Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong watched Lord of Vanishing Shadows and Lord of Absolute Sword swiftly kill their opponents, then saw his own space open for battle. Lord of Suppressing the Wilds shattered the cultivators’ spells with an ancient stone pillar as lightning began falling from the sky.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers identified Lord of Vanishing Shadows and Lord of Absolute Sword as renowned, dangerous Forget Dao Realm cultivators who had joined forces.
• Lord of Vanishing Shadows flashed through the battlefield, killing eight cultivators while Lord of Absolute Sword stood motionless.
• Lord of Suppressing the Wilds threatened the other cultivators, and one cultivator urged Song Zhong to join forces against him.
• Lord of Vanishing Shadows and Lord of Absolute Sword let Boundless Star River pass without attempting to take its treasures.
• The light screen around Song Zhong’s space vanished, and the cultivators attacked Lord of Suppressing the Wilds.
• Lord of Suppressing the Wilds slammed an ancient stone pillar into the ground, shattered the incoming spells, and summoned bolts of lightning.

Song Zhong attacked the Goat Demon Clan's mountain gate and slaughtered its cultivators as he advanced into the royal city. He killed the Immortal Realm experts who came to stop him, leaving the Goat Demon Clan's defenses in ruins.

• Song Zhong flew south, killing every Goat Demon cultivator he encountered along the way.
• Song Zhong unleashed a rain of lightning on the Goat Demon Clan's mountain gate, killing its guards and destroying the great formation.
• Song Zhong advanced into the royal city and used lightning to kill the Goat Demon cultivators in his path.
• Nearly twenty Goat Demon Immortal Realm experts arrived and charged Song Zhong, while fleeing clansmen believed they were safe.
• Song Zhong cut down the Immortal Realm experts with lightning and his Thunder Fury Dragon Blade, killing them all as he challenged them to face him themselves.

Zhengyi Immortal Emperor realized his wounds were worsening and unleashed a secret technique that forced extreme yin and yang to collide. The resulting blast tore through him and the six foreign-race Immortal Emperors, releasing power that reached the Supreme Realm.

• The foreign-race Immortal Emperors stopped attacking and tried to outlast Zhengyi Immortal Emperor, believing his injuries would steadily weaken him.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor decided he could not flee and gathered separate extremes of yin and yang around himself.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor rushed the six foreign-race Immortal Emperors and forced the opposing energies together.
• The collision shattered the surrounding space and blasted Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and the six Immortal Emperors backward.
• The uncontrollable Yin-Yang Energy tore through Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and his opponents with force that could even severely wound a Supreme Realm existence.

Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint broke through the Blood Corpses’ spatial defense and defeated them, then entered the tower they had guarded to seek its inheritance. Outside the mountain gate, cultivators from another Universe gathered and prepared to enter.

• Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint kept attacking as the Blood Corpses’ spatial barrier weakened, and Song Zhong’s lightning finally shattered it.
• Song Zhong and his clone charged through the breach and killed the Blood Corpses, while Rain Peak Quasi-Saint joined the fight at full strength.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint gave Song Zhong the spatial artifacts and resources from the battlefield, and Song Zhong shared Universe Rings he had taken from Wild Dao Alliance cultivators.
• Song Zhong dispelled the spatial barrier around the semi-transparent tower inside the mountain and entered it with Rain Peak Quasi-Saint to seek the inheritance.
• Cultivators from another Universe gathered outside the mountain gate, recognized signs of spatial power within, and discussed entering.

Song Zhong returned to the Human Great Thousand World with Lord of Cherished Flowers, who healed Wutian Immortal Emperor and revealed that she had become Song Zhong’s Dao companion. Song Zhong learned that foreign cultivators had attacked the Human Race and that Wutian had been injured in a ruin, then asked which race was responsible.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers and Song Zhong entered the Human Great Thousand World without resistance, and Song Zhong sensed that Lord Zhengyi had reached the Supreme Realm.
• Song Zhong found Wutian Immortal Emperor injured and asked Lord of Cherished Flowers to heal him; she restored his condition and regrew his severed arm.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers told Lord Zhengyi and Wutian Immortal Emperor that she was Song Zhong’s Dao companion, explaining how the Human Race had gained a powerful ally.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor told Song Zhong that ten foreign top-tier Immortal Emperors had attacked the Human Race, but Lord Zhengyi had killed them after breaking through.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor explained that Tentacle Clan cultivators had injured him in an Immortal Emperor’s ruin and said he had something Song Zhong could use.

