Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong battled Saint of Chaos, whose power disrupted qi and Great Dao, and countered with lightning from his scattered clones. Their clash caused a spatial explosion that devastated the surrounding area, while both fighters survived the blast unscathed.

• Saint of Chaos disrupted the air and Peak Quasi-Saint's protective Immortal Qi, while Song Zhong scattered his clones around him.
• Song Zhong combined the lightning from his clones and true body to break through Saint of Chaos's chaotic qi and attack him.
• Saint of Chaos used the Treasure Pearl to turn the battlefield into primal chaos, but the immense Lightning Power caused the space to explode.
• The explosion's shockwaves injured Peak Quasi-Saint and the watching Quasi-Saints, who retreated farther while continuing to watch.
• Saint of Chaos absorbed the shockwaves with his cloak, while Song Zhong and his clones escaped harm using Immortal Artifacts and folded space.

Song Zhong overwhelmed Xie Wenying in the Six Sects tournament final with the newly revealed Divine Dragon Prison Suppressing spell. The match ended in one slash, leaving the spectators stunned by his power.

• Xie Wenying opened the final match with the Daoxuan Sect’s Moonrise Subduing Demon Art, combining swordsmanship with Moon Yin Qi.
• Song Zhong answered with Divine Dragon Prison Suppressing, a powerful spell Bai Ruorou had developed for the Wrathful Thunder Dragon Blade.
• Song Zhong’s saber clashed with Xie Wenying’s sword, shattering the arena and overwhelming her sword shadows with lightning.
• Song Zhong blasted Xie Wenying over a hundred meters and left her severely injured and unconscious.
• The spectators marveled that Song Zhong had defeated an opponent two levels above him with a single slash.

Song Zhong overwhelmed Xiang Yuanming and the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators, while the Hundred Peaks Sect and Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect joined the battle on his side. Xiang Yuanming fled, leaving Song Zhong’s connection to the Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect unresolved.

• Song Zhong charged Xiang Yuanming and shattered nearly all of his Golden Bodies with a single strike.
• Song Zhong turned to fight off the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples attacking him from behind.
• Zhu Yuan urged the Hundred Peaks Sect disciples to help Song Zhong, and three Devouring Thunder Demonic Sect cultivators also attacked the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect.
• Song Zhong and his allies killed every Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivator except Xiang Yuanming.
• Xiang Yuanming ignored his surviving allies and fled into the distance.

Six Wild Dao Alliance Quasi-Saints confronted Rain Peak Quasi-Saint and Song Zhong, intending to seize their Immortal Artifacts and kill Song Zhong for a reward. The six attacked, but Song Zhong’s lightning net withstood the first two assaults as the remaining four prepared to strike.

• The six Wild Dao Alliance Quasi-Saints discovered Rain Peak Quasi-Saint and Song Zhong at the mountain gate and demanded Rain Peak Quasi-Saint’s Immortal Artifacts.
• The Wild Dao Alliance cultivators recognized Song Zhong and decided to kill him for Nether Scale Sage’s reward.
• Jian Kong Quasi-Saint attacked Song Zhong with Spatial Power, while another Quasi-Saint unleashed golden flames.
• Song Zhong formed a lightning net that resisted both attacks, surprising the six Quasi-Saints as four of them still had attacks to deliver.

Song Zhong learned that the Venerable Realm battlefield suppressed his Immortal Qi and slowed Instant Eternity, while higher-realm battlefields could boost lower-realm cultivators. Hoping to speed up his cultivation, he decided to explore the Knocking Immortal Battlefield, but two cultivators assigned to track him tried to keep him with the Piaomiao Sect.

• After leaving the city with the Venerable Realm cultivators, Song Zhong felt his Immortal Qi and Instant Eternity slow under the battlefield's suppression.
• A veteran explained that cultivators entering lower-realm battlefields were weakened, while those entering higher-realm battlefields gained protection and found enlightenment easier, though they faced greater danger.
• Song Zhong decided to visit the Knocking Immortal Battlefield and then the Immortal Affinity Battlefield to increase his cultivation speed.
• Song Zhong told Duan Xue he would leave the group and explore alone, and she reluctantly accepted.
• The male and female cultivators tasked by Great Grand-Uncle Ye Jing'ao to follow Song Zhong panicked at his departure, and the woman demanded that he stay and protect the Piaomiao Sect.

Song Zhong sought a Bodhi Sacred Fruit from the Saint of Ceasing War, but she offered him a Mulberry Field Fruit that could let him study the Sage Stele for three hundred years. She revealed her overwhelming power by manifesting ninety-nine Saint incarnations and asked whether he still thought she needed any of his treasures.

