Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang traded wine recipes and gambling equipment with Treasure Supplier for around a thousand valuable Martial Arts Secret Techniques, gaining materials to improve his cultivation techniques and arts. He was left with a promising path to strengthen his abilities, though he still needed to comprehend and adapt the techniques for human use.

• Song Ankang’s subordinate forces established trade alliances to sell resources from other races gradually and profitably.
• Treasure Supplier told Twelve Wings that the resources he offered were worth only five Low-grade Immortal Stones, then asked Song Ankang if he had anything to trade.
• Song Ankang sent Treasure Supplier a wine recipe and a sample, and Treasure Supplier valued the recipe at at least one hundred thousand Low-grade Immortal Stones.
• Song Ankang explained that he had already shared several recipes with others, and Treasure Supplier accepted the disclosure before asking what he wanted in return.
• Song Ankang exchanged several wine recipes and gambling equipment for around a thousand targeted Martial Arts Secret Techniques, including the Evil Shadow Sword Technique, which could be fused into his Evil Warding Sword Technique.

After buying premium martial arts and secret techniques from the Treasure Supplier, Song Ankang used them to fuse and enhance his own cultivation arts and immortal techniques. He created several powerful new techniques, while his growing collection of profound arts left him needing to improve his comprehension.

• The Treasure Supplier left the chat group after arranging to trade with Twelve Wings again, while Kunlun All-Knowing continued urging Twelve Wings to visit the Kunlun Mountains.
• Song Ankang fused the Evil Warding Sword Technique with the Evil Shadow Sword Technique to create the Evil Demon Sword, whose demonic side effects tempered his immortal soul through the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance.
• Song Ankang combined several movement techniques to create Treading Heaven Without a Trace, which could continue improving through feedback even after reaching its limit.
• Song Ankang created the Heaven Concealing Earth Absorbing Scripture and advanced the Two Extremes Golden Bell Shield into the Three Extremes Golden Bell Shield, an Earth Technique he could not yet cultivate.
• Song Ankang enhanced many other arts and secret techniques, then realized his comprehension was increasingly unable to keep up with the profound techniques he had yet to study.

Song Ankang devoured more than twenty Sixth Grade True Immortal servants with the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse, greatly improving his immortal qi, comprehension, skills, and experience. He left with his immortal qi at great accomplishment and his comprehension increased by roughly thirty percent, while continuing to consider how to develop further.

• Song Ankang summoned more than twenty expendable or useful immortal servants and used the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse to devour them.
• After devouring a dozen or so servants, Song Ankang's Ten Thousand Tribulations Chaste Youth Immortal Qi broke through to great accomplishment.
• Song Ankang gained substantial comprehension from devouring True Immortals of his own rank and used his new insights to refine the techniques in the Sacred Heart Manual.
• Song Ankang devoured all twenty-odd servants, raising his comprehension by at least thirty percent and further improving his immortal body, immortal qi, immortal soul, and cultivation skills.
• Song Ankang absorbed useful memories from the servants, gaining experience comparable to that of veteran Sixth Grade True Immortals.

Song Ankang took Tang Yelan, Tang Mingyue, and Tang Liuli on a spring outing to a peach blossom grove, where they met Princess Fengying and her companions. The group admired the blossoms and took pictures together.

• After devouring more than twenty Sixth Grade True Immortals, Song Ankang focused on consolidating his cultivation and adapting to his increased strength.
• Song Ankang and the Three Tang Sisters traveled by carriage to a peach blossom grove outside Kyoto for a family outing.
• Song Ankang took photographs of the Three Tang Sisters with his improved Image Stone camera while their servants prepared a picnic.
• Princess Fengying and her companions arrived, and Tang Yelan greeted her as an acquaintance.
• Song Ankang noticed that Princess Fengying resembled a woman he had once loved, while Tang Liuli teased him about proposing to her.
• Princess Fengying joined the Three Tang Sisters in admiring the blossoms and trying Song Ankang's camera.

Song Ankang joined Tang Yelan, Princess Fengying, and their companions for a peach-blossom outing, where others mistook his polite attention for interest in Princess Fengying. As the convoy left the forest, he stopped an ambush and subdued a powerful aberration, astonishing Princess Fengying and her group.

• Song Ankang met Princess Fengying, and Tang Mingyue and Tang Yelan separately urged him to consider marrying her after misreading his interest.
• The group enjoyed lunch and continued exploring the peach blossom forest while Princess Fengying and her maids discussed Song Ankang and his standing in the Tang Family.
• As the carriages left the forest, Song Ankang sensed an ambush and used Sword Qi to kill dozens of Demonic Creatures and Ghosts.
• An Eighth-Rank pinnacle aberration disguised as someone from Princess Fengying's carriage attacked Song Ankang, who captured it alive and pretended the fight had greatly weakened him.
• The Three Tang Sisters checked on Song Ankang, while Princess Fengying and her companions stared in shock at his defeat of the aberration.

