Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xing entered the Li Star River Upheaval Transmission Realm as the low-ranking river official Zhao Feiyang and faced a demand from General Fang Yu to restore the damaged river routes. While Zhao Xing negotiated for the Black Feather Army’s cooperation, Jing Yue and the others discovered that he had entered the realm at an earlier time and risen to a position of great authority.

• Bowei used the Flower Chair’s power to guide Zhao Xing through the World Transfer Tower’s barrier and explained its emergency teleportation and defensive abilities.
• Zhao Xing chose the Li Star River Upheaval Transmission Realm and awoke as Zhao Feiyang, a Star River Tranquil Flood Official facing a one-month deadline from Fang Yu.
• Zhao Xing refused Jiao Zhongchun’s advice to flee and offered Fang Yu a plan to restore the river channels within two and a half months if the Black Feather Army cooperated.
• Jing Yue’s calculations placed Zhao Xing in a high position within the Tianyou Ancient Kingdom, and Fan Hua concluded that Zhao Xing had arrived earlier than the others and advanced through Virtual History.
• Fan Hua identified Zhao Xing’s past identity as Zhao Feiyang and produced an illusory book containing his experiences in the Li Star Transmission Realm.

Zhao Xing’s history in the Tianyou Ancient Kingdom revealed how he rose through official ranks while secretly treating his True Spirit Heavenly Poison, and he reunited with his companions in the imperial palace. Guided by Qing Yuzi, he led them toward the junction of the three realms, where they arrived as a void behemoth turned to ash and three figures appeared.

• Jing Yue and the others read Zhao Xing’s historical record, learning of his disaster-relief work, military achievements, and later service during the insect disaster.
• A Palace Gate Envoy summoned Zuo Qiyu and the three guests to the imperial palace, where Zhao Xing revealed that female demons and the Ten Thousand Flowers Garden had weakened his True Spirit Heavenly Poison.
• Zhao Xing told his companions that the World Transfer Tower’s laws had malfunctioned deliberately, then showed them that the later pages of his history were blank and explained that he was rejected by the tower.
• Qing Yuzi, revealed as a past incarnation of Lord Tianyou, told Zhao Xing to reach a gray bone within six months and remove the poison to disrupt the plans of Wei Tianchen, Bowei, and the Imperial Celestial Master.
• Zhao Xing reunited with the others and traveled with the Heavenly Wilderness Army to the southern border, where Jing Yue and Fan Hua agreed to remain protected inside Zuo Qiyu’s avatar.
• Zhao Xing, Zuo Qiyu, and the Five Poisons Emperor Lord entered a Void Historical Event, where a catfish-shaped void behemoth turned to ash and Zhao Xing invoked the World Transfer Tower’s spacetime karma laws to complete the closed loop.

Zhao Xing discovered that the gray ground was a divine pattern on Void Ancestor’s molting bone and used his clone to rescue Liang Rui’s group, whose Realm Boat had been trapped in the vortex. After Zhao Xing’s clone was pinned inside the Divine Pattern Region, Zuo Qiyu taught him the Great Beginning Clone Secret Art, leaving Zhao Xing aware that its practitioners were driven to kill one another.

• Zhao Xing learned from Zuo Qiyu and Five Poisons Emperor Lord that the ground was Void Ancestor’s molting divine bone, while they searched for its secrets.
• Zhao Xing sent his Grand Void Clone to strike Liang Rui’s Moon Radiance Ship clear of the vortex, saving Liang Rui, Tang Menghe, and their companions.
• The mist and ground shifted after Zhao Xing’s attack, pinning his clone near a newly exposed Divine Pattern Region; Zuo Qiyu and Five Poisons Emperor Lord confirmed the bone’s authenticity.
• Zuo Qiyu taught Zhao Xing the Great Beginning Clone Secret Art so he could try to transfer his true body into the pinned clone, warning that practitioners of the art could not safely remain near one another.
• Zhao Xing experienced a vision involving Zuo Qiyu and his former disciple Pu Yan, felt an urge to kill them, and was warned by Five Poisons Emperor Lord to avoid Zuo Qiyu unless Guluo He was present.

