Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang enslaved the Half-step True Immortals gathered at Black Hu Grassland and then took control of the Dragon Wolf when it arrived. He led their forces toward Jiaobai Sand Dune to capture the Thieving Ant Emperor and reclaim his stolen treasures.

• Song Ankang arrived at Black Hu Grassland and decided to enslave the Half-step True Immortals gathered there.
• Song Ankang secretly subdued more than twenty Half-step True Immortals, then enslaved additional ones as they arrived.
• Song Ankang had his servants prepare a Divine Formation Group to suppress the Dragon Wolf when it returned.
• The Dragon Wolf arrived and attacked the gathered Half-step True Immortals, but Song Ankang enslaved it with the Imperial Order.
• Song Ankang ordered the Dragon Wolf and nearly forty Half-step True Immortals to lead their forces toward Jiaobai Sand Dune to confront the Thieving Ant Emperor.

Song Ankang enslaved the Thieving Ant Emperor during its battle with Dragon Wolf, then arranged a public reconciliation to conceal his control of them. He left the Thieving Ant Emperor to manage his forces in the Chaos Plain and took Dragon Wolf away to guard Kyoto and his Bedside Companions; the chapter ended with two promising discoveries from the Thieving Ant Emperor.

• Song Ankang and Dragon Wolf arrived at Jiaobai Sand Dune, where the Thieving Ant Emperor had assembled hundreds of millions of Thieving Ants to attack them.
• Song Ankang directed his servants to hold off the Thieving Ants while Dragon Wolf disrupted their formations, allowing Song Ankang to approach the Thieving Ant Emperor.
• Song Ankang used Spirit Control to enslave the Thieving Ant Emperor, making it his third Sixth Grade Immortal Servant.
• The Thieving Ant Emperor returned Dragon Wolf's stolen treasures, and the two publicly made peace and swore brotherhood to conceal Song Ankang's control of them.
• Song Ankang took Dragon Wolf to guard Kyoto and left the Thieving Ant Emperor and most of the newly enslaved Half-step True Immortals to manage his forces in the Chaos Plain.
• The Thieving Ant Emperor told Song Ankang about two considerable surprises that he needed.

Song Ankang used the Thieving Ant Emperor’s connections and stolen treasures to acquire valuable fruits and nearly a hundred immortal arts and techniques. After returning to Kyoto, he studied them and fused the Golden Bell Shield with the Two Extremes Demonic Technique to create the Two Extremes Golden Bell Shield.

• Song Ankang had the Thieving Ant Emperor exchange his resources and treasures for Enlightenment Profound Fruits and Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruits suited to humans.
• Song Ankang obtained nearly a hundred Sixth Grade immortal arts and techniques from the Thieving Ant Emperor’s hoard.
• Song Ankang left the Chaos Plain with around sixty Half-step True Immortals and two Sixth Grade True Immortals enslaved, and rode a Dragon Wolf back to Kyoto.
• Song Ankang stationed the Dragon Wolf near the Tang Family Mansion to protect his bedside companions.
• Song Ankang studied the collected techniques and fused the Golden Bell Shield with the Two Extremes Demonic Technique, creating the Two Extremes Golden Bell Shield with twenty thousand layers of golden bells.

Song Ankang cultivated the Two Extremes Golden Bell Shield, discovering that its vulnerable spot was on his butt. By exploiting its side effects through repeatedly breaking it, he rapidly increased its layers and strengthened his essence, energy, and spirit, then planned to keep cultivating until he was safer against powerful foes.

• Song Ankang mastered the Two Extremes Golden Bell Shield and learned how its defensive strength increased with each layer.
• Song Ankang discovered the shield's vulnerable spot was on his butt and deliberately poked it to break the shield.
• The Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance turned the shield's side effects into additional layers and improvements to Song Ankang's essence, energy, and spirit.
• After a day of repeated breaking and feedback, Song Ankang had condensed a hundred layers, enough to withstand Sixth Grade True Immortal attacks.
• Song Ankang planned to continue building the shield beyond ten thousand layers and avoid testing his abilities against stronger immortals until he had grown stronger.