After Song Ankang killed a Red-clothed Anomaly in one move, his true strength became public knowledge across Kyoto, earning him the title of the Human Race’s youngest Half-step Divine Being. Tang Liuli then told him he had been ranked second on Xia Kingdom’s Hidden Dragon Ranking.

• Song Ankang killed the Red-clothed Anomaly in a single move, shocking Princess Fengying and her companions.
• Tang Liuli boasted to Princess Fengying about Song Ankang’s cultivation and told her that his secret technique could help women advance rapidly.
• Princess Fengying’s group learned of Song Ankang’s strength, and Tang Liuli left for the Tang Family Mansion.
• News spread across Kyoto that Song Ankang was a Golden Core Invincible Great True Person nearing the Divine Realm, and Tang Family elders confirmed his strength after he revealed more of it.
• Tang Liuli told Song Ankang that he had entered Xia Kingdom’s Hidden Dragon Ranking in second place.

Song Ankang ignored his second-place Hidden Dragon Ranking status until Cui Wu challenged him while he was shopping with Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli. Song Ankang refused to go to an arena and casually punched at Cui Wu, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Song Ankang’s family and workshop celebrated his ranking, while he and his companions paid little attention to it.
• Song Ankang took Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli to a snack street, where Cui Wu and other ranking challengers confronted him.
• Cui Wu accused Song Ankang of relying on treasures and demanded a fight, drawing a crowd that doubted Song Ankang’s ability.
• Song Ankang revealed that the Red-clothed Anomaly he was famed for defeating, Red Garment, had actually become his subordinate.
• Song Ankang declined to go to the Dragon Phoenix Arena and said he would settle the fight in one or two moves, then casually punched at Cui Wu.

Song Ankang defeated Cui Wu and his companions with seemingly slow punches, revealing his mastery of combat techniques to the astonished spectators. He left Kyoto’s gathering with Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli as news of his strength spread through the city.

• Song Ankang knocked Cui Wu down with one punch, and Tang Liuli mocked Cui Wu’s companions for their defeat.
• Cui Wu’s companions and several spectators accused Song Ankang of using a special artifact and challenged the fairness of his victory.
• Song Ankang invited them to attack together, then knocked every challenger down with a single punch each.
• Spectators recognized Song Ankang’s Appears Slow, Actually Fast fist technique and praised his genuine combat ability.
• Song Ankang left with Tang Mingyue and Tang Liuli, while news of his victory spread across Kyoto.

After Song Ankang’s fight with Cui Wu and the Hidden Dragon Ranking prodigies drew attention to his rapid advancement, Song’s Workshop explained that he had used Divine Pills and Divine Medicines. The explanation quieted suspicions but sparked complaints about his extravagance, and the chapter ended with Kyoto gossiping over marriage proposals he ignored.

• Song Ankang defeated Cui Wu and the other Hidden Dragon Ranking prodigies with two punches, prompting rumors about his cultivation and combat ability.
• Song’s Workshop explained that Song Ankang had advanced with Divine Pills and Divine Medicines, which accounted for his speed and solid foundation.
• People criticized Song Ankang for wasting precious resources, while others defended his right to spend the wealth he had earned.
• Thieves began infiltrating the Tang Family Mansion in greater numbers, but Song Ankang’s guards captured them and the break-ins dwindled.
• Song Ankang’s fame and standing rose, and people began proposing marriage to him despite his being a Tang Family son-in-law.
• Song Ankang showed no interest in the proposals, leaving people in Kyoto wondering why he ignored them.

Song Ankang’s status in the Tang Family was clarified, silencing outside efforts to recruit him by offering to end his son-in-law status. He fused the fourth layer of the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony with the Sacred Heart Art, reached great accomplishment in his immortal soul, and considered consolidating his rapidly advancing cultivation.

• The Tang Family announced that Song Ankang had married into the family by marriage, not as a conventional son-in-law, and that most of his children could inherit his surname.
• Other families and forces stopped trying to win Song Ankang over by helping him shed his son-in-law status after recognizing his standing and strength in the Tang Family.
• Song Ankang left the management of his network of forces to his immortal servants and focused on cultivation, using fruits to improve his comprehension.
• Song Ankang fused the fourth layer of the Myriad Tribulations Grand Ceremony with the Sacred Heart Art to create the Myriad Tribulations Sacred Heart Art.
• Song Ankang used the new art to raise his immortal soul to great accomplishment and judged that he could defeat the Thunder True Immortal and contend with the Inner Demon True Immortal.
• Song Ankang considered setting aside time to consolidate his cultivation after advancing rapidly through the Sixth Grade True Immortal Realm.