Zhao Xing entered the Void Ancestor’s Molting Bone to study its divine patterns and discovered that its white light could destroy the True Spirit Heavenly Poison. As he tried to preserve the bone’s cultivation method, he used Qing Yuzi’s divine statue as a vessel, triggering the World Transfer Tower’s red light and ruining Qing Yuzi’s previous-life dharma body.

• Jin Yan killed and absorbed his remaining Pu Yan clones, then vowed to kill Zuo Qiyu and Zhao Xing.
• Zhao Xing analyzed the four abilities and dangers of the Primordial Beginning Straw Man Technique, then teleported his true body into his pinned Great Void Clone.
• Zhao Xing crossed the barrier into the Divine Pattern Region and spent three years forcing his soul out of his body, whereupon the white light dissolved the True Spirit Heavenly Poison.
• Zhao Xing used Azure Flower Mana to discern a pattern resembling a martial practitioner’s stomach sac, but every straw-man attempt to cultivate it exploded and forgot the method.
• Zhao Xing chose Qing Yuzi’s wooden divine statue as a vessel for the method, and the World Transfer Tower’s red light split Qing Yuzi’s body and heart, destroying his previous-life dharma body.

Zhao Xing returned from the World Transfer Tower with his True Spirit Heavenly Poison cured, two powerful Plant Soldiers, and a divine technique copied onto the Qing Yuzi Statue. The Source Origin Heavenly Palace appeared to demand the technique, but Zhao Xing discovered the confrontation was a test by Guluo He and the Red Star Great Emperor.

• Zhao Xing escaped the mountain with the Five Poisons Emperor Lord’s help and returned through Bowei’s Flower Chair, consuming 2.4 billion of Bowei’s Realm Spirit quota.
• Bowei expelled Zhao Xing from the World Transfer Tower, where Zhao Xing discovered that the Black Heaven Moon Tree and Spirit Devouring Grass had grown immensely and the Qing Yuzi Statue had been restored.
• Zhao Xing left Academy City for the Primordial Beginning Realm, worried that others might target him for his gains and the Xu Zu Molting Bone technique.
• The Que Tian Palace, Wu Xiang Palace, and Qing Xu Palace appeared to intercept Zhao Xing and demanded that he hand over the secret technique.
• Zhao Xing refused, then realized the three Palace Masters had been an illusion when Guluo He and the Red Star Great Emperor appeared before him.
• Zhao Xing recognized the encounter as a test of his loyalty and paid his respects to the Red Star Great Emperor as the Sea Trade Envoy.

Zhao Xing received the Primal Chaos Dao Tower and learned that the secret technique from the Xu Zu Molting Bone was the incomplete Devouring Tribulation Art. Ancient Luo He gave him a World Opening Divine Stone, revealed his quest to cultivate an Eternal World, and left Zhao Xing confronting a sealed memory from the Profound Yellow World.

• Red Star Great Emperor stabilized Zhao Xing’s Source Origin Space with a Primal Chaos Dao Tower and identified the Xu Zu Molting Bone technique as the Devouring Tribulation Art.
• Ancient Luo He returned Zhao Xing to the Primordial Beginning Realm and gave him the World Opening Divine Stone that Qing Yuzi had prepared.
• Ancient Luo He explained that the Ancient River World Region was declining toward universal Nirvana and revealed his path to create an Eternal World.
• Ancient Luo He told Zhao Xing that Jin Yan was hiding in the Demon Clan Territory and that only three people could share the Great Beginning Clone’s Great Dao.
• Zhao Xing remembered a sealed door in his memory palace and questioned whether the Origin Seal Art he had created could open it.

After recovering from the True Spirit Heavenly Poison, Zhao Xing learned that the Celestial Master Mansion had granted him targeted karma protection and planned his eventual return to the Profound Yellow World. He sought work from Emperor Hongshan and learned that the struggling Annihilating Star Ancient Road might offer an opportunity.

