Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong confronted the Monkey Beast Clan after it gathered its Immortal Realm experts and offered to end the conflict. He rejected the Ninth Prince’s proposal and attacked the city, where the clan’s cultivators unleashed their formation and spells against him.

• The Ninth Prince rallied the Monkey Beast Clan’s cultivators and revealed that its Immortal Realm experts had gathered to face Song Zhong.
• The Ninth Prince proposed ending the conflict, but Song Zhong refused because members of his Hundred Peaks Sect had died.
• Song Zhong released his killing intent, and the Ninth Prince ordered the clan to activate its city-protecting formation and attack every spot where lightning appeared.
• The Monkey Beast Clan’s cultivators bombarded the lightning bolts with spells while the Ninth Prince hoped to claim Song Zhong’s Universe Ring.
• Song Zhong appeared beside the formation’s light screen and slashed at it with his long blade.

Song Zhong destroyed several foreign clans before the Spider Demon Clan and other races joined forces to ambush him at the Centipede Demon Clan. The ambush began with Spider Demon Clan silk and sacrificial cultivators targeting the lightning Song Zhong used to escape.

• Song Zhong killed the Monkey Beast Clan's Ninth Prince and slaughtered cultivators as he breached several clans' Great Thousand Worlds.
• A Winged Race cultivator gathered the major foreign races and proposed trapping Song Zhong at the Centipede Demon Clan with the Spider Demon Clan's help.
• Lingzhu agreed to help on the condition that the Spider Demon Clan got first pick of the treasures in Song Zhong's Universe Ring, and the gathered clans also discussed wiping out the Human Race.
• Song Zhong reached the Centipede Demon Clan three days later and discovered that cultivators from many clans had assembled to ambush him.
• Song Zhong unleashed lightning and vanished, while Spider Demon Clan cultivators cast spider silk toward the lightning and other cultivators attacked those locations, prepared to sacrifice themselves.

Song Zhong slaughtered the Goat Demon Clan cultivators in Kaitai City, then entered their Great Thousand World and demanded to know where their people had gathered. After learning the royal clan was to the south, he continued his attack, leaving the remaining Goat Demons dead.

• Song Zhong killed Yang Yu outside Kaitai City and struck down Goat Demon Clan cultivators on the city walls.
• Song Zhong attacked the city with the Heavenly Fiend Thunder Blade and wiped out its Goat Demon Clan cultivators.
• Song Zhong collected the cultivators' Universe Rings and entered the Goat Demon Clan's Great Thousand World through the passage.
• Song Zhong killed Goat Demon cultivators he encountered and forced the survivors to reveal that the royal clan was to the south.
• Song Zhong struck again with lightning as the Goat Demons were still thinking, sending blood into the sky.

Cultivators searching for Song Zhong discovered that he had escaped through a vanished Spatial Gate, while Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint arrived at another mountain gate and fought its Blood Corpses. They had killed more than half the enemies when another wave of Blood Corpses appeared.

• The cultivators learned that Song Zhong had left through a Spatial Gate, then searched the mountain gate and departed to look for him elsewhere.
• Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint appeared in a new mountain gate and were immediately attacked by numerous Blood Corpses.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint shielded himself with two mountain ranges while Song Zhong used a Spatial Fold to fend off the spells.
• Song Zhong spread out his true body and clones, then attacked the Blood Corpses’ weak points as Rain Peak Quasi-Saint fought alongside him.
• Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint killed more than half the Blood Corpses before Rain Peak Quasi-Saint spotted another group approaching.

Song Zhong exchanged God Crystals for the rare Instant Space Divine Lightning and absorbed it, then asked Saint One for medicines to improve his aptitude and body. He still had rewards to claim in the Realm of the Heavens.

• Saint One explained that Song Zhong’s long experience in the supreme power had lasted only an instant in reality.
• Song Zhong asked for a recommendation, but Saint One said he had none and explained that Instant Space Divine Lightning contained Spatial Power.
• Song Zhong exchanged one thousand God Crystals for the lightning and discovered his Universe Rings held a total of nine thousand one hundred God Crystals.
• Song Zhong absorbed the Instant Space Divine Lightning, and the Thunder of Azure Nothingness began to absorb it.
• Song Zhong asked Saint One whether he had pills or medicinal herbs that could improve aptitude and the physical body.

Song Zhong caught two top-tier Divine Weapons for Qian Yu using the Thunder Crystals he had brought, then kept the Violet Thunder Wind Staff when Qian Yu suggested it belonged at Prison Suppressing Peak. Song Zhong proposed discussing business with Golden Coin Peak, while Tang Qianzi wondered whether the staff could be combined with her great seal into a hammer.