Song Ankang continued strengthening himself and helping his bedside companions cultivate, though he still had no children. News then reached him of the newly revealed Five Elements Sword Tomb, where powerful cultivators were gathering to break through its defenses.

• Song Ankang rapidly consolidated his cultivation and improved his combat abilities, while his bedside companions slowly approached the Seventh Grade Divine Being realm through his aid.
• Song Ankang passed thirty with a lifespan exceeding one hundred thousand years, but he still had no offspring.
• News arrived that the Five Elements Sword Tomb had emerged beneath Saint Hand Lake on the outskirts of the Chaos Plain.
• The Five Elements Sword Sect had fled to the Chaos Plain after a disciple angered an Upper Three Ranks big shot, who destroyed the sect with a palm strike.
• A battle at Saint Hand Lake disturbed a formation node and revealed the hidden ruins, drawing Sixth Grade True Immortals and Earth Immortal Big Shots who began trying to break through its defenses.

Song Ankang entered the Five Elements Sword Tomb to exploit the gathering of Sixth Grade True Immortals, enslaving them amid the chaos rather than seeking treasures. After taking control of many cultivators, including the Giant Sea Beast of the North Sea, he continued hunting through the dangerous tomb.

• Song Ankang traveled to Saint Hand Lake and concealed himself among the cultivators gathered near the Five Elements Sword Tomb.
• More than fifteen thousand Sixth Grade True Immortals gathered before the tomb opened, while formation masters tried to find a way through its defenses.
• As the cultivators rushed inside, Song Ankang used Spirit Control to enslave around twenty Sixth Grade True Immortals he had selected in advance.
• Song Ankang followed the marked cultivators into the tomb and continued seeking chances to enslave them among its damaged formations and traps.
• The Giant Sea Beast of the North Sea became trapped in a damaged immortal formation, allowing Song Ankang to enslave it and gain another Thunder True Immortal servant.
• Song Ankang kept attacking cultivators when they were vulnerable and fled with Size As You Wish and the Heaven Concealing Earth Absorbing Scripture whenever his attempts failed.

Song Ankang hunted Sixth Grade True Immortals in the Five Elements Sword Tomb, enslaving many and taking their treasures. Equipped with powerful artifacts, he prepared to hunt more enemies as his journey through the tomb continued.

• Song Ankang enslaved Sixth Grade True Immortals with help from his Immortal Servants, retreating when he encountered opponents too dangerous to challenge.
• Song Ankang seized the Lotus Crown from a Five Elements True Immortal and replaced his Peace Hat with the artifact, strengthening his defense against true soul attacks.
• Song Ankang's Immortal Servants defeated a Thunder True Immortal and captured its Soul Colliding Bell, which helped him hunt Inner Demon True Immortals.
• Song Ankang used the Three Step Soul Chasing Needle to defeat an Inner Demon True Immortal and obtain the Earth Penetrating Boots.
• Song Ankang assembled a collection of powerful Sixth Grade Immortal Artifacts and prepared to continue hunting in the Five Elements Sword Tomb.

Song Ankang exploited the chaos in the Five Elements Sword Tomb to enslave Sixth Grade True Immortals and gather an enormous hoard of treasures. As the tomb emptied, he prepared to leave with a thousand Immortal Servants and more than a thousand captives to devour.

• Song Ankang subdued Sixth Grade True Immortals throughout the Five Elements Sword Tomb and acquired the Shadow Concealing Ring.
• Song Ankang's Immortal Servants reached one thousand, while his Storage Ring held several hundred unconscious captives for him to devour.
• Song Ankang sent most of his Immortal Servants to gather resources, bringing him more than one-tenth of the tomb's treasures, worth over ten million Mid-grade Immortal Stones.
• Song Ankang waited as cultivators left the tomb, collecting more captives and selecting those without powerful backing to devour.
• After half a month, Song Ankang prepared to leave with more than a thousand bound and unconscious Sixth Grade True Immortals in his Storage Ring.

After discovering Number One Medicine Garden inside the Five Elements Sword Tomb, Song Ankang seized its treasures before fleeing the arrival of three Earth Immortal Big Shots. He hid near the tomb’s entrance and watched the three clash over the remaining riches.

• Song Ankang erased part of a Five Elements True Immortal’s memories and released him after learning his master was an Upper Three Ranks Saint Venerable.
• Song Ankang heard that Number One Medicine Garden had been discovered, raced there, and collected Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruit and other herbs worth one hundred thousand High-grade Immortal Stones.
• Three Earth Immortal Big Shots entered the garden and began eliminating the Sixth Grade True Immortals, but Song Ankang escaped their grasp and fled the Five Elements Sword Tomb.
• Song Ankang hid near the tomb’s entrance and sensed the three Earth Immortal Big Shots fighting over the garden’s remaining treasures, their battle shaking the Five Elements Sword Tomb and Saint Hand Lake.

