fruit filled with dense life aura opened nearby.
• Song Zhong entered the fruit, absorbed its life aura, and fainted as The Ruins began to collapse.
• Wang Yang urged the survivors to collect the dead cultivators' Universe Rings before The Ruins vanished and returned them to the Knocking Immortal Battlefield.
• Qiao Yingpei asked whether they should remove Song Zhong from the fruit, but Wang Yang argued that its life aura could heal his injuries from using a secret art.

Song Zhong fought a ball-shaped Immortal King who used his speed under the Realm of the Heavens’ gravity to dodge attacks and rob cultivators. When the enemy finally charged with his hidden killing move, Song Zhong struck faster than him, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Song Zhong discovered that gravity slowed his lightning, but the ball-shaped Immortal King dodged it by bouncing aside.
• The ball-shaped Immortal King attacked with compressed air and boasted that his speed let him evade Song Zhong’s spells while remaining undefeated.
• Song Zhong held back his full strength and watched for the enemy’s Universe Ring as the ball-shaped Immortal King closed in.
• The ball-shaped Immortal King unleashed a storm of needle-like air and charged, while Song Zhong blocked the needles with a powerful net of lightning.
• The ball-shaped Immortal King grew a spear from his body and struck toward Song Zhong’s hand, but Song Zhong swung his blade even faster.

Song Zhong returned from the continental ruins and spent years preparing Immortal Artifacts before sending an avatar to attempt the Benevolence Dao Alliance cave abode’s final trial. A planet-like world then crashed near the ruins, and Song Zhong flew toward the resulting burst of light to investigate.

• Song Zhong and Lord You Shui decided to leave the continental ruins, while five cultivators of the Five Great Other Clans watched Song Zhong’s multiple avatars fly out and realized he had even more avatars than they had heard.
• Song Zhong’s avatars and Lord You Shui returned to the Human Great Thousand World, where Song Zhong recalled and recreated his avatars after his lightning changed.
• Song Zhong and his nine avatars spent ten years studying and refining Immortal Artifacts, but they prepared only temporary artifacts for themselves.
• Song Zhong remembered that he had not passed the final trial of his Benevolence Dao Alliance cave abode and sent an avatar toward the alliance’s Great Thousand World.
• The Universe shook as a planet-like world crashed near the continental ruins, and Song Zhong’s avatar flew toward the distant burst of light to investigate.

Song Zhong and his clones defeated two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses and discovered that the opened tombs contained Quasi-Saint corpses, strengthening his desire to press deeper for greater treasures. After two more Blood Corpses entered the sealed space, Song Zhong disarmed one and rushed to help his struggling clone and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint against the other.

• Song Zhong and his two clones destroyed a weakened Quasi-Saint Blood Corpse, then joined forces to kill another by severing its arms and preventing it from using its magical implement.
• Song Zhong urged Rain Peak Quasi-Saint to keep luring Blood Corpses into the space, arguing that the deeper tombs—and especially the largest tomb—could hold powerful treasures.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint briefly opened the mountain barrier, and two Quasi-Saint Blood Corpses charged inside before he sealed it again.
• Song Zhong saw that tombs in the middle section held Quasi-Saint corpses and told Rain Peak Quasi-Saint that the tombs farther in might belong to Saints.
• Song Zhong and his clone severed both arms of one Blood Corpse, causing its magical implement to fall, while Rain Peak Quasi-Saint and the other clone struggled against the second.
• Song Zhong left the disarmed Blood Corpse and rushed to aid his clone and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint against the remaining Blood Corpse.

Lord of Cherished Flowers slaughtered the Demonic Beasts emerging from the rifts, while the Five Clan Ancestors watched from outside the Human Great Thousand World. After their attempt to destroy the Human Race failed, Beast Ancestor offered Song Zhong an alliance, though the Abyssal Blade remained their priority.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers annihilated the first wave of Demonic Beasts, including three Supreme Path Realm beasts, and told Song Zhong she was dissatisfied with how well she had fused Yin-Yang Energy with her flower Dao.
• The Five Clan Ancestors saw her power and realized their plan to destroy the Human Race had failed, while Beast Ancestor lamented that Song Zhong held the Abyssal Blade.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers continued killing the Demonic Beasts emerging from the rift, including a Supreme Path Realm beast resembling a leech, and used them to practice refining her Yin-Yang Energy.
• Song Zhong spotted the five clan Ancestors outside the Human Great Thousand World and recognized that the clans had joined forces against the Human Race.
• Beast Ancestor told Song Zhong that the five clans would stop waging war against the Human Race and could become allies, while insisting they still needed to reclaim the Abyssal Blade.