Song Zhong took the Flower Clan cultivator with him to investigate her joints. Meanwhile, Blazing Flame Immortal King reported his defeat in the Realm of the Heavens, and his master learned that Song Zhong wielded Witchcraft Power before leaving to alert the Tentacle Clan.

• Song Zhong told the Flower Clan cultivator to follow him as he pursued the joints coveted by the forces behind the Realm of the Heavens.
• Blazing Flame Immortal King returned to the Tentacle Clan’s Great Thousand World and told his master that a Demon Race ally’s delay had led to his elimination on the third level.
• Blazing Flame Immortal King described how Song Zhong defeated him with a blade, overwhelming speed, and immense physical strength.
• Blazing Flame Immortal King’s master used Divine Sense to examine him and identified Song Zhong’s power as Witchcraft Power.
• Blazing Flame Immortal King’s master left to notify the clan, while Blazing Flame Immortal King reflected on how little his failed Realm of the Heavens entry mattered to his master.

After breaking through to the ninth layer of the Golden Body Realm, Song Zhong learned that over a hundred Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators were gathering in a western valley and suspected they meant to lure him into a trap. He drew Strange Beasts toward their position while Ruan Zhicui’s group waited for him, confident he would have nowhere to escape.

• Song Zhong broke through to the ninth layer of the Golden Body Realm, interrogated four Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators about their western gathering, then killed them and took their Universe Rings.
• Song Zhong encountered another group of Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators heading west and suspected the sect was baiting him into a trap.
• Song Zhong returned to the barren land, confirmed the Strange Beasts remained there, and enraged them before flying toward the valley where more beasts gathered.
• Ruan Zhicui waited with over a hundred Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples in the valley and explained that Song Zhong would learn their location from their members and come to them.
• A fellow cultivator praised Ruan Zhicui’s choice of an open valley, where Song Zhong would have nowhere to hide if he realized the trap.

Wu Qingqing explained that disciples tied to a sect for a thousand years would die if it failed its Sect Tribulation, leaving Hundred Peaks Sect facing a deadly trial after a hundred years. Song Zhong believed his unusual nature might let him overcome the rules, but the chapter ended with the others doubting he could become strong enough in time.

• Wu Qingqing explained that disciples who had cultivated for a thousand years would be bound to their faction during a Sect Tribulation, while outsiders and Rogue Cultivators could not shield a sect from it.
• Song Zhong realized that his status as a bug might let him help Hundred Peaks Sect survive a future tribulation, but he had only a hundred years to become powerful enough.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder lamented that sects might avoid reaching a hundred thousand years or arrange their own destruction to spare some disciples from a Sect Tribulation.
• Wu Qingqing described the harsh fate of sects in the Ancestral Land and contrasted them with Hundred Peaks Sect in the Forgotten Land, where cultivation was limited by the lack of Immortal Qi.
• Hundred Peaks Sect's disciples took faint hope from Song Zhong's rapid cultivation, but the Mountain Guardian Elder doubted that even an Immortal King could survive the Sect Tribulation.

Song Zhong challenged Wu Ci at the Martial Arts Arena and revealed that he had condensed three Phenomenal Immortal Bridges. He killed Wu Ci, a fifth-layer Immortal Bridge Realm disciple, with a single lightning-charged slash, leaving the gathered disciples stunned.

• Tang Qianzi sent Song Zhong to take the place of the Prison Suppressing Peak disciples and fight Wu Ci.
• Song Zhong revealed three lightning-filled Phenomenal Immortal Bridges, astonishing the spectators.
• Wu Ci attacked Song Zhong with his staff and the phantom of a Fierce Gaze Vajra.
• Song Zhong channeled lightning into the Purple Light Blade and shattered Wu Ci’s Buddhist radiance with one slash.
• Song Zhong’s slash struck Wu Ci’s head and killed him, shocking the crowd.

Song Zhong faced Wu Wei, a Golden Body Realm cultivator, and countered his attack with a lightning-charged slash. He severed both of Wu Wei’s legs, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Wu Wei charged Song Zhong with his Zen Staff while Tang Qianzi held back, trusting her junior brother to handle him.
• Wu Wei struck at Song Zhong’s legs, but Song Zhong’s Thunderclap Impervious Art dispersed the Buddhist power.
• Song Zhong’s Thunder Fury Dragon Blade broke through Wu Wei’s Golden Body and severed one leg.
• Song Zhong followed with another slash and severed Wu Wei’s other leg, making him fall as though kneeling.
• Jian Kong and the people of Formless Peak froze at Song Zhong’s defeat of a Golden Body Realm cultivator.

