Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong slaughtered Thunderous Beasts and absorbed their Blood Crystals, growing stronger until he reached his limit. Jin Ranhuan used Song Zhong’s attack on Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators to rally cultivators of all races against him.

• Song Zhong turned back from the distant Sealed Relic and killed Thunderous Beasts to absorb their Blood Crystals.
• Jin Ranhuan watched Song Zhong grow stronger and worried that he could not safely rally cultivators against him while they were close together.
• Song Zhong continued through more Thunderous Beasts, absorbing Blood Crystals until he could absorb no more.
• Song Zhong spotted Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators among the Ramkin and attacked them despite their disguises.
• Jin Ranhuan accused Song Zhong of helping the Strange Beasts and called on cultivators of all races to join forces and kill him.

Song Zhong used the Glacial Immortal King's umbrella to block the Myriad Life Immortal King's vines, then confronted the Immortal King and identified the roots sustaining him. The Immortal King admitted Song Zhong had seen through his weakness but insisted Song Zhong could not reach him.

• The Myriad Life Immortal King's vines broke through Yu Rui's Bathing Breeze and threatened Song Zhong and the others.
• Song Zhong opened the seven-colored umbrella and used his lightning to hold back the vines, giving the others a moment to escape.
• Song Zhong tried to flee through lightning, but the Myriad Life Immortal King severed his connection to it and trapped him among the vines.
• Song Zhong said he had touched the origin of the Great Dao and accused the Immortal King of being unable to leave his fruit.
• Song Zhong claimed the Immortal King depended on two roots for energy and had kept the other cultivators at a distance to protect them.
• The Myriad Life Immortal King acknowledged Song Zhong's insight but said he could not reach the roots because his spells were too flawed.

Lord You Shui, Lord of Cherished Flowers, and Lord of Confinement fought off a swarm of increasingly powerful World Beasts. After Lord of Confinement struck a beast into a floating boulder, the boulder exploded and the world flipped over.

• Lord You Shui used her Water Domain to attack the incoming World Beasts, then killed a Supreme Path Realm beast with her icy blade.
• Lord You Shui ordered a retreat, warning that the World Beasts were more numerous and stronger than before.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers killed the Dao Seeking Realm World Beasts with her black-and-white lotus flowers.
• Lord of Confinement launched the spikes from his body at the World Beasts, sending one crashing into a floating boulder.
• The boulder exploded in a dazzling radiance, and the world instantly flipped over.

Song Zhong stayed on the Outer Battlefield to study the Human Formation while cultivators across the Great Thousand Worlds reacted to the inheritance and the revelation of a power beyond the Immortal King Realm. Zhengyi Immortal Emperor headed for the Outer Battlefield to protect Song Zhong, who he believed was close to learning the truth about their Great Thousand World.

• Forget-Thunder True Lord and Star-Thunder True Lord left Song Zhong to find Moonrise True Monarch and protect her from other cultivators.
• Song Zhong continued studying his Human Formation, while rumors spread that he had obtained the inheritance.
• Cultivators debated the inheritance and the Four-Eyed Cultivator’s power, and Immortal Kings questioned their Ancestors about the threat of stronger beings.
• The Demon Clan Old Ancestor ordered the Demon Race to kill Song Zhong in exchange for the title of First Prince and revealed that the Four-Eyed Cultivator had been one realm stronger than him.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor decided to go to the Outer Battlefield to keep foreign races from interfering with Song Zhong, and told Heavenless Immortal King that Song Zhong was likely close to touching the truth of their Great Thousand World.

Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers faced Supreme Realm Strange Beasts in the first trial of The Ruins. Song Zhong’s lightning killed the Crimson Flame Thunder Leopards but did nothing to the Shadowveil Poison Butterflies, leaving him puzzled by their apparent immunity.

• Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers entered a new world, where Crimson Flame Thunder Leopards and Shadowveil Poison Butterflies emerged to attack them.
• Song Zhong killed a Crimson Flame Thunder Leopard with a bolt of golden lightning, while Lord of Cherished Flowers absorbed the butterflies’ poisonous gas into a white flower.
• Song Zhong unleashed the Human Formation and blasted the leopards to powder, but the Shadowveil Poison Butterflies remained unharmed by repeated lightning strikes.
• Song Zhong wondered whether the butterflies were illusions after his lightning failed to affect them.

Song Zhong arrived at Piaomiao Sect with Wu Qingqing and his family, where the sect’s disciples were stunned to learn that Wu Qingqing had chosen him, a Venerable, as her Dao companion. Wu Qingqing brought them inside to meet her master, while news of her unusual choice spread through the sect.