• Qian Yu brought Song Zhong Wrath Lotus Thunder Crystals and Star Tribulation Thunder Crystals, and Song Zhong agreed to catch Divine Weapons for him.
• Tang Qianzi realized Song Zhong could fly himself, and Song Zhong went to Hundred Peaks Cliff to catch two Divine Weapons.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder identified the Demon Suppressing Golden Coin as a seventh-tier low-grade Divine Weapon and the Violet Thunder Wind Staff as a seventh-tier mid-grade Divine Weapon.
• Qian Yu said the Violet Thunder Wind Staff should go to Prison Suppressing Peak, and Song Zhong took it while promising to catch more Divine Weapons in exchange for Thunder Crystals.
• Song Zhong proposed visiting Golden Coin Peak to discuss business, and Tang Qianzi imagined combining the staff with her great seal to make a hammer.

Song Zhong’s repeated epiphanies led Lord of Cherished Flowers and Lord Zhengyi to suspect that Human Race cultivators gained exceptional comprehension after reaching the Supreme Realm. As Song Zhong prepared to cut open space again, the group kept the discovery secret and fought the Demonic Beasts spilling from the widening rift.

• Lord of Cherished Flowers told Lord Zhengyi that she had seen Song Zhong enter three epiphanies in a short period, and Lord Zhengyi connected frequent epiphanies to reaching the Supreme Realm.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers explained that Song Zhong had temporarily reached the Supreme Realm before and could be considered comparable to its strongest cultivators despite being back in the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers warned Lord Zhengyi and Wutian Immortal Emperor that Human Race comprehension might become terrifying at higher cultivation levels and that other races must not learn of it.
• Song Zhong stopped cutting space after his cuts widened the rift enough for Supreme Path Realm Demonic Beasts to emerge, and he asked Lord of Cherished Flowers to warn him if stronger beasts appeared.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers fought the Demonic Beasts while Song Zhong eagerly planned to cut open the void again, and Wutian Immortal Emperor asked her to leave him some Immortal Emperor Realm beasts to fight.

Song Zhong speculated that Rain Peak Quasi-Saint might have been a powerful being who reincarnated, then hunted Saints and Demonic Beasts in the Sage Battlefield. He found Peak Quasi-Saint and nine other Quasi-Saints overwhelmed by Saint Demonic Beasts and joined the fight.

• Song Zhong wondered whether Rain Peak Quasi-Saint had once been a Saint or Cosmos Ruler who reincarnated, and questioned whether he could return to the Quasi-Saint Realm Battlefield.
• Song Zhong and his avatars killed Demonic Beasts and six Saints during ten days in the Sage Battlefield.
• Song Zhong sensed Peak Quasi-Saint’s spell and discovered him and nine other Quasi-Saints struggling against more than a dozen Saint Demonic Beasts.
• Song Zhong attacked the Demonic Beasts to protect Peak Quasi-Saint, whom he believed might help Rain Peak Quasi-Saint find a breakthrough.
• Peak Quasi-Saint regretted entering the Saint Realm Battlefield after realizing that the Saint Demonic Beasts were far stronger than he had expected.

Song Zhong was surrounded by seven Toad Demon Clan Venerables who sought to kill him and seize the resources he carried. As they trapped him in their overlapping domains, Song Zhong unleashed his immense aura and prepared to fight without relying on his lightning movement technique.

• Song Zhong sensed powerful auras approaching and saw Miasmic Poison Venerable and six other Toad Demon Venerables arrive.
• Miasmic Poison Venerable taunted Song Zhong and ordered the others to kill him so they could claim his resources.
• The six other Venerables joined Miasmic Poison Venerable in attacking, and their seven toad domains engulfed Song Zhong with poison, heat, cold, and other forces.
• Song Zhong rejected the Venerables' claims of dominance and released a terrifying aura that startled them.
• The seven Toad Demon Venerables expanded their domains into cages around Song Zhong.

The Orthodox Sects attacked the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s mountain gate, but its formations withstood their spells until Song Zhong struck and shattered one in a single blow. He explained that the formations’ so-called Immortal Realm limit was not his own, leaving the sect’s defenders stunned by the gap between their power and his.

• Fu Rui ordered the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s disciples to reinforce and maintain the mountain formations as the Orthodox Sects approached.
• Song Zhong told the assembled sect leaders to attack the mountain gate directly, and the Five Elements Sect launched the first barrage.
• The Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s disciples channeled their power and spirit stones into the formations, repairing cracks as spells struck the blood-red screens.
• Song Zhong descended with a lightning strike and cleaved through one formation’s light screen, then landed atop the mountain gate.
• Song Zhong told the defenders that the formations’ limit was only theirs, and reasoned that his fifth-level Immortal Realm power remained far from his own peak.