Song Zhong claimed the Thunderclap World-Render Bell, and the ruins vanished around him before he emerged in an unfamiliar place filled with Human Race cultivators. As people in both locations debated what had happened, Song Zhong realized he did not know where he was or how to return.

• Song Zhong reached the Divine Bell, offered blood and spiritual energy, and learned its name was the Thunderclap World-Render Bell, but gained no knowledge of how to use it.
• Song Zhong stored the bell in his Universe Ring, causing the world to shake and the ruins to shatter around him.
• Song Zhong emerged among unfamiliar Human Race cultivators who wondered why the ruins had vanished and whether someone had taken their treasure.
• Song Zhong noticed that the cultivators' insignias and terminology were unfamiliar, and realized he might not be in the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• In the Extraterritorial Battlefield, cultivators of every race blamed Song Zhong for taking the Divine Weapon but wondered why he had not appeared.
• The cultivators in the Extraterritorial Battlefield found they still could not enter the ruins and speculated that Song Zhong might become a True Lord inside.

Song Zhong defended himself against punishment by arguing that he served the Hundred Peaks Sect and could compete for the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm. The Grand Elder ruled that he could offset his killing by entering the secret realm, or face a century of confinement on Spirit Mountain.

• Song Zhong told Jian Kong and the Grand Elder that he wanted Thunder Crystals to strengthen himself and win the secret realm contest for the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• The Grand Elder recognized Song Zhong's chance to compete and asked whether he could reach the eighth or ninth layer of the Immortal Bridge Realm; Song Zhong promised he could.
• Song Zhong argued that helping the peaks capture Divine Weapons and lecturing on the Dao proved he was devoted to the sect.
• Qian Wuyou backed Song Zhong, crediting his Dao lecture with helping Wan Mushu enter enlightenment and begin her heavenly tribulation.
• The Grand Elder ruled that Song Zhong's merits would offset his killing if he entered the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm, but otherwise he would spend one hundred years confined to Spirit Mountain.
• Jian Kong was appalled by the ruling, which he felt was no real punishment.

Song Zhong returned to Chuanze City in disguise after killing Xu Zihua and secretly contacted his father. He reunited with his parents and offered to take them to the Hundred Peaks Sect, leaving them surprised by his strength and opportunity.

• After killing Xu Zihua, Song Zhong took her Universe Ring, changed clothes, disguised himself, and entered Chuanze City.
• Song Shilian waited at the scene of the battle, worried about the powerful cultivators who had died, until Song Zhong spoke to him telepathically and told him to return home.
• Song Shilian hurried home and told Mother Song that Song Zhong had returned; Song Zhong then appeared in the courtyard and greeted them.
• Song Zhong explained that his sister remained at the sect and offered to take his parents to the Hundred Peaks Sect using his master's influence.
• When Song Shilian worried that he was troubling his master, Song Zhong changed into the appearance he had worn while killing the Daoxuan Sect disciples and asked his father to recognize him.

Song Zhong fought seven Venerables inside their domains, killed Ice Venerable and a flame-wreathed Venerable, and faced the remaining five as his Three-Colored Divine Wings spread.

• The seven Venerables attacked Song Zhong with their domains, shattering all but two of his golden bodies as he charged through them.
• Song Zhong broke Ice Venerable’s two Ice Shields and killed him with a lightning-infused slash.
• Song Zhong rushed the flame-wreathed Venerable and used lightning to overcome the volcano and magma in his domain.
• Lightning struck the flame-wreathed Venerable until his body exploded, leaving two Venerables dead.
• The other five Venerables’ attacks descended as Song Zhong expanded his Three-Colored Divine Wings.

Song Zhong blocked Shadowfiend Demon's attacks despite being only at the third level of the Venerable Realm, astonishing her with his strength and defense. As another powerful cultivator awakened, Song Zhong wondered whether Duan Xue's master had awakened yet.

• Shadowfiend Demon was astonished when Song Zhong broke her attack, then decided to kill him and Duan Xue before more powerful cultivators awakened.
• An Immortal Qi Realm cultivator awakened, prompting Shadowfiend Demon to worry that a Half-Step True Monarch might soon awaken too.
• Shadowfiend Demon attacked Song Zhong and Duan Xue with her ribbon, while Song Zhong summoned his divine weapons and unleashed a lightning-filled counterattack.
• Shadowfiend Demon's demonic qi broke through Song Zhong's lightning, wings, and defenses, but his strength forced her back and left her astonished.
• Another aura surged through the void, and Song Zhong glanced at Duan Xue, wondering if her master had awakened.

