Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang’s power and the Central Plains Merchant Alliance continued to grow, bringing him close to the Perfection Realm in body refinement and closer to becoming a Fifth Grade Earth Immortal. He hoped to eventually use his Rule Power to give his Bedside Companions long lives, but none had conceived a child despite his efforts.

• The Central Plains Merchant Alliance became a formidable medium-sized power, while Song Ankang’s military strength and wealth increased.
• Song Ankang brought his Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body close to completion by devouring powerful Demonic Creatures, Ghosts, and several Thunder True Immortals, but his Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Heart Immortal Soul still lagged behind.
• Song Ankang cultivated ten thousand Origin Qi layers of the Three Extremes Golden Bell Shield and prepared to open an inner space once his immortal body, immortal qi, and immortal soul reached perfection.
• Tang Liuli, Qiushi, and Peng Xuan'er advanced to Seventh Grade Divine Beings, while Song Ankang’s other Bedside Companions remained at the peak of the Eighth Grade.
• Song Ankang planned to reach the Upper Three Ranks and use Rule Power to extend his Bedside Companions’ lives and help them cultivate, but after another twenty years, none had conceived his child.

Song Ankang grew his fortune and perfected the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body before facing the Great Heavenly Thunder Tribulation. He survived two waves of lightning, which greatly strengthened his body, and was left wondering whether he could have endured a third.

• Song Ankang redirected his Chaos Plain forces to trade their resources for Immortal Stones, while his scattered immortal servants gathered intelligence and tribute that expanded his fortune to more than thirty million Low-grade Immortal Stones.
• Song Ankang absorbed another wave of side effects from the Heavenly Demon Dismantling Emperor Technique, bringing his Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body to the Perfection Realm.
• Song Ankang spent several years honing the perfected body and breaking through its limits before preparing to face the Great Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.
• Song Ankang endured and absorbed the first nine bolts of Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, using them to temper his body.
• Song Ankang faced a second wave of nine stronger lightning bolts, recovered from their damage, and saw his Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Body improve by more than threefold.

Song Ankang reached the Thunder True Immortal Realm and prepared to survive the Great Inner Demon Tribulation by using the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to conceal its side effects from the tribulation. His cultivation was interrupted when the Green Rhinoceros Race tripled the tribute demanded from the Demon Boar Race, prompting him to investigate them.

• Song Ankang advanced to the Thunder True Immortal Realm and considered how to prepare for the dangerous Great Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Song Ankang planned to use side effects returned by the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to stay clear-headed during the tribulation, since it could deceive the Inner Demon Tribulation's perception.
• The Green Rhinoceros Race demanded that the Demon Boar Race triple its protection tribute.
• Song Ankang recognized that the increased tribute would consume the Demon Boar Race's income and cut into his own share.
• Song Ankang began investigating the Green Rhinoceros Race.

After learning that Dragon Deficit True Immortal had secretly raised the Demon Boar Race’s taxes, Song Ankang decided to eliminate the tribute official before the Green Rhinoceros Race’s Earth Immortal learned of it. He infiltrated Wuluan City and reached Dragon Deficit True Immortal’s retreat, preparing to strike.

• Song Ankang learned that Dragon Deficit True Immortal, a powerful Sixth Grade True Immortal, had independently raised the Demon Boar Race’s taxes.
• Song Ankang decided that paying the increased taxes would not solve the problem, so he took several Heart Demon Immortal Servants toward Green Rhinoceros Race territory.
• Song Ankang arrived in Wuluan City, where Dragon Deficit True Immortal governed and lived in the City Lord’s Manor.
• Using his formation mastery and disguise, Song Ankang infiltrated the City Lord’s Manor and enslaved several True Immortals to alter its protective formations.
• Song Ankang approached Dragon Deficit True Immortal’s place of seclusion and prepared several Sixth Grade High-grade Immortal Artifacts to attack his true soul.

Song Ankang enslaved Dragon Deficit True Immortal, took control of more immortals in Wuluan City, and then raced to save the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird from Feng Zhou. The bird escaped through the Chaos Plain, while Feng Zhou got away and Song Ankang returned to An City in Kyoto.

• Song Ankang knocked out and enslaved Dragon Deficit True Immortal, learned the tax increase on the Demon Boar Race had been his personal scheme, and ordered him to keep gathering resources.
• Song Ankang seized Dragon Deficit True Immortal’s wealth and had him help enslave several dozen Thunder True Immortals and Inner Demon True Immortals in Wuluan City.
• Song Ankang left Wuluan City and chose to postpone confronting the Green Rhinoceros Race until he reached Fifth Grade Earth Immortal.
• After learning Feng Zhou was pursuing the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird for its bloodline, Song Ankang directed the bird toward the Chaos Plain and prepared a perilous route for its pursuer.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng Bird led Feng Zhou through dangerous areas, but Feng Zhou escaped the Chaos Plain and abandoned the chase.
• Song Ankang comforted the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, gave it resources, inspected his subordinates in the Chaos Plain, and returned to An City in Kyoto.

