Chapter Summaries

During Little Fox’s prolonged heavenly tribulation, Song Zhong repeatedly broke through by absorbing tribulation lightning, reaching the ninth layer of the Star River Realm. As the foreign-race Immortal Realm cultivators coveted his apparent opportunity and waited for Little Fox to die, Xia Kening flew toward them, intending to use her tribulation lightning to kill them.

• On the nineteenth day of the tribulation, Song Zhong broke through to the eighth layer of the Star River Realm, stunning the three Immortal Realm cultivators and alarming Xia Kening.
• As the tribulation grew stronger, Song Zhong broke through again, and the three cultivators grew greedy for his supposed heaven-defying opportunity while hoping Little Fox would die.
• Great Elder Chen Lu worried that Song Zhong had not emerged from the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm, while experts of the Four Great Demonic Sects waited for him outside.
• After another twenty days, Song Zhong broke through to the ninth layer of the Star River Realm, and the three foreign-race Immortal Realm cultivators feared Little Fox might survive the tribulation.
• Xia Kening flew toward the three cultivators, planning to make them the center of her tribulation lightning and kill them before they could spread word about Song Zhong.

Song Zhong caught up with Xiang Yuanming and killed him after overwhelming him with lightning and saber strikes. Xiang Yuanming realized Song Zhong was the target his sect had been hunting, but it was too late to escape.

• Xiang Yuanming discovered that Song Zhong had killed the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples and continued fleeing as Song Zhong pursued him with winged Divine Weapons.
• Song Zhong struck Xiang Yuanming with powerful lightning and repeated saber blows, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Xiang Yuanming begged Song Zhong for mercy and offered to find the person who had offended him.
• Song Zhong told Xiang Yuanming that the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's sect master was responsible and revealed that he was Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong beheaded Xiang Yuanming.

Song Zhong asked to leave Hundred Peaks Sect to seek the Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning in Ten Thousand Poison Valley, and the Mountain Guardian Elder approved his departure. The chapter ended when Xia Kening arrived at the sect asking for Shen Lichu, prompting Song Zhong to suspect she had come for him.

• Song Zhong told Tang Qianzi and Shen Lichu that he wanted to leave Hundred Peaks Sect and search Ten Thousand Poison Valley for the Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning.
• Shen Lichu offered to take Tang Qianzi to a hidden cultivation spot, but Tang Qianzi chose to stay and protect Song Zhong.
• Bai Ruorou hesitated to let Song Zhong go, but the Mountain Guardian Elder said the sect had another exit and urged her not to restrain him.
• A Prison Suppressing Peak disciple reported that Xia Kening had come to find Shen Lichu, citing their fight over a Barren Blaze Spirit Grass in the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• Song Zhong recognized Xia Kening as the Little Fox and told the disciple to bring her in.

The Hundred Peaks Sect discovered that a vast force of alien cultivators had surrounded them, apparently brought into the Human Great Thousand World by the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect. As the sect prepared to defend itself, Song Zhong revealed that he was its Mountain Guardian and declared he would retrieve the divine weapons from Hundred Peaks Cliff.

• Tang Qianzi connected the aliens’ arrival to the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s closure of Blood Domain City for supposed formation repairs, and the disciples accused the sect of colluding with the aliens.
• Ouyang Yi ordered the Hundred Peaks Sect disciples to prepare for a fight to the death and said he would seek aid from other sects.
• Li Huaying urged Ouyang Yi to lead Song Zhong, Tang Qianzi, Yan Yourong, and Chu Jingyao to escape if the sect gate fell, but the young disciples refused to abandon the sect.
• The elders insisted that Song Zhong and the other prodigies must survive to preserve the sect’s future, while Song Zhong declared that he would stay as the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Mountain Guardian.
• Song Zhong displayed the Mountain Guardian Token and revealed that the Mountain Guardian Elder had authorized him to take all the divine weapons from Hundred Peaks Cliff in a crisis.

Song Zhong rescued Song Qingwei and Ma Jin from four Demon Sect members, revealing that he had reached the ninth level of the Qi Guiding Realm. After Song Qingwei killed their attackers, she and Ma Jin realized he was the Song Zhong they had heard about.

• Song Zhong killed the four men who were threatening Song Qingwei and Ma Jin, and Song Qingwei recognized him as her younger brother.
• Song Zhong gave the injured women pills from his many Universe Rings, then let Song Qingwei decide what to do with the attackers.
• Song Qingwei killed Lu Yong and the other three men, then searched their bodies and recovered the Soul-Soothing Nethergrass.
• Ma Jin asked whether Song Zhong was the famous junior brother from Prison Suppressing Peak, and Song Zhong confirmed that he was.

