Chapter Summaries

After strengthening his cultivation, Song Ankang enslaved Great Belly Immortal Venerable Zhu Zhantian and took the Sky Splitting Axe, then returned to his quiet life in An City. Meanwhile, relations and trade among the Human, Merman, Angel, and Bean Demon Races continued to grow closer.

• Song Ankang learned that Great Belly Immortal Venerable Zhu Zhantian had returned to Wild Boar Forest with the Sky Splitting Axe and created the Sky Splitting Axe Technique for the weapon.
• Song Ankang subdued Zhu Zhantian with an Imperial Order and took the Sky Splitting Axe, but spared him to avoid arousing the Demon Boar Race’s suspicions.
• Song Ankang returned to An City with three immortal artifacts and continued strengthening his defenses and cultivation.
• The Human Race’s cooperation with the Merman, Angel, and Bean Demon Races expanded, aided by Song Ankang’s agricultural knowledge and high-yield crops.
• Song Ankang learned that people from the different races were forming unions and wondered whether Human–Bean Demon couples would have human or Bean Demon children.

Song Ankang responded to Gabriel’s plea for help when three injured Gluttonous Giants attacked the Angel Race. After growing to immense size, he slew one giant and struck the other two down, leaving them on the ground.

• Twelve Wings Gabriel told Song Ankang that three Sixth Grade True Immortal Gluttonous Giants were devouring the Angel Race after fleeing the Kunlun Mountains.
• Song Ankang transformed into the Strange Immortal Master and traveled to the Angel Race’s northeastern region, where the giants were consuming a city’s inhabitants.
• Song Ankang used Size As You Wish to grow nearly ten thousand meters tall and attacked the giants with the Sky Splitting Axe.
• Song Ankang knocked the three giants back and beheaded one with a follow-up strike.
• The two remaining Gluttonous Giants charged Song Ankang, who met them head-on and cleaved them to the ground.

Song Ankang easily killed three Gluttonous Giants, then fought a juvenile Golden Winged Great Peng Bird that attacked him from the sky. He weakened its True Soul with the God Slaying Tribulation and pressed in, seeking a chance to strike again.

• Song Ankang killed the three Gluttonous Giants with his Sky Splitting Axe.
• A juvenile Golden Winged Great Peng Bird swooped down and wounded Song Ankang, who shrank to insect size to evade it.
• Song Ankang identified the bird and counterattacked with his sword and immortal arts, but its physical and True Soul defenses endured.
• Song Ankang used the God Slaying Tribulation to break through the bird’s True Soul defenses and weaken its Immortal Soul.
• Song Ankang charged toward the bird again, searching for an opportunity to use the God Slaying Tribulation once more.

Song Ankang trapped and enslaved a juvenile Golden Winged Great Peng Bird after a fierce battle. He learned it had sent a distress message to its mother, a peak Celestial Immortal, but the bird recalled it before it could reach her.

• The Golden Winged Great Peng Bird tried to retreat, but Song Ankang pursued it and trapped it in a black-and-white cage.
• Song Ankang attacked the bird with sword techniques, lightning, and soul assaults while blocking its attempts to escape and communicate.
• The bird unleashed a powerful innate ability and tried to flee, but Song Ankang used the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Emperor Technique and repeated Imperial Orders to enslave it.
• Song Ankang questioned the bird and learned that it had sent a racial distress message that his immortal formation had not blocked.
• Song Ankang made the bird recall the message before it reached its mother, a peak Celestial Immortal.

Song Ankang enslaved the juvenile Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, learned about its powerful divine abilities and the treasure that had provoked its attack, then subdued its resistance with the Imperial Order. After plundering its treasures, he left it in the Kunlun Mountains to cultivate, gather resources, find potential servants, and protect the Angel Race while he headed toward Kyoto An City.

• Song Ankang learned that the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird had Upper Three Ranks potential and possessed the divine abilities Wind God Cannon and Soar Ninety Thousand Li.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng Bird explained that it had attacked Song Ankang because Gluttonous Giants had stolen a treasure it had guarded for decades.
• The untamed Golden Winged Great Peng Bird demanded release and threatened to perish with Song Ankang, but Song Ankang used the Imperial Order and repeatedly brainwashed it until it accepted serving him.
• Song Ankang continued improving his strength while keeping watch over the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, then plundered its treasures after confirming its loyalty.
• Song Ankang left the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird in the Kunlun Mountains to cultivate, gather resources, seek potential servants, and protect the Angel Race, then hurried toward Kyoto An City.

After Song Ankang defeated the Gluttonous Giants, the Angel Race grew grateful to him and Gabriel became fully devoted to its master. Song Ankang returned to his quiet life in An City, while he considered how difficult it would be for his Bedside Companions to bear children.