• Wu Qingqing landed with Song Zhong and his family at Piaomiao Sect’s mountain gate.
• Ren Rui and the gate guards questioned Wu Qingqing about her companions, and she introduced Song Zhong as her chosen Dao companion and the others as his family.
• Wu Qingqing took Song Zhong’s hand and led the group into the sect to meet her master.
• Song Zhong saw Piaomiao Sect’s abundant spiritual plants and felt its dense spiritual qi.
• Piaomiao Sect cultivators noticed Wu Qingqing’s companions, and news of her Venerable Dao companion spread through the sect.

Song Zhong’s companions guarded him in the Knocking Immortal Battlefield while he absorbed the Myriad Life Immortal King’s prepared vitality. He awoke with greatly enhanced resilience and regenerative power, then thanked his companions, and Pang Meng renewed her bid to become his concubine.

• Meng Lejiao, Pang Meng, Yu Rui, and Wang Yang decided to stay and guard Song Zhong.
• Pang Meng interrogated a Beast Race Knocking Immortal Realm cultivator and learned that many cultivators remained in the battlefield because the Myriad Life Immortal King’s power had not drawn them all into The Ruins.
• The group stayed together and protected Song Zhong from passing cultivators for ten days.
• Song Zhong awoke on the eleventh day and realized the vitality had greatly strengthened his body and regenerative power.
• Song Zhong thanked everyone for guarding him, and Pang Meng pressed herself against him and asked whether he would accept another concubine.

Song Zhong disguised himself and entered the Golden Body Realm Sealed Ruins with the Hundred Peaks Sect, where he was separated from the group after crossing its threshold. He found himself in a barren desert with a Serpent Demon Clan cultivator, an Ox Beast Clan cultivator, and a Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivator, as the Serpent Demon proposed they kill the two humans.

• Song Zhong disguised himself as Hou Sheng and joined the Hundred Peaks Sect disciples traveling to the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• Song Zhong reached the Sealed Ruins and saw cultivators from many races gathering outside.
• Chen Lu confronted the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's arrival, while its leader taunted the Hundred Peaks Sect over its murdered Heavenly Prodigy.
• After the clouds dispersed, Song Zhong entered the Sealed Ruins and was transported to a yellow-sand wasteland apart from the other Hundred Peaks Sect members.
• A Serpent Demon Clan cultivator suggested that he and the Ox Beast Clan cultivator join forces to kill Song Zhong and the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivator.

Song Zhong left Hundred Peaks Sect through a hidden route with Bai Ruorou and his companions, then learned why Ten Thousand Poison Valley was considered safe enough to visit. He set out toward the Southern Frontier while Tang Qianzi and Shen Lichu departed for the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

• The Mountain Guardian Elder led Song Zhong, Bai Ruorou, and the others through the sect’s forbidden back mountains and out through a lake.
• Tang Qianzi and Shen Lichu left for the Extraterritorial Battlefield after Bai Ruorou warned them to be cautious and wear masks.
• Bai Ruorou put on a mask and spoke to the awakened Xia Kening, who asked about Ten Thousand Poison Valley.
• Bai Ruorou explained that the Southern Frontier was a poisonous region inhabited by Heretical Path poison cultivators, and that Ten Thousand Poison Valley lay in its outer region.

Song Zhong defeated a group of Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators who had been sent to kill him, then continued toward the Knocking Immortal Battlefield. At the River of Spacetime boundary, he met Dongfang Youzhi of the Sun Moon Sect and learned that the turbulent currents made crossing dangerous.

• Song Zhong used his saber’s Lightning Dragons and thunder blades to kill eight Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples and severely injure Li Fei and another survivor.
• Song Zhong cut off Li Fei’s hand before he could use his Outer Jade, then took both survivors away for questioning.
• The survivors revealed that the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect had sent them, so Song Zhong killed them and vowed to wipe out the sect.
• Song Zhong flew for more than ninety days and reached the spatial-temporal turbulent currents separating the Immortal Qi Realm Battlefield from the Knocking Immortal Battlefield.
• Dongfang Youzhi of the Sun Moon Sect explained the dangers of the River of Spacetime and introduced himself to Song Zhong.

The Mountain Guardian Elder and Sect Master agreed that Song Zhong should be allowed to take divine weapons from Hundred Peaks Cliff if the sect faced mortal danger during the Era of Cosmic Reversal. Meanwhile, Shen Lichu returned to Hundred Peaks Sect, baffled by the disciples’ praise of Song Zhong, and arrived at Prison Suppressing Peak as Song Zhong stepped out of the Myriad Beasts Tower and encountered her.