Song Ankang decided it was time to have children and used dual cultivation to help Tang Yelan rise to Golden Core Nine Revolutions. When Tang Yelan questioned his strength, Song Ankang revealed that he had become a Divine Supreme and claimed he had been a god in his previous life.

• Song Ankang decided to have children with his Bedside Companions, and Tang Yelan agreed to try.
• Song Ankang gave Tang Yelan a Divine Medicine and used dual cultivation to pour immortal energy into her while concealing his power with an immortal soul technique.
• Tang Yelan's cultivation, body, and spirit surged, and she reached Golden Core Nine Revolutions within hours.
• Tang Yelan asked Song Ankang how he had helped her improve so dramatically and questioned the power she had sensed.
• Song Ankang told Tang Yelan he had entered the Divine Realm and claimed that he had recovered memories and treasures from a previous life as a god.

Song Ankang helped Tang Yelan and his other bedside companions improve their cultivation while revealing that he had recovered his Divine Supreme strength. After Dongxue remained unable to break through, he helped Xiachen rise from the Qi Nourishing Stage to Golden Core Nine Revolutions in a matter of hours.

• Tang Yelan learned that Song Ankang was a twenty-six-year-old Divine Supreme, and he helped her stabilize her foundation and prepare for a future breakthrough.
• Song Ankang’s backlash from breaking the Boy Demonic Cultivation Technique strengthened his immortal qi and cultivation foundation.
• Over several dozen days, Tang Mingyue, Tang Liuli, Chunhua, Qiushi, Peng Xuan'er, and Dong Yujie advanced to Golden Core Nine Revolutions and learned Song Ankang’s secret.
• Song Ankang could not help Dongxue break through the Earth Barrier, despite strengthening her body and spirit with immortal qi.
• Song Ankang helped Xiachen advance from Qi Nourishing Perfection through Foundation Establishment to Golden Core Nine Revolutions.

Xiachen discovered that Song Ankang had raised her to Golden Core Nine Revolutions through dual cultivation, and he explained that he was a Seventh Grade Divine Supreme. Song Ankang’s bedside companions approached the Divine Realm while he concealed their cultivation and advanced his formation expertise to the Sixth Grade.

• Xiachen was stunned to learn she had reached Golden Core Nine Revolutions, and Song Ankang explained that his dual cultivation secret technique and divine resources had helped her advance.
• Xiachen realized Song Ankang had also helped Chunhua and Qiushi, and he encouraged her to cultivate toward the Divine Realm.
• Song Ankang brought his bedside companions, except Dongxue, to Golden Core Perfection and prepared them for their dangerous breakthroughs into the Divine Realm.
• Song Ankang decided to conceal his companions’ cultivation because their rapid progress could attract suspicion from powerful races.
• Song Ankang used knowledge from the Thieving Ant Emperor to become a Sixth Grade Lower Rank Immortal Formation Master, while his other skills neared the same rank.

After reaching the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm, Song Ankang found that devouring Seventh Grade Divine Beings brought him fewer benefits, so he continued cultivating and searched for stronger targets. When Zhu Yongmeng’s Pig Demons returned to plunder the southwestern region’s people and skills, Song Ankang subdued Zhu Bashan and Zhu Yongmeng and made them promise to return the stolen goods and gather treasures for him.

• Song Ankang recognized that devouring Seventh Grade Divine Beings had become less beneficial and ordered his servants to search for Sixth Grade True Immortals with useful abilities.
• Song Ankang continued cultivating until he learned that Zhu Yongmeng had returned with Pig Demons to seize skilled workers, farming and industrial knowledge, and chefs from the southwestern region.
• Song Ankang left An City and found Zhu Yongmeng feasting in Lihe City, with Zhu Bashan secretly guarding him.
• Song Ankang boosted his power with the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Emperor Technique and enslaved Zhu Bashan, then used an Imperial Order to enslave Zhu Yongmeng.
• Zhu Bashan and Zhu Yongmeng admitted their wrongdoing and promised to return the looted resources and gather more treasures for Song Ankang, who accepted Zhu Bashan’s stored goods and medicines.

