Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang targeted Green Leaf Saint, a Level 37 Demon Race cultivator who practiced the Devouring Hurricane Rule, and enslaved it so he could devour its insights and power. After gaining substantial cultivation and wealth, he began looking for new targets across the Witch Race and other races.

• Song Ankang used the Witch Race's intelligence network to identify Green Leaf Saint as a suitable target for devouring.
• Song Ankang infiltrated Green Leaf Saint's residence with several powerful Witch Race Saint Servants, who shattered its Saint Soul Sea defenses and let him subdue it with his Imperial Order.
• Song Ankang brought Green Leaf Saint to a secret cultivation realm, where it surrendered its insights into the Devouring Hurricane Rule and he devoured its essence, energy, and spirit.
• Green Leaf Saint's insights raised Song Ankang's comprehension of the Devouring Rule to 1.8 percent, while its Saint Source Power greatly strengthened his cultivation and foundation.
• Song Ankang began searching for more devouring targets and potential servants among the Witch Race, Demon Race, Devil Race, Nether Race, Ghost Race, and monsters.

Song Ankang targeted the Heavenly Wolf Tribe to secure the resources his growth as a Saint demanded. He enslaved its Ancestor and most of its Saints, took control of the Heavenly Wolf Grassland, and left with a huge trove of resources and a new source of ongoing wealth.

• Song Ankang used years of intelligence and preparation to seize the formation around the Heavenly Wolf Ancestor’s secret realm and enslave the Ancestor.
• With the Heavenly Wolf Ancestor’s help, Song Ankang captured five of the Tribe’s six Third-Rank Saints; the sixth was away and could not be found.
• Song Ankang ordered the enslaved Saints to manage the Heavenly Wolf Grassland and provide him with resources each year.
• Song Ankang stripped the Tribe of resources and treasures worth five hundred trillion Low-grade Saint Stones, then left with his gains.

Song Ankang used Saint Forbidden Pills to rapidly deepen his comprehension of the Devouring Rule, reaching the ranks of Level 5 Saints while enduring and recovering from the pills’ backlash. As his supply of pills and rare ingredients dwindled, he learned that a Third-Rank Saint had infiltrated Blood City and enslaved his subordinates, prompting him to take notice of the intruder.

• Song Ankang took a Saint Forbidden Pill and used its effects to comprehend the Devouring Rule, breaking through to Level 2 Saint.
• Song Ankang recovered from the pill’s backlash with the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance and continued consuming Saint Forbidden Pills over the following years.
• Song Ankang advanced into the ranks of Level 5 Saints, but nearly half of his Saint Forbidden Pills had been used up.
• Song Ankang combined Life Comprehension Pills with the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique to boost his comprehension, though he lacked enough rare ingredients to make more pills.
• Song Ankang learned that a Third-Rank Saint had infiltrated Blood City and forced many Half-Saints and Quasi-Saints to submit to it.

Song Ankang infiltrated Blood City and enslaved Amakusa Divine Palace, learning that City Smasher had lured it there by claiming the Chaos Plain was easy to seize. City Smasher fled the Central Plains after seeing Song Ankang’s strength, while Song Ankang was left with a victory over an unexpectedly poor Saint.

• Song Ankang sent his first clone and twelve Saint Servants to Blood City, where the clone slipped through the temporarily disabled Saint Formation Group.
• Song Ankang discovered that the palace and its two Saint swords belonged to Amakusa Divine Palace, a level 10 Saint, and enslaved it with Imperial Order.
• Amakusa Divine Palace explained that City Smasher had misled it into attacking Blood City by claiming Song Ankang was only a peak Quasi-Saint and that the Chaos Plain was highly profitable.
• City Smasher witnessed Song Ankang defeat Amakusa Divine Palace and fled far from the Central Plains to avoid being caught.
• Song Ankang learned that Amakusa Divine Palace had brought less than one hundred thousand Low-grade Saint Stones’ worth of treasures, but felt relieved that the threat to Blood City was gone.

