Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong returned from the ruins with both Sealed Relics and faced accusations of stealing and killing fellow disciples. The Hundred Peaks Sect’s Great Elder and Sun Elder protected him as Jian Ming confronted him over Wu Zhi’s death.

• Song Zhong was swept out of the collapsing ruins and ran to the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Great Elder for protection.
• The Great Elder learned that Song Zhong had obtained both Sealed Relics and discovered he had reached the ninth layer of the Qi Guiding Realm.
• Chen Zhidong and Chen Zhiliang accused Song Zhong of stealing their belongings and their father’s Divine Weapon, while the Great Elder declared the stolen goods belonged to the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• Disciples accused Song Zhong of killing Senior Brother Jia and others, and Song Zhong admitted he had killed someone from his own sect.
• A monk told Jian Ming that Song Zhong had killed Wu Zhi, and Jian Ming moved to attack him.
• Sun Elder stepped between Jian Ming and Song Zhong and challenged Jian Ming for threatening a Prison Suppressing Peak disciple.

Song Zhong advanced from the mid-stage Supreme Realm to the late stage and peak, then broke through to the early-stage Dao Seeking Realm under a devastating heavenly tribulation. As the tribulation intensified and killed the World Beasts pouring into the space, Lord You Shui and Lord of Cherished Flowers kept their distance while the Great Bell grew stronger.

• Song Zhong continued fighting World Beasts and broke through to the late-stage Supreme Realm after about a hundred years.
• After another hundred or so years, Song Zhong reached the peak Supreme Realm, and Lord You Shui realized how quickly he might surpass her and rise to rule the Universe.
• About a hundred and ten years later, Song Zhong broke through to the early-stage Dao Seeking Realm, drawing vast Tribulation Clouds over the entire space.
• Song Zhong flew to the far side of the space as the tribulations struck, while Lord You Shui and Lord of Cherished Flowers retreated to the opposite edge.
• The increasingly powerful tribulations killed World Beasts as they entered, strengthened the Great Bell, and put pressure on Lord You Shui even from afar.

Song Zhong and Xia Kening searched Ten Thousand Poison Valley for a place suited to finding Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning. They located the Reclining Buddha Mountains, where Song Zhong realized he was about to undergo tribulation.

• Bai Ruorou disposed of the two corpses and led Song Zhong and Xia Kening away before the battle's aura attracted attention.
• Song Zhong woke the captured cultivator, Kang Jin, and questioned him about places with lightning in Ten Thousand Poison Valley.
• Xia Kening used her illusion ability to make Kang Jin reveal that the Reclining Buddha Mountains were a land of extreme yin where lightning often struck.
• Kang Jin died from his injuries, and Song Zhong took his Universe Ring before the group set out for the mountains.
• After searching for three days, Song Zhong and Xia Kening found the area and saw Tribulation Clouds gathering overhead.

Song Zhong overwhelmed Sun Lifeng with his enhanced strength and lightning techniques, countering the Starlight Lightning Lock and wounding him. He left Sun Lifeng alive for interrogation and asked Liu Mu to kill the remaining Strange Beasts.

• Song Zhong struck Sun Lifeng with his saber, sending the ninth-layer Immortal Affinity Realm cultivator flying with a single blow.
• Song Zhong pursued Sun Lifeng, whose Starlight Lightning Lock briefly bound him before its effect vanished.
• Sun Lifeng cast the lock again, but Song Zhong’s lightning blades and nine Lightning Dragons broke through his defenses and injured him.
• Song Zhong severed one of Sun Lifeng’s arms and told Liu Mu to kill the remaining Strange Beasts while he interrogated Sun Lifeng.

Song Zhong faced Zhou Chaoyang in the arena and shattered Zhou Chaoyang’s powerful ice-leaf attack with a single lightning-infused slash. Zhou Chaoyang survived but was badly injured, and Song Zhong mocked him as he lay on the ground.

• Zhou Chaoyang opened the spar by using a Divine Weapon banner to unleash the advanced Leaf Gathering Ice Combining Art.
• Song Zhong gathered his lightning into Azure Unknowing Lightning and cleaved through Zhou Chaoyang’s frost-covered leaves with one slash.
• The lightning struck Zhou Chaoyang before he could dodge, and Song Zhong’s follow-up blow sent him crashing to the ground, bleeding and badly injured.
• Song Zhong reminded Zhou Chaoyang that he was big, not fast, and asked whether the attack had been fast enough.

Hundred Peaks Sect fought off a vastly larger force of foreign cultivators with its Seventh Grade Divine Weapons, but Ouyang Yi was overwhelmed and badly injured. Song Zhong arrived at the sect gate, unleashed Thunderclap of the Heavens, and drew the attackers’ focus onto himself.