Song Ankang learned more about the Demon Boar Race, resolved the trouble in the southwest, and rapidly strengthened his immortal body with Blood Dragon Wine. In the chat group, Twelve Wings asked Boss Taotian for help freeing an enslaved elder, unaware that Song Ankang was its master.

• Mountain Pushing Immortal Venerable Zhu Bashan told Song Ankang that the Demon Boar Race had more than thirty Sixth Grade True Immortals, including powerful Thunder True Immortals, and that it was allied with the Demon Race of the Golden Sand Plains.
• Song Ankang ordered Mountain Pushing Immortal Venerable to identify Demon Boar True Immortals suitable for enslavement, then sent him and Zhu Yongmeng back to work for him.
• Song Ankang returned to An City in Kyoto, where Zhu Yongmeng handed over the resources he had seized and left the southwest region.
• Song Ankang drank diluted Blood Dragon Wine until his immortal body advanced from the initial stage to minor achievement, bringing him closer to the Great Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.
• Twelve Wings asked Boss Taotian in the chat group for pills or treasures to free an enslaved elder, and Song Ankang teased it while the others questioned its motives and ability to pay.

Twelve Wings tried to persuade Demonic Flame Soaring Sky to remove the Imperial Order from its elder, but the order forced it to deny being enslaved. Song Ankang then revealed that he had reached the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm, and Demonic Flame Soaring Sky rewarded him with lavish gifts.

• Twelve Wings begged Demonic Flame Soaring Sky to help remove the enslavement, but the Imperial Order prevented it from admitting that it had been enslaved.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky concluded that Twelve Wings was not enslaved and refused to spend pills helping its elder.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky sent Ten-Mile Slope Sword God a Weak Tribulation Pill, and Song Ankang revealed that he had already advanced to the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky congratulated Ten-Mile Slope Sword God and sent him Immortal Cultivation Pills, Immortal Tempering Fluid, and Immortal Soul Fruits.
• Twelve Wings regretted hiding its own breakthrough and wondered whether it could still tell Demonic Flame Soaring Sky the truth.

Song Ankang received a lavish congratulatory gift after reaching the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm, while Twelve Wings falsely claimed to have made the same breakthrough in hopes of getting gifts. Song Ankang realized that Twelve Wings’s spoils would eventually belong to him, but Twelve Wings rejected Kunlun All-Knowing’s offer to hunt Insect Demons for treasure.

• Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women sent Ten-Mile Slope Sword God Immortal Cultivation Pills, Immortal Tempering Fluid, and Immortal Soul Fruits to congratulate him on his breakthrough.
• Twelve Wings claimed it had also reached the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm, but the chat group fell silent and Demonic Flame Soaring Sky and Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women left without rewarding it.
• Ten-Mile Slope Sword God and Kunlun All-Knowing mocked Twelve Wings, and Demonic Flame Soaring Sky lamented that Ten-Mile Slope Sword God had received gifts while she had not.
• Song Ankang realized the Imperial Order required Twelve Wings to hand over valuable acquisitions, so he planned to help it obtain resources once it became utterly devoted to him.
• Kunlun All-Knowing urged Twelve Wings to visit the Kunlun Mountains and clear out Insect Demons in exchange for leads on treasures, but Twelve Wings refused.

Song Ankang questioned whether Kunlun All-Knowing was as weak and foolish as the chat group believed, but focused on raising his own cultivation. After using gifts from Demonic Flame Soaring Sky and Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women, he gained strength and began consolidating his progress.

• Song Ankang suspected Kunlun All-Knowing was hiding abilities because it had kept the Horizon Jade safe despite the chat group's assumptions.
• Song Ankang took an Immortal Cultivation Pill and greatly increased his Boy Immortal Qi.
• Song Ankang applied Immortal Tempering Fluid and absorbed it through the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture, strengthening and increasing the flexibility of his immortal body.
• Song Ankang consumed an Immortal Soul Fruit and strengthened his immortal soul.
• Song Ankang stopped using the treasures after one round and used side effects to stabilize his foundation and adapt to his increased power.