After several peaceful years of cultivation and restrained activity, Song Ankang raised his comprehension of the Devouring Rule to seven percent. His Quasi-Saint Artifacts completed their transformations into powerful Saint Artifacts, leaving him equipped with a full set of weapons and defenses.

• Song Ankang focused on cultivation while his Saint Servants gathered intelligence and his avatars enslaved useful Saints for resources.
• Several years passed as Song Ankang used Saint Forbidden Pills, Life Comprehension Pills, and the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique to reach seven percent comprehension of the Devouring Rule.
• Song Ankang’s Rose Thorn Sword and Earth Penetrating Boots transformed into the Evil Shadow Sword and Shadowless Boots, while his Lotus Crown and Treasure Nullifying Armor became more powerful Saint Artifacts.
• Song Ankang’s Three Step Soul Chasing Needle and Soul Colliding Bell transformed into the Life and Death Soul Chasing Needle and Soul Annihilation Bell, gaining formidable powers with severe side effects.
• Song Ankang’s Shadow Concealing Ring retained its name but advanced into an upper third-rank Saint Artifact, completing his transformed set.

Over another thousand years, Song Ankang cultivated cautiously, expanded his network of agents, and advanced to level thirty while his lifespan surpassed 1.2 million years. He emerged as a formidable Third-Rank Saint, though scarce resources slowed his progress and mastering the deeper Devouring Rule remained difficult.

• Song Ankang transformed his Quasi-Saint Artifacts into superior Third-Rank Saint Artifacts and used three major clones to accelerate his cultivation.
• Song Ankang cultivated the Devouring Rule while his clones enslaved spies and planted agents among the Central Plains races and Super Races.
• Another thousand years passed, and Song Ankang’s lifespan reached 1.2 million years, making him more determined to prioritize survival over taking risks.
• Song Ankang advanced more than twenty levels to become a level-thirty Saint, whose combat power rivaled ordinary Saints above level eighty.
• Song Ankang’s resources dwindled, and although he had mastered many shallow branch rules and devoured several Saints, he had grasped only a tiny fragment of the deeper Devouring Rule.

Song Ankang steadily expanded his strength and influence by cultivating the Devouring Rule, absorbing the attainments of others, and placing spies among rival races. Over a thousand years, his companions and children also advanced rapidly, though one son remained a Seventh Rank cultivator.

• Song Ankang used the Devouring Rule and the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse to absorb cultivators’ abilities and memories, advancing his cultivation, combat skills, and auxiliary professions.
• Song Ankang expanded his network of spies and servants, gathered resources and intelligence, and came to understand more than half of the Central Plains.
• Tang Liuli, Qiushi, and Goddess Tsukuyomi reached the level of Silver Town Mayor, while Song Ankang’s other bedside companions advanced to Lightning Tribulation True Immortals.
• Song Chang'an, Song Xia, and Tang Shi reached the level of Five Elements True Immortals, and Song Ankang’s other children neared that level.
• Song Ankang’s least accomplished son remained a Seventh Rank cultivator, though the formed rule world could shelter him when his lifespan neared its end.

Song Ankang’s descendants and the Song Clan expanded at an astonishing rate, making the clan dominant among the Human Race. He chose to keep its true strength concealed to protect its descendants and avoid trouble.

• Song Ankang lavishly supported his direct children while requiring most younger descendants to earn family rewards through their contributions.
• Song Fanxing fathered enormous numbers of descendants, helping the Song Clan grow to more than a trillion members.
• Song Fanxing’s descendants produced prodigies who surpassed their ancestors, while he continued traveling to father more children under secret protection.
• The Song Clan came to account for most of the Human Race’s Seventh Grade Divine Beings and all of its Sixth Grade True Immortals.
• Song Ankang maintained the clan’s strength in secrecy, intending to reveal it only when his own power could safely protect the family.

Song Ankang’s family and influence continued to expand, with the Song Clan dominating the Human Race and the Central Plains Merchant Alliance controlling nearly a thousand trillion square kilometers. He reflected on his allies and the Human Race’s growing ties to the Angel Race, and planned to rescue Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women when he grew stronger.