• Ouyang Yi took two Seventh Grade Upper Tier Divine Weapons and rushed to defend Hundred Peaks Sect’s gate as foreign cultivators attacked.
• Ouyang Yi used his speed and twin swords to protect disciples and kill foreign cultivators, but the attackers surrounded and gravely wounded him.
• Song Zhong descended with Thunderclap of the Heavens, unleashing a lightning storm that disrupted the foreign cultivators.
• Song Zhong killed four foreign cultivators with his demonic saber and declared himself to the attackers.
• The foreign cultivators recognized Song Zhong and charged at him, seeking his weapons and resources.

The Lord of Illusory Eyes explained the benefits and risks of joining the Benevolence Dao Alliance, and Song Zhong agreed to be considered for membership. She departed for the Sage Ruins, where she and Song Zhong might meet again, as the courtyard began shaking once more.

• Song Zhong questioned why joining the Benevolence Dao Alliance would benefit cultivators from lower-ranked Great Thousand Worlds, and the Lord of Illusory Eyes described its experts, resources, and inheritance.
• The Lord of Illusory Eyes revealed that she came from the 8,888th Great Thousand World and said the alliance had helped her gain opportunities and advance her cultivation.
• Song Zhong asked about the drawbacks, and the Lord of Illusory Eyes said members could be targeted by the Wild Dao Alliance but were not forced to take on tasks.
• Song Zhong agreed to join, and the Lord of Illusory Eyes explained that he still needed an official invitation and had to pass an assessment.
• The Lord of Illusory Eyes said she would enter the Sage Ruins and would spare Song Zhong if they met there, then vanished.
• Song Zhong entered the courtyard, and it shook again as he looked toward the Lord of Cherished Flowers.

Lord of Ink Flames tried to prove her strength to Song Zhong by challenging Lord of Cherished Flowers, but Song Zhong attacked her instead. He ordered Lord of Cherished Flowers to kill her, leaving Lord of Ink Flames shocked by his betrayal.

• Lord of Blazing Flames tried to persuade Lord of Ink Flames not to change partners, but she dismissed his warnings and said she would join forces with Song Zhong.
• Lord of Ink Flames unleashed her Palm-Leaf Fan against Lord of Cherished Flowers, who countered with her Rose Whip and protective vines.
• Lord of Ink Flames redirected her scattered flames toward Lord of Cherished Flowers, but the rose vines shielded her with mist formed from evaporating dewdrops.
• Lord of Ink Flames accused Lord of Cherished Flowers of relying on Song Zhong's power, but Song Zhong struck Lord of Ink Flames with a storm of lightning.
• Song Zhong called Lord of Ink Flames too ugly and told Lord of Cherished Flowers to kill her.

Song Zhong entered the Benevolence Dao Alliance’s Great Thousand World with Lord of Illusory Eyes and learned that its dense Immortal Qi and Primordial Chaos Qi made cultivation there a privilege with strict time limits. The Lord of Chaos Island revealed his power by killing a disguised Wild Dao Alliance infiltrator, showing Song Zhong that even Saints could not sneak in unnoticed.

• Song Zhong examined his three Mulberry Field Fruits and planned to use one each time he contemplated the Insight Stele.
• After a year of travel, Song Zhong and Lord of Illusory Eyes arrived at the Benevolence Dao Alliance’s Great Thousand World.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes explained that newcomers could cultivate there for one hundred years, while completing tasks could earn more time.
• Song Zhong sensed the growing Primordial Chaos Qi near Primal Chaos Island, where Alliance cultivators chose to cultivate.
• The Lord of Chaos Island seized and killed an emerald-green infiltrator from the Wild Dao Alliance, revealing the intruder’s alligator-like true form.

Song Zhong struggled to defend against Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint while Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint's attacks overwhelmed his remaining protection. Just as Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint prepared to strike again, five more Song Zhong avatars arrived, leaving the two Quasi-Saints surrounded by his forces.

• Song Zhong's true body and two avatars held off Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint while Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint's Five Elements Rainbow overwhelmed the Human Formation's lightning.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint used his magical artifact to shield Song Zhong, but the strike shattered it and grievously wounded him.
• Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint's attack struck Song Zhong's avatar and true body, badly injuring them both.
• Five more Song Zhong avatars appeared, revealing that he had seven avatars in total.
• The five newly arrived avatars surrounded Ancient Spirit Quasi-Saint and Ten Tentacle Quasi-Saint.

