Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong and his companions entered the Knocking Immortal Battlefield Ruins after learning that the exit was blocked, and they met two of Wu Qingqing's disciples inside. Hou Qinzh and Meng Lejiao recognized Song Zhong as their Martial Uncle and moved to protect him, though he did not know their names.

• Cultivators who tried to leave the Ruins found the way back blocked, while others chose to wait outside for their clans' Immortal Kings to rescue them.
• Wang Yang argued that the outside crowd could become even more dangerous, so he, Song Zhong, Pang Meng, Yu Rui, Qiao Yingpei, and Dongfang Youzhi entered the passage.
• The six arrived together in a space where many cultivators had gathered and were waiting for the area to close before fighting.
• Hou Qinzh and Meng Lejiao recognized Song Zhong as their master's husband, called him Martial Uncle, and flew over to protect him.
• Song Zhong realized the women were Wu Qingqing's disciples, asked their names, and learned they were Hou Qinzh and Meng Lejiao.

Song Zhong unleashed the Lightning Power he had cultivated and killed the Lin Demon Clan Ancestor with one strike, shocking the Immortal Emperors watching. He then charged at Thunderblast Immortal Emperor while Zhengyi Immortal Emperor held back the foreign-race reinforcements.

• Song Zhong released a devastating lightning blade that shattered the Lin Demon Clan Ancestor's defenses and destroyed him.
• The other Immortal Emperors watched in horror as Song Zhong killed an Immortal Emperor with a single strike.
• Song Zhong assessed the Lightning Power remaining within him and charged toward Giant Bear Immortal Emperor before turning his attention to Thunderblast Immortal Emperor.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor trapped two foreign-race Immortal Emperors with a black-and-white diagram, preventing them from reinforcing Thunderblast Immortal Emperor.
• Song Zhong struck at Thunderblast Immortal Emperor, who prepared to fight, convinced that Song Zhong could not use his secret art twice in succession.

Song Zhong overwhelmed the alien Immortal Emperors attacking the Human Great Thousand World, killing their strongest fighters and forcing the survivors to flee. Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor ordered the Human cultivators to withdraw and seal their sects as the battle continued.

• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor sensed alien Immortal Emperor auras vanishing rapidly and realized Song Zhong was defeating them alone.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor told Wutian Immortal Emperor to recall the Immortal Kings and have the Human cultivators return to their sects and seal their mountain gates.
• Song Zhong struck down alien Immortal Emperors one after another until Overlord Blade Immortal Emperor blocked one of his attacks.
• Song Zhong killed Overlord Blade Immortal Emperor with his next strike, despite the opponent's strength and experience in the Realm of the Heavens.
• The alien Immortal Emperors panicked and fled toward the edge of the Human Great Thousand World, including Demon Thorn Immortal Emperor.

Song Zhong rescued Song Qingwei and Ma Jin from four Demon Sect members who had attacked them for their Soul-Soothing Nethergrass. After disabling the attackers, he recognized Song Qingwei as the adoptive elder sister he had not seen since joining the Hundred Peaks Sect.

• Song Qingwei and Ma Jin fled the Demon Sect pursuers, then threw away the Soul-Soothing Nethergrass in an attempt to escape.
• Lu Yong and the other Demon Sect members caught the two women and knocked away their weapons, leaving them injured on the ground.
• Song Zhong rushed in and cut off the legs of Lu Yong and the other three attackers with his purple longsaber.
• Song Zhong turned to Song Qingwei and recognized his adoptive elder sister.

Song Zhong confronted the Demon Sect forces at the river and revealed overwhelming strength, killing Huo Chuanxing and Yin Daiqi. As he attacked the fleeing demonic cultivators, the Orthodox Sect disciples joined the battle.

• Ji Junxiao left the Orthodox disciples who had gathered behind her and sought Song Zhong’s protection.
• Huo Chuanxing demanded that the Orthodox disciples jump into the river, then ordered the Demon Sect members to attack.
• Song Zhong unleashed his full power, killed Huo Chuanxing with one slash, and pursued Yin Daiqi as she fled.
• Song Zhong killed Yin Daiqi, took both leaders’ Universe Rings, and charged into the remaining Demon Sect disciples.
• The Orthodox Sect disciples joined Song Zhong’s attack while the frightened Demon Sect members fled.

After returning to the Piaomiao Sect, the Glacial Immortal King discovered Song Zhong had reached the peak of the Venerable Realm and was about to undergo a tribulation. She rushed him to the Forbidden Ground and went to find him tribulation treasures, but the clouds gathered before she could return.

