Chapter Summaries

Song Zhong used the Wind Sparrow Wings to search The Ruins, collecting Universe Rings and Blood Crystals from cultivators and Strange Beasts killed in battle. He continued hunting by day and absorbing lightning from the Thunderous Beasts by night, accumulating over seven thousand Universe Rings and two hundred crystals.

• Song Zhong bound the Wind Sparrow Wings with his blood and flew toward the place where he had been surrounded.
• Song Zhong found a battlefield full of cultivator and Strange Beast corpses, then collected their Universe Rings and Blood Crystals.
• Song Zhong returned to the site of the earlier battle and gathered thousands of Universe Rings from the fallen cultivators.
• Song Zhong searched The Ruins by day and returned to the Thunderous Beasts’ valley at night to absorb lightning.
• Song Zhong found three more piles of cultivator corpses over the following days and collected more than seven thousand Universe Rings and two hundred crystals.

Song Zhong broke through the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s mountain defenses and slaughtered its cultivators with overwhelming speed. After Lü Wenzhi fell to his blade, the sect’s formations collapsed, and the allied sects poured in to stop fleeing defenders.

• Song Zhong entered through a shattered formation and killed Blood Fiend Demonic Sect cultivators as he charged toward the mountain gate.
• Lü Wenzhi warned the sect’s cultivators not to cast spells at Song Zhong, but he appeared beside her in a bolt of lightning and killed her with one slash.
• Song Zhong killed Tan Ma'en while the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect’s defenders panicked and abandoned their formations.
• The sect’s ninety-nine formations were breached, and cultivators from the major sects rushed inside.
• The allied cultivators praised Song Zhong’s strength and moved to stop Blood Fiend Demonic Sect disciples fleeing the sect.

Song Zhong studied the Array Stone inheritance and spent years rebuilding his Human Formation while the Immovable Immortal King and the other cultivators struggled through the Ruins. He discovered a token marked “Prosperous Age” and “Qian,” then sensed familiar auras arriving at the entrance.

• Song Zhong accepted the Array Stone inheritance, judged his Human Formation crude, and began rebuilding it with resources from his Universe Rings.
• The Immovable Immortal King, Qian Fuzhi, and Chu Xiong reasoned that Song Zhong could not have mastered formations and began breaking the next level’s formation.
• After the cultivators entered the next level, they found fresh traces of a heavenly tribulation and lightning but no one there, and wondered whether Song Zhong had moved ahead.
• Song Zhong advanced to the seventh level of the Knocking Immortal Realm and found a token that responded to spiritual qi and Immortal Qi, leading him to suspect it contained Faith Qi and came from the former Great Qian Dynasty.
• Song Zhong stored the token for later investigation and turned his attention back to his Human Formation when familiar auras reached the entrance.

Song Zhong met Human Race cultivators from the Eighty-First Universes and learned that their battlefield was dominated by a powerful Lightning Dao cultivator. As twenty newcomers arrived to claim the Demonic Beasts, Song Zhong challenged them for trying to take his prey.

• Song Zhong asked the Human Race cultivators which Universe they came from, and they said they belonged to the Eighty-First Universes.
• A cultivator explained that Song Zhong's Great Thousand World might be at risk because he was its only Forget Dao Realm cultivator and lacked allies in the other battlefields.
• Lord Tuhuo sensed twenty cultivators approaching, and the newcomers demanded that the Human Race group leave the Demonic Beasts.
• A vicious-looking cultivator proposed joining forces with the bead-covered cultivator, who attacked the Demonic Beasts without regard for the others.
• Song Zhong demanded to know whether the newcomers had asked his permission before trying to seize his Demonic Beasts.

Song Zhong confronted Ice Soul Saint and Lihuo Saint with Rain Peak Quasi-Saint at his side, then revealed eight clones armed with Earth Grade Peak Quality Immortal Artifacts. Their combined lightning overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving Ice Soul Saint desperately raising a second shield as the attack struck.

• Rain Peak Quasi-Saint challenged Ice Soul Saint and Lihuo Saint after they discussed killing Song Zhong and dividing his lightning.
• Song Zhong mocked Rain Peak Quasi-Saint for still being a Half-Step Saint, and Ice Soul Saint summoned six ice beasts with his jade flute.
• Song Zhong told Rain Peak Quasi-Saint to step aside as eight of his clones arrived.
• Ice Soul Saint and Lihuo Saint were astonished to discover Song Zhong's clones, each wielding an Earth Grade Peak Quality Immortal Artifact.
• Song Zhong and his eight clones unleashed lightning together, and Ice Soul Saint raised his Mystic Iron Ice Edge Shield as the lightning crashed down.

Song Zhong revealed his overwhelming lightning power, killed twenty cultivators who tried to seize the Demonic Beasts, and left the Human Race cultivators unharmed. He then entered the Quasi-Saint Realm Demonic Creature Battlefield while his other clones and main body headed there and one clone remained to observe the Forget Dao Realm battlefield.