Song Zhong faced two Golden Body Realm cultivators after saving Song Shilian and Xu Zihua, and his lightning-powered saber slash shattered Zhao Hong’s Golden Body. Zhang Liran then attacked Song Zhong while Zhao Hong was left exposed.

• Song Shilian and Xu Zihua watched in shock as Song Zhong’s saber killed three peak Star River Realm cultivators with one slash.
• Xu Zihua demanded that her Senior Brothers kill Song Zhong, and Zhang Liran and Zhao Hong rose to attack him.
• Zhao Hong unleashed a sword technique that filled the sky with Sword Qi, but Song Zhong answered with a saber slash that summoned a storm of purple lightning.
• Song Zhong’s lightning overwhelmed Zhao Hong’s Sword Qi and shattered his Golden Body, terrifying him.
• Zhang Liran sent his whip toward Song Zhong’s head instead of saving Zhao Hong, aiming to kill them both.

Song Zhong defeated Wu Zhi after Wu Zhi attacked him, then killed him as two True Lords’ remnant wills clashed. The True Lord of Thunderclap revealed his plan to seize Song Zhong’s body and charged at him with the True Lord of Pure Water trapped in his remnant will.

• Wu Zhi attacked Song Zhong with the Vacuum Great Handprint, but Song Zhong shattered it with purple lightning.
• Wu Zhi swung his zen staff at Song Zhong, who overpowered him with Purple Light and struck him down with lightning.
• As Song Zhong prepared to kill Wu Zhi, the True Lord of Pure Water’s remnant will charged at him, but the True Lord of Thunderclap’s remnant will intervened.
• Song Zhong cut off Wu Zhi’s head while the two remnant wills fought.
• The True Lord of Thunderclap accused the True Lord of Pure Water of plotting to take Song Zhong’s body, then wrapped the other remnant will within himself and charged toward Song Zhong.

Song Zhong deliberately awakened the statues in the great hall, triggering a lightning storm that overwhelmed the Demon Sect cultivators. Though repeated strikes knocked him down, his lightning powers let him survive, and he charged toward the statues with a shield and wings.

• Nan Ming awakened fifty statues, including several with ninth-layer Qi Drawing auras, and ordered the group to attack.
• Song Zhong unleashed black lightning at the statue clusters, repeatedly awakening more statues despite Nan Ming's protests.
• All the statues in the hall awakened and unleashed a flood of lightning that killed cultivators and forced the survivors to retreat.
• Lightning struck Song Zhong repeatedly, but his own lightning powers neutralized it while the blows knocked him to the ground.
• Song Zhong stood up with a shield and wings and charged toward the statues, astonishing Nan Ming, Gu You, and the others.

Song Zhong invaded the Daoxuan Sect and fought its temporary Sect Master, Xu Shixing, who relied on Extreme Cold Dark Ice and a Seventh Grade Upper Tier Divine Weapon. Song Zhong shattered the Ice Pagoda with Thunderclap Art and prepared to strike Xu Shixing again.

• Xu Shixing ordered the Daoxuan Sect disciples to kill Song Zhong, then blocked Song Zhong’s lightning attack with a shield of ice.
• Song Zhong destroyed Xu Shixing’s icy assault with lightning and rushed forward to attack him with the Thunder Fury Dragon Blade.
• Xu Shixing summoned an ice-crystal pagoda to stop Song Zhong’s blade and ordered the surrounding disciples to attack.
• Song Zhong sent Thunderclap Art through his blade into the Ice Pagoda, making it tremble and explode into fragments.
• Xu Shixing stared in disbelief as Song Zhong’s blade came at him again.

Song Zhong and Xia Kening soaked in the Divine Water inside the palace, and Song Zhong broke through from the fifth to the sixth layer of the Star River Realm while Xia Kening recovered. After the Evolve True Lord revealed a map to his abode and asked them to retrieve a tree, the water ran out and Xia Kening regained her strength, leaving Song Zhong at her mercy.

• Three Immortal Realm cultivators waited outside the palace, planning to kill Song Zhong and Xia Kening when they emerged.
• Song Zhong broke through to the fifth layer of the Star River Realm as the Divine Water healed Xia Kening and improved her aptitude.
• Song Zhong broke through to the sixth layer after more than thirty days, while the Divine Water dwindled to a thin layer.
• The Evolve True Lord appeared and told Song Zhong and Xia Kening that a map beneath his throne led to his abode, where they could find Divine Water materials and a refining method if they took away and preserved a tree.
• Song Zhong called the offer bait and tried to convince Xia Kening to give him the cauldron, but Xia Kening revealed that the Divine Water was gone and she could move again.

Song Zhong and the others reached a river where a Prayer Bead shone on an island, but deadly Thunder Serpents blocked the crossing. As Demon Sect forces gathered and weighed an attack on the Orthodox Sect, the Qi Guiding Realm Sealed Ruins opened and began pulling cultivators inside.