• The Glacial Immortal King returned to the Piaomiao Sect and found Song Zhong had advanced from the fourth level of the Venerable Realm to its peak in two years.
• Song Zhong told the Glacial Immortal King he was about to break through, and she immediately took him to the Forbidden Ground.
• The Glacial Immortal King warned Song Zhong that his Immortal Qi and rapid cultivation could provoke a devastating heavenly tribulation, then left to find him treasures.
• The Glacial Immortal King asked Wu Qingqing for tribulation treasures suitable for the Immortal Qi Realm and noticed endless Tribulation Clouds gathering over the Forbidden Ground.

Song Zhong secured the Demon Clan’s Godstone with the Funeral Bell while his clones and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint wiped out enemies in The Ruins. One year later, another of Song Zhong’s clones entered the Demon Clan Great Thousand World.

• The Demon Race cultivators retreated from the Godstone, expecting Song Zhong to leave and their experts to return.
• Song Zhong covered the Godstone with the Funeral Bell and began clearing out nearby Demon Race cultivators while arranging for another clone to return.
• Song Zhong and his two clones killed the other-clan cultivators after Strange Demon Quasi-Saint died.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint crushed the two remaining enemy Quasi-Saints, and he and Song Zhong divided the spoils from the battle.
• Song Zhong continued searching The Ruins with Rain Peak Quasi-Saint, while one clone flew out of the Demon Clan Great Thousand World.
• One year later, another of Song Zhong’s clones entered the Demon Clan Great Thousand World.

Song Zhong flew to The Ruins while undergoing a True Lord's tribulation and used its lightning to break through the sealed entrance. He entered alone before The Ruins officially opened, leaving the other cultivators waiting outside and wondering what he would find within.

• Song Zhong arrived at The Ruins during his tribulation, and the cultivators fled to avoid being caught in his lightning.
• Song Zhong recognized the Shark Clan cultivators and recalled that they had once tried to surround and kill him, prompting them and nearby cultivators to run.
• Song Zhong flew into the mist at the entrance, where his tribulation lightning shattered the light curtain and opened a breach in The Ruins' formation.
• Song Zhong entered The Ruins, and the lightning stopped as the mist surged back and the formation repaired itself.
• Other cultivators tried to enter but found the formation sealed again, so they remained outside and speculated about Song Zhong's chances and the treasures within.

Duan Xue told her master, Wu Qingqing, how Song Zhong had rescued them from powerful demonic cultivators, and Wu Qingqing thanked him and offered him a jade token. As Song Zhong accepted it, the world’s aura surged and darkness swallowed everything.

• Duan Xue explained that Song Zhong had killed three ninth-layer Venerables who threatened her and her master.
• Duan Xue told Wu Qingqing that Song Zhong had also blocked the Shadowfiend Demon, allowing Wu Qingqing to awaken safely.
• Wu Qingqing bowed to Song Zhong, thanked him for saving her twice, and learned his name.
• Wu Qingqing gave Song Zhong a jade token and promised to repay him through the Piaomiao Sect.
• The world’s aura surged, and everything plunged into darkness.

Song Zhong defeated Smoke Road Quasi-Saint by breaking through his Earth Rank Immortal Artifact’s defenses with stronger lightning and a superior Immortal Artifact. The Wild Dao Alliance cultivators watched in horror as Song Zhong killed the Half-Step Saint.

• Song Zhong recognized that Smoke Road Quasi-Saint’s strange aura resembled the Demonic Beasts released by a dagger once used by the Five Great Other Clans.
• Song Zhong’s lightning swords pierced through Smoke Road Quasi-Saint’s giant hands and shattered his defensive formation.
• Song Zhong blocked the other cultivators’ spells with a lightning shield and charged into the smoke.
• Smoke Road Quasi-Saint’s black mist shield burst apart under Song Zhong’s lightning, exposing his half-flesh, half-smoke body.
• Song Zhong’s lightning swords grievously wounded Smoke Road Quasi-Saint, and Song Zhong cleaved him apart with his sword.
• Smoke Road Quasi-Saint exploded and died, leaving the Wild Dao Alliance cultivators horrified.

Song Zhong climbed the Myriad Beasts Tower and wondered what its final nineteen floors represented. Meanwhile, the Hundred Peaks Sect prepared for the Era of Cosmic Reversal, and the Mountain Guardian Elder revealed a secret plan before announcing that he wanted to defy the sect’s ancestral precepts.

• Song Zhong reasoned that the tower’s floors tracked cultivation levels, then fought through increasingly powerful beasts until spells overwhelmed him on the thirty-first floor.
• The Hundred Peaks Sect’s Sect Leader called a meeting and told the leaders to seek Immortal Realm resources, prepare places to slumber, and appoint an interim Sect Leader for the Era of Cosmic Reversal.
• The Sect Leader named Ouyang Yi interim Sect Leader, while the assembled leaders supported Li Huaying as interim Great Elder and agreed that Song Zhong should not be given a leadership post.
• After the others left, the Mountain Guardian Elder told the Sect Master and Great Elder that he intended to pass the Mountain Guardian position to Song Zhong and had kept the plan secret to protect him.
• The Mountain Guardian Elder said his main reason for keeping them behind was to announce a decision that went against the Hundred Peaks Sect’s ancestral precepts.

