Chapter Summaries

Song Ankang reviewed the Yuanxia Federation in the Myriad Tribulations World, where strict rules and merit-based lifespans supported its sustainable growth. He watched new arrivals, mostly Song Clan descendants, begin learning how to live and work there.

• Song Ankang established strict regulations and a think tank to guide the Myriad Tribulations World's long-term development and manage access to eternal life.
• Song Ankang visited the Yuanxia Federation and found that it had continued to develop smoothly under the think tank's guidance.
• A guide brought newcomers, nearly half of them Song Clan descendants facing death through old age or illness, to the Yuanxia Federation and called it the Eternal Kingdom.
• The newcomers learned that they would earn Xia Yuan and Myriad Tribulations Merit through work, with merit determining whether they could extend their lifespans.
• Song Ankang maintained stricter limits on his descendants to prevent their population from overwhelming the Myriad Tribulations World, while the federation continued receiving newcomers of other races.

Song Ankang surveyed the Yuanxia Federation’s progress and continued advancing his cultivation until he reached level ninety-six. As he prepared to conserve resources for his final steps toward the Second-Rank Dao Master realm, he learned that Hermes was investigating the missing Saint Dread Pill materials and quickly offered an explanation.

• Song Ankang reviewed the Yuanxia Federation’s technological and cultivation development, then withdrew his consciousness from the Myriad Tribulations World.
• Song Ankang enslaved more Nether Race Saint Lords, gathered resources, and advanced beyond level ninety to reach level ninety-six over the following century.
• Song Ankang decided to stop using spirit pills and wondrous medicines, choosing to conserve resources and strengthen his foundation while pursuing the remaining levels.
• More than three hundred Nether Race Saint Servants reported that Hermes had noticed abnormalities in the Saint Dread Pill materials and was investigating.
• Song Ankang anticipated the investigation and immediately gave Hermes a plausible explanation.

Hermes traced the Nether Race’s Saint Forbidden Pill materials to the Demon Race and Witch Race, then restricted their supply to protect the remaining stock. Over the next five hundred years, the Human Race and Song Clan expanded rapidly, while Song Ankang kept the Yuanxia Federation’s advanced technology for his people.

• Hermes learned that Nether Race saints had sold Saint Forbidden Pill materials to the Demon Race and Witch Race, and he reduced the Nether Race’s supply after most of its stockpile was depleted.
• Song Ankang decided to avoid eagerly exchanging for Saint Forbidden Pill materials and focused on consolidating his cultivation.
• The Human Race absorbed surrounding small races and grew to ten trillion people in five hundred years, with six trillion carrying Song Clan bloodlines.
• The Song Clan and Human Race gained more powerful cultivators, though they still lacked enough Fourth Grade Heavenly Immortals to qualify as a Super Race.
• The Yuanxia Federation developed the Myriad Tribulations World and created an Intelligent Chip that could greatly improve cultivation efficiency, but Song Ankang withheld it from the outside world.

Song Ankang’s cultivation advanced rapidly, bringing him close to becoming a Second-Rank Dao Master, while he continued concealing the Song Clan descendants’ exceptional potential. That concealment failed when Trace-Shadow Tower uncovered Song Sanhai’s true potential and began investigating the Human Race.

• Over five hundred years, Song Ankang raised his comprehension of the Devouring Rule to 99.6% and strengthened his foundation without using Saint Dread Pills.
• Song Ankang kept the Song Clan’s descendants from leaving the Central Plains and gave them pills to conceal their potential.
• Song Sanhai secretly traveled to Trace-Shadow Tower’s headquarters after reaching the sixth grade and pursued the chance to become a Saint Lord’s disciple.
• Trace-Shadow Tower’s quasi-Saints discovered that Song Sanhai’s potential reached the pinnacle of the fourth grade.
• Trace-Shadow Tower began investigating the suspicious potential, and its Saint Servants informed Song Ankang that the crisis had arrived.

