Chapter Summaries

The Myriad Life Immortal King revived through the Myriad Things Sacred Tree and revealed that he had manipulated the cultivators to feed it and prepare a vessel. He chose Song Zhong as his ideal body and prepared to kill the remaining survivors.

• Blood poured into the ground, revealing a vast formation surrounding the Myriad Things Sacred Tree, which drained nearby plants and produced two fruits.
• The black fruit burst, and a phantom entered it, allowing the Myriad Life Immortal King to revive.
• The surviving cultivators regained their senses and realized the Immortal King had manipulated them into killing one another for the tree’s nourishment.
• The Myriad Life Immortal King explained that he had planned his resurrection and wanted a Heavenly Prodigy’s body as his vessel.
• The Myriad Life Immortal King singled out Song Zhong as the perfect vessel and said he would kill him last before taking his body.

Song Zhong and the Hundred Peaks Sect arrived at The Ruins, where the sects discussed their young talents and warned of powerful demonic prodigies. After the ancient gates opened, every Qi Transformation Realm cultivator was pulled inside.

• Song Zhong arrived with the Hundred Peaks Sect and waited anxiously before the enormous, sealed palace gates.
• The Great Elder discussed the sects’ young talents with other elders, including Song Zhong, the Twin Absolute Sect brothers, and Han Yunfei.
• An elder warned that Huo Chuanxing and Yin Daiqi were dangerous demonic prodigies who had each passed the sixth floor of a Demonic Pagoda.
• Demonic cultivators dismissed Song Zhong and threatened the righteous sects as they prepared to enter The Ruins.
• Three days later, the bronze gates opened and pulled every Qi Transformation Realm cultivator into The Ruins.

Song Zhong accepted Hu Bo’s challenge for a wager of two hundred spirit stones and defeated him with Divine Elephant Prison Suppressing. The crowd recognized Song Zhong as the strongest among the new disciples, while Pan Jiang realized he had lost another wager.

• Song Zhong agreed to fight Hu Bo for two hundred spirit stones despite Xu Shuo’s warning.
• Hu Bo charged Song Zhong with a freezing spear attack that threatened to kill him.
• Song Zhong countered with Divine Elephant Prison Suppressing, shattering Hu Bo’s spear and cleaving his body with a powerful saber strike.
• The crowd was shocked that Song Zhong had mastered Divine Elephant Prison Suppressing and crushed a veteran disciple.
• Pan Jiang realized Hu Bo had lost and that he owed another two hundred spirit stones.

Song Zhong collected Starburst Sky Thunder Crystals and discovered that their Lightning Power fused with the lightning inside him, changing it. He and Fan Meier were then surrounded by Fang Jingting and eight Five Elements Sect disciples, who demanded the crystals.

• Song Zhong searched Jia Cunji’s Universe Ring and found a heavy rope that Purple Light could not cut.
• When Song Zhong touched a Starburst Sky Thunder Crystal, its Lightning Power fused with the lightning inside him, while Bao Dating collapsed after touching one.
• Ji Junxiao left, and Song Zhong collected twenty crystals before Fan Meier noticed the approaching Five Elements Sect disciples.
• Fang Jingting ordered eight disciples to surround Song Zhong, Fan Meier, and Bao Dating and demanded their crystals.
• A Five Elements Sect disciple introduced Fang Jingting, Yang Tao, and himself as the sect’s three strongest Qi Transformation Realm disciples.

After killing the five hundred Immortal Emperors who invaded the Human Great Thousand World, Song Zhong met Lord of Cherished Flowers at its edge. She invited him to visit the Flower Clan, hoping he could help with a matter there.

• Song Zhong sensed a powerful aura, then met Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor as they went to investigate.
• The three found Lord of Cherished Flowers outside the Human Great Thousand World, where she confirmed Song Zhong had slain the invading Immortal Emperors.
• Song Zhong said he had killed all five hundred invaders and thanked Lord of Cherished Flowers for protecting humanity.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers realized Song Zhong had passed the eleventh level of the Realm of the Heavens and considered his potential exceptional.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers invited Song Zhong to visit the Flower Clan, intending to involve him in a matter there.

Song Zhong’s admission to the Hundred Peaks Sect brought the Song Family gifts and debt repayments, while Song Zhong reached the fighting arena and drew attention as a newcomer. At Ice Peak, Pan Jiang arranged for Du Chengyi to challenge and cripple Song Zhong in revenge for the Pan family.