• Song Ankang accepted Song Fanxing’s growing role in the Song Clan’s expansion and made him the clan’s exclusive breeder, unconcerned about his cultivation.
• The Central Plains Merchant Alliance extended its control across nearly a thousand trillion square kilometers, including the Heavenly Wolf Tribe’s territory.
• Song Ankang learned that Fine Wine, Delicious Food, Beautiful Women was an eighty-plus-level Third-Rank Saint whose race had been wiped out, and resolved to rescue him from a ruin someday.
• Flame of Breaking Barriers and Demonic Flame Soaring Sky cautiously reached Gold County Magistrate, while Twelve Wings remained an ordinary True Immortal despite receiving Human Race support.
• The Angel Race integrated further with the Human Race as intermarriage spread Song Clan blood throughout its people, including through Song Fanxing’s many Angel Race wives.

Song Ankang continued expanding his resources and improving his pills before discovering and enslaving the newly ascended Kunlun Mountains. The Kunlun Mountains revealed its hidden history and its identity in the Horizon Jade network as Kunlun All-Knowing.

• Song Ankang traded World Tree Leaves with Talent Bug Aman for nearly one hundred million Fifth Grade Talent Beads over a thousand years and used them to acquire resources and improve pills.
• Song Ankang received word from the Heavenly Wolf Tribe that a cultivator had become a saint in the Kunlun Mountains and hurried there with his avatar.
• Song Ankang used the Heaven-Enslaving Scripture to enslave the Kunlun Mountains, which had secretly developed intelligence and comprehended the Mountain Rule.
• The Kunlun Mountains told Song Ankang that it had hidden for hundreds of thousands of years and had used a Horizon Jade to trade with a high-ranking member of the Myriad Manifestation Tower.
• The Kunlun Mountains revealed that its Horizon Jade name was Kunlun All-Knowing.

Song Ankang learned that Kunlun All-Knowing had concealed its quasi-Saint strength for millennia and reflected on the need to remain hidden himself. After enslaving two White Tiger Tribe Saint Lords who attacked the Kunlun Mountains, he decided to infiltrate the White Tiger Tribe and bring down its Saints one by one.

• Song Ankang learned that Kunlun All-Knowing had been a quasi-Saint more than two thousand years earlier and admired the Treasure Supplier for keeping its secret.
• The Heavenly Wolf Tribe warned Song Ankang that the White Tiger Tribe was heading to seize the Kunlun Mountains, so he reinforced the lair with a Saint Formation Group.
• Two White Tiger Tribe Saint Lords attacked the formation, and Song Ankang trapped and enslaved them.
• Song Ankang decided to move against the White Tiger Tribe, where he already had spies and four Saint Lords serving him.
• Song Ankang arrived in White Tiger Tribe territory, gathered his Saint Servants, and chose to target the weaker Saint Lords first.

Song Ankang took control of the White Tiger Tribe and completed the improved Saint Forbidden Pill, which he named the Saint Dread Pill. After refining ten pills, he faced a shortage of the rare materials needed to make more.

• Song Ankang enslaved twenty-three of the White Tiger Tribe’s twenty-six Saint Lords, then infiltrated the White Tiger Ancestor’s secluded cultivation site and enslaved its true body.
• Song Ankang placed the White Tiger Ancestor in charge of the tribe while secretly claiming its resources, bringing the Kunlun Mountains under his control.
• Song Ankang finished improving the Saint Forbidden Pill and began refining the Saint Dread Pill, whose power and side effects were far greater.
• Song Ankang successfully refined ten Saint Dread Pills from the available materials, but the ingredients were scarce and difficult to obtain.
• Song Ankang learned from the Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier that the Nether Race possessed relatively more of the materials needed for the pills.

