Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang enslaved the attackers who raided the Divine Artifact Treasury and secretly sent them toward the National Treasury, where the Nine Peaks Sword God and Kyoto’s defenders fought off the assault. The enemies staged a retreat, leaving the Human Race grieving over the stolen treasures while Song Ankang returned to the Nine Peaks Divine Palace.

• Song Ankang enslaved eleven Great God-level attackers, bringing his servants to twenty-nine, and ordered them to carry the looted divine artifacts toward the National Treasury.
• The Nine Peaks Sword God held the attackers outside Kyoto’s National Treasury, and Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, and the others joined the defense.
• After failing to break through the Divine Formation Group, Furi Mountain and the other attackers pretended to flee, while the Nine Peaks Sword God acted as though he had tried in vain to stop them.
• Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, and the others comforted the Nine Peaks Sword God and blamed themselves for failing to protect Kyoto and the Divine Artifact Treasury.
• Song Ankang returned to the Nine Peaks Divine Palace and overheard Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, and Summer Emperor Song Fenghua weeping over the disaster.

Song Ankang distributed the stolen Divine Artifacts among his divine servants, strengthening his growing forces and sending them out to hunt gods. As he devoured their prey and cultivated, two aspects of his abilities improved before his cultivation realm reached its next breakthrough.

• Song Ankang left a Great God Servant disguised as himself at the Nine Peaks Divine Palace and met his assembled servants at Hundred Fruits Mountain.
• Song Ankang assigned Divine Artifacts to his twenty-eight divine servants, keeping the remaining artifacts for future recruits.
• Song Ankang returned to the Tang Family Mansion after claiming to have been in seclusion, then resumed his ordinary life with his family.
• Song Ankang assessed his powerful forces, including the Half-step True Immortal Furi Mountain, and concluded that he no longer needed to fear the Angel Race as much.
• After resting for two days, Song Ankang sent the Nine Peaks Demon Hunting Squad to hunt gods and devoured their captured prey to improve his cultivation.
• Song Ankang steadily trained across several disciplines, and two aspects of his abilities improved before his cultivation realm advanced.

Song Ankang advanced to become a Seventh-Rank Mid-Grade Divine Formation Master and gained all-encompassing Peerless Talent, greatly improving his prospects of reaching the Body-Snatching Realm. He began preparing for that breakthrough by strengthening his essence, energy, and spirit, especially his true soul.

• Song Ankang broke through to Seventh-Rank Mid-Grade Divine Formation Master after absorbing formation experience and techniques from captured Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.
• Song Ankang’s talent and aptitude advanced to all-encompassing Peerless Talent, and he found his cultivation speed had increased about threefold.
• Song Ankang learned that higher-grade talents existed among Middle Third Rank and Upper Three Ranks races and considered using the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to surpass the limits of Lower Three Ranks races.
• Song Ankang focused on strengthening his essence, energy, and spirit to prepare for the Body-Snatching Realm breakthrough as half a month passed.

Song Ankang prepared for and successfully broke through the bottleneck of his spirit-refining cultivation, entering the Body-Snatching Realm. After stabilizing his new realm, he planned to further improve his body-refining and qi-refining cultivation.

• Song Ankang reached the limits of his Possession Realm cultivation and hunted Seventh-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts to prepare for his breakthrough.
• After the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance returned the side effects, Song Ankang absorbed the feedback from his body-refining and qi-refining cultivation, then focused on his spirit-refining breakthrough.
• Song Ankang repeatedly struck the bottleneck’s dam with the power of his Sacred Heart True Soul until it cracked and collapsed.
• Heaven and Earth Fire tempered Song Ankang’s expanding Sacred Heart True Soul, leaving it luminous blue and nearly three times as powerful as before.
• Song Ankang entered the Body-Snatching Realm, took divine pills to stabilize his cultivation, and planned to raise his body-refining and qi-refining cultivation next.

Song Ankang advanced his Qi Refinement and Body Refinement cultivation to the Body-Snatching Realm and tested his strength against Furi Mountain, finding himself nearly invincible below the Half-step True Immortal Realm. He planned to delay having descendants until reaching the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm, while he continued guarding Kyoto as the Imperial Court waited for an attack that never came.