• Song Zhong released his lightning aura, and the twenty opposing cultivators recognized him as the powerful cultivator whose lightning had killed Demonic Beasts and fled.
• Song Zhong turned the area into a Lightning World and killed all twenty Forget Dao Realm cultivators with his lightning.
• Song Zhong told the ten Human Race cultivators he would not compete for the Demonic Beasts, collected the fallen cultivators’ Universe Rings and Immortal Artifacts, and flew onward.
• The Human Race cultivators watched Song Zhong leave, and Lord Tuhuo wondered why someone so powerful had deceived them.
• One of Song Zhong’s clones found a light curtain separating battlefields, identified it as the entrance to the Quasi-Saint Demonic Beast Battlefield, and stepped through.
• Song Zhong sent his main body and other clones toward the light curtain while leaving one clone behind to observe the Forget Dao Realm battlefield.

Song Zhong was unwillingly drawn into The Ruins, which swallowed the True Lord Battlefield and transported him to the remains of a ruined faction. Unable to escape the mountain gate’s strange formations, he headed deeper to hide as distant fighting erupted.

• The Ruins expanded across the battlefield and pulled Song Zhong inside, transporting him to a ruined mountain gate.
• Song Zhong examined the destroyed formations and decided to hide because stronger cultivators might kill him.
• When Song Zhong tried to fly out, the formations redirected him deeper into the mountain gate.
• Song Zhong found corpses of antennaed cultivators from several cultivation realms and wondered whether their entire world had fallen into the ruins.
• Distant booms and beams of light signaled trouble, so Song Zhong flew deeper into the mountain gate to seek shelter.

Song Zhong was attacked by Yao Beichen of the Daoxuan Sect, who demanded that he surrender himself and his parents over the deaths of Yao Beichen’s junior disciples. Song Zhong fought back with his twenty-four Heavenly Fiend Blades, and their clash shattered Yao Beichen’s sea of flames.

• Yao Beichen caught up with Song Zhong and demanded that he surrender himself and the two mortals he was carrying.
• Song Zhong sent his parents toward the ground and met Yao Beichen’s attack with lightning, which Yao Beichen blocked with golden light.
• Yao Beichen revealed his fiery Divine Weapon and attacked Song Zhong with a sweep that engulfed the area in flames.
• Song Zhong summoned twenty-four Heavenly Fiend Blades and unleashed twenty-four lightning spells against Yao Beichen.
• The lightning and flames collided with tremendous force, shaking the earth and extinguishing Yao Beichen’s flames.

After Immovable Immortal King’s account made the other races search for Song Zhong, Star-Thunder True Lord and Forget-Thunder True Lord found him hiding in a cave. Song Zhong confirmed he had killed several True Immortal Realm cultivators and revealed that he had advanced to the Immortal Affinity Realm.

• Immovable Immortal King stayed with the Demon Race cultivators as cultivators from other races questioned his claims about Song Zhong.
• Star-Thunder True Lord and Forget-Thunder True Lord flew away from the other Human Race cultivators and wondered whether Song Zhong was truly so powerful.
• Song Zhong sent Star-Thunder True Lord a secret voice transmission, and she and Forget-Thunder True Lord followed his aura into his cave.
• Forget-Thunder True Lord complained that Song Zhong had contacted Star-Thunder True Lord instead of his master, and Song Zhong asked whether he should switch.
• Song Zhong told Star-Thunder True Lord he had encountered Immovable Immortal King twice and had failed to kill him both times.
• Song Zhong revealed that he had spared Feng Meier but killed the other True Immortal Realm cultivators, shocking Star-Thunder True Lord.

Zhengyi Immortal Emperor explained that the alien invasion followed the Human Race’s loss of its Supreme Realm protectors, then recounted how the former Great Qian Dynasty’s ruler, Lord Qiankun, was killed by Lord of Witchcraft Power. The chapter left Lord of Witchcraft Power identified as the Human Race’s strongest historical figure and the Witchcraft Path’s greatest practitioner.

• Song Zhong asked why the alien races had invaded and learned that Supreme Realm existences could protect a Great Thousand World through its Godstone.
• Wutian Immortal Emperor confirmed that the Four-Eyed Cultivator had been a Supreme Realm cultivator, and Zhengyi Immortal Emperor revealed that his master was the Lord of Yin and Yang.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor recounted how Lord Qiankun unified the Human Race as the Great Qian Dynasty’s ruler and killed promising Heavenly Prodigies to preserve his sole rule.
• Two peerless Heavenly Prodigies concealed their strength, became Immortal Emperors, escaped Lord Qiankun, and later reached the Supreme Realm.
• The Lord of Yin and Yang proposed joint rule, but Lord of Witchcraft Power injured him and killed Lord Qiankun to eliminate a threat.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor described Lord of Witchcraft Power as the Human Race’s strongest existence and the one who brought the Witchcraft Path to its peak.

Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers met a masked recruiter from the Killing Society, which sought to enlist them as cultivators and assassins. Song Zhong joined without an assessment, and Lord of Cherished Flowers agreed to join despite being told she would have to pass one.

• A masked cultivator invited Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers to talk in private at the Land of Ceasing Strife.
• The cultivator offered them membership in the Killing Society and explained its tasks, rewards, secrecy, and recruitment of the strongest cultivators in each realm.
• Song Zhong weighed the benefits of joining and accepted, asking whether he needed to complete an initiation task or assessment.
• The recruiter told Song Zhong that his strength meant he needed no assessment, but Lord of Cherished Flowers would have to pass one.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers accepted the invitation despite the unequal treatment and the required assessment.

Song Zhong and Wu Qingqing completed their Dao Companion Ceremony, then returned to Hundred Peaks Sect to prepare for its Sect Tribulation. After five years of formation work, the tribulation descended as Song Zhong stood alone to face it and the sect’s protective formation shielded the gathered disciples.

• Song Zhong and Wu Qingqing completed their wedding ceremony at Piaomiao Sect, and Song Zhong spent the night with his new Dao companion.
• Song Zhong and Wu Qingqing returned to Hundred Peaks Sect, where Human Race experts gathered to help him construct protective formations.
• Over five years, Song Zhong and the formation experts completed one great formation and began building a second.
• Tribulation Clouds gathered over Hundred Peaks Sect, and the visiting experts withdrew as the Sect Tribulation arrived.
• Song Zhong ordered the Hundred Peaks Sect disciples into the formation and faced the descending lightning alone.
• Countless bolts of lightning struck Hundred Peaks Sect, and the protective formation raised a radiant curtain of light.

After the saints’ residual souls vanished, Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers discovered that their Yin-Yang Energy was unbalanced, and Song Zhong’s rapid cultivation made the imbalance dangerous. They used the saints’ dual cultivation method to balance their energy and exchange techniques, but Lord of Cherished Flowers began to change.

• Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers compared their Yin-Yang Energy, discovering it reacted to them in different ways.
• Instant Eternity absorbed Jeweled Sage’s cultivation technique and began circulating it at its accelerated rate, but Song Zhong realized his Yin Energy exceeded his Yang Energy.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers realized their energy imbalance threatened both of them and received information about a way to correct it.
• Song Zhong and Lord of Cherished Flowers used the saints’ dual cultivation method to balance their Yin-Yang Energy and teach each other the missing techniques.
• As Song Zhong continued instructing Lord of Cherished Flowers, he noticed that she was beginning to change.

As the foreign races launched an overwhelming attack on the Hundred Peaks Sect, Song Zhong broke through to Venerable and manifested his lightning domain. His breakthrough summoned the heavenly tribulation of a True Lord, and he flew toward the invading Venerables as they moved to kill him.

• Ouyang Yi sounded the Alarm Bell when more than a thousand foreign race Venerables appeared outside the Hundred Peaks Sect.
• The foreign race Venerables shattered the unfinished Mountain Guarding Array and devastated the mountain gate, forcing the defenders to retreat.
• Song Zhong reached the mountain gate and revealed his Venerable lightning domain, transforming the surrounding region into a Lightning World.
• Tribulation Clouds gathered into the shape of lightning, and the foreign race Venerables realized Song Zhong was facing a True Lord's heavenly tribulation.
• Song Zhong flew beyond the mountain gate toward the densest group of foreign race Venerables, who attacked him with a barrage of spells.

Song Zhong showed Zhengyi Immortal Emperor a token containing Power of Faith, prompting questions about the Dao Xuan Sect and the former dynasty’s remnants. The Immortal Emperors gave Song Zhong vast array-cultivation resources, and Zhengyi Immortal Emperor released Abyssal Soul-Binding Lightning for him to absorb.

• Song Zhong showed Zhengyi Immortal Emperor the Qian token and explained that he had obtained it after destroying the Daoxuan Sect.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor warned Song Zhong to focus on becoming stronger and staying alive, while saying he would investigate the token and provide whatever Song Zhong needed.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor and Wutian Immortal Emperor gave Song Zhong two Universe Rings filled with high-grade array materials.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor revealed that his master had obtained Abyssal Soul-Binding Lightning and ordered him to pass it to Song Zhong.
• Zhengyi Immortal Emperor released the terrifying lightning, which numbed Song Zhong, but Song Zhong quickly recovered and stepped toward it.

Song Zhong returned from the Slaughter Battlefield as its final survivor, and the Flower Clan learned that only eight of its Immortal Emperors had returned. The Lord of Flourishing Life accused him of killing their kin and urged the clan to seek revenge, while the Lord of Cherished Flowers stood beside him.