Song Ankang continued strengthening his cultivation and supporting his Bedside Companions, then traveled to the Chaos Plain to enslave and devour the injured Demon Moon Wolf Venerable. The wolf’s memories revealed two more possible targets, but Song Ankang decided to verify the outdated information before acting.

• Song Ankang cultivated with pills, elixirs, fruits, and demonic techniques, growing powerful enough to contend with Five Elements True Immortals and withstand Thunder True Immortals using his Heavenly Demon Dismantling Emperor Technique.
• Song Ankang tried to father children with his Bedside Companions, but none became pregnant, while their foundations continued to approach the Seventh Grade Divine Being realm.
• Song Ankang learned that the injured Demon Moon Wolf Venerable was hiding near the Brocade-furred Underground Palace and hurried to the Chaos Plain.
• Song Ankang used an Imperial Order to enslave the Demon Moon Wolf Venerable, then bewildered it and devoured its immortal body, immortal energy, and immortal soul.
• Song Ankang absorbed the wolf’s memories and abilities, learned of two more potential targets, and chose to verify the years-old information before pursuing them.

Song Ankang gained power, memories, and comprehension from devouring Demon Moon Wolf Venerable while the Human Race built peaceful ties with the Angel Race and other neighbors. When the Xu Family tried to buy Tang Family silk-industry shares at a fraction of their value, Tang Yelan asked Song Ankang whether to accept, believing the Tang Family Old Ancestor could not challenge Xu Chong.

• Song Ankang refined the benefits of devouring Demon Moon Wolf Venerable and used the memories and increased comprehension to improve his immortal techniques and arts.
• The Human Race accepted the Angel Race’s overtures after it handed over criminals, including Heaven Gate Great God, and sold them weapons designed to counter angels.
• The Human Race expanded exchanges with the Angel, Merman, Bean Demon, and Demon Boar Races, bringing Song Ankang resources through the Thieving Ant Emperor’s trades in the Chaos Plain.
• Human Race divine beings returned from the Heaven-Human War Front, increasing their numbers in Kyoto and An City.
• The Xu Family offered to buy shares in the Tang Family’s silk industry for less than one percent of their value after Xu Chong returned as a Great God.
• Tang Yelan messaged Song Ankang’s Tang Family Old Ancestor incarnation, asking whether he would agree to the offer and indicating that the family doubted he could oppose Xu Chong.

Song Ankang learned that the Xu Family was using its power to seize control of the Tang Family’s businesses, so he enslaved Xu Chong before the Xu Family Old Ancestor could demand more shares. The Tang Family waited anxiously for Xu Chong’s visit, only to find that the Xu Family arrived with an unexpectedly strange attitude.

• Song Ankang learned that the Xu Family’s business profits had fallen because Tang’s Trading Company had undercut its prices with inexpensive materials from the Merman Race.
• Xu Chong planned to visit the Tang Family and revise the terms of the share acquisition so the Xu Family could gain a controlling stake in Tang’s Trading Company.
• Song Ankang enslaved Xu Chong with an Imperial Order and intended to release it once Xu Chong’s thoughts had fully changed.
• The Tang Family’s members gathered to receive Xu Chong, unsure how their Old Ancestor had resolved the threat.
• Xu Chong arrived with several Xu Family higher-ups, but their strange attitude stunned the Tang Family.

The Xu Family arrived at the Tang Family with lavish gifts, and Xu Chong offered them thirty percent of Xu's Trading Company for one percent of its market price instead of demanding Tang's assets. The Tang Family and watching factions were left wondering what had made Xu Chong change his stance, while Song Ce decided to test the Tang Family.