Song Ankang’s Bedside Companions and the Tang Family grew stronger over several peaceful years, but they still could not conceive his descendants. After Song Xin Xin summoned him for help, Song Ankang treated her Sixth Grade Silver Demon Poison, and she advanced to the second realm of Lesser Divinity.

• Song Ankang’s Bedside Companions, including Chunhua, Tang Mingyue, Tang Yelan, and Xiachen, broke through to the Seventh Grade Divine Being Realm, while Dong Yujie remained at the eighth-grade peak.
• The Tang Family gained dozens of Golden Core True Persons, and Song’s Workshop grew alongside Tang’s Trading Company as Tang Yelan devoted more time to cultivation.
• Song Ankang’s Bedside Companions urged him to seek more partners so he could father descendants, but he declined and continued trying with them.
• Song Xin Xin contacted Song Ankang’s incarnation, the Nine Peaks Sword God, and summoned him to her residence for help.
• Song Ankang found Song Xin Xin unconscious from Sixth Grade Silver Demon Poison and realized that physical union was the only way to cure it.
• Song Ankang treated Song Xin Xin for three days, completely dispelling the poison and helping her advance to the second realm of Lesser Divinity.

After Song Ankang left, Song Xin Xin discovered she was pregnant with the Nine Peaks Sword God’s child and brought the news to the imperial family. Song Tian Zong and the other Divine Supremes were relieved to learn the child’s father was the mysterious Nine Peaks Sword God.

• Song Ankang left Song Xin Xin after detoxifying her and returned to the Tang Family Mansion to cultivate.
• Song Xin Xin waited for the Nine Peaks Sword God to visit, then realized she was pregnant and secretly asked an imperial physician to confirm it.
• The imperial physician confirmed Song Xin Xin’s pregnancy and informed the emperor, who summoned Song Tian Zong and other imperial Divine Beings.
• Song Tian Zong asked Song Xin Xin who the child’s father was, and she explained that it was the Nine Peaks Sword God.
• The imperial family’s Divine Supremes felt relieved that Song Xin Xin’s child was fathered by the powerful Nine Peaks Sword God.

Song Xin Xin’s unborn son consumed resources at an unprecedented rate, and the imperial family mistook his immense potential for that of a Half-step True Immortal. After exhausting much of their treasury, the Divine Ancestors agreed to provide only enough resources to ensure his survival.

• The imperial family chose not to tell Nine Peaks Sword God about Song Xin Xin’s pregnancy and blocked communication from her residence.
• As the embryo’s consumption surged, Song Tian Zong and the imperial Supremes supplied Song Xin Xin with resources, hoping the child would become an exceptional talent.
• The imperial family learned the child was a boy and decided to keep him, believing he might become a Half-step True Immortal and the family’s future support.
• After the child consumed more than half the small treasury and nearly all the Divine Ancestors’ resources, they debated how to handle the expense.
• The Divine Ancestors agreed to reduce the supplies to the minimum needed for the child to survive until birth.

Song Xin Xin revealed that she was carrying Song Ankang’s child, and he left her with resources while punishing the imperial family for concealing her pregnancy. Back at the Tang Family Mansion, Song Ankang learned that Tang Liuli was also pregnant after her breakthrough attempt failed.

• After the imperial family’s resources ran low, Song Xin Xin woke and sent Song Ankang a message about her pregnancy.
• Song Ankang arrived at the imperial palace, confirmed the embryo was his, and learned that the imperial family had delayed telling him to keep the child’s resources for themselves.
• Song Ankang left Song Xin Xin sixth-grade Immortal Pills and Elixirs, then ordered his immortal servants to beat the imperial family’s Divine Ancestors.
• Tang Liuli’s attempt to break through to the Middle God Realm failed after the embryo in her womb absorbed her resources.
• Tang Liuli hurried to Song Ankang and told him she was carrying his child.

Tang Liuli's pregnancy led to her wedding to Song Ankang, who stunned the Human Race by announcing he had become a Seventh Grade Divine Being. More than a month later, Song Ankang set out to conquer the Three-tailed Chicken Race for its territory and nourishing food, arriving at its vast domain ready to begin.

• Song Ankang confirmed that Tang Liuli was two months pregnant, and the Tang sisters decided she should marry him promptly to avoid the stigma of an unmarried pregnancy.
• Song Ankang announced he had become a Seventh Grade Divine Being, causing a sensation across the Tang Family, Kyoto, and the Human Race.
• Song Ankang married Tang Liuli as a son-in-law of the Tang Family for the third time, and the three Tang sisters became his wives on equal footing.
• More than a month later, Song Ankang left Kyoto for the Three-tailed Chicken Race, intending to conquer it for its resources and its nourishing meat for Tang Liuli and Song Xin Xin.
• After several dozen days of travel, Song Ankang reached the Three-tailed Chicken Race's territory, which spanned about seventy-five billion square kilometers.