Song Zhong killed the final Supreme Realm cultivator in the World of Bizarre Stones and discovered an enormous stockpile of ore. After killing every Demon Race cultivator, he took the Territory Stone and escaped as the world began to collapse, reuniting with Lord of Cherished Flowers.

• Song Zhong killed the injured Goat Demon Clan artifact forger and took the ore and the cultivator's Universe Ring, which contained a vast hoard of minerals.
• Song Zhong hunted down and killed the Demon Race cultivators throughout the World of Bizarre Stones as they hid from his lightning attacks.
• After the last Demon Race cultivator died, the world began to shake, and Song Zhong flew to its center.
• Song Zhong took the Territory Stone connected to the Godstone, triggering cracks across the world as it started to break apart.
• Song Zhong escaped the World of Bizarre Stones and told Lord of Cherished Flowers they needed to leave before it exploded.

After Song Zhong, Lord of Cherished Flowers, and Lord You Shui defeated one wave of World Beasts, Giant Poisonous Devil Bat Beasts flooded into the space and attacked them. Lord You Shui charged into the swarm while Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers fought alongside her, leaving the new battle underway.

• Song Zhong, Lord of Cherished Flowers, and Lord You Shui killed the Storm Swift-hawk World Beasts, but the space began shaking and more World Beasts poured in.
• Lord You Shui identified the newcomers as Giant Poisonous Devil Bat Beasts and warned the others about their poisonous gas as the beasts attacked with soundwaves and venom.
• Lord You Shui charged into the swarm, using her armor and blade to kill a Supreme Path Realm World Beast and many others.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers explained to Song Zhong that the Armor Clan's fighters were powerful during their eruptions but lacked sustained combat ability.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers blocked bone spurs with vines and bound World Beasts, while Song Zhong struck the trapped beasts with lightning.

Song Zhong agreed to hold his Dao Companion Ceremony with Moonrise in thirty-three days, then returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect to prepare for its coming Sect Tribulation. He arrived with formation experts and resources from the Piaomiao Sect, where the disciples welcomed him warmly.

• Song Zhong recalled his ties to Moonrise and the Piaomiao Sect, then asked Glacial Immortal King whether he and Moonrise should hold their Dao Companion Ceremony soon.
• Elder Qintian first began to suggest a date thirty-three years away, but changed it to thirty-three days after Song Zhong objected.
• Song Zhong planned to return to the Hundred Peaks Sect and bring its people to the ceremony; Piaomiao Immortal King arranged for formation experts and resources to accompany him.
• Song Zhong and the Piaomiao Sect formation experts reached the Hundred Peaks Sect in less than a day, and the waiting disciples recognized and cheered for him.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder, the sect master, Bai Ruorou, Song Zhong's Senior Sister, and his parents flew out to greet him.

Song Zhong returned to the Human Great Thousand World with Lord of Cherished Flowers, where he reunited with the Human Race’s experts and sensed an invasion at the border. Inextinguishable Immortal Emperor tore open a passage and unleashed a growing horde of Demonic Beasts, including beings at Supreme, Dao Seeking, and Supreme Path Realm.

• Song Zhong returned to the Human Great Thousand World with Lord of Cherished Flowers and asked Lord Zhengyi about the Human Race’s situation.
• Human Race experts gathered to greet Song Zhong, while several noticed Lord of Cherished Flowers and Wu Qingqing approached.
• Song Zhong sensed an invasion at the border and flew there with Lord of Cherished Flowers, Lord Zhengyi, and Wutian Immortal Emperor.
• Inextinguishable Immortal Emperor used a pitch-black dagger to tear open a passage and let hordes of Demonic Beasts pour into the Human Great Thousand World.
• Inextinguishable Immortal Emperor widened the rift, releasing Supreme Realm moth-like Demonic Beasts and sensing even stronger Dao Seeking and Supreme Path Realm creatures.