• The Mountain Guardian Elder proposed letting Song Zhong seize divine weapons from Hundred Peaks Cliff in a crisis, and the Sect Master agreed.
• Disciples across Hundred Peaks Sect discussed Song Zhong’s strength as Shen Lichu returned after twenty years away and heard their praise.
• Shen Lichu wondered how a seemingly new disciple could be nearing the Longevity Realm and be allowed to visit Hundred Peaks Cliff for divine weapons.
• Shen Lichu reached Prison Suppressing Peak, where two disciples greeted her as Martial Aunt Shen.
• Song Zhong left the Myriad Beasts Tower after reaching its thirtieth floor, noticed that his Blood Crystal was gone, and turned toward an unfamiliar female cultivator who had appeared nearby.

Song Zhong, Xia Kening, and Bai Ruorou soaked in the Ancient Cauldron’s spirit water, which improved their aptitude and helped Song Zhong break through. As the pool ran dry, Xia Kening absorbed the remaining water and grew her ninth tail, while Bai Ruorou revealed that she was close to entering the Venerable Realm.

• Song Zhong called Bai Ruorou into the pool to share the spirit water’s overwhelming power with him and Xia Kening.
• Bai Ruorou entered the pool and felt the water improving her aptitude despite her already exceptional cultivation talent.
• After days of soaking, Song Zhong broke through again, and Bai Ruorou calculated that his future breakthroughs could take little more than sixty days.
• Song Zhong said he would visit the sects that had sought him out once he entered the Immortal Realm, but Bai Ruorou warned she might soon break through into the Venerable Realm.
• As the pool nearly dried up, Xia Kening absorbed the remaining spirit water and grew her ninth tail.

Song Zhong used underground lightning to evade the foreign races’ ambush, then unleashed the Thunderclap Art to fill the world with countless bolts he could enter at will. As the attackers struggled to target him, Song Zhong began cutting down their leaders and continued his assault.

• The foreign cultivators blanketed the lightning-struck areas with spells, killing many of their own allies while searching for Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong emerged from underground and revealed that he had secretly sent lightning through the earth to evade the ambush.
• The foreign races ordered another barrage and tried to destroy the ground where Song Zhong was hiding.
• Song Zhong used the Thunderclap Art to scatter and multiply lightning across the world, giving himself countless bolts to enter.
• Song Zhong appeared before a foreign leader and killed him with one slash, then continued slaughtering the cultivators.

Song Zhong touched the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning, unleashing a storm that devastated the region and killed the Ant Beast Clan cultivator. After surviving the blast, he reached for the lightning again as a nearby woman watched in alarm.

• Song Zhong reached for the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning while an Ant Beast Clan cultivator prepared to attack him.
• The lightning erupted across the world, flattening mountains and drying up a lake as Song Zhong and a nearby woman struggled to withstand it.
• Song Zhong adapted to the lightning, while the Ant Beast Clan cultivator was badly injured by the bombardment.
• Song Zhong taunted the wounded cultivator, who was blasted apart by another wave of lightning.
• Song Zhong reached for the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning again, and the woman watching feared another blast.

Song Zhong faced a sudden Immortal Affinity Realm tribulation in the Forbidden Ground and discovered that he could endure and absorb its lightning. The Glacial Immortal King and Wu Qingqing watched in astonishment as the Blood Fiend Immortal King vowed to kill Song Zhong when he left the Piaomiao Sect.

• The Glacial Immortal King recognized the tribulation clouds as those of an Immortal Affinity Realm breakthrough, and she rushed with Wu Qingqing toward the Forbidden Ground as the first bolt fell.
• Song Zhong was badly injured by the first lightning strike, but Instant Eternity and his Lightning Power helped him absorb the following bolts.
• The Glacial Immortal King and Wu Qingqing arrived and watched Song Zhong withstand the lightning without casting spells.
• The Glacial Immortal King urged Song Zhong to defend himself, but he declared that True Heavenly Prodigies used tribulations to temper themselves.
• The Glacial Immortal King concluded that Song Zhong's body resisted lightning, while Wu Qingqing found her master's reaction strange.
• The Blood Fiend Immortal King read a report that Song Zhong remained in the Piaomiao Sect and vowed to kill him when he came out.

Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint cornered the wounded Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint, and Rain Peak’s attack left him pinned and helpless. Song Zhong killed him with his own hands and learned that Nether Scale Sage had set his sights on him.

• Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint saw Song Zhong’s second avatar and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, then fled.
• Song Zhong’s Lightning Avatar blocked Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint’s escape with a storm of lightning.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint struck Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint with a mountain and freezing water, leaving him severely wounded and pinned beneath it.
• Song Zhong told Rain Peak Quasi-Saint that he wanted to kill Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint himself, then accepted that the earlier blow still counted as his own killing.
• Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint warned that Nether Scale Sage had targeted Song Zhong and that the Human Great Thousand World would be destroyed.
• Song Zhong said Nether Scale Sage would be next after the five races were wiped out, then killed Qilin Beast Quasi-Saint with his longsword.

Song Zhong completed his tribulation and broke through into the Supreme Realm after comprehending the Sage Stele. Lord of Chaos Island sent him toward the Mysterious Realm with a bracelet to conceal his strength, while Lord of Cherished Flowers waited and grew wary that Lord of Illusory Eyes might become another of Song Zhong’s targets.

• Lord of Chaos Island left Song Zhong to undergo his tribulation, then told a waiting cultivator to return in ten years.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers waited with Lord of Illusory Eyes and warned her to tell her beautiful Saint master to be careful of Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong completed his year-long tribulation and broke through into the Supreme Realm, marveling at how much stronger he was than during his time in the Sage Ruins.
• Lord of Chaos Island called Song Zhong out, told him to join his waiting Dao companion in the Mysterious Realm, and gave him a Mysterious Bracelet to disguise his aura.
• Song Zhong put on the bracelet and disguised himself as an Immortal Emperor.

Song Zhong accepted a mission to exterminate the Demon Race cultivators occupying the World of Bizarre Stones, while Wutian Immortal Emperor escaped the Immortal Emperor Realm Ruins and returned to the Human Great Thousand World gravely wounded. Lord Zhengyi began healing him, but a familiar, unwelcome aura descended upon the Human Great Thousand World.

• Song Zhong learned that ten Demon Race Supreme Realm cultivators guarded the World of Bizarre Stones and accepted the mission to exterminate its cultivators for three hundred Assassin Society Tokens.
• The mission informed Song Zhong that a Veilstone would seal the World of Bizarre Stones for one year and be delivered to him outside the world.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor, badly injured and pursued by Tentacle Clan cultivators in the Immortal Emperor Realm Ruins, used a token to escape toward the Human Great Thousand World.
• A Tentacle Clan cultivator struck Wutian Immortal Emperor as he entered the spacetime vortex, leaving him too weak to fly when he arrived.
• Lord Zhengyi pulled Wutian Immortal Emperor from the crater he had made and began healing him with Immortal Qi.
• Lord Zhengyi sensed a familiar but unwelcome terrifying aura descend upon the Human Great Thousand World.

Song Zhong finished hunting down the alien cultivators and learned that the Human Race had won the Slaughter Battlefield. He returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect, reunited with Wu Qingqing, and met his gifted daughter Yun He.

• Song Zhong and his nine avatars hunted down the remaining alien cultivators, and the battlefield announced that the Human Race had exterminated its enemies.
• Human Race settlements celebrated their victory, while Song Zhong wondered why no reward had been granted.
• Song Zhong sent one avatar to study a peculiar crystal and another to explore the Mysterious Realm, then returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Wu Qingqing introduced Song Zhong to their daughter Yun He, who had reached the ninth layer of the Immortal Qi Realm and was famed as a Heavenly Prodigy.
• Song Zhong learned that Yun He cultivated the Grand Path of Water and had chosen to train at the Hundred Peaks Sect while concealing her identity.
• Song Zhong asked Wu Qingqing whether Yun He had any suitors and was relieved to learn that she focused solely on cultivation.

Song Zhong and Wang Yang arrived in a packed trial space where only ten cultivators could survive, and the other races decided to target the Human Race first. In a separate space, Yu Rui and the others worried that Song Zhong and Wang Yang might not survive.

• Song Zhong explained that the passage had sent him and Wang Yang into a different space because the first one had reached capacity, and Wang Yang searched for a place to hide.
• Human Race cultivators gathered around Liu ZhengHao, while cultivators of the other races assembled nearby.
• The Myriad Life Immortal King's phantom announced that only ten cultivators in each space could pass the test, causing panic among the gathered fighters.
• A Tentacle Clan cultivator pointed out the two Human Race Heavenly Prodigies, and Lion Beast Clan, Demon Race, and Spirit Race cultivators agreed to wipe out the Human Race first.
• In another space, Yu Rui, Dongfang Youzhi, and their companions worried about Song Zhong and Wang Yang, while Qiao Yingpei doubted Wang Yang could protect Song Zhong.