Song Ankang tested the Saint Dread Pill and found that it greatly accelerated comprehension of the Devouring Rule, while its backlash brought powerful gains through the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance. After consuming ten pills, he reached level 51 and became one of the strongest Third-Rank Saints, though he still could not dominate the entire realm.

• Song Ankang took a Saint Dread Pill and used it to absorb the Devouring Rule, raising his comprehension by 2.1 percent before the rule's backlash struck.
• The Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance fed back the pill's side effects, increasing Song Ankang's Devouring Rule comprehension and strengthening his essence, energy, spirit, and cultivation foundation.
• Song Ankang ordered his Saint Servants to gather more pill materials, then took successive Saint Dread Pills that raised him by about three levels each.
• After his fourth pill, Song Ankang broke through level 40, having advanced ten levels in just over three years.
• Song Ankang consolidated his cultivation for ten years, then consumed six more Saint Dread Pills and reached level 51.
• Song Ankang's combat power rose to the uppermost tier among Third-Rank Saints, allowing him to roam the realm freely despite not being able to sweep through it.

Song Ankang gathered Saint Dread Pill materials through enslaved Nether Race Saints and used the pills to raise his cultivation to level 71. He became nearly unmatched among Third-Rank Saints and expanded his forces to four powerful Saint clones.

• Song Ankang sent a clone into Nether Race territory to enslave Third-Rank Saints and exchange resources for Saint Dread Pill materials.
• He gathered thirty sets of ingredients, advanced his alchemy to the upper Third Rank, and refined thirty Saint Dread Pills with only a few sets lost.
• Song Ankang consumed the pills as he refined them, raising his cultivation to level 71 and surpassing 100,000 points in essence, energy, and spirit, with comprehension reaching 10,000 points.
• His internal world grew to 7.1 quintillion square kilometers, far exceeding that of an ordinary level 71 Saint Lord.
• Song Ankang nurtured two additional Saint clones, bringing his total to four, each equipped with Saint artifacts and nearly as powerful as the main body.

Song Ankang used his overwhelming strength and the Heaven-Enslaving Scripture to bring the Ant Race under his command, then turned his attention to the Southern Barbarian Mountains. He left the story preparing to expand his control while remaining wary of the Witch Race’s influence.

• Song Ankang assessed his combat strength and concluded that he ranked among the top hundred powerhouses on Xuanhuang Continent.
• Song Ankang chose the Ant Race as his first target for unifying the Central Plains and sent two Saint avatars and several Saint Servants to infiltrate it.
• Song Ankang’s forces took down twenty-eight of the Ant Race’s thirty-two Saint Lords, then joined them in suppressing the Ant Race’s ancestor.
• Song Ankang enslaved the Ant Race and began planning to take over the Southern Barbarian Mountains, where the Titan Giants and Gu Race had the Witch Race’s support.
• Song Ankang recognized that the Heaven-Enslaving Scripture’s lack of flaws made it unusually powerful, while other enslavement Divine Abilities carried dangerous side effects and loopholes.

Song Ankang had conquered three thousand trillion square kilometers of the Central Plains and turned his attention to the Eastern River Region, the last of its four dangerous lands. He cautiously planted Saint Servants there to monitor its powerful residents, including the Second-Rank Dao Master Nine-Headed Worm, while seeking its resources.

• The chapter explained that Song Ankang's Heaven-Enslaving Scripture let him enslave hundreds of Third-Rank Saint Lords because he prioritized its power over its dangerous side effects.
• Song Ankang took the Kunlun Mountains, the Western Desert, and the Southern Barbarian Mountains, bringing three thousand trillion square kilometers of the Central Plains under his control.
• Song Ankang learned that the Eastern River Region held about two hundred Third-Rank Saint Lords and was ruled by the Second-Rank Dao Master Nine-Headed Worm.
• Song Ankang enslaved more Saint Lords in the Eastern River Region, bringing his Saint Servants there to thirty-six so they could monitor the region and its resources.
• Song Ankang avoided acting too boldly in the Eastern River Region because he doubted he could defeat a Second-Rank Dao Master.