• Song Zhong and his companions crossed a mountain range and found a vast plain, a river, and a glowing Prayer Bead on an island.
• A Hundred Peaks Sect disciple told Bao Dating that Thunder Serpents in the river had killed and devoured everyone who tried to cross.
• Yin Daiqi identified Song Zhong as the Orthodox Sect’s greatest threat and pointed out that the Demon Sect had a numerical advantage.
• Huo Chuanxing understood that the Demon Sect could attack the Orthodox Sect to weaken its competition for the likely Sealed Relic.
• The Qi Guiding Realm Sealed Ruins opened, and a powerful suction pulled Qi Guiding Realm cultivators inside.

Song Zhong defeated Wu Si with a single slash, then challenged all of Formless Peak’s Immortal Bridge Realm disciples to fight him together. Formless Peak conceded, leaving Song Zhong as the top-ranked cultivator, and onlookers wondered how quickly he would advance before the Six Sects competition.

• Song Zhong’s single slash left Wu Si gravely wounded and stunned the disciples watching the fight.
• Song Zhong challenged all of Formless Peak’s Immortal Bridge Realm disciples to attack him together and mocked them when they stayed silent.
• Jian Kong refused the challenge, insisting Formless Peak would not take advantage of Song Zhong, and Song Zhong called them afraid to lose.
• Jian Kong conceded for Formless Peak’s ranked Immortal Bridge cultivators, including Wu Chen and the first-ranked disciple.
• Song Zhong announced he was now first on the Peak Ranking and flew toward Hundred Peaks Cliff, while the crowd speculated about his progress before the Six Sects competition.

As the Era of Cosmic Reversal began, Chen Lu prepared the Hundred Peaks Sect for the True Lords’ disappearance and worried about Song Zhong’s absence. Song Zhong, Bai Ruorou, and Xia Kening entered Evolve True Lord’s grotto, where they found the Spirit Evolution Sacred Tree.

• Chen Lu warned the Hundred Peaks Sect’s upper ranks that she might fall asleep soon and said the sect would seal its mountain when she did.
• The gathered elders noted that Song Zhong and Bai Ruorou’s group had vanished, while Zhu Qing and Jian Kong hoped Song Zhong would not return.
• After waiting another day, Song Zhong, Bai Ruorou, and Xia Kening activated the lake formation and revealed the grotto.
• Bai Ruorou entered first, then Song Zhong and Xia Kening followed into the grotto, where they found a great tree beside a pool.
• Song Zhong identified the tree as Evolve True Lord’s Divine Tree, and Xia Kening recognized it as the Spirit Evolution Sacred Tree and described its power and history.

The Daoxuan Sect's Grand Elder joined forces with the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect to plan Song Zhong's assassination, intending to strike during the Era of Cosmic Reversal. He ordered Zhu Qing to help carry out the plot, leaving her trapped between obedience and certain death.

• The Daoxuan Sect's Grand Elder met with the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's Grand Elder and proposed teaming up to kill Song Zhong.
• The Daoxuan Sect's Grand Elder revealed that he had a treasure capable of killing Song Zhong and needed a cultivator above the peak of the Immortal Realm to activate it.
• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's Grand Elder confirmed that his sect had a suitable disciple hidden within the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• The Daoxuan Sect's Grand Elder contacted Zhu Qing through a Bronze Mirror and ordered her to use half of an Array Diagram with the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect's disciple once the Hundred Peaks Sect's True Lord entered slumber.
• Zhu Qing realized she had to obey because the Grand Elder held her family hostage and had placed a brand on her, and he told her to leave the Hundred Peaks Sect in thirty days to receive the treasure.

Song Zhong endured the lightning in the tomb-filled space until it opened the largest Tomb, revealing a phantom who identified himself as a Lightning Dao cultivator seeking an heir. The phantom began answering Song Zhong’s questions about the continent and his own fate, while Lord of Cherished Flowers and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint waited outside for Song Zhong to return.

• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint told Lord of Cherished Flowers that Song Zhong had stayed behind amid terrifying lightning, and she reassured him that Song Zhong was not in danger.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint explained that the strange spaces could not be reentered from the same place, so he and Lord of Cherished Flowers waited for Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong and his clone endured the lightning for an hour until the largest Tomb opened and released a powerful phantom.
• The phantom said Song Zhong’s lightning had resonated with the lightning he left behind, opening the Tomb and qualifying Song Zhong to receive his Great Dao inheritance.
• Song Zhong learned the continent was the Great Thousand World of the phantom’s race and asked about Cosmos Rulers and how to become one.