Song Ankang hid himself and billions of Song Clan descendants in a secret realm after learning Trace-Shadow Tower planned to investigate the Human Race. The other races joined the search, leaving the Human Race and Song Clan confined to their territory while everyone sought Song Ankang and the power behind the Human Race’s sudden rise.

• Song Ankang packed his companions, children, and billions of descendants into the Myriad Tribulations World and fled to a fortified secret realm in the Chaos Plain.
• Song Ankang hid his true body and sent four powerful avatars to deadly forbidden regions across the Central Plains.
• A Trace-Shadow Tower Saint Lord arrived in Kyoto An City to capture Song Ankang, but found the city and surrounding settlements empty.
• Trace-Shadow Tower discovered that many Song Clan descendants carried the potential of a Fourth Grade Heaven Race and began seizing them for interrogation.
• The Nether Race, Devil Race, Witch Race, and other powers joined the investigation, while the Ghost Rat Race and other protectors of the Human Race were exposed.
• The races found that captured Song Clan descendants knew nothing and confined the Human Race and Song Clan to their territory while searching for Song Ankang.

Song Ankang used sixteen Saint Dread Pills to complete his comprehension of the Devouring Rule and break through to become a Second-Rank Dao Master. His transformation into a Dao Master began as the various races continued searching for him and pressuring the Song Family.

• Song Ankang monitored the Central Plains and saw that the various races had restrained themselves because they suspected a Saint Lord stood behind the Human Race.
• Song Ankang took Saint Dread Pills to accelerate his comprehension of the Devouring Rule, gaining progress only in tiny increments as the pills’ effects dwindled.
• As the races captured and tortured more Song Family members, Song Ankang continued taking pills, using sixteen in total to reach complete comprehension of the Devouring Rule.
• Song Ankang broke through the bottleneck and grasped the complete Devouring Great Dao, realizing the immense power of a Second-Rank Dao Master.
• Song Ankang began transforming as his Saint Power, Saint Body, and Saint Soul changed into Dao Power, a Dao Body, and a Dao Soul.

Song Ankang entered the Dao through the Devouring Great Dao, consolidated his strength, and raised his four clones to Dao Masters. After learning that Trace-Shadow Tower had targeted his family and killed Song Family descendants, he turned his attention to settling matters in the Central Plains.

• Song Ankang concealed the manifestation of his Devouring Great Dao, gained a hundred million years of lifespan, and began consolidating his cultivation.
• Over the following years, Song Ankang stabilized his foundation and raised his four Saint clones into Dao Master Clones.
• Song Ankang discovered that the complete Devouring Rule could consume other Rules, allowing him to advance far faster than by ordinary comprehension.
• Song Ankang learned that Trace-Shadow Tower had grown more abusive toward the Human Race and killed some Song Family descendants while searching for the secret behind their rise.
• In Kyoto, An City, Trace-Shadow Tower members led by Song Sanhai discussed their failed efforts to extract information from captured Song Family descendants.

Song Ankang revealed his power by wiping out the foreign envoys attacking the Human Race and declared the Central Plains his territory. The other Super Powers withdrew, leaving the Central Plains to Song Ankang, the Song Clan, and the Human Race, which learned it had risen to a Fourth Grade Heaven Race.

• Song Ankang used the Hand of the Great Dao to destroy Trace-Shadow Tower forces in An City while leaving the city and Human Race descendants unharmed.
• Song Ankang's attacks struck sites across the Central Plains where foreign envoys had attacked the Human Race, reducing them all to ashes.
• News spread that a hidden Second-Rank Dao Master stood behind the Human Race and that his bloodline originated with the Song Family.
• Song Ankang declared that the Central Plains belonged to him and challenged anyone who disagreed to meet him at Chaos Plain.
• The Super Powers withdrew from the Central Plains, and the Song Clan and Human Race celebrated their rise to Fourth Grade Heaven Race status.