• Song Ankang absorbed feedback from the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance and broke through to the Body-Snatching Realm in Qi Refinement and Body Refinement.
• Song Ankang sparred with Furi Mountain and narrowly lost, though Furi Mountain judged him capable of matching weaker Half-step True Immortals.
• Song Ankang resolved not to have children until he reached the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm so his descendants could belong to the Middle Third Rank Human Race.
• Song Ankang remained in Kyoto to guard the divine formation while the Imperial Court prepared for Furi Mountain's return.
• A month passed without Furi Mountain or its companions appearing, leaving Kyoto's officials waiting tensely for an attack.

Song Ankang learned that the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad had been trapped at Evil Dragon Pool and was offered up to 100 million High-grade Spirit Stones to rescue it. He considered the squad’s importance and the reward, leaving the decision poised on whether he would go.

• Kyoto's leaders guessed that Demonic Creatures and Ghosts had delayed their attack because they were fighting over plunder, while the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad's promised arrival remained unexplained.
• Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, and Song Fenghua told Song Ankang that the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad had been trapped at Evil Dragon Pool for more than half a month.
• Zhang Xin Fang explained that the Two-Headed Evil Dragon had lured the squad into a trap backed by more than a dozen mid-god-level enemies and a Divine Formation Group that blocked messages.
• Song Ankang learned that outside interference or destruction of the formation could let the squad escape, and Zhang Xin Fang asked him to rescue them.
• Wang Xin Jing offered Song Ankang National Treasury resources worth up to 100 million High-grade Spirit Stones, and Song Ankang weighed the reward against the squad's importance.

Song Ankang reached Evil Dragon Pool to rescue the trapped Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad, but he suspected the apparent weakness in the enemy’s formation was a deliberate lure. He held back rather than attack, leaving the rescue attempt unresolved.

• Song Ankang learned that the Two-Headed Evil Dragon had trapped the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad and set out for Evil Dragon Pool with Furi Mountain and divine servants.
• Song Ankang concealed his identity and approached Evil Dragon Pool cautiously, sending some divine servants ahead under cover of the Anomaly God Deadhouse’s corpse.
• Song Ankang found the nine Great God-level members of the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad trapped and exhausted inside a Seventh-Rank Mid-Grade Divine Formation Group.
• Song Ankang noticed flaws in Evil Dragon Pool’s formation that might let him break it from outside, but suspected the flaws were deliberately exposed to lure rescuers into a trap.
• Song Ankang refrained from attacking and continued to regard Evil Dragon Pool with caution.

Song Ankang investigated Evil Dragon Pool and, after Furi Mountain sensed something wrong with the Two-Headed Evil Dragon, suspected it was a Half-step True Immortal luring human gods into a trap. He ambushed the dragon and confirmed its hidden strength, but the fight’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Song Ankang searched Evil Dragon Pool and its surroundings for hidden formations or enemies but found no anomaly.
• Furi Mountain warned Song Ankang that the Two-Headed Evil Dragon carried an aura similar to its own, prompting Song Ankang to suspect it was a Half-step True Immortal.
• Song Ankang reasoned that the Two-Headed Evil Dragon had lured the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad to Evil Dragon Pool and planned to use them as bait for more human gods.
• Song Ankang waited for the Two-Headed Evil Dragon to leave the Divine Formation Group, then attacked with his divine servants and Furi Mountain.
• The Two-Headed Evil Dragon’s Seventh-Rank Mid-Grade true soul divine artifact was breached, revealing that it was an unstable but powerful Half-step True Immortal.

Song Ankang secretly enslaved the Two-Headed Evil Dragon, then helped the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad escape Evil Dragon Pool and return safely to Kyoto. With the squad stationed in the city, Song Ankang slipped away to resume his cultivation and life as the Tang Family’s son-in-law.