Song Zhong’s family seized him to transfer his cultivation to Song Yichen, and Song Dingxiong injured Song Zhong’s parents when they resisted. After Song Zhong was drained of his cultivation, a Divine Sense revealed the supreme Instant Eternity technique, giving him a chance to rebuild and seek revenge.

• The Third Elder demanded that Song Zhong become a furnace vessel so Song Yichen could enter Xingyi Sect, but Song Shilian challenged the clan to make the two young men fight instead.
• Song Dingxiong pierced Song Shilian with an Ice Spear, and the Third Elder kicked Song Zhong’s mother aside when she tried to intervene.
• Song Zhong stabbed the Third Elder with a dagger, but the Third Elder blasted him away before Song Dingxiong ordered that Song Zhong be kept alive as a furnace vessel.
• The Song Family chained Song Zhong beneath the Reverse Circulation Grand Array and transferred his cultivation to Song Yichen until Song Zhong was left without cultivation.
• A Divine Sense awakened inside Song Zhong and revealed Instant Eternity, a technique that let him cultivate for one day as much as others could in a year.

Xu Zihua, a disciple of Daoxuan Sect, attacked people in Chuanze City after they refused to let her skip the pastry line, then demanded that the whole city kneel and apologize. When Song Zhong intervened to protect his father, a handsome man beside Xu Zihua effortlessly dispersed his attack, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xu Zihua demanded that a middle-aged man give up his place in line, then struck him when he refused.
• Xu Zihua ordered the people of Chuanze City to summon the City Lord and make everyone kneel to apologize.
• Song Shilian arrived and tried to placate Xu Zihua, but she struck a Song Family elder and demanded that Song Shilian kneel.
• Song Zhong attacked Xu Zihua to protect his father, but a handsome man beside her dispersed his palm force with one finger.

Song Zhong and Xia Kening killed two Twin Absolute Sect cultivators on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, then parted ways as Song Zhong returned to the Human Great Thousand World. Wei Yangqiu followed him and attacked, but Song Zhong struck back, leaving them poised for a battle between the Star River Realm and Golden Body Realm.

• Hong Teng and Ai Zhou attacked Song Zhong and Xia Kening, but Xia Kening revealed her eight tails and killed them both in an instant.
• Xia Kening gave Song Zhong a Jade Pendant and exchanged one of the Universe Rings for his rope before staying outside the human city as he entered.
• Song Zhong used the Hundred-Faced Mask to disguise himself, returned through the passage to the Human Great Thousand World, and broke through to the tenth layer of the Star River Realm.
• Wei Yangqiu revealed he had followed Song Zhong and attacked him, hoping to seize his treasures and opportunities.
• Song Zhong shattered Wei Yangqiu's palm attack with his blade, but Wei Yangqiu's Golden Body remained unharmed, and Song Zhong challenged him to fight.

Song Zhong broke Xiang Yuanming’s Hundred Blood Beast Array with the Demonic Dragon Lightning Storm, then endured the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples’ combined assault and killed one of them. He declared that every Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciple in the ruins would die, leaving the sect’s fighters shaken by his strength.

• Xiang Yuanming trapped Song Zhong with a blood net and transformed it into more than a hundred blood beasts using the Hundred Blood Beast Array.
• Song Zhong summoned one hundred lightning dragons and destroyed the blood beasts with the Demonic Dragon Lightning Storm, which the Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect disciples recognized as a lost spell from their sect.
• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples’ combined spells shattered Song Zhong’s Golden Bodies and wounded his skin, but his tempered body withstood the attack.
• Song Zhong rushed to a Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciple and killed him with a saber strike, then vowed to kill every sect disciple in the ruins.
• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples recoiled in fear as they questioned whether all of them together could defeat Song Zhong.

Song Zhong’s lightning annihilated the remnants of True Lord of Thunderclap and True Lord of Pure Water, leaving him with their techniques and knowledge. When he absorbed the Thunder of Azure Nothingness and fused it with his own lightning, the Sealed Ruins began to collapse, and the experts outside prepared for the cultivators to emerge.

• True Lord of Thunderclap and True Lord of Pure Water tried to join forces against Song Zhong, but lightning within his body destroyed both remnants.
• Song Zhong absorbed the remnants’ mind power and gained their cultivation techniques and expertise in artifact refinement, formations, talismans, and pill refinement.
• Song Zhong drew the Thunder of Azure Nothingness into himself, where it fused with Starburst Heavenly Thunder and Dark Prison Thunder.
• The Sealed Ruins shook and began to collapse, and the experts outside realized the Sealed Relics had been obtained.
• Great Elder of Profound Sword and the other sect experts discussed which sect had claimed the relics, while Hundred Peaks Sect’s Great Elder remained confident in Wu Zhi’s chances.
• The Ruins broke apart, and the experts cried out as the cultivators began to emerge.