Song Ankang covertly enslaved nearly all of the Three-tailed Chicken Race’s Thunder True Immortals and Inner Demon True Immortals, securing its resources for himself. After Tang Liuli gave birth, he discovered their child had extraordinary gifts, including the Supreme Yang Profound Body.

• Song Ankang infiltrated the Three-tailed Chicken Race and enslaved an Inner Demon True Immortal, using it to help recruit more immortal servants.
• Over several months, Song Ankang expanded his covert control over the Three-tailed Chicken Race and captured some members to feed Tang Liuli and Song Xin Xin.
• Song Ankang brought resources and healing experts to support Tang Liuli as she prepared to give birth.
• Tang Liuli gave birth amid auspicious phenomena, which Song Ankang concealed with an Immortal Formation Group.
• Song Ankang examined the newborn and found the child possessed exceptional innate gifts and the Supreme Yang Profound Body.

Song Ankang welcomed two gifted children, then successfully endured the Great Inner Demon Tribulation and reached the Inner Demon True Immortal Realm. After adapting to his transformed Immortal Soul and immense power, he began polishing his foundation in preparation for advancing to the Fifth Grade Earth Immortal Realm.

• The Tang Family named Song Xin Xin’s child Tang Shi, while Song Ankang welcomed a second child who bore the Song surname and possessed a Five Elements Spirit Body.
• Song Ankang cared for the children as Tang Liuli advanced to the Middle God Realm and Song Xin Xin approached it, and he nurtured the children using Heaven Race cultivation methods.
• Several years later, Song Ankang prepared for and faced the Great Inner Demon Tribulation, using feedback from the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to remain clear-minded and pass it.
• The tribulation transformed Song Ankang’s Ten Thousand Tribulations Sacred Heart Immortal Soul, bringing his immortal body, immortal qi, and Immortal Soul to perfection.
• Song Ankang adapted to his strength as an Inner Demon True Immortal, then began polishing his essence, qi, and spirit to prepare for the Fifth Grade Earth Immortal Realm.

Song Ankang considered the risks and requirements of advancing to the Fifth Grade Earth Immortal realm, then learned that Treasure Supplier had a nearly dead World Tree Branch that could aid his future internal space if revived. Demonic Flame Soaring Sky revealed that even his father had an identical branch he could not revive, leaving Song Ankang intrigued but without a clear way to obtain or use one.

• Song Ankang concluded that his Origin Qi Golden Bell Shield made gathering enough origin qi for an internal space safe, though advancing would take more time.
• Song Ankang entered the Horizon Jade chat group and saw Treasure Supplier offer Demonic Flame Soaring Sky a World Tree Branch.
• Song Ankang recalled that a World Tree could stabilize and expand an internal space, and he wanted the branch despite doubting he could afford it.
• Treasure Supplier explained that the branch had almost no vitality left and required a special power to revive.
• Demonic Flame Soaring Sky said his father owned a similar branch and that even Upper Three Rank cultivators struggled to obtain the talent-enhancing power it needed.

Song Ankang learned that a World Tree Branch could be revived with the strange power fed back by the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance, so he bought a nearly lifeless branch from Treasure Supplier. After confirming that it absorbed the power and regained vitality, he began nurturing it for his internal space.

• Treasure Supplier explained that a World Tree Sapling had once grown from a revived root but could not keep growing because it needed increasing amounts of the rare power that improved talent and aptitude.
• Song Ankang privately asked Treasure Supplier about a World Tree Branch and paid one hundred million Low-grade Immortal Stones for the one that retained a faint trace of vitality.
• Song Ankang examined the gray, withered branch and sensed that its remaining vitality was almost imperceptible.
• Song Ankang directed the strange power fed back by the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance into the branch, which absorbed it and gained vitality.
• Song Ankang decided to keep feeding the branch the strange power until he could revive it and plant it in his internal space.

Song Ankang cultivated a World Tree Branch and continued strengthening himself while raising his family. After Dong Yujie gave birth to their third son, Song Fanxing, Song Ankang became even more cautious and prepared escape contingencies for his loved ones.

• Song Ankang found that the World Tree Branch had gained only a little life force and decided to raise it into a sapling when he could spare enough strange energy.
• Song Ankang resumed cultivation and prepared improved Fourth Grade Heavenly Techniques for Song Xia and Tang Shi, while both families concealed the boys’ talents.
• Dong Yujie became pregnant, and Song Ankang welcomed their third son, Song Fanxing, after spending resources and treasures to ensure his safe birth.
• Song Ankang prepared a suitable Fourth Grade Heavenly Technique for Song Fanxing and resolved to protect his family by hiding his strength and arranging contingencies in different regions.