After the Human Race repelled the alien attackers, the Hundred Peaks Sect counted the devastating losses and began rebuilding. Song Zhong gave the sect its Divine Weapons and kept his plan to take revenge on the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect to himself.

• The cultivators returned to the Human Race's Great Thousand World, where Ouyang Yi thanked the sects that had rescued the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• As the Hundred Flowers Sect returned home, its cultivators discussed Song Zhong's strength and predicted he would attack the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect himself.
• A Solitary Peak cultivator reported that eight or nine out of every ten Hundred Peaks Sect Immortal Realm cultivators had died, along with many younger Longevity Realm cultivators and numerous Divine Weapons.
• Ouyang Yi ordered the sect to honor its dead, comfort its disciples, and repair the gate so the Hundred Peaks Sect could stabilize.
• Song Zhong told Ouyang Yi that the Divine Weapons still in the sect belonged to the Hundred Peaks Sect, while privately deciding to seek revenge alone.

Song Zhong subdued the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning and found an injured woman who falsely claimed to be his senior sister Shen Lichu. After carrying her to a cave while pretending to believe her story, he bound her with the Ruyi Breakthrough Rope.

• Song Zhong survived the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning’s test, subdued it, and took the Ant Beast Clan member’s Universe Ring.
• Song Zhong found an injured, naked human woman and carried her away after she claimed to belong to the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Prison Suppressing Peak.
• Song Zhong realized the woman was impersonating his senior sister and pretended to believe she was Shen Lichu, even inventing a marriage contract between them.
• The woman played along while planning to recover and overpower Song Zhong, who carried her to a cave after more than two hours of running.
• Song Zhong threw the Ruyi Breakthrough Rope at the woman and bound her just as she opened her eyes.

Song Zhong’s two avatars used four low-grade Earth Rank Immortal Artifacts to trap and attack the fleeing cultivators of the Five Great Other Clans. The battle drew the attention of cultivators across the Chaotic Lands, many of whom headed toward Song Zhong to seize his artifacts, while a strange figure from the region’s center also set out toward him.

• The cultivators of the Five Great Other Clans tried to flee when Song Zhong’s two avatars appeared, but his avatars revealed four low-grade Earth Rank Immortal Artifacts.
• Song Zhong’s avatars combined Spatial Power, Lightning Power, and Yin-Yang Energy to create a lightning-filled spatial prison around the Five Great Other Clans’ cultivators.
• The trapped cultivators attacked the prison, but Song Zhong’s lightning destroyed their spells, forcing them to call for a united defense.
• Cultivators throughout the Chaotic Lands sensed Song Zhong’s battle and the Earth Rank Immortal Artifacts, then flew toward him to seize them.
• A strange cultivator with a chaotic, partly human and partly tentacled body noticed the distant battle and flew toward it.

Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers faced Lord of Vanishing Shadows and Lord of Absolute Sword after the two sides emerged as victors in separate battles. The chapter ended with Lord of Absolute Sword badly wounding Lord of Cherished Flowers while Lord of Vanishing Shadows trapped Song Zhong and taunted him.

• Lord of Vanishing Shadows attacked Song Zhong with a Mystic Rank dagger, but Song Zhong used the Funeral Bell to shield himself and unleashed its Vengeful Souls.
• Lord of Absolute Sword confronted Lord of Cherished Flowers with a Mystic Rank, Middle Grade Immortal Artifact and struck her with overwhelming sword qi.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers tried to defend herself with the Rose Whip, but Lord of Absolute Sword pierced through it and sent her flying as she spat blood.
• Lord of Vanishing Shadows used his power to isolate Song Zhong from the surrounding space, preventing him from reaching Lord of Cherished Flowers.
• Lord of Vanishing Shadows told Song Zhong that he could only watch as Lord of Cherished Flowers was killed before he died too.

Song Zhong entered the Scale Touch Clan’s lightning-filled Great Thousand World and was quickly confronted by the Lord of All Lightning and three Immortal Kings. They mistook him for an outsider who had come to absorb their lightning and prepared to kill him.

• The Lord of Illusory Eyes gave Song Zhong a Jade Pendant for his return and listened as he teased her about being too cold to earn a Saint’s Inheritance.
• Song Zhong entered the Scale Touch Clan’s Great Thousand World, where constant lightning had transformed the land, plants, and rivers.
• The Lord of All Lightning sensed Song Zhong’s arrival and flew to confront the first-layer Immortal Emperor, accusing him of entering to absorb lightning.
• Three Scale Touch Clan Immortal Kings arrived and volunteered to kill Song Zhong, confident that their lightning-hardened bodies gave them an advantage.