After taking the Central Plains, Song Ankang withdrew from public life while the other races mistook him for a long-established ascetic cultivator and stopped pursuing contact. Over two centuries, he strengthened his divine abilities and professions, transformed his Saint Artifacts into a coordinated set of Dao Artifacts, and prepared to keep improving them himself.

• Song Ankang refused the Super Powers’ attempts to contact him and let the Song Family represent him in the Central Plains.
• The various races relaxed their guard, unaware that Song Ankang had only recently advanced to Second-Rank Dao Master, while he judged that further revenge would risk provoking the Super Powers.
• Song Ankang spent around a hundred years transforming his Lesser Divine Abilities into Middle Divine Abilities, greatly increasing their power.
• Song Ankang decided against hiring a Dao Artifact Master to upgrade his weapons and instead advanced his alchemy, Artifact Refining, and Beast Taming professions to the Second-Rank level.
• Over nearly another hundred years, Song Ankang transformed his Saint Artifacts into a connected set of Second-Rank Low-Grade Dao Artifacts that could grow stronger with further tempering.

Song Ankang chose the Space Rule as his next path of cultivation and captured Saint Lord Qi Shu to exploit his million years of experience with it. He began using his perfected Devouring Rule on Qi Shu, absorbing everything useful from his true body.

• Song Ankang decided to comprehend the Space Rule because it complemented his Devouring Rule and could support future Rule fusion.
• Song Ankang learned through his spies that Saint Lord Qi Shu, a level-sixty Space Saint Lord, was secretly exploring a Nether Race secret realm.
• Song Ankang sent a Dao Master Clone to enslave Qi Shu’s clone and true body with the Heaven-Enslaving Scripture.
• Song Ankang brought his true body to Qi Shu’s location and began devouring his Saint Power, Saint Qi, Saint Soul, and true-body world.

Song Ankang devoured Saint Lord Qi Shu and several other Space Rule cultivators, rapidly raising his Space Rule comprehension to Level 90. With his combat power and escape ability greatly enhanced, he began to stand among the strongest cultivators on the Xuanhuang Continent.

• Song Ankang devoured Saint Lord Qi Shu’s essence, true-body world, and core Space Rule insights, raising his Space Rule comprehension to Level 30.
• Saint Lord Qi Shu’s surviving avatar replaced his true body, easing the Devil-Ghost Clan’s alarm and investigation.
• Song Ankang captured and devoured a Level-50-Plus Nether Race Saint Lord, raising his Space Rule comprehension to Level 40.
• Over roughly a hundred years, Song Ankang devoured several more Space Rule prodigies and reached Level 90 in the Space Rule.
• Song Ankang assessed that his Level 90 Space Rule had increased his combat power and ability to escape by dozens of times.

Song Ankang spent a thousand years cultivating the final ten levels of the Space Rule and advanced to Second-Order Dao Master, while the Song Clan and Human Race flourished under his protection. He remained among the Xuanhuang Continent’s strongest Dao Masters, but other Dao Masters continued taking Human Race women in hopes of learning how he had produced offspring.

• Song Ankang stopped raising his Space Rule through devouring and devoted himself to cultivation, while secretly preparing additional clones and hiding a memory-severed clone as a comeback safeguard.
• The Song Clan and Human Race spread across the Central Plains and prospered after learning that Song Ankang, their Second-Rank Dao Master backer, had claimed the region.
• After a thousand years, Song Ankang fully comprehended the Space Rule and advanced to Second-Order Dao Master, greatly increasing his power and expanding the Myriad Tribulations World.
• Song Ankang reached around the top ten in combat power on the Xuanhuang Continent and ranked among its top three in escape ability.
• Other Dao Masters sought Song Ankang to learn how he had produced offspring, then began taking Human Race women in hopes of having descendants of their own.