• Families across the Great Qian Dynasty flocked to the Song Family with gifts and repayments after learning that Song Zhong and another Song Family member had entered the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Li Shuqun told his son not to repay Song Zhong’s debt, believing the Pan family would kill Song Zhong before he could collect it.
• Song Zhong walked for twelve days to reach the fighting arena, where he stayed to watch matches despite other Prison Suppressing Peak disciples urging him to return and cultivate.
• Pan Jiang asked Du Chengyi, Ice Peak’s strongest new disciple, whether he could defeat Song Zhong, and Du Chengyi claimed he could.
• Pan Jiang offered Du Chengyi favors and support in exchange for crippling Song Zhong, and Du Chengyi agreed to make him lie in bed for at least half a month.

Song Zhong was swept into Gu You’s gathering of Demon Sect cultivators after claiming to belong to the Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect. As Gu You led the group toward a dangerous ancient palace, Song Zhong tried to escape but stayed with them and unwittingly slowed everyone’s cultivation by absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy through Instant Eternity.

• Song Zhong claimed to be from the Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect, and Gu You of the Jile Sect stopped her followers from killing him and ordered him to come along.
• Gu You gathered forty Demon Sect cultivators and revealed that she wanted them to explore a dangerous ancient palace that might contain a Sealed Relic or a powerful expert’s inheritance.
• Song Zhong decided to leave the group before they reached the palace, but a bearded cultivator followed him when he said he was going to relieve himself.
• Song Zhong returned and pretended to cultivate with the others, while Instant Eternity continued absorbing spiritual energy at its normal rate.
• The surrounding cultivators noticed that their spiritual energy absorption had slowed, even after some of them moved farther away.

Song Zhong waited until the battle between the Demon Sect disciples and the awakened statues left Nan Ming weakened, then charged out and killed everyone blocking his path. He defeated Nan Ming with one slash and announced that he had come for the man who had been looking for him.

• Wu Duo ordered the Demon Sect disciples to attack as Song Zhong awakened the statues, and the two sides clashed in a brutal battle.
• Song Zhong watched the melee until lightning badly wounded Nan Ming and opened a path through the fighting.
• Song Zhong rushed toward Nan Ming, killing two seventh-level Qi Guiding Realm disciples who tried to attack or block him.
• The Demon Sect disciples were shocked to see Song Zhong's ninth-level aura and his speed as he reached Nan Ming.
• Song Zhong killed Nan Ming, one of the Demon Sect's four experts, with a single saber slash and declared that he had come.

Song Zhong awakened every statue to keep the Demon Sect disciples from reaching him, then absorbed the Divine Sense inheritance of the True Lord of Dark Thunder. The inheritance revealed that the True Lord of Pure Water had set up the ruin to find a body to possess, leaving Song Zhong to wonder whether the True Lord of Thunderclap had done the same.

• Gu You ordered the Demon Sect disciples to awaken fewer statues, but Song Zhong fired lightning at them and woke them all before she could act.
• Song Zhong taunted the disciples outside and absorbed the Divine Sense while the statues guarded his room.
• The True Lord of Dark Thunder identified himself and revealed that the True Lord of Thunderclap had ambushed him and taken the Thunder of Azure Nothingness.
• The True Lord of Dark Thunder said the True Lord of Pure Water had seized the Thunder of Azure Nothingness, entered the ruin, and planned to possess a suitable body.
• Song Zhong wondered whether the True Lord of Thunderclap had also faked his death and why he had not come for Song Zhong, who had received his inheritance.

The Six Sects’ competition began, and Star River Realm cultivators revealed themselves as hidden trump cards. Song Zhong received a first-round bye, then faced Ren Youzhi of Cloud Wave Sect in the second round, where Ren Youzhi challenged him over deaths in the Sealed Ruins.

• Song Zhong drew one of the two first-round byes, while Yang Long was matched against Wu Qingshan of Twin Absolute Sect and conceded after learning Wu Qingshan was at the second layer of the Star River Realm.
• Wu Chen faced a fifth-layer Star River Realm woman from Five Elements Sect and was ordered to surrender.
• Hundred Peaks Sect’s third contestant also faced a Star River Realm opponent, while Ouyang Xin advanced after his Immortal Bridge Realm opponent conceded.
• The first round revealed that each of the Six Sects had one Star River Realm cultivator, with Wu Yanyang of Five Elements Sect at the fifth layer and Ouyang Xin at the third.
• Song Zhong took the stage first in the second round against Ren Youzhi, who demanded to settle the score for Cloud Wave Sect disciples killed in the Sealed Ruins.

The Daoxuan Sect used a pill and a staged delay to help Xie Wenying prepare for her final match against Song Zhong. Song Zhong agreed to wait five days and even offered seven, leaving the competition postponed while he welcomed the extra time to cultivate.