Song Zhong entered the eleventh layer of the Realm of the Heavens and faced a mirror image that was ten percent stronger than him in every way. As the hundred-year deadline approached, he used the mirror image’s periodic breaks to recover and improve his combat skills.

• Song Zhong heard that he had one hundred years to defeat himself or be eliminated, then watched a mirror image of himself appear.
• Song Zhong discovered that the mirror image was stronger and faster than him and forced him to retreat with relentless saber strikes.
• Song Zhong avoided using his Lightning Nurturing Art and tried to survive long enough to grow stronger, but the mirror image wounded him.
• The mirror image paused its attacks for ten days so Song Zhong could recover and reflect, then resumed fighting.
• Song Zhong realized the mirror image provided a powerful opponent for honing his combat skills as the hundred-year deadline drew closer.

Song Zhong tricked the Hundred Nightmares Immortal King into guarding the bone-segment area and defeating arriving cultivators while Song Zhong watched from hiding. The Hundred Nightmares Immortal King continued attacking anyone who came, including a green-skinned cultivator from a highly ranked Great Thousand World.

• Song Zhong fled the Hundred Nightmares Immortal King and left the Baihua Immortal King behind, then the Hundred Nightmares Immortal King forced her to explain how to absorb the bone segment’s power and took her Universe Ring.
• The Hundred Nightmares Immortal King hid the Baihua Immortal King and defeated every cultivator who later arrived, collecting their God Crystals and bone segments.
• Song Zhong concealed his aura nearby and decided to wait until the Hundred Nightmares Immortal King went to find White Bone, then kill him and take what he had gathered.
• A green-skinned cultivator from a Great Thousand World ranked two hundred and thirty-sixth appeared, and the Hundred Nightmares Immortal King attacked him with a poisonous arrow.
• The green-skinned cultivator produced a jade bottle and released streams of green liquid, leaving Song Zhong stunned by his opponent’s appearance.

Song Zhong faced the Lightning Blood Corpse while Rain Peak Quasi-Saint used his upgraded Immortal Artifacts to overpower the other two. Song Zhong’s avatar endured the lightning unharmed and destroyed the Lightning Blood Corpse, leaving Rain Peak Quasi-Saint astonished.

• Song Zhong told Rain Peak Quasi-Saint to hold off two Blood Corpses while he attacked the Lightning Blood Corpse.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint revealed that his two Immortal Artifacts were Mystic Rank, Top Grade and crushed the spells of the other two Blood Corpses with mountain ranges.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint saw lightning repeatedly strike Song Zhong, who continued flying without injury.
• Song Zhong reached the Lightning Blood Corpse and slashed it with his Mystic Rank, High Grade saber.
• Song Zhong exploited the Blood Corpse’s slow movements and weak body to strike it repeatedly until it exploded.

The Glacial Immortal King challenged Song Zhong to withstand one strike while she suppressed herself to the third layer of the Venerable Realm. She enclosed them in mist and began demonstrating her Immortal King's Great Dao, leaving Song Zhong poised to face her strike.

• The Glacial Immortal King declared that Song Zhong would pass the second trial if he endured one strike from her.
• Song Zhong asked what level of the Venerable Realm she would suppress herself to, and she specified the third layer and promised to use only the spiritual qi she had possessed at that level.
• The Glacial Immortal King raised mist around herself and Song Zhong so the gathered crowd could not see their encounter.
• The Glacial Immortal King told Song Zhong she would not allow him and Moonrise to be together, then said he could learn from her Great Dao strike.
• The Glacial Immortal King's aura transformed as she prepared to unleash her strike.

Song Zhong absorbed the Abyssal Soul-Binding Lightning, learned why the Human Race had suppressed witchcraft, and was promised the Lord of Witchcraft Power’s legacy. After twenty years of cultivation, he reached the True Immortal Realm as the seventy-year deadline approached, while the Lin Demon Clan Chief sought a descendant of the Lord Qiankun.

• Song Zhong endured the Abyssal Soul-Binding Lightning entering his body and absorbed it into the Thunder of Azure Nothingness with Zhengyi Immortal Emperor’s help.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor explained that foreign races had required the Human Race to forbid witchcraft, and Zhengyi Immortal Emperor revealed he knew Song Zhong cultivated it.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor promised to ask his Master to grant Song Zhong the Lord of Witchcraft Power’s legacy.
• Song Zhong cultivated for twenty years, fully fused the lightning, and broke through into the True Immortal Realm.
• On the Outer Battlefield, the Lin Demon Clan Chief told Xinhuo Immortal King that he had come to see a descendant of the Lord Qiankun.