• Song Ankang recalled how the Angel Race lived in hardship, despite resembling the angels of his previous life’s legends.
• After Song Ankang killed the three Gluttonous Giants, Gabriel credited the rescue to the Human Race’s hidden ancestor, easing the Angel Race’s hostility toward humans.
• Gabriel’s resistance to Song Ankang faded, and it became wholeheartedly devoted to him under the Imperial Order’s influence.
• Song Ankang gathered the Gluttonous Giants’ corpses to sell and returned to An City to resume his quiet life.
• Song Ankang learned that Fourth Grade Heaven Races took about a thousand years to conceive and resolved to raise his Bedside Companions to the Seventh Grade so they could have longer lives and more children.

Song Ankang reflected on how his exceptional bloodline could raise the potential of his descendants and the Human Race, while enjoying his stable life. In the chat group, he discovered that Twelve Wings had claimed credit for killing three Gluttonous Giants, and resolved to discipline it later.

• Song Ankang considered how descendants of powerful beings could inherit high potential, though it declined as their bloodline thinned.
• Flame of Breaking Barriers congratulated Ten-Mile Slope Sword God on reaching the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm and sent him gifts, then gave Twelve Wings a smaller reward after realizing the misunderstanding.
• Twelve Wings bragged about its gratitude to Flame of Breaking Barriers, then panicked when Kunlun All-Knowing and Ten-Mile Slope Sword God teased it about Boss Taotian seeing the exchange.
• Twelve Wings argued with Ten-Mile Slope Sword God over who had received more gifts from their benefactors and threatened to attack when it lost the comparison.
• Kunlun All-Knowing questioned Twelve Wings' claim that it had killed three Gluttonous Giants, and Song Ankang recognized that Twelve Wings had stolen credit for the feat.

Song Ankang secretly helped Twelve Wings obtain congratulatory gifts, which Twelve Wings later sent to him, accelerating his cultivation. He then discovered a new chat-group member, Treasure Supplier, who revealed ties to a merchant alliance spanning half the Xuanhuang Continent.

• Twelve Wings sent Song Ankang Immortal Cultivation Pills, Immortal Tempering Fluid, and Immortal Soul Fruits out of guilt for taking credit in the chat group.
• Song Ankang decided to secretly help Twelve Wings, then encouraged him to prove himself to Demonic Flame Soaring Sky and Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women.
• Twelve Wings won congratulatory gifts from the two members and later sent the resources to Song Ankang, who used them to cultivate.
• Song Ankang discovered a new chat-group avatar belonging to Treasure Supplier.
• Twelve Wings welcomed Treasure Supplier, while Kunlun All-Knowing asked the newcomer for help with Earth-Gnawing Worms damaging the Kunlun Mountains' earth veins.
• Treasure Supplier explained that Horizon Jade let its holders communicate and trade, and said he had some influence in a merchant alliance spanning half the Xuanhuang Continent.

Song Ankang learned that Treasure Supplier offered fair trades rather than free rewards and asked him about powerful cultivation techniques with severe side effects. Treasure Supplier introduced the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony, whose dangerous Exotic Space attacks could strengthen a cultivator but also lead to grievous injury or death.

• Treasure Supplier revealed that he had Horizon Jade and offered cultivation resources at fixed prices, refusing Twelve Wings' attempts to bargain for a huge discount or private sponsorship.
• Twelve Wings accepted that it could not get free benefits from Treasure Supplier, and Song Ankang considered a stable trading platform useful.
• Song Ankang privately asked Treasure Supplier for a powerful cultivation technique with severe side effects, and Treasure Supplier recommended a Fourth Grade Upper Heavenly Technique.
• Treasure Supplier explained that the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony comprised body, qi, and soul scriptures that used Exotic Space attacks to refine a cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit.
• Treasure Supplier warned Song Ankang that every cultivation session risked intoxicating pleasure, loss of control, grievous injury, or death.

Song Ankang negotiated with Treasure Supplier to buy the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony, a powerful cultivation compendium with terrifying side effects and unusually strong compatibility with his techniques. He traded eighty drops of Fourth Grade Blood Dragon Wine for it and obtained the complete text, leaving him with a guide for his future cultivation.

• Song Ankang learned that the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony combined essence, qi, and spirit refinement, but its cultivation side effects made it dangerous for most beings.
• Treasure Supplier valued the compendium at at least one hundred thousand High-grade Immortal Stones, and Song Ankang accepted that the price was justified.
• Song Ankang recognized that the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony had better compatibility with his cultivation techniques than the other arts he had considered.
• Song Ankang offered eighty drops of Fourth Grade Blood Dragon Wine, and Treasure Supplier agreed to the trade in two installments.
• Song Ankang sent forty drops as a deposit, received the first half, and confirmed that Treasure Supplier had not tampered with it.
• Song Ankang sent the remaining forty drops and received the rest of the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony, satisfying both parties.