Song Ankang accepted the title of First Cultivation Second Generation while continuing to strengthen the Human Race and preparing to comprehend the Time Rule. Rumors then challenged the Human Race’s right to occupy the Central Plains, questioning the hidden Dao Master’s strength and commitment.

• The outside world hailed Song Ankang as the First Cultivation Second Generation, and he decided to let the misconception conceal his true strength and draw out potential enemies.
• Song Ankang failed again to produce offspring with his Bedside Companions and declined their advice to take companions from other races.
• Song Ankang improved the Human Transformation Art, helping other races adopt human forms and cultivate Human Race techniques.
• Song Ankang chose the Time Rule as his next target for comprehension and prepared to find a suitable devouring target.
• Rumors spread that the hidden Second-Rank Dao Master behind the Human Race was weak or indifferent, and that the Human Race had no right to occupy the Central Plains.

After the Trace-Shadow Tower acted against the Human Race, Song Ankang chose it as his first target. His Dao Master Clone arrived at the Tower’s Wushan headquarters and began breaking through its supposedly impregnable formation with Space Shattering.

• Song Ankang concluded that the Trace-Shadow Tower had enabled the rumors and chose it as his test blade.
• Song Ankang's Dao Master Clone reached Wushan and spent half a month studying the Wushan Trace-Shadow Great Array.
• The Dao Master Clone struck Wushan with Space Shattering, shattering the sky and surrounding the mountain range with fractured space.
• Trace-Shadow Tower disciples panicked, while its higher-ups insisted that the Wushan Trace-Shadow Great Array could withstand the attack.
• The Dao Master Clone used his formation knowledge to direct Space Shattering through the array's weak points.

Song Ankang, posing as Dao Master Hongjun, attacked Trace-Shadow Tower and devoured most of its Wushan headquarters. The Supreme Tower Master agreed to keep Trace-Shadow Tower out of the Central Plains, and Song Ankang withdrew without revealing his true identity.

• Song Ankang used Space Shattering to break through the Wushan Trace-Shadow Great Array, devouring its layers and the Trace-Shadow Tower disciples within.
• The Trace-Shadow Tower Supreme Tower Master mobilized the array and attacked Song Ankang, but Song Ankang evaded him with the Teleportation Technique and continued destroying Wushan.
• Song Ankang identified himself as a Human Race cultivator from the Central Plains named Dao Master Hongjun and challenged the Supreme Tower Master over Trace-Shadow Tower's past targeting of the Human Race.
• After more than half of Wushan had been destroyed, the Supreme Tower Master admitted Trace-Shadow Tower was at fault and promised not to enter the Central Plains again, while threatening retaliation if Song Ankang refused to stop.
• Song Ankang accepted the retreat, withdrew his Space Shattering, and vanished after transferring Wushan's destroyed portions and treasures into the Myriad Tribulations World.

After establishing the Human Race as a Second-Rank Dao Race, Song Ankang cultivated in peace and eventually mastered the complete Time Rule. His strength and inner world grew enormously, leaving him a Third-Order Dao Master whose overall power had reached the peak of the Second Rank.

• The Human Race secured control of the Central Plains after Song Ankang defeated the Trace-Shadow Tower, and the other races abandoned their designs on the region.
• Song Ankang captured and devoured an Anomaly Race prodigy, then continued devouring Saint Lords to raise his Time Rule comprehension to level ninety-one.
• Song Ankang spent more than seven hundred years cultivating, and the Time Rule manifested around him as plants aged ten thousand years in a moment.
• Song Ankang completely mastered the Time Rule, multiplying his essence, energy, and spirit and reaching the peak of Second-Rank strength despite being a Third-Order Dao Master.
• Song Ankang’s inner world expanded to four thousand quadrillion square kilometers and accumulated resources that ranked among the foremost in the Dao Master realm.