Song Ankang’s family, influence, and immortal servant force continued to grow as he weighed the costs of further limit-breaking against advancing to a higher realm. He kept his children’s potential secret and planned to preserve his companions’ lives as he pursued greater strength.

• Song Ankang’s three children grew older, and he felt less pressure to have more after the Tang Family’s elders stopped urging him.
• Song Ankang concealed Tang Shi and Song Xia’s extraordinary potential to protect them and the Human Race from stronger neighboring races.
• The Three-tailed Chicken Race’s resources brought Song Ankang more than ten million Low-grade Immortal Stones each year, while his servant force grew to over a thousand Thunder Immortal Servants and Heart Demon Immortal Servants.
• Song Ankang judged that further limit-breaking had become too costly and considered advancing before breaking his limits again at a later bottleneck.
• Song Ankang’s bedside companions all successfully advanced to the seventh grade, gaining lifespans of roughly ten thousand years.

Song Ankang visited Dong Yujie and learned that Song Fanxing had been punished for fighting over a girl he liked, Little Flower. After mediating and lecturing his son, Song Ankang spent time with Dong Yujie and considered Song Fanxing’s unusual physique and prospects.

• Song Ankang visited Dong Yujie’s residence and overheard her scolding Song Fanxing for fighting over girls and neglecting his cultivation.
• Song Fanxing said he had defended Little Flower from Pan Bingnian and his friends, and admitted that he liked her.
• Song Ankang checked on Little Flower, entered the courtyard, mediated, and made Song Fanxing stand in the courtyard as punishment.
• Song Ankang wondered whether Song Fanxing’s Yin Yang Birth Body explained his many young girlfriends and assessed his chances of reaching higher cultivation ranks.
• Song Ankang joined Dong Yujie in the study, and they became so absorbed in each other that they nearly forgot Song Fanxing was still outside.

Song Ankang welcomed his daughter Song Chang'an and began building her a vast city on Hundred Fruits Mountain while preparing to resume his cultivation. The city took shape as Song Ankang neared his breakthrough into the Fifth Grade Earth Immortal Realm.

• Song Ankang accepted the different upbringings of Song Fanxing, Tang Shi, and Song Xia, while making sure the three siblings met and got along.
• Tang Yelan became pregnant with a daughter after years of worry, and Song Ankang named her Song Chang'an.
• Song Ankang began constructing Chang'an City on Hundred Fruits Mountain, intending to make it a protected cultivation haven for his daughter.
• After Song Chang'an was born, Song Ankang learned that her Water Wood Profound Body gave her exceptional potential and tailored a Fourth Grade Heavenly Technique for her.
• Chang'an City took shape as Song Ankang returned to cultivation and prepared to break through into the Fifth Grade Earth Immortal Realm.

Song Ankang broke through to Fifth Grade Earth Immortal, opening a large, stable internal space and elevating the Human Race to Fifth Grade. After nurturing the World Tree Branch into a sapling and adapting to his new strength, he became a formidable Earth Immortal whose escape ability was exceptionally strong.

• Song Ankang opened a ten-square-meter internal space and advanced to Fifth Grade Earth Immortal, making the Human Race a Fifth-Grade Earth Race.
• Song Ankang placed the revived World Tree Branch in his internal space, where it took root as a sapling and greatly reinforced the space.
• Song Ankang had already advanced his Martial Arts Secret Techniques to the Fifth Grade before his breakthrough, aided by resources from the Treasure Supplier and his improved comprehension.
• Song Ankang spent several months adapting to his new power, raising his combat strength to more than a hundred times its former level.
• Song Ankang's Size As You Wish ability improved, letting him grow or shrink eight thousand times and making him exceptionally difficult to capture or kill.

Song Ankang learned the realm divisions and cultivation principles of Fifth Grade Earth Immortals, then used the Origin Qi accumulated by his Three Extremes Golden Bell Shield to expand his Inner World. After absorbing all ten thousand layers of Origin Qi, his Inner World reached one square kilometer, an advance that would take ordinary Earth Immortals more than ten thousand years.

• Song Ankang reflected on how he had raised the Human Race to Fifth-Grade Earth Race status, though the rest of humanity remained unaware.
• Song Ankang reviewed the six Fifth Grade Earth Immortal realms, whose titles ranged from Bronze Village Chief to Glory Emperor and reflected the size and value of their Inner Worlds.
• Song Ankang relied on the Three Extremes Golden Bell Shield and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to gather Origin Qi far faster than ordinary Earth Immortals.
• Song Ankang absorbed the Origin Qi stored in the Golden Bell Shield, expanding his Inner World until it reached one square kilometer.