• Song Zhong told the Flower Clan cultivators that he was the last cultivator to return from the Slaughter Battlefield, leaving them to conclude that everyone else had died.
• The Flower Clan cultivators realized that only eight of their Immortal Emperors had returned and suspected Song Zhong had killed their loved ones.
• The Lord of Flourishing Life accused Song Zhong of killing Flower Clan Immortal Emperors and turned the cultivators against him.
• Song Zhong glared at the Lord of Flourishing Life and silently vowed to kill her after advancing further in cultivation.
• The Lord of Cherished Flowers defended Song Zhong and challenged the Lord of Flourishing Life, who called on the Flower Clan to avenge their kin.

Song Zhong killed Saint of Chaos and left the Saint Realm Demonic Creature Battlefield as it ended. After returning to the Human Great Thousand World, he reunited with Lord Zhengyi and Lord Wutian and learned that humans also lived in another Universe.

• Nearby Saints saw that Song Zhong had killed Saint of Chaos and fled when he looked their way.
• Song Zhong collected Saint of Chaos's Universe Ring and Immortal Artifact, then left the battlefield to avoid attracting more powerful enemies.
• Saint of Chaos's death caused the Chaotic Lands to change, and rumors about his death spread through the Universe.
• After half a month of searching the Saint Realm battlefield, Song Zhong saw the Spatial Vortex appear and flew through it as the battlefield ended.
• Song Zhong returned to the Human Great Thousand World and reunited with Lord Zhengyi and Lord Wutian.
• Lord Zhengyi told Song Zhong that humans existed in another Universe, while humans across the Eighty-One Universes reacted to discovering the same thing.

Song Zhong learned why Sun Lifeng had used Liu Mu’s spellcraft and discovered that Ye Jing'ao and Carefree True Monarch might be targeting him over Moonrise. As the lightning in The Ruins intensified, Liu Mu explained that Celestial Lightning Qi would appear at a random location, leaving Song Zhong worried that obtaining it depended on luck.

• Sun Lifeng revealed that Xu Xining belonged to Ye Jing'ao, a ninth-level True Immortal Realm Heavenly Prodigy close to Carefree True Monarch who seemed interested in Moonrise True Monarch.
• Sun Lifeng explained that he had acquired a smaller portion of the inheritance from which Liu Mu’s master had obtained her spellcraft.
• Song Zhong killed Sun Lifeng, and the lightning in the void quickly grew stronger.
• Liu Mu absorbed the lightning with her protective radiance while Song Zhong endured it unharmed, though it destroyed his clothes; he put on a fresh set.
• Liu Mu told Song Zhong that cultivators would see where the Celestial Lightning Qi appeared, and Song Zhong worried that it could land on someone else at random.

Song Zhong met the Saint of Ceasing War, who welcomed him to the Ceasing War Realm and gave him two valuable Ceasing War Tokens. As Lord of Cherished Flowers explained the realm’s rules and the Saint’s mysterious power, Song Zhong learned that her Great Thousand World had no Saints and considered his future strength against its races.

• Song Zhong mistook the Saint of Ceasing War for a Human Race member, and the Saint explained that fighting outside the life-and-death arena was forbidden in the Ceasing War Realm.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers paid two hundred God Crystals for their entry, and the Saint gave Song Zhong two Ceasing War Tokens as a gift.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers said Ceasing War Tokens usually required completing tasks or buying them from other cultivators, and that the Saint had an unusually favorable impression of Song Zhong.
• Lord of Cherished Flowers explained that the Saint had many avatars of different appearances, each with Saint-level strength, and would kill anyone who broke the realm’s no-fighting rule.
• Song Zhong learned that Lord of Cherished Flowers’ Great Thousand World had only a quasi-Saint, then considered troubling its races once he grew stronger.

Song Zhong learned the Funeral Bell’s history and abilities, discovering that Sage Zangtian had reforged it from an Earth Grade Immortal Artifact into a Mystic Rank one. He watched Silverlight Immortal Emperor survive and inspected two stones dense with Lightning Power, but neither he nor Lord of Cherished Flowers recognized them.

• Song Zhong learned that Sage Zhenyuan created the World Suppressing Bell to suppress evil, and Sage Zangtian later reforged it into the demonic Funeral Bell.
• Song Zhong learned that the Funeral Bell could attack, trap, defend, and repair itself, though he regretted that Sage Zangtian had lowered its grade.
• Song Zhong saw Silverlight Immortal Emperor and Lord Fengming defeat the other cultivators and survive as the Boundless Star River approached.
• Song Zhong wished to encounter Silverlight Immortal Emperor so he could kill him with the Funeral Bell.
• Song Zhong examined two stones dense with Lightning Power, but Lord of Cherished Flowers could not identify them.