• Zhao Xing reflected on his distrust of Qing Yuzi and explained that he had handed Qing Yuzi's idol to the Red Star Great Emperor as a declaration of loyalty to the Empire.
• Ji Si visited Zhao Xing, confirmed his poison had been cleared, and explained the Celestial Master Mansion's targeted karma protection and its policies during the Karma War.
• Ji Si told Zhao Xing that her teacher had prepared a trip to the Five Emperors Era as a backup plan because he suspected Bowei had hidden intentions.
• Zhao Xing told Ji Si that he intended to strengthen Great Zhou and return to the Profound Yellow World after opening his Inner World.
• Zhao Xing asked Emperor Hongshan for work, and Emperor Hongshan told him the families overseeing the failing Annihilating Star Ancient Road might give up its development rights.

Zhao Xing raised funds and secured Great Zhou’s qualifications to take over the Annihilating Star Ancient Road, despite its long history of losses. After the deal was finalized, he planned to attract the agricultural talent needed to develop it by holding a dharma assembly.

• Zhao Xing reviewed the Desolate Territory’s development finances and found that most Reincarnation Realm contractors were losing money, while the Carlos Family’s Ruin Carlos was eager to sell his share of the Annihilating Star Ancient Road.
• Yang Baihe investigated Ruin Carlos’s financial pressure and agreed to invest 300,000 Five Emperors Coins with Zhao Xing.
• Zhao Xing invited allies, friends, and creditors to invest, and he raised a large sum over roughly two years; Ji Si and Jing Yue then became his guardians under financial restrictions.
• Zhao Xing and Emperor Hongshan confirmed that Great Zhou could meet the requirements to take over the road, with Qi Tian identified as a suitable temporary Reincarnation Realm Minister of Agriculture.
• Great Zhou’s delegation negotiated with the four families, and Ruin Carlos agreed to sell Great Zhou the developed regions and facilities of the Annihilating Star Ancient Road.
• After the contract took effect, Zhao Xing reassured Tong Wensheng about Great Zhou’s prospects and announced that he would hold a dharma assembly to recruit Ministers of Agriculture.

Zhao Xing explained the Annihilating Star Corridor’s hazards and prepared a Dharma Assembly to present his solutions, while powerful factions and rivals took notice. After more than a hundred years in seclusion writing Dao books, he emerged less than a month before the assembly to meet the guests who had arrived.

• Zhao Xing outlined the costs and dangers of developing the Annihilating Star Corridor, identifying collapsing Yin-Yang Twin Stars, sudden space-time distortions, and a suspected Extinction Layer as major obstacles.
• Zhao Xing invited Bowei to attend the Dharma Assembly at Rainbow Moon Star Continent, and Bowei agreed to send Academy City representatives rather than risk Zhao Xing visiting the World Transfer Tower.
• Wei Tianchen learned of the assembly and bought targeted karmic protection after the Holy Temple warned him that a god of the Reincarnation Divine Palace was tracking him.
• Ruin Carlos dismissed the assembly as a publicity stunt and told the other three families to wait for Zhao Xing to fail.
• Zhao Xing wrote several Dao books explaining the corridor’s Yin-Yang phenomena and their causes, then Ji Si summoned him from seclusion less than a month before the assembly began.

Zhao Xing opened the first Annihilating Star Dharma Assembly in the Star Corridor, where he answered Zhu Haichao’s challenge by demonstrating a method that stabilized a star system under Desolate Territory conditions. The demonstration convinced Zhu Haichao to pledge the Mirage Sea Alliance’s support to Zhao Xing.