After discovering that Song Zhong had destroyed the World of Bizarre Stones and obtained the Sage's Inheritance, the Demon Clan Old Ancestor gathered the other clans' Ancestors to discuss stopping his rise. They considered a plan to send a powerful being into the Human Great Thousand World, but the Beast Ancestor opposed using the Abyssal Blade.

• Song Zhong and the Lord of Cherished Flowers escaped aboard the Flying Boat as the World of Bizarre Stones exploded behind them.
• The Demon Clan Old Ancestor used a Bronze Mirror to learn that Song Zhong had entered the World of Bizarre Stones and concluded that he had obtained the Sage's Inheritance.
• The Demon Clan Old Ancestor summoned the Ancestors of the Insect Clan, Beast Race, Tentacle Clan, and Spirit Race to warn that Song Zhong's strength and fortune made him a growing threat.
• The Demon Clan Old Ancestor proposed entering the Human Great Thousand World with a being stronger than Song Zhong.
• The Spirit Ancestor suspected that the Demon Clan Old Ancestor meant to use the Abyssal Blade, and the Beast Ancestor rejected the idea as too dangerous.

Song Zhong broke through to the Golden Body’s third layer and encountered two large scouting parties of cultivators in the Sealed Ruins. Their forces gathered, and a Serpent Demon announced that Senior Brother Sang Liao should lead them.

• Song Zhong completed his breakthrough after forty-seven days and continued flying through the Ruins while the Thunderous Beasts left him alone.
• Song Zhong encountered a diverse group of cultivators, who warned him not to fly because Strange Beasts might spot him.
• A large-eared cultivator heard another group nearby, and Song Zhong’s party went to meet them.
• A Serpent Demon and a cultivator from the other group each claimed to lead a scouting party backed by more than a thousand cultivators.
• Both main forces arrived, and a red-scaled Serpent Demon declared that Senior Brother Sang Liao was the right person to lead them.

After Song Zhong severed Wu Wei’s legs in a clash at the sect’s outer mountains, Bai Ruorou warned him that revealing his power could make him a target. She then revealed that she possessed Boundary Thunder, a special thunderbolt whose past owner struggled to advance beyond the Venerable Realm.

• Song Zhong severed Wu Wei’s legs with one slash after Wu Wei attacked him, and Tang Qianzi confronted Jian Kong over the incident.
• Jian Kong took Wu Wei away, while Tang Qianzi reassured the others and brought Song Zhong back to Prison Suppressing Peak.
• News of Song Zhong defeating a Golden Body Realm cultivator spread across the Hundred Peaks Sect, shocking its cultivators.
• Bai Ruorou warned Song Zhong to stay within the sect because revealing his strength could draw the attention of the major Demon Sects.
• Bai Ruorou showed Song Zhong her third-ranked Boundary Thunder and explained that its former owner could not advance after obtaining it.

Song Zhong used Instant Eternity to cast witchcraft, revealing that his cultivation technique could support both witchcraft and spells. Song Wu, True Lord then subdued Song Zhong and invaded his soul to inspect the technique.

• Song Zhong decided to try using Instant Eternity to activate the witchcraft method rather than risk having his technique crippled.
• Song Zhong circulated the method, and a crimson witchcraft pattern appeared across his skin.
• Song Wu, True Lord marveled that Song Zhong could cultivate both witchcraft and spells, then demanded to inspect his cultivation technique.
• Song Zhong said he could not explain Instant Eternity, but Song Wu, True Lord knocked Bai Ruorou and Xia Kening unconscious and approached him.
• Song Wu, True Lord immobilized Song Zhong with spiritual energy and invaded his soul.

Song Zhong told Shen Lichu about his exploits in the Sealed Ruins, leaving her astonished at his strength and luck. Bai Ruorou warned him to stay within the Hundred Peaks Sect as the Era of Cosmic Reversal approached, while arranging protection and inviting his parents to Prison Suppressing Peak.

• Song Zhong regretted that the Blood Crystals he had taken from the Sealed Ruins vanished outside the Myriad Beasts Tower.
• Song Zhong explained his recent exploits to Shen Lichu, and Tang Qianzi added details that left Shen Lichu stunned by her Junior Brother’s strength and luck.
• Song Zhong offered to help Shen Lichu capture a Divine Weapon, but she said she had already used her Hundred Peaks Token.
• Bai Ruorou warned Song Zhong not to leave the Hundred Peaks Sect and ordered Shen Lichu or Tang Qianzi to accompany him whenever he left Prison Suppressing Peak.
• Bai Ruorou sent Tang Qianzi to bring Song Zhong’s parents from the outer mountains and invite them to stay on the peak.