After the Five Elements Sword Tomb collapsed amid a battle between Earth Immortal Big Shots, Song Ankang withdrew with his gains and arranged his Immortal Servants. Consuming Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruits sparked a surge in his comprehension, allowing him to raise many martial arts and secret techniques to Sixth Grade Ultimate levels and prepare for future breakthroughs.

• The Earth Immortal Big Shots' battle destroyed Saint Hand Lake and caused the Five Elements Sword Tomb to collapse, so Song Ankang left with his gains as more opponents arrived.
• Song Ankang dispatched his Immortal Servants to gather resources, intelligence, and influence around the Central Plains and the Human Race.
• Song Ankang consumed more than a dozen Seven Orifices Exquisite Fruits, raising his comprehension by several tenths despite their diminishing effects.
• Song Ankang secluded himself under the protection of Heart Demon Immortal Servants and entered a state of enlightenment.
• Song Ankang advanced many martial arts, movement techniques, and secret arts to Sixth Grade Ultimate levels, while the Three Extremes Golden Bell Shield reached Fifth Grade Ultimate Immortal Technique.

Song Ankang returned to An City and learned that Dongxue had died after a failed attempt to break through to Transcendence. Though he found no proof the Zhen Family had caused her death, he went to their mansion intent on destroying them.

• Song Ankang returned to the Tang Family Mansion and found Dongxue's courtyard draped in mourning silk.
• Tang Yelan explained that Dongxue had forced a breakthrough after mistaking a false opportunity for a real one and died from the backlash.
• Song Ankang questioned the Thunder Immortal Servant and confirmed that Zhen Le's presence had probably not disturbed Dongxue.
• Song Ankang declared that the Zhen Family must die because its people had been near Dongxue when she attempted her breakthrough.
• Song Ankang left a temporary body in Dongxue's mourning hall, transformed into a monster god, and arrived at the Zhen Family Mansion without breaking its formation.

Song Ankang trapped the Zhen Family inside its Divine Formation Group and attacked them in revenge for Zhen Le’s role in Dongxue’s death. The Zhen Family’s pleas for mercy went unanswered as Song Ankang continued fighting its two Divine Ancestors.

• Song Ankang activated the Zhen Family’s Divine Formation Group, sealing the family estate.
• Zhen Le complained about the Tang Family’s refusal to let him watch Dongxue’s breakthrough and plotted revenge against them.
• Song Ankang transformed into a monster god, bound Zhen Le, and began killing members of the Zhen Family.
• Song Ankang told Zhen Le that he was avenging Dongxue, whom he considered his wife, and rejected Zhen Le’s claim that he had not caused her death.
• The Zhen Family’s two Divine Ancestors offered compensation and begged Song Ankang to spare the family, but he kept attacking them as the family blamed Zhen Le and Zhen Shizong.

Song Ankang avenged Dongxue by killing the Zhen Family’s two Divine Ancestors and most of its cultivators, leaving only the elderly, children, and women alive. After evidence of the family’s crimes was released, public opinion shifted, though people continued to question how Song Ankang commanded such a powerful strange god.

• Song Ankang killed the Zhen Family’s two Divine Ancestors and slaughtered its seventh- and eighth-grade cultivators, while Zhen Le died of fright before Song Ankang could kill him.
• Song Ankang left the ruined Zhen Family and went to arrange Dongxue’s funeral.
• The survivors told outside families and factions that Song Ankang had destroyed the Zhen Family to avenge Dongxue, and the news sparked outrage across Kyoto and An City.
• The Imperial Court and others questioned Song Ankang’s actions, while Song’s Workshop released evidence of the Zhen Family’s crimes.
• Public opinion turned against the Zhen Family, the Night Watch Division and Sun Patrol Division investigated its crimes, and people continued to wonder how Song Ankang controlled a powerful strange god.

Song Ankang quelled suspicions about his monster god servant, established a law to protect his companions, and helped them prepare for dangerous breakthroughs into the Divine Realm. After settling Dongxue’s affairs, he resumed cultivating and devouring Sixth Grade True Immortals, rapidly strengthening himself while tempering his foundation.

• Song Ankang had Song's Workshop and Hundred Fruits Mountain confirm that he had purchased the monster god servant, then issued a law threatening to slaughter the families of anyone who harmed his bedside companions.
• The Imperial Court added Song Ankang's law to its code, and Song Ankang assigned Thunder True Immortals to guard his companions.
• Song Ankang accompanied his bedside companions and taught them a divine technique to escape safely from failed breakthroughs into the Divine Realm.
• Song Ankang arranged for Dongxue's family to live in comfort and let her younger sister Donghan stay at the Tang Family Mansion to learn from Tang Yelan.
• Song Ankang resumed cultivating, devouring Sixth Grade True Immortals with the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse while practicing techniques to stabilize and control his growing strength.