Song Ankang consolidated his new strength and chose to comprehend the Martial Dao Rule, a Supreme Rule suited to battle and compatible with many others. While beginning that work, he also used the Time Rule to set up formations that would speed the Song Clan’s growth and strengthen the Human Race.

• Song Ankang adapted to his transformed strength and considered postponing improvements to his Divine Ability Secret Techniques and Dao artifacts until he had comprehended the rules he needed.
• Song Ankang chose the Martial Dao Rule as his fourth rule because it could integrate his strengths and enhance his combat power.
• Song Ankang relied on his combat experience and the Devouring Rule to begin comprehending the Martial Dao Rule.
• Song Ankang used the Time Rule to establish formations for the Song Clan, helping its members cultivate faster despite the resource cost.

Song Ankang established Yellow Millet Dao Arrays to accelerate the Song Clan and Human Race’s cultivation, then used one himself to comprehend the Martial Dao Rule and become a Fourth-Order Dao Master. He concealed his breakthrough and began consolidating his strength.

• Song Ankang built sixteen Yellow Millet Dao Arrays for the Song Clan and Human Race, allowing users to trade lifespan and family merit for accelerated cultivation.
• Song Ankang created a personal Yellow Millet Dao Array, devoured several Saint Lords, and raised the Martial Dao Rule to level ninety.
• Song Ankang spent several hundred years inside the array and comprehended the Martial Dao Rule to its limit, becoming a Fourth-Order Dao Master.
• Song Ankang assessed the growth of his Myriad Tribulations World and his immense strength, which let him contend with even a Tenth-Order Dao Master.
• Song Ankang kept his breakthrough secret and began consolidating his cultivation and adapting to his increased power.

Song Ankang continued comprehending the Great Dao Rules to prepare for travel between Realm Heavens while expanding his network of enslaved Saint Lords and stockpiling resources. He also considered having the rapidly advancing Yuanxia Federation cultivate rare treasures in the Myriad Tribulations World.

• Song Ankang chose to focus on comprehending Great Dao Rules, especially the Time Rule and Space Rule, because they could let him pass through different Realm Heavens and escape powerful threats.
• Song Ankang avoided enslaving Second-Rank Dao Masters until he could strengthen the Heaven-Enslaving Scripture, and instead had his Dao Master Clones enslave three thousand Third-Rank Saint Lords.
• Song Ankang used the Saint Servants' intelligence and resources to obtain materials for Saint Dread Pills and stored nearly forty pills for future emergencies.
• Song Ankang considered arranging for the Myriad Tribulations World to cultivate rare Saint Dread Pill materials and other treasures.
• The Yuanxia Federation had grown to more than one hundred billion people and developed advanced Personal Chips and scientific cultivation methods that surpassed the Xuanhuang Continent's major powers in some fields.

Song Ankang used the Yuanxia Federation and Yellow Millet Dao Array to strengthen the Song Clan, while Song Fanxing’s rare fertility made him a sought-after partner among powerful cultivators. The chapter left the Song Clan’s descendants spreading across the races, though Song Ankang still had no heir with the potential of a Second Grade Dao Race.

• Song Ankang used the Yuanxia Federation to research ways to improve cultivation and reproduction, and the Yellow Millet Dao Array helped more than a hundred million Song Clan members reach the Middle Third Rank.
• Song Fanxing reached True Immortal cultivation and became known as the Xuanhuang Continent’s Number One Stud, drawing Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals who sought his help conceiving children.
• Song Fanxing made several Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals conceive, and one secretly disguised Saint Lord also became pregnant.
• Song Ankang had the Yuanxia Federation develop Spirit Pills and Personal Chips to improve Song Fanxing’s fertility, leading to more powerful cultivators conceiving children.
• The Song Clan’s descendants spread into other races, while Song Ankang’s other children and bedside companions advanced to Fourth Grade Heavenly Immortal.
• Song Ankang still had no descendant with the potential of a Second Grade Dao Race, but he remained unhurried about having one.