• The Great Elder persuaded Xie Wenying to take a Heaven-Defying Source-Boosting Pill so she could reach the sixth level of the Star River Realm, and Deng Yuanfang planned to delay her match with Song Zhong.
• Feng Jianzi conceded to Song Zhong, while Xie Wenying defeated Wu Yanyang despite suffering an abdominal injury.
• Deng Yuanfang asked to postpone the competition for five days, and Chen Lu refused, suspecting the Daoxuan Sect was scheming.
• Song Zhong overruled Chen Lu and agreed to wait five days, telling Deng Yuanfang that seven days would also be fine.

Song Zhong and Xia Kening traveled across the Extraterritorial Battlefield toward a Human Race city, while three Twin Absolute Sect cultivators plotted over a Ninth-Rank raw stone. After Ai Zhou recognized Song Zhong, Hong Teng agreed to ambush him, and the two men caught up with Song Zhong and Xia Kening.

• After more than ten days of travel, Xia Kening told Song Zhong they were near a Human Race city and carried him into the air.
• Hong Teng and Ai Zhou discussed killing a Hundred Flowers Sect woman to claim her Sun-Moon Nimbus Cloudstone, while Wei Yangqiu dealt with her corpse and watched his seniors warily.
• Ai Zhou recognized Song Zhong flying with Xia Kening and urged Hong Teng to kill them for Song Zhong's treasures and inheritances.
• Hong Teng decided to attack, and he and Ai Zhou caught up with Song Zhong and Xia Kening.
• Song Zhong recognized the pursuers as Twin Absolute Sect cultivators and reacted with concern.

Song Zhong entered the Quasi-Saint Realm Demonic Creature Battlefield and encountered a group of Beast Race cultivators attacking Demonic Beasts. When one Beast Race cultivator tried to seize him, Song Zhong struck him down with a bolt of lightning infused with Yin-Yang Energy and Spatial Power.

• Song Zhong killed the Demonic Beasts in his path as he flew through the battlefield, noting how few cultivators he encountered.
• Song Zhong found more than ten Beast Race cultivators attacking Demonic Beasts in a rift valley and wondered how their Beast Race related to the one in his Universe.
• The Beast Race cultivators mocked Song Zhong for being an early Forget Dao Realm Human Race cultivator in their battlefield.
• A Pig Beast Race cultivator flew at Song Zhong, boasting that he enjoyed tormenting Human Race cultivators.
• Song Zhong fired a purple bolt of lightning that destroyed the Pig Beast Race cultivator's palm, pierced his chest, and slammed him into a pit.

Song Zhong endured Hurricane’s shockwaves with his lightning-infused Golden Body, astonishing Lie Xun, a ninth-layer Golden Body Realm prodigy of the Hyena Clan. Song Zhong then attacked Lie Xun, who countered with shadow tentacles and demonic miasma before closing in with a spear as Song Zhong prepared to strike with the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade.

• Hurricane’s shockwaves shattered Lie Xun’s nine Golden Body layers and nearly broke through Song Zhong’s defenses, but Song Zhong’s final layer absorbed the impact.
• Song Zhong revealed that Boundary Thunder strengthened every layer of his Golden Body, then flew at the falling Lie Xun and attacked with Lightning Power.
• Lie Xun countered Song Zhong’s lightning with shadowy tentacles, then rose through a cloud of black miasma and charged at him.
• Lie Xun declared himself a royal Hyena Clan Heavenly Prodigy and summoned a bone spear as Song Zhong replaced his Wind Sparrow Wings with the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade.
• Song Zhong told Lie Xun to stop talking and slashed at him with the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade.

Song Zhong’s tribulation sparked a fierce battle between Southern Frontier cultivators and the Ancient Witch Clan, drawing two True Lords to intervene. After the Southern Frontier forces withdrew, an Ancient Witch Clan True Lord arrived in person as Song Zhong continued undergoing tribulation.

• Southern Frontier cultivators attacked the Ancient Witch Clan guards near Song Zhong, and both sides’ reinforcements turned the clash into a widening battle.
• Xia Kening and Bai Ruorou worried as the outnumbered Ancient Witch Clan cultivators struggled to hold their ground.
• A Southern Frontier Venerable arrived and prepared to attack, but an Ancient Witch Clan True Lord’s voice stopped the fighting.
• Five Venoms, True Lord ordered the Southern Frontier cultivators to withdraw, and they left the battlefield.
• An Ancient Witch Clan True Lord descended before the gathered cultivators, while Song Zhong remained inside his tribulation.

Song Zhong led the Hundred Peaks Sect’s young experts to retrieve the sect’s Divine Weapons while Li Huaying organized the defense against the foreign races’ assault. The Mountain Guarding Array began to fail under the bombardment, and Yue Yuchen and other elders gave their lives to repair its breach.