Song Ankang fused the Myriad Tribulations Body Scripture with the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture to create the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Scripture, greatly strengthening his body while turning its damaging side effects into benefits. He then began merging the Myriad Tribulations Qi Scripture with the Boy Demonic Cultivation Technique and continued improving his cultivation and techniques.

• After trading with Song Ankang, the Treasure Supplier questioned Twelve Wings and Kunlun All-Knowing, found nothing of interest, and left the chat group.
• Song Ankang studied the Myriad Tribulations Body Scripture and gradually fused its first four levels with the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture, naming the result the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Scripture.
• Song Ankang tested the new scripture by letting the power of the Exotic Space severely damage his body, then used the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to recover and gain cultivation benefits.
• Song Ankang's body-refining cultivation advanced rapidly, and his immortal body became the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body.
• Song Ankang shifted his focus to merging the Myriad Tribulations Qi Scripture with the Boy Demonic Cultivation Technique while continuing to raise his cultivation and improve his other techniques.
• The Treasure Supplier did not return to the chat group, disappointing both Twelve Wings and Song Ankang.

Song Ankang infiltrated the Demon Boar Race’s hidden strongholds and subdued its leading True Immortals, taking control of most of the race. He kept the conquest secret because the Fifth-Grade Azure Rhinoceros Race protected the Demon Boar Race and could retaliate.

• Marshal Tianpeng found Immortal Venerable Shangchang’s secluded cultivation site and obtained its immortal formation map for Song Ankang.
• Song Ankang seized control of Shangchang’s formation, subdued it, and learned where Shang'e Immortal Venerable was cultivating.
• Song Ankang used Shang'e’s formation to subdue it, leaving only the Demon Boar Race’s foremost old ancestor among its three leading True Immortals beyond his control.
• With Shangchang and Shang'e helping, Song Ankang subdued twenty-eight of the Demon Boar Race’s thirty-seven Sixth Grade True Immortals in just over a month.
• Song Ankang decided to conceal his control of the Demon Boar Race because its Azure Rhinoceros Race backers demanded tribute and could discover his takeover.

After conquering the Demon Boar Race, Song Ankang plundered its resources and arranged for its remaining Sixth Grade True Immortals to be captured. He returned with more than thirty Sixth Grade Immortal Servants and planned to expand his conquests and promote cooperation between races to develop their territories.

• Song Ankang learned that Immortal Venerable Shangchang and Shang'e Immortal Venerable had chosen their titles to commemorate killing and sleeping with Chang'e, an Earth Dragon noblewoman known as the Little Dragon Girl.
• Song Ankang took the Demon Boar Race's ready resources and treasures, then ordered its Immortal Servants to report the return or discovery of the nine remaining Sixth Grade True Immortals so he could enslave them.
• Song Ankang planned to have the Human Race develop the Demon Boar Race's vast territory and increase the value of lands held by other races through exchange and integration.
• Song Ankang returned with his number of Sixth Grade Immortal Servants exceeding thirty and considered targeting other Sixth Grade Immortal Races, including those farther from the Central Plains.

Song Ankang traveled to Giant Toad Marsh to deal with the Giant Toad Race, which had demanded a decade’s worth of tribute from the Angel Race to fund its recovery. He began enslaving the race’s peripheral Sixth Grade True Immortals, building up forces before confronting its strongest experts.

• The injured Giant Toad Race patron demanded a hundred years of tribute from the Angel Race, and Song Ankang decided to stop it and take control of the race.
• Song Ankang traveled to Giant Toad Marsh and chose to target peripheral Sixth Grade True Immortals before challenging the central region’s powerful experts.
• Song Ankang entered the patron’s lair unseen and enslaved it with a single Imperial Order.
• Song Ankang used the patron and his other new servants to locate and enslave nearby giant toads, steadily expanding his growing group of servants.

Song Ankang secretly subdued the Giant Toad Race, though its strongest ancestor, Golden Flame Immortal Venerable, self-destructed rather than be enslaved. He expanded his hidden territory and reassured his Bedside Companions about their difficulty conceiving, while the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body broke through.

• Song Ankang enslaved the Giant Toad Race’s outer Sixth Grade True Immortals and used their relatives and friends to lure out the three Thunder Giant Toads.
• Song Ankang attacked Golden Flame Immortal Venerable after weakening it with an Immortal Formation Group, but it self-destructed and destroyed the formation rather than be enslaved.
• Song Ankang took control of the Giant Toad Race and gained more than ten billion square kilometers of territory, while keeping his role secret from the Human Race.
• Song Ankang told his Bedside Companions that his extraordinary talent made conception difficult but could give their children hidden talent, and they became eager to conceive.
• Song Ankang absorbed another wave of side effects from the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Emperor Technique, and the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body broke through.