Song Zhong arrived at the battlefield and used his lightning to rescue the wounded Human Race cultivators from the Beast Race attackers. He left Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint dead after overwhelming him in close combat.

• Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint severed Feng Yu Quasi-Saint's arm and sent her flying as the Human Race fighters suffered severe injuries.
• Song Zhong saw the battle and rushed in with his Earth Rank, Top Grade Immortal Artifact saber.
• Song Zhong's lightning struck Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint, blasted his companions into dust, and drove him into the ground.
• Kuang Ba Quasi-Saint tried to exploit Song Zhong's close-range attack, but Song Zhong's saber released lightning that blew apart his skull and body.

Song Zhong arrived at the Benevolence Dao Alliance and met its leader, Lord of Chaos Island, who explained the dangers and opportunities of the Mysterious Realm. Song Zhong chose to contemplate the Insight Stele first, and nine Sage Steles appeared before him.

• Lord of Illusory Eyes brought Song Zhong toward the central Island, where he reunited with Lord of Cherished Flowers.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes led Song Zhong into the Island within an Island to meet Lord of Chaos Island, who welcomed him to the Benevolence Dao Alliance.
• Lord of Chaos Island explained that new members could contemplate the Insight Stele or enter the dangerous Mysterious Realm, which connected to other Universes.
• Song Zhong learned that Lord of Cherished Flowers was waiting to enter the Mysterious Realm with him, but chose to contemplate the Insight Stele first.
• Lord of Chaos Island revealed nine enormous Sage Steles at the center of the Island.

The Lord of Flourishing Life framed Song Zhong for killing Flower Clan cultivators and stirred the clan against him, while the Lord of Cherished Flowers tried to defend him. Song Zhong challenged the accusations, but the surrounding experts remained ready to attack.

• The Lord of Entwined Vines demanded that the Lord of Cherished Flowers step aside so he could kill Song Zhong, but she refused and pointed out that no one had witnessed Song Zhong killing Flower Clan cultivators.
• The Lord of Flourishing Life bribed the Immortal Emperor Xianyan with Myriad Sound Stillness Leaves and future support, and he falsely claimed he had seen Song Zhong kill Flower Clan members.
• The Lord of Cherished Flowers questioned Xianyan's testimony and offered to examine his soul, but the Lord of Flourishing Life accused her of siding with an outsider over her own clan.
• Song Zhong argued that the clan was using the accusations as an excuse to take his treasures and challenged them to attack if they wanted a fight.
• The Lord of Flourishing Life and the surrounding cultivators dismissed Song Zhong's defense as sophistry, while the Flower Clan experts gathered around him with killing intent.

Song Zhong and the Lord of Cherished Flowers traveled through the Mysterious Realm after Song Zhong chose one of the Immortal Artifacts he had taken from the Lord of All Lightning. At the Realm’s edge, the Lord of Confinement recognized Song Zhong as his target and prepared to kill him for a reward from the Saint of the Nether Scale Clan.

• Song Zhong found that the Violet Lightning Radiance Blade and Black Abyss Lightning Devouring Blade could neither fuse nor be wielded together, and he chose the Violet Lightning Radiance Blade.
• The Lord of Cherished Flowers told Song Zhong she had left his Universe Rings, including the Shattering Void Blade, with Wu Qingqing.
• The Lord of Confinement waited at the Mysterious Realm’s edge for Song Zhong, while Lord You Shui arrived and noted that the Lord of Confinement was entering the Realm for a third time.
• Song Zhong and the Lord of Cherished Flowers approached the Lord of Confinement and Lord You Shui, and the Lord of Confinement recognized Song Zhong as his target.
• The Lord of Confinement revealed that he had secretly supplied intelligence to a Nether Scale Clan cultivator and had accepted half the reward for killing Song Zhong from that cultivator’s Saint.

Song Zhong slaughtered the Demon Sect disciples in the cave abode after reaching the ninth level of the Qi Guiding Realm, then left with their valuables. Four survivors later mistook Song Qingwei and another Hundred Peaks Sect disciple for allies, but fled when they realized Song Zhong might appear.

• Song Zhong killed Wu Duo and Gu You, then pursued and killed the remaining Demon Sect disciples in the cave abode.
• Song Zhong searched the corpses for Universe Bags and Universe Rings, left the cave, and set off in a random direction.
• Four surviving Demon Sect disciples stopped to recover from their escape, then encountered Song Qingwei and her companion fleeing four other Demon Sect pursuers.
• Song Qingwei and her companion faced the survivors, but the four Demon Sect disciples recognized their Hundred Peaks Sect attire and ran away, fearing Song Zhong would catch up.