• Song Zhong rejected retreat and led the young experts toward Hundred Peaks Cliff to retrieve the Divine Weapons, while Li Huaying and the elders stayed to defend the sect gate.
• Ouyang Yi left to retrieve a Divine Weapon and summon aid as the foreign races completed their encirclement.
• The Serpent Demon Clan’s leader ordered a full assault, and the foreign races unleashed a torrent of spells against the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Li Huaying activated the Mountain Guarding Array, empowering the defenders, but the overwhelming attacks battered its light screen and opened a breach.
• Yue Yuchen burned through his remaining life to strengthen the array, then died after pouring his power into it.
• Several other elders unleashed life-consuming secret arts and sealed the breach, vowing to defend the Hundred Peaks Sect.

As foreign cultivators threatened the Hundred Peaks Sect, its elders and disciples chose to self-destruct to stop them from reaching the weaker members of the sect. Watching his fellow sect members die, Song Zhong blamed himself, and his Instant Eternity drove him into a breakthrough.

• A ninth-layer Immortal Realm elder self-destructed, severely injuring the Crocodile Clan cultivator who had attacked him and saving Rong Ziqing.
• Rong Ziqing began to prepare to self-destruct, but another Hundred Peaks Sect elder stopped him and sacrificed himself against the foreign cultivators.
• Across the battlefield, Hundred Peaks Sect elders self-destructed to injure the invading forces and protect the sect's disciples.
• Hundred Peaks Sect Immortal Realm Heavenly Prodigies also began self-destructing when they could not defeat the foreign cultivators directly.
• Song Zhong watched his fellow sect members die, blamed himself for drawing the attack to the Hundred Peaks Sect, and broke through as his Instant Eternity surged.

Song Zhong defeated the fighters at Fengchi Mountain’s entrance and offered three hundred number plates to anyone who found Song Yichen. Outside the mountain, Song Dingxiong watched Song Zhong’s strength draw attention and worried about his future revenge.

• Song Zhong defeated Jiang Moheng and the other fighters, then used his saber’s flat to stop the remaining battles.
• Song Zhong promised three hundred number plates to anyone who found or led him to Song Yichen, and sent the crowd searching.
• Song Zhong demanded the defeated fighters surrender their number plates and searched them for more.
• Song Dingxiong watched Song Zhong’s display and feared that his strength would let him enter the Xingyi Sect and seek revenge on the Song Family.
• Liu Yubo congratulated Song Dingxiong on the Song Family’s prospects, while Song Dingxiong remained silent.

After killing the fleeing Demon Sect disciples, Song Zhong let the Orthodox Sect disciples search the bodies and kept the recovered Universe Bags. Chen Zhiliang of the Twin Absolute Sect then accused Song Zhong of stealing Thunder Crystals and demanded his Universe Ring, unaware of the danger he faced.

• Song Zhong slaughtered the retreating Demon Sect disciples until the survivors fled, leaving the riverside covered in blood.
• Bao Dating searched the corpses and found four Universe Bags, which Song Zhong took before telling the others to search the bodies too.
• Chen Zhiliang and Chen Zhidong arrived with four other Twin Absolute Sect disciples, and Chen Zhiliang noticed Song Zhong's Universe Ring.
• Chen Zhiliang falsely accused Song Zhong of robbing Twin Absolute Sect disciples of Thunder Crystals and demanded his Universe Ring, while his fellow sect disciples tried to warn him.
• Chen Zhiliang ignored the warnings and threatened to take the Universe Ring himself with his brother.

Daoxuan Sect’s Ancestor ordered Lu Bin and temporary Sect Master Xu Shixing to collude with the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect and foreign races to kill Song Zhong. Lu Bin accepted the mission, despite knowing it could make him a traitor to the Human Race.

• Xu Shixing activated a Prayer Bead, revealing Daoxuan Sect’s Ancestor’s message to Lu Bin and himself.
• The Ancestor explained that Song Zhong’s survival threatened Daoxuan Sect and ordered Lu Bin to recruit foreign races on the Extraterritorial Battlefield to attack him.
• Lu Bin balked at helping foreign races enter the Human Race’s Great Thousand World, while Xu Shixing urged him to obey and suggested their sects knew a hidden reason for the plan.
• Xu Shixing told Lu Bin that success would earn him personal-disciple status, an eighth-rank Divine Weapon, and the future post of Deputy Sect Master.
• Lu Bin resolved to carry out the Ancestor’s command, putting the promised rewards ahead of the potential harm to the Human Race.