• Song Ankang enslaved the Two-Headed Evil Dragon, concealed the bond, and opened a breach in Evil Dragon Pool’s Divine Formation Group so the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad could escape.
• The Two-Headed Evil Dragon and the other Demonic Creatures and Ghosts fled, while the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad pursued them briefly before regrouping with Song Ankang.
• Song Ankang led the Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad toward Kyoto, where Zhang Xin Fang, Wang Xin Jing, the Summer Emperor, and the citizens welcomed them with relief.
• The Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad promised to defend Kyoto and recover the occupied settlements and stolen divine artifacts.
• Song Ankang left the gathering unnoticed and returned to the Tang Family Mansion to resume his private life and cultivation.

The Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad repaired Kyoto’s defenses and cleared the surrounding territory while Song Ankang concealed his servants and fabricated evidence that the looters had fled. He then took control of the Two-Headed Evil Dragon’s forces and gained Stone Human Blood Array, a powerful formation master who offered to reveal his trained disciples.

• The Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad repaired the Kyoto Divine Formation Group and searched for the Demonic Creatures and Ghosts that had looted the divine artifact Secret Treasury, while Song Ankang hid his servants.
• Song Ankang arranged for Furi Mountain and several peak divine servants to stage a battle near An City, making it appear that the looters had fought over their spoils and fled the Human Race’s territory.
• The Iron Banner Demon Hunting Squad accepted the staged tracks, cleared the area around Kyoto, and helped refugees begin returning to their homes.
• Song Ankang contacted the Two-Headed Evil Dragon and devoured nearly all the god-level Demonic Creatures and Ghosts under its command, keeping two Demon Gods as servants.
• Song Ankang enslaved Stone Human Blood Array, a Seventh-Rank High-Grade Divine Formation Master, who offered to help him acquire the formation knowledge of nearly ten disciples.

Song Ankang devoured the Death Forest to absorb its life force and formation knowledge, pushing his cultivation forward and breaking through to become a Seventh-Rank High-Grade Divine Formation Master. He also realized his alchemy and artifact refining had reached Seventh-Rank Low-Grade, but decided to keep plundering resources rather than craft them himself.

• Song Ankang had the Stone Human Blood Array lure the Death Forest away from its old nest, then overwhelmed it with two Half-step True Immortals and a group of subordinates.
• Song Ankang used the Imperial Order and Soul Seizing Technique to make the Death Forest obey, then began devouring it at Hundred Fruits Mountain.
• Song Ankang absorbed the Death Forest's life force and formation memories, greatly improving his body-refining cultivation and formation comprehension.
• Song Ankang broke through to become a Seventh-Rank High-Grade Divine Formation Master after months of cultivation and devouring more than a hundred Seventh-Grade Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.
• Song Ankang noticed that he had also reached Seventh-Rank Low-Grade in alchemy and artifact refining, but chose to keep plundering instead of making pills and artifacts himself.

Song Ankang used his growing strength and intelligence on forbidden lands to expand his forces and gather resources. After months of raids, he commanded thirty-six divine servants and wielded power rivaling the Human Race’s entire high-end combat strength.

• Song Ankang considered creating pills, artifacts, and formations with severe side effects so the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance could help him grow stronger.
• After absorbing Death Forest’s memories, Song Ankang stabilized his formation mastery at the Seventh-Rank High-Grade Divine Formation Master level, though most of the memories were wasted.
• Song Ankang used information from his servants to target forbidden lands and led a sweeping campaign against their Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.
• Song Ankang defeated or recruited the creatures guarding more than twenty forbidden lands, gaining treasures and replacing weaker servants with stronger ones.
• Song Ankang’s forces grew to thirty-six peak Great God-level divine servants, including Furi Mountain and the Two-Headed Evil Dragon as his two Half-step True Immortals.

Song Ankang studied the Human Race’s cultivation limits and learned how Body-Snatching Great Gods were ranked across ten Heavenly Pass levels. Though his essence, energy, and spirit were only at Second Level Heavenly Pass, his balanced foundation and Size As You Wish gave him the strength to challenge Half-step True Immortals and a chance to escape Sixth Grade True Immortals.