After securing the Central Plains, Song Ankang established a hidden, disconnected Saint avatar as a contingency in case his main body died. He continued advancing his cultivation with rare pills while keeping his other avatars focused on gathering resources.

• Song Ankang had his Nether Race Saint Servants trade looted resources for Saint Dread Pill materials and refined the pills to advance his cultivation.
• Song Ankang explained how Saint Lords used avatars to survive the destruction of their main bodies and why he controlled every avatar belonging to Saints he devoured.
• Song Ankang severed one of his four major avatars from the main body, hid it inside layered Saint Formation Groups, and erased his memories of it as a safeguard.
• Song Ankang continued cultivating and nurturing avatars, using Saint Dread Pills and other medicines to improve his realm.
• Song Ankang estimated that the Xuanhuang Continent held materials for only a little over one hundred Saint Dread Pills and roughly a hundred Saint Forbidden Pills.

Song Ankang used vast resources to reach level eighty-six and strengthen his abilities, artifacts, and true-body world, but his accumulated wealth was nearly exhausted. He learned that the Trace-Shadow Tower had detected an immense hidden force in the Central Plains, where his influence was growing.

• Song Ankang continued obtaining Saint Dread Pill materials from the Nether Race and used his wealth to advance to level eighty-six over a hundred years.
• Song Ankang expanded the Myriad Tribulations World to 860 quadrillion square kilometers and raised his abilities and saint artifacts to the peak of the Third Rank.
• Song Ankang considered enslaving more races for resources but chose to consolidate his cultivation rather than risk antagonizing the Central Plains' powerful races.
• Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier asked Ten-Mile Slope Sword God whether the Demon Rabbit Clan planned to migrate to the Central Plains, and Song Ankang claimed it did.
• Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier said the Central Plains seemed to conceal an enormous, peaceful force and suggested the Demon Rabbit Clan might benefit from moving there.

Song Ankang learned that Trace-Shadow Tower had begun suspecting the Human Race’s rapid expansion and its possible ties to the Witch Race. Realizing that the Central Plains and his identity might soon be exposed, he resolved to cultivate faster and improve his concealment.

• Song Ankang concluded that Trace-Shadow Tower’s surveillance of the Central Plains made his plans increasingly difficult to hide, so he decided to pursue Second-Rank Dao Master cultivation as soon as possible.
• Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier warned Song Ankang that the Human Race’s rapid growth and spread across the Central Plains had attracted attention, despite its relatively low rank.
• Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier revealed that the tower suspected the Human Race and Song Clan were backed by the Witch Race after a Witch Race Saint Lord was spotted in Human Race territory.
• Song Ankang realized that the discovered Saint Lord was likely one of the guards he had placed around his companions, and worried that exposing the truth would provoke the Witch Race.
• Song Ankang judged that the Central Plains Merchant Alliance’s activities might be uncovered within a few thousand years, or sooner, and planned to use scapegoats while concealing himself and the Song Clan.
• Song Ankang used intelligence from Trace-Shadow Tower Soldier to adjust his strategies, while recognizing that the arrangement could eventually arouse suspicion.

Song Ankang reduced his involvement with the Horizon Jade chat group and continued cultivating while sending his Saint avatars to exploit the Nether Race. In the Myriad Tribulations World’s Yuanxia Federation, he maintained a vast society of immortal residents through work assignments and a merit-based lifespan system.

• Song Ankang decided to keep sending his two Saint avatars to fleece the Nether Race for materials used to refine Saint Dread Pills.
• Song Ankang entered the Myriad Tribulations World and continued developing its eastern region along a sci-fi path combining technology and fantasy.
• Song Ankang established a modern metropolis where his relatives, friends, and subordinates studied and worked, while concealing that the world belonged to him.
• The population of the Myriad Tribulations World grew to more than ten billion, and Song Ankang assigned its residents to production, resource extraction, and research.
• Song Ankang required residents to earn Myriad Tribulations Merit to purchase lifespan, while letting Song Clan descendants buy it at half price.