Song Ankang reached great accomplishment in the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body and fused the Myriad Tribulations Qi Scripture with the Boy Demonic Cultivation Technique. He began cultivating the resulting Myriad Tribulations Boy Cultivation Technique while working to improve his soul-refining method.

• Song Ankang's immortal body reached great accomplishment, giving him strength and defense that could rival a Thunder True Immortal.
• Song Ankang estimated that reaching the immortal body's Perfection Realm would take around a hundred years without the Immortal Tempering Fluid and Blood Dragon Wine.
• Song Ankang fused the Myriad Tribulations Qi Scripture with the Boy Demonic Cultivation Technique and named the result the Myriad Tribulations Boy Cultivation Technique.
• Song Ankang cultivated the new technique, using the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance's feedback to temper his immortal qi, body, and soul.
• Song Ankang devoted time to fusing the Myriad Tribulations Soul Scripture with the Sacred Heart Art, his remaining cultivation technique to improve.

Song Ankang focused on absorbing the Demon Boar Race and Giant Toad Race, using the Human Race’s governance expertise to develop their territories and resources. As the Human Race prospered, he considered using his excess immortal qi to strengthen other women but decided against it.

• Song Ankang held off on conquering more races while he planned how to develop the Demon Boar Race and Giant Toad Race territories.
• Song Ankang arranged for leaders of both races to ask the Human Race for governance help, and the Human Race’s higher-ups welcomed the opportunity.
• The Human Race, Tang Family, Tang's Trading Company, and Song's Workshop flourished, unaware that Song Ankang was behind their growing fortunes.
• Song Ankang’s bedside companions remained at peak Golden Core Stage, while his two disciples continued progressing toward Foundation Establishment.
• Song Ankang weighed using his excess immortal qi to baptize other Human Race women but chose not to do so.

The Free Witch attacked the White Jade Mulberry Forest to draw out the Nine Peaks Sword God and uncover the Human Race’s supposed secret. Song Ankang effortlessly enslaved her, learning that rumors of his protection had brought her there.

• The Free Witch arrived near the White Jade Mulberry Forest, suspecting the Human Race possessed a treasure that had attracted a powerful Strange Immortal.
• The Free Witch unleashed poisonous mist over the area to threaten its hundreds of thousands of human residents and force the Nine Peaks Sword God to appear.
• Song Ankang detected the attack, arrived, and enslaved the Free Witch with an Imperial Order.
• The Free Witch confessed that she had come to investigate the Human Race’s secret and had attacked only to draw out the Nine Peaks Sword God.
• Song Ankang questioned why she had attacked so viciously after she recognized him as a Sixth Grade Immortal Venerable.

Song Ankang tracked the Free Witch to its master, Bai Yue, and seized the chance to enslave the injured Sixth Grade Strange Immortal. With Bai Yue under his control, Song Ankang prepared to take over the remaining powerful members of the White Mountain Association.

• Song Ankang learned that the Free Witch served Bai Yue, a powerful Mountain Race Strange Immortal recovering from serious injuries.
• Song Ankang traveled to Bai Yue’s lair with two Thunder Immortal Servants and enslaved several White Mountain Association members to learn about the faction.
• Song Ankang and his servants infiltrated the depths of Bai Yue’s true body and found a route through the formations surrounding his Immortal Soul Sea.
• Song Ankang broke through the formations with an Imperial Order and enslaved the weakened Bai Yue before anyone discovered the disturbance.
• Song Ankang enlisted Bai Yue’s help to enslave the White Mountain Association’s remaining Sixth Grade True Immortals.

After taking over the White Mountain Association, Song Ankang expanded his hidden force, secured the Rose Thorn Sword, and organized his servants to plunder resources and guard the Human Race. As he returned to cultivation in An City, the Human Race entered a rapid period of growth fueled by newly available resources.

• Song Ankang’s command grew to eighty-one Sixth Grade Immortal Servants, more than a thousand Half-step True Immortals, and over a hundred thousand Seventh Grade Divine Beings, all hidden from the wider world.
• Song Ankang acquired Bai Yue’s Rose Thorn Sword and considered taking up the Evil Warding Sword Technique again to make use of it.
• Song Ankang left Bai Yue in the Chaos Plain to stabilize channels and plunder resources alongside the Thieving Ant Emperor and other trusted figures.
• Song Ankang stationed a dozen or so concealed Immortal Servants in Human Race territory to protect himself and those around him, then returned to An City with his harvests.
• Song Ankang resumed cultivating and improving his combat techniques while his Immortal Cultivation Pills and Immortal Soul Fruits ran out.
• The Human Race gained resources through exchanges with other races, produced three new Divine Beings, and experienced a surge in cultivation.