• Xu Chong brought dozens of carriage-loads of gifts to the Tang Family and ordered his people to deliver them to its treasury.
• Xu Chong insisted that the Tang Family buy thirty percent of Xu's Trading Company for one percent of its market price, and both families signed an agreement.
• The Tang Family learned that their Old Ancestor had caused the Xu Family's sudden change of attitude, though no one knew how he had done it.
• Onlookers questioned the Xu Family but received no explanation; Xu Chong said he had entered seclusion and would not concern himself with outside affairs.
• Song Ce, the Heaven Gate Great God, decided to test the Tang Family to discover what made them extraordinary.

The Song Family tried to force Song's Workshop to sell for a fraction of its value, prompting Song Ankang to enslave Song Ce with an Imperial Order. Song Ce then ordered the family to visit the Tang Family that night, while Song Ankang resolved to keep concealing his strength.

• The Song Family blamed Song's Workshop for driving its medicine and pill shops out of business and decided to seize the business.
• The Song Family offered to buy Song's Workshop for less than one percent of its value.
• Song Ankang sent an Imperial Order that enslaved Song Ce, the Song Family's First Ancestor and a Fourfold Heaven Gate Great God.
• Song Ce ordered the Song Family to visit the Tang Family that night, hiding that he had been enslaved.
• Song Ankang considered how concealing his strength protected him, his household, and the Human Race from stronger enemies.

The Song Family brought gifts and compensation to the Tang Family after learning Song Ankang had powerful backing, raising the Tang Family and Song’s Workshop’s standing in Kyoto. Later, Song Ankang heard returning heavenly prides mock him and his family, and their insults toward Tang Liuli stirred his anger.

• The Song Family’s old ancestor ordered eighteen cartloads of treasures delivered to the Tang Family, and a Song Family god learned that the Tang Family Old Ancestor had taken a Heaven Gate Great God as his master.
• The Song Family apologized to the Tang Family, left lavish gifts, and signed contracts to support Song’s Workshop.
• The Tang Family and Song’s Workshop gained greater status in Kyoto, while Song Ankang continued to observe the Human Race’s rules of reconciliation.
• Song Ankang strolled with Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli and heard returning heavenly prides at Hundred Fragrance Tower belittle his cultivation and achievements.
• The heavenly prides mocked Song Ankang’s marriages and insinuated that he had a relationship with Tang Liuli, provoking his anger.

Song Ankang punished the returning Battlefield Prodigies who had insulted him and Tang Liuli, then defeated their Golden Core Fifth Turn champion with a single slap. His display silenced the challengers and strengthened his reputation, while his true Sixth Grade True Immortal status remained concealed.

• Song Ankang slapped the Battlefield Prodigies who insulted him as he strolled through the streets with Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli.
• Ning Zhan, Bai Ye, and their companions challenged Song Ankang at a fighting ring and demanded an apology.
• Song Ankang knocked Bai Ye unconscious with one slap, then slapped the rest of the group unconscious again.
• Onlookers marveled at Song Ankang's strength, and the returning prodigies stopped challenging his claim as the Human Race's First Heavenly Pride.
• Song Ankang reflected that the war veterans had stirred up trouble throughout An City, unaware that his concealed strength surpassed even a Half-step True Immortal.

Song Ankang suppressed factions searching for the Nine Peaks Sword God and ignored the women hoping to bear his children, while continuing to cultivate as the Human Race entered a period of stability. After an unknown stretch of time, his immortal body, immortal energy, and immortal soul all broke through to the Minor Accomplishment Realm.

• Several families and factions searched the White Jade Mulberry Forest for the Nine Peaks Sword God, hoping to obtain his seed or persuade him to father children for the Human Race.
• Song Ankang had his Half-step True Immortal servants enslave the leaders of the factions that searched too aggressively, forcing them to stop.
• Women flocked to the White Jade Mulberry Forest to attract the Nine Peaks Sword God, while Song Ankang ignored them and continued trying to conceive children with his bedside companions.
• Song Ankang reassured Tang Yelan that their difficulty conceiving was due to his own exceptional potential, not their bodies.
• Song Ankang continued cultivating with rare resources as the Human Race recovered and neighboring races remained pacified.
• Song Ankang's immortal body, immortal energy, and immortal soul broke through their bottlenecks and reached the Minor Accomplishment Realm.