• Song Zhong asked the Saint of Ceasing War to sell him a Bodhi Sacred Fruit, and she offered him one for free, but he insisted on paying.
• The Saint of Ceasing War explained that the Mulberry Field Fruit could let Song Zhong study the Sage Stele for three hundred years while only three days passed outside.
• Song Zhong asked what he would need to exchange for the Mulberry Field Fruit.
• The Saint of Ceasing War claimed she was the strongest Saint and revealed ninety-nine identical Saint incarnations.
• The ninety-nine incarnations asked Song Zhong whether he thought they lacked any of the treasures he possessed.

Song Zhong faced more than fifty Insect Clan cultivators and used his Nine Dragons Lightning Cloud Sabre to overwhelm them with lightning. He killed them all, leaving four Human Race cultivators stunned.

• Song Zhong summoned the Nine Dragons Lightning Cloud Sabre and charged it with Immortal Qi as the Insect Clan cultivators recognized its power and attacked him with threads.
• Song Zhong unleashed Thunder Blade Purgatory, tearing apart the Insect Clan’s attacks with a storm of lightning blades.
• Nine lightning dragons emerged from Song Zhong’s sabre and destroyed the Insect Clan’s webs and defenses.
• Song Zhong repeatedly slashed at the fleeing Insect Clan cultivators and killed all fifty-odd of them.
• The four Human Race cultivators watched the battlefield in stunned silence.

Song Zhong traveled with Dongfang Youzhi toward the Knocking Immortal Battlefield and disguised his aura as a Knocking Immortal Realm cultivator. They reached Knocking Immortal City, where Song Zhong noticed Sun Moon Sect guards at the north gate.

• Dongfang Youzhi explained that first-time entrants to the Knocking Immortal Battlefield had to join a team led by an experienced veteran for a year.
• Song Zhong agreed to travel with Dongfang Youzhi and used the Sect Master's Jade Pendant to make his aura seem like that of a Knocking Immortal Realm cultivator.
• Dongfang Youzhi accepted Song Zhong's claim that he had broken through on the way and led him along the river of spacetime turbulence.
• After flying for three days, Song Zhong and Dongfang Youzhi reached Knocking Immortal City and headed toward its guarded north gate.
• Song Zhong saw that two of the guards at the north gate wore Sun Moon Sect attire.

Song Zhong and Dongfang Youzhi gathered a group of first-time entrants to the Knocking Immortal Battlefield under Yu Rui’s leadership. After the group formed, they checked their Outer Jade at the gate before departing.

• Dongfang Youzhi arrived at the city gate, where Sun Moon Sect guards recognized him and pointed out Yu Rui and Qiao Yingpei of the Limitless Sect.
• Dongfang Youzhi greeted Qiao Yingpei and introduced Song Zhong as a Senior Brother of the Piaomiao Sect.
• A guard found that Song Zhong, Dongfang Youzhi, Qiao Yingpei, and the inconspicuous Wang Yang needed one more newcomer to complete their team.
• A petite, large-breasted Joyous Union Sect cultivator arrived and joined the group, prompting surprise when the guards realized that she and Wang Yang were both ninth-layer Knocking Immortal Realm cultivators.
• The group placed their Outer Jade on a jade plate; Song Zhong and the other newcomers’ jade glowed white, while Yu Rui’s glowed red.

Song Zhong arrived at the ruins as a clone and entered with Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, who boasted about his improved Immortal Artifacts and cultivation. They were ambushed by three powerful headless Blood Corpses, and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint's spell began to crumble under their attacks.

• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint waited outside the ruins for Song Zhong while other cultivators entered.
• Song Zhong arrived as a clone, and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint joined him in entering the ruins.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint told Song Zhong that he had perfected his Immortal Artifacts and advanced his Great Dao through enlightenment.
• Spikes, lightning, fire, and three Quasi-Saint headless Blood Corpses attacked Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint used two mountain spells to defend them, but the Blood Corpses' attacks made the mountains collapse.

Song Zhong overwhelmed Silverlight Immortal Emperor with lightning- and space-infused blade strikes, leaving him badly wounded despite his secret technique. Below, Lord of Mad Sands and the other Supreme Realm cultivators abandoned their plan to wait and rushed to attack Song Zhong while Silverlight Immortal Emperor was still fighting.

• Song Zhong and Silverlight Immortal Emperor's second clash ended in a draw, and Silverlight Immortal Emperor demanded to know how Song Zhong had grown so powerful.
• Song Zhong attacked again with Primordial Thunder Sound, combining lightning and Spatial Power to break through Silverlight Immortal Emperor's defenses and wound his arm.
• Song Zhong continued pressing Silverlight Immortal Emperor, inflicting further injuries as the latter retreated and worried that his secret technique would expire.
• The Supreme Realm cultivators watching underground debated whether they could defeat Song Zhong and argued over whether to intervene.
• Lord of Mad Sands charged out of the formation, and the other Supreme Realm cultivators followed, deciding to attack before Silverlight Immortal Emperor was defeated.