• Song Ankang calculated that Human Race cultivators needed to raise their essence, energy, and spirit far beyond their natural limits to reach Half-step True Immortal and Sixth Grade True Immortal realms.
• Song Ankang found that the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance had expanded his own limits, but his progress had slowed because he could no longer rapidly improve by devouring demonic creatures and ghosts.
• The Human Race ranked Body-Snatching Great Gods from First to Tenth Level Heavenly Pass according to their highest level of essence, energy, or spirit.
• Song Ankang recognized that his balanced Second Level Heavenly Pass cultivation could let him contend with stronger Human Race Great Gods despite their higher individual levels.
• Song Ankang concluded that Size As You Wish could let him overpower Half-step True Immortal Furi Mountain and potentially escape a Sixth Grade True Immortal.

Song Ankang struggled to accept how slowly his cultivation progressed after losing his fastest methods, but resolved to keep raising his limits across body, energy, and spirit. He paused his training to answer Zhang Xin Fang’s urgent summons and arrived at the imperial garden, where Wang Wenzhi was waiting with her and Wang Xin Jing.

• Song Ankang judged that Size As You Wish could help him escape or overpower a Sixth Grade True Immortal, but would leave him vulnerable in other areas.
• He decided to break through his limits in body refinement, energy refinement, and spirit refinement so he could raise his potential before invoking heavenly tribulation.
• Song Ankang continued cultivating despite his frustration at the slower pace, relying on his firm will to regain focus.
• Zhang Xin Fang sent Song Ankang an urgent message through a Communication Talisman, and he traveled to the Imperial City.
• Song Ankang arrived at the imperial garden pavilion and found Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing waiting with Wang Wenzhi, a leading Human Race cultivator and chief logistics officer of the Heaven-Human War Front.

Wang Wenzhi and Zhang Xin Fang asked Song Ankang to reinforce the endangered Heaven-Human War Front, but Song Ankang refused rather than risk his life. He rejected Wang Wenzhi’s appeal to duty and said he would give up his fiefs and offerings if necessary, then prepared to leave.

• Wang Wenzhi and Zhang Xin Fang praised Song Ankang for defending Kyoto and preserving the National Treasury.
• Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Wenzhi asked Song Ankang to go to the Heaven-Human War Front, where the Angel Race was mounting a fierce attack.
• Song Ankang weighed the danger of the front and refused, saying he had important matters to handle in An City.
• Wang Wenzhi argued that the Human Race’s survival mattered more than Song Ankang’s personal affairs and cited the fiefs and offerings he received.
• Song Ankang said the Human Race had contributed little to him and offered to give up his fiefs and offerings rather than go.
• Song Ankang ended the discussion and prepared to leave.

Song Ankang rejected Wang Wenzhi’s demand that he join the Heaven-Human War Front, and Wang Wenzhi learned how much the Nine Peaks Sword God had done for the Human Race. After resolving to apologize but still seek reinforcements, Wang Wenzhi visited the Tang Family, where Song Ankang ignored their repeated attempts to contact him while occupied with Tang Liuli.

• Song Ankang left after refusing Wang Wenzhi’s forceful request, and Zhang Xin Fang and Wang Xin Jing reminded Wang Wenzhi of the Nine Peaks Sword God’s past service to the Human Race.
• The Summer Emperor told Wang Wenzhi that Song Ankang had secretly slain Demonic Creatures and Ghosts near Kyoto, prompting Wang Wenzhi to admit he had been too aggressive and resolve to apologize.
• Wang Wenzhi asked about contacting Tang Batian, and Zhang Xin Fang explained that only the Tang Family Head could reach the Whirlwind Sword God.
• After Song Ankang refused their visit, Wang Wenzhi and the others went to the Tang Family, where Tang Yelan tried contacting the ancestor with a Communication Talisman.
• Wang Wenzhi and the others waited for more than an hour, but Song Ankang ignored the Communication Talisman while spending time with Tang Liuli.

Tang Yelan and the Tang Family waited in vain for Song Ankang to reply to the Communication Talisman, while Wang Wenzhi's group eventually left for the endangered Heaven-Human War Front. Song Ankang remained unaware of the crisis and continued his quiet life of cultivation and companionship.