Song Zhong broke through Glacial Immortal King's ice attack and struck her while she had suppressed her cultivation. His palm bounced off her Immortal King body, leaving him hurt as she stared in shock at having been hit by a Venerable.

• Glacial Immortal King summoned an enormous ice vortex and sent its attack toward Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong unleashed his spiritual energy, lightning, and witchcraft-enhanced strength, then punched through the ice vortex.
• Song Zhong charged at Glacial Immortal King and struck her chest with his palm.
• Glacial Immortal King's resilient body repelled Song Zhong's attack and sent him flying backward.
• Glacial Immortal King stared blankly after being struck by a Venerable.

Song Zhong returned toward the Hundred Peaks Sect after learning that Rogue Cultivators planned to challenge the Human Race for resources, and he saw the Ancestral Land cultivators had thrown the world into chaos. At the sect, Liu Tingchen of the Subduing Tiger Sect demanded the Hundred Peaks Sect’s treasury, leaving the Mountain Guardian Elder facing more than sixty visitors, including ten True Lords.

• Song Zhong questioned a group of Rogue Cultivators about their plans, then flew off alone when he learned they intended to compete with the Human Race for resources.
• Song Zhong returned through the passage and saw corpses of other-race cultivators, breached sects, and refugees as Ancestral Land cultivators spread through the world.
• More than sixty Subduing Tiger Sect cultivators, including ten True Lords, arrived at the Hundred Peaks Sect while its Mountain Guarding Array was still being repaired.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder met Liu Tingchen outside the sect gate and learned that the visitors wanted every resource in the Hundred Peaks Sect treasury.

As Song Zhong completed his tribulation and reached the second layer of the Golden Body Realm, news arrived that a Golden Body Realm Sealed Ruins had appeared in the Extraterritorial Battlefield. The Hundred Peaks Sect prepared to send its disciples, while the Daoxuan Sect’s Grand Elder ordered Song Zhong killed if he entered the ruins.

• Song Zhong reached the second layer of the Golden Body Realm, drawing a crowd that celebrated his potential as a future pillar of the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Vice Peak Lord Yuan announced that a previously unseen Sealed Ruins had appeared in the Extraterritorial Battlefield and that it was for Golden Body Realm cultivators.
• Great Elder Chen Lu ordered each peak to gather willing Golden Body Realm disciples and prepare to depart within an hour.
• Song Zhong told Bai Ruorou that he would enter the ruins in disguise, and she advised him to hide and cultivate once inside.
• The Daoxuan Sect’s Grand Elder ordered its Immortal Realm cultivators near the Venerable Realm to stop advancing and commanded its Golden Body Realm prodigies to kill Song Zhong if he entered the ruins.

Song Zhong entered the Flower Clan’s Great Thousand World with Lord of Cherished Flowers, drawing the attention of its cultivators. After Black Lotus True Lord defeated Crystal Lotus, he dismissed the idea of sparring with the visiting Immortal King and declared that only an Immortal King who had entered the Realm of the Heavens would be worthy of his next challenge.

• Song Zhong entered the Flower Clan’s Great Thousand World with Lord of Cherished Flowers, and his unfamiliar aura alerted the Flower Clan cultivators.
• Black Lotus True Lord defeated Crystal Lotus with a black lotus formation that bound and overwhelmed her flower attack.
• The cultivators praised Black Lotus True Lord and discussed going to see the outsider Immortal King.
• Black Lotus True Lord said he had no interest in fighting an ordinary Immortal King.
• Black Lotus True Lord declared that his next challenge would be an Immortal King who had entered the Realm of the Heavens.

Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained how Lord of Witchcraft Power and his master established the Human Race’s order after overthrowing Lord Qiankun. After Lord of Witchcraft Power died and his master was gravely wounded while seeking God Crystals, the Human Race faced the loss of its protection.

• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor said Lord of Witchcraft Power slaughtered Lord Qiankun’s direct descendants, while his master established an order based on sects and great teachings.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained that his master and Lord of Witchcraft Power protected the Human Race and supplied its Godstone with power and God Crystals.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor said Lord of Witchcraft Power was plotted against and killed by Heavenly Prodigies from several Great Thousand Worlds.
• After Lord of Witchcraft Power died, Zhengyi Immortal Emperor’s master ventured out for resources, was severely wounded, and could no longer fully power the Godstone.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained that his master sought help from a Supreme Realm existence of another race, offering God Crystals in exchange for protection.