Song Zhong drained the lightning from the Great Thousand World after modifying the Lightning Pool’s formation and broke through to the middle stage of the Immortal Emperor Realm. He left with the Lord of Illusory Eyes and learned they were heading to the Land of Ceasing Strife before traveling to the Benevolence Great Thousand World, where he could prepare to comprehend the Sage Stele.

• Song Zhong discovered that the Lightning Pool’s formation had been modified to supply the Lord of All Lightning with cultivators’ power, and he used the Lord’s resources to improve it.
• After ten years of work, Song Zhong completed the formation and drew lightning from across the world into the Lightning Pool while studying the Human Formation.
• Song Zhong broke through to the middle stage of the Immortal Emperor Realm, then waited until the lightning from beyond the heavens ran out and absorbed the remaining lightning in the world.
• The Lord of Illusory Eyes arrived, and Song Zhong retrieved the Territory Stone and escaped the Great Thousand World with her before it exploded.
• The Lord of Illusory Eyes told Song Zhong they were heading to the Land of Ceasing Strife, where he could comprehend the Sage Stele, and advised him to seek a Bodhi Sacred Fruit to improve his comprehension.

Rain Peak Quasi-Saint broke Life-Death Quasi-Saint’s vortex and endured the Wild Dao Alliance’s attacks while Song Zhong and his clones slaughtered their cultivators. After the alliance turned its attacks toward Song Zhong, Rain Peak Quasi-Saint sent one of his mountains crashing into Life-Death Quasi-Saint’s weakened vortex.

• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint forced his two mountain Immortal Artifacts out of Life-Death Quasi-Saint’s vortex, breaking it and making Life-Death Quasi-Saint bleed from the backlash.
• While Life-Death Quasi-Saint was occupied, Song Zhong and his seven clones slaughtered Wild Dao Alliance cultivators, who pleaded with Life-Death Quasi-Saint for help.
• Life-Death Quasi-Saint ordered the other Quasi-Saints to attack Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint enclosed himself between his two mountains to withstand their spells.
• The Wild Dao Alliance cultivators shifted their attacks toward Song Zhong, and Life-Death Quasi-Saint sent a smaller, weakened vortex after him.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint separated his mountain ranges and sent one crashing into the vortex, vowing to make it explode.

Song Zhong studied the limits and costs of Shadowless Sage's Clone Technique, then planned how to use clones to develop his many abilities and responsibilities. After learning he had received a Saint's clone inheritance, Lord You Shui decided to open her own Mysterious Cloud herself.

• Song Zhong learned that Shadowless Sage's Clone Technique could create up to nine clones, each reaching ninety percent of his power, but a clone's death would consume ten percent of his origin.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers and Lord You Shui joined Song Zhong after he obtained the inheritance, and he told them it was a Saint's Clone Technique.
• Song Zhong planned clones to cultivate Yin and Yang separately, forge, study formations, lightning and spatial power, temper his body, care for his daughter and the Human Race, and carry out missions.
• Lord You Shui was astonished by Song Zhong's rare inheritance and decided to open her own Mysterious Cloud rather than let another cultivator claim whatever it contained.

Song Zhong endured his heavenly tribulation while gaining insight into the Sacred Stele of Space and then the Sacred Stele of Lightning, with help from the Saint of Ceasing War. The Lord of Chaos Island entered the Island within an Island to stop further freeloading and encountered Song Zhong’s immense tribulation.

• Song Zhong’s heavenly tribulation dispelled the River of Time’s screen, and he continued facing it after losing the Mulberry Field Fruit’s time effect.
• As the first Sage Stele sank after seven days, Song Zhong released Spatial Power, and the Saint of Ceasing War’s aura helped bring out the Sacred Stele of Space.
• Song Zhong gained insight into the Sacred Stele of Space while enduring his tribulation, and the Lord of Chaos Island realized the Saint of Ceasing War had helped him.
• Song Zhong released Lightning Power and another aura from the Saint of Ceasing War brought out the Sacred Stele of Lightning, allowing Song Zhong to gain insight into it for seven days.
• The Lord of Chaos Island entered the Island within an Island to prevent Song Zhong from viewing more Sage Steles and was struck by the terrifying lightning and flames of Song Zhong’s tribulation.

Song Zhong killed Chu Yuan and pursued the foreign race cultivators through the Lightning Ruins, slaughtering them for ten days. When the Ruins disappeared, he prepared to head to the True Immortal Battlefield.