• Wang Wenzhi and his companions left the Tang Family Mansion after asking Tang Yelan to notify them if she reached Lord Cyclone, and the Tang Family elders celebrated the God of Abundance's visit before paying respects to Tang Batian's Eternity Tablet.
• Tang Yelan grew uneasy over Song Ankang's silence and decided to stop contacting her Old Ancestor so frequently.
• Wang Wenzhi, Zhang Xin Fang, and Wang Xin Jing concluded that Song Ankang was likely recovering from injuries and agreed to wait two more days before heading to the Heaven-Human War Front.
• Wang Wenzhi's group learned that the Angel Race had reinforced the Heaven-Human War Front with four Half-step True Immortals, making the Human Race's position increasingly dangerous.
• Three days later, Wang Wenzhi and his group left Kyoto An City with Transcendence Cultivators for the Heaven-Human War Front, while Tang Yelan continued to claim she could not reach her Old Ancestor.
• Song Ankang ignored the situation and spent his days cultivating and accompanying Tang Yelan, Tang Liuli, Qiushi, Chunhua, Dong Xinjie, and Peng Xuan'er.

As the Tang Family refused to send Tang Batian to the dangerous Heaven-Human War Front, Song Ankang’s growing power continued to strengthen the women around him, though he resisted using his baptism to cultivate many more female cultivators. He visited Peng Xuan'er at Anxuan Residence and made another breakthrough, bringing him closer to the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm.

• Wang Wenzhi and his party reached the Heaven-Human War Front but failed to contact Tang Batian, while the Tang Family withheld its sole powerful protector from the perilous front.
• Song Ankang kept Tang Liuli’s Golden Core breakthrough secret and watched Tang Liuli, Peng Xuan'er, and the other women connected to him grow stronger.
• Tang Yelan suspected Song Ankang was responsible for her rapid cultivation gains but chose not to question his secrets.
• Song Ankang considered using his baptism to cultivate more female Golden Core True Persons for the Human Race but decided he could not bring himself to do so.
• Song Ankang went to Anxuan Residence to visit Peng Xuan'er and see the new trick she had promised to show him.
• Song Ankang broke through to a new level of strength, drawing closer to the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm.

Song Ankang advanced to the third layer of the Heavenly Barrier and secretly turned Kyoto and its surroundings into a heavily defended domain under his control. As he continued cultivating, an unexpected disturbance interrupted him.

• Song Ankang raised his essence, energy, and spirit above 30, reaching the third layer of the Heavenly Barrier and ranking among the Human Race’s strongest.
• Song Ankang continued cultivating while four Great Gods under the Iron Banner War God helped keep Kyoto stable, though its leaders feared another attack from Furi Mountain.
• Song Ankang’s secret campaign against forbidden lands left Xia Kingdom unusually peaceful, while rumors of a Demonic Creature force gathering made the Angel Race and Merman Race hopeful and the Human Race’s leaders anxious.
• Song Ankang secretly gathered conquered Demonic Creatures and Ghosts around Kyoto, taking control of the Kyoto Divine Formation Group and building a defensive network centered on his important residences and businesses.
• Trouble came knocking and interrupted Song Ankang’s cultivation, leaving him irritated.

After the Zhang Family Old Ancestor died, members of the Zhang Family seized Song Ankang’s pill shops, prompting Tang Yelan and Tang Mingyue to worry about his safety. Song Ankang insisted he could handle the dispute, while Tang Mingyue invited him to spend the next few days writing poetry with her.

• The Zhang Family Old Ancestor died after a hidden mid-stage seventh-rank demon god ambushed him, and Song Ankang felt responsible because his medicines had hastened the ancestor’s return to battle.
• Zhang Family members seized most of Song’s Workshop’s pill shops and injured several shopkeepers and clerks, claiming the shops had originally belonged to their family.
• Tang Yelan offered to gather the Tang Family’s forces and fight the Zhang Family, but Song Ankang told her to leave the matter to him.
• Tang Mingyue warned Song Ankang that the Tang Family was outnumbered and urged him to remain inside the mansion, and he assured her he would be safe.
• Tang Mingyue invited Song Ankang to compose poems and match couplets with her over the next few days.