• Ji Si told Zhao Xing which factions had sent supporters and which critics planned to challenge his preliminary theories, and Zhao Xing welcomed their criticism as a way to refine his work.
• Zhao Xing arrived on the Rainbow Moon Star Continent, where Ji Che described Great Zhou’s growth and Zhao Xing met Bowei and other guests before the assembly.
• Zhao Xing began the open Star Law Association in the Star-Shatter Belt and explained his theories about the Star Corridor’s twin stars and celestial changes.
• Zhu Haichao challenged Zhao Xing’s account of the six qi and the differences between spirit and Desolate Territories, but Zhao Xing answered by presenting an expanded celestial timing theory.
• At Zhao Xing’s invitation, Bowei opened the Enlightenment Realm, where Zhao Xing demonstrated how a Yin-Yang Nine Planet System could endure void tides and regain vitality in the Annihilating Star Corridor.
• After the demonstration, Zhu Haichao thanked Zhao Xing and pledged that the Mirage Sea Alliance would follow his lead, leaving Jiang Tian Su and the other observers stunned.

Zhao Xing’s first Annihilating Star Dharma Assembly convinced four Lord Level seekers and helped Great Zhou attract allies, develop rapidly, and gain powerful cultivators. Three hundred years later, Zhao Xing’s team uncovered mysterious blue stone slabs in the Annihilating Star Corridor, just as Starfire arrived to investigate Great Zhou for allegedly violating imperial development laws.

• Zhu Haichao, the West Wilderness Lord, and Bai Li Yang entered Zhao Xing’s Enlightenment Realm and emerged convinced by his doctrines, while Jiang Tian Su became the final seeker at the seven-year Dharma Assembly.
• Zhao Xing’s assembly drew new forces and workers to Great Zhou, and Ji Che tightened citizenship and recruitment rules as the state expanded.
• Over the following centuries, Great Zhou gained many Reincarnation Realm cultivators, including Liu Tianning, Lu Ying, Luo Hou, and Cui Chengzhi.
• Three hundred years after the assembly began, Zhu Haichao helped Zhao Xing uncover thousands of enormous blue stone slabs hidden beneath the Star-Shatter Belt; people approaching the slabs vanished.
• Zhao Xing ordered the site sealed and rejected Bai Li Yang’s suggestion to kill witnesses, then Yang Baihe arrived and said Starfire had been ordered to investigate Great Zhou for violating imperial development laws.

Zhao Xing uncovered 3,564 ancient sealed worlds on the Annihilating Star Ancient Road, sold most of them to Emperor Meng Wu’s forces, and used the windfall to strengthen Great Zhou. After the discovery made his partners rich and drew the Four Great Families’ attention, Zhao Xing gathered the resources needed to begin his breakthrough to the Reincarnation Realm.

• Yang Baihe investigated Zhao Xing for violating the Empire’s Development Act, but found the Green Sprout Sect had volunteered without pay and cleared Zhao Xing of wrongdoing.
• Zhao Xing revealed the Cyan Jade Stone Slabs to his partners and the Five Poisons Emperor Lord, who enlisted Emperor Meng Wu and War God Hall experts to investigate and protect the site.
• Emperor Mo Shu and Emperor Xuan Ying identified 1,204 Lord Level, 2,353 Emperor Lord-level, and seven Demigod-level cave estates, and Zhao Xing sold the first 3,557 to Emperor Meng Wu’s forces for 23.65 million Profound Spirit Ancient Coins.
• Zhao Xing’s dividend report drew envy from the Four Great Families, while his partners celebrated their huge profits and Ruin Carlos ordered his family to seek a share of the ancient road.
• Zhao Xing received 48,000 cultivation resources exchanged through the War God Hall and began transforming his soul to break through to the Reincarnation Realm.

Zhao Xing used hundreds of True Spirit Fruits and other treasures to raise his soul to Lord Level, then opened his Inner World with the World Opening Divine Stone and the Primal Chaos Dao Tower. The new world produced a Divine-level Original Seed that barely absorbed energy, leaving Zhao Xing wondering what it needed to gestate.

• Zhao Xing unified his split souls with the Heart Field Art, fed them True Spirit Fruits, and used Sea Soul Holy Water to raise his main soul to Lord Level.
• Zhao Xing sensed the approaching True Spirit Tribulation and used the World Opening Divine Stone to begin opening his Inner World.