Song Zhong fought Thunderblast Immortal Emperor, adapting to his Ancient Heavenly Lightning and overpowering him with Witchcraft Power. Thunderblast Immortal Emperor was wounded and called for help, but the other Immortal Emperors could not break away from Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor.

• Thunderblast Immortal Emperor struck Song Zhong with Ancient Heavenly Lightning, injuring him and then swinging his hammer at Song Zhong's head.
• Song Zhong devoured the lightning inside his body, activated the Human Formation, and clashed with Thunderblast Immortal Emperor using his blade.
• Song Zhong ignored the lightning strikes and attacked relentlessly, forcing Thunderblast Immortal Emperor to defend against both his blade and lightning.
• Thunderblast Immortal Emperor realized Song Zhong adapted quickly to his lightning, while Song Zhong's attacks could still hurt him.
• Song Zhong cut Thunderblast Immortal Emperor, who called for help, but the other foreign-race Immortal Emperors remained occupied by Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor.

Song Zhong revealed that he had deliberately let Hundred Nightmares Immortal King drive him away so he could rob other cultivators, then defeated Hundred Nightmares Immortal King and took his enormous haul of Bone Segments and God Crystals. As Baihua Immortal King agreed to help him gather more bones, Hundred Nightmares Immortal King returned to the Insect Clan, leaving its gathered experts stunned.

• Song Zhong severed Hundred Nightmares Immortal King's antenna bearing his Universe Ring and shattered his Substitute Death Talisman with a full-strength slash.
• Baihua Immortal King questioned Song Zhong's strength, and Song Zhong admitted he had let Hundred Nightmares Immortal King drive him away so he could rob other cultivators.
• Baihua Immortal King agreed to help Song Zhong absorb Bone Segment power and said they needed to find more bones.
• Song Zhong inspected Hundred Nightmares Immortal King's Universe Ring and found more than eleven hundred Bone Segments and over twenty-one hundred God Crystals.
• In the Insect Clan Great Thousand World, gathered experts discussed Hundred Nightmares Immortal King's progress before he suddenly appeared before them.

Song Zhong returned to Hundred Peaks Sect with his parents, where Bai Ruorou welcomed them and arranged homes and escorts for them. He told his master and Senior Sister Tang Qianzi about his Extraterritorial Battlefield gains and enemies, and Tang Qianzi vowed to avenge him while warning him to beware of Little Fox.

• Yan Yourong brought Song Zhong and his parents to Prison Suppressing Peak, then left without discussing the Divine Weapon.
• Song Zhong introduced his parents to Bai Ruorou and Tang Qianzi, and Bai Ruorou arranged for them to have residences in the peak and the outer mountains.
• Tang Qianzi arranged Immortal Bridge Realm disciples to escort Song Zhong's parents and Works Department workers to build their house.
• Song Zhong told Bai Ruorou and Tang Qianzi that he had reached the peak of the Star River Realm and gained the Ten Directions Extinction Divine Lightning in the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• Song Zhong recounted how people from Twin Absolute Sect and Daoxuan Sect had tried to kill him, and Tang Qianzi promised to avenge him and warned him about Little Fox.

Song Zhong destroyed the Insect Clan and Beast Race Great Thousand Worlds, while his clone finished off the Tentacle Clan and the Spirit Clan worlds. He returned to the Human Race with the Five Clan Ancestors’ corpse blood, and the Human Race held a solemn sacrifice one year later.

• Song Zhong crippled the Insect Clan Old Ancestor, then killed Insect Clan cultivators across their Great Thousand World before blasting the Old Ancestor into powder.
• Song Zhong entered the Beast Race Great Thousand World and slaughtered its members, then destroyed its Godstone.
• Song Zhong told Lord Zhengyi that the Five Great Other Clans’ Great Thousand Worlds had been destroyed and brought back their Ancestors’ corpse blood for a Human Race sacrifice.
• Song Zhong and his clone returned separately, and one year later the Human Race held a solemn sacrificial ceremony.
• Two Forget Dao Realm Tentacle Clan members stared in disbelief at the empty space where their Great Thousand World had been.

Song Zhong absorbed nearly all the Primordial Chaos Qi beneath Hundred Peaks Cliff while Glacial Immortal King struggled to get her share. After the vortex vanished, the Blood Fiend Sect Leader descended with a sinister aura, leaving Song Zhong and Glacial Immortal King facing a new threat.