• Chu Yuan tried to withdraw from the fight for the Thunder of Chaos, but Song Zhong caught up with him and killed him, taking his Yellow Ranking Immortal Lightning and Universe Ring.
• The foreign race cultivators fled, but Song Zhong hunted them down while the Human Race cultivators watched.
• Some of the fleeing cultivators tried to fight back, but Song Zhong endured their attacks and continued killing them.
• Song Zhong pursued and slaughtered foreign race cultivators for ten days, stopping when the Lightning Ruins disappeared.
• Song Zhong decided it was time to go to the True Immortal Battlefield.

Song Zhong and the cultivators entered a Ruins where Immortal Qi and stored treasures could not be used, then faced a deadly beast tide. As he fled the Wolf-Rhino Beasts, Song Zhong realized more Strange Beasts were closing in from another direction, making escape by running alone impossible.

• Song Zhong saw that cultivators in the Ruins could no longer use Immortal Qi, and their Universe Ring treasures could not be retrieved.
• A Bear Beast Race cultivator boasted that his race’s physical strength gave them an advantage, but a stampede of unfamiliar Wolf-Rhino Beasts soon charged toward the group.
• The cultivators fled as the Wolf-Rhino Beasts caught and killed those at the rear, while Song Zhong kept running.
• Song Zhong recognized the danger as a beast tide when another mass of Strange Beasts, resembling fused ants and centipedes, appeared from a different direction.

Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers witnessed the remnant souls of two Saints reveal their talent for the Yin-Yang Way. The Saints chose them as inheritors and prepared to pass down their Yin-Yang and weapon-crafting arts.

• Song Zhong caught Lord of Absolute Sword's Universe Ring and Immortal Artifact after Lord of Cherished Flowers tossed them to him.
• Two powerful remnant souls appeared, and Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers became immersed in the Yin-Yang Way while observing their Yin-Yang Fish.
• The female remnant soul recognized Song Zhong's exceptional comprehension and explained that his Primordial Chaos Qi would help balance their Yin-Yang cultivation.
• Song Zhong realized the remnant souls were Saints but stayed silent when they mistook him and Lord of Cherished Flowers for Dao companions, wary of losing the remaining treasures.
• The remnant souls identified themselves as the Many Treasures Sage and the Victorious Sage of Rare Treasures and promised to teach their Way of Victory, weapon-crafting Dao, and Yin-Yang Way.

The Human Race learned that their Great Thousand World had been chosen as the Slaughter Battlefield, where they would face Dao Seeking Realm cultivators from across the Universe. Song Zhong obtained Bodhi Sacred Fruits and Mulberry Field Fruits to prepare, then returned to comprehend the Sage Stele.

• The Human Race heard the Cosmos Ruler announce that their Great Thousand World had been chosen as the Dao Seeking Realm Slaughter Battlefield, and experts hurried toward the Zhengyi Sect in panic.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers told Song Zhong and Lord of Chaos Island about the battlefield, and Lord of Chaos Island suspected the Wild Dao Alliance had arranged it to target Song Zhong.
• Song Zhong said he would visit the Land of Ceasing Strife for the Bodhi Sacred Fruit before using the Mulberry Field Fruit and Insight Stele to strengthen himself.
• Saint of Ceasing War gave Song Zhong four Bodhi Sacred Fruits, two Mulberry Field Fruits, and two Ceasing War Tokens, explaining that her avatar had discovered the Wild Dao Alliance's plan too late to stop it.
• Song Zhong returned to the Benevolence Dao Alliance Great Thousand World and gave Lord of Cherished Flowers a Bodhi Sacred Fruit.
• Seven days later, Lord of Cherished Flowers left the island, and Song Zhong entered it to comprehend the Sage Stele.

Song Zhong entered the Slaughter Battlefield and began killing Native cultivators and other fighters, drawing dense blood light behind him. After reaching a site where three cultivators had already fallen, he faced a purple-skinned, two-mouthed cultivator marked with the number 457.

• Song Zhong and Wutian Immortal Emperor discussed the golden light Song Zhong gained after killing a cultivator and how it might make others avoid him.
• When Native cultivators began attacking outsiders, Song Zhong told Wutian Immortal Emperor to hide and rushed toward the fighting.
• Song Zhong killed a wounded Three-Eyed Cultivator, then rapidly slew the four spike-covered Native cultivators attacking him.
• Song Zhong flew from battle to battle, killing Native cultivators and gathering increasingly dense blood light behind him.
• Song Zhong arrived at a site with three corpses and saw a pale-purple, two-mouthed cultivator whose forehead bore the number 457; the cultivator looked back at him.