• Song Zhong absorbed nearly ninety-nine percent of the Primordial Chaos Qi, forcing Glacial Immortal King to move farther away to absorb what remained.
• The Hundred Peaks Sect disciples dismantled their home and gathered resources while the Mountain Guardian Elder wondered why Song Zhong and Glacial Immortal King had not returned.
• The Blood Fiend Sect Leader investigated the Great Qian Dynasty, then approached Hundred Peaks Cliff and learned that Glacial Immortal King and Song Zhong had gone below.
• Believing a great treasure or danger awaited beneath the cliff, the Blood Fiend Sect Leader plunged downward, hoping to seize an opportunity and possibly let Glacial Immortal King die.
• Song Zhong absorbed the final strand of Primordial Chaos Qi, the vortex disappeared, and a terrifying bloody aura descended from above.

Song Zhong, Lord of Cherished Flowers, and Lord You Shui fought through a seemingly endless swarm of Storm Swift-hawk World Beasts, only to discover that the sealed space could not be exited. As they continued killing the beasts, Lord You Shui grew wary of the strength and potential of Lord of the Afterlife and Lord of Cherished Flowers.

• Song Zhong unleashed powerful lightning while Lord You Shui cut down World Beasts with her saber and urged the others to leave the space.
• Lord You Shui tried to reach the boundary but found that the space allowed entry, not exit, and concluded they might have to kill every World Beast to escape.
• Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers used wide-ranging attacks to destroy the beasts, while Lord You Shui finished off the survivors.
• Lord You Shui watched Song Zhong fight without tiring and marveled at his rapid rise from the Death-Sending Immortal King to Lord of the Afterlife.
• Lord You Shui judged Lord of Cherished Flowers to be nearly as powerful as herself and grew wary of the two allies fighting beside her.

Song Zhong met Lord You Shui and Lord of Confinement in the Mysterious Realm, where Lord You Shui recognized him as the successor of the Lord of Witchcraft Power and invited him to travel with them. As the group explored, they encountered a vast swarm of Storm Swift-hawk Realm Beasts, and Lord You Shui realized the Mysterious Realm had changed.

• Lord You Shui recognized Song Zhong as the Human Race Immortal Emperor from the Ten Thousandth Great Thousand World and asked whether he was the successor of the Lord of Witchcraft Power.
• Lord You Shui invited Song Zhong to explore the Mysterious Realm with her and Lord of Confinement, and Song Zhong agreed.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers told Song Zhong that Lord You Shui had once been one of the strongest Dao Seeking Realm cultivators.
• The group followed their maps through the Mysterious Realm but found no treasures and decided to avoid a group of Realm Beasts.
• Storm Swift-hawk Realm Beasts surrounded the group with hurricanes, and Lord You Shui realized their location was the beasts' nest and that the Mysterious Realm had changed.

Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint found a hidden mountain gate where more than thirty blood corpses attacked them with powerful spatial spells. Rain Peak Quasi-Saint tried to lure them inside their mountain barrier, but the blood corpses stayed outside and sent attacks through the gap.

• Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint followed a growing trail of blood corpses toward the area where Wild Dao Alliance cultivators had entered.
• Song Zhong sensed unusual Spatial Power in the clouds, revealed a Void Vortex, and entered the hidden mountain gate with Rain Peak Quasi-Saint.
• More than thirty blood corpses attacked Song Zhong and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint with spatial blades, and Rain Peak Quasi-Saint shielded them inside his mountain ranges.
• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint opened a small gap to lure blood corpses inside, but none entered and their spell attacks poured through the opening.

Song Zhong left the Human Great Thousand World with Lord of Illusory Eyes to undertake a Benevolence Dao Alliance assessment against a Lightning Dao clan in a Wild Dao Alliance world. He realized that joining the alliance could help him find protection from the five clans blockading his home, and recalled that a powerful Saint already favored him.

• Song Zhong left most of his Universe Rings with Lord of Cherished Flowers, then confirmed Lord of Illusory Eyes was genuine and flew away with her.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes explained that she had traded away her chance to enter the Sage Ruins after sensing Song Zhong would have been a better partner.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes described Song Zhong's assessment: destroy a Great Thousand World ruled by the Scale Touch Clan and its powerful Dao Seeking Realm ancestor, Lord of All Lightning.
• Song Zhong welcomed the chance to fight a Lightning Dao cultivator and asked whether the mission could instead target a Supreme Path Realm Heavenly Prodigy.
• Lord of Illusory Eyes said completing the assessment would make Song Zhong a Benevolence Dao Alliance cultivator, giving him access to its Great Thousand World and its Saints.
• Song Zhong realized a Saint who already thought highly of him might help end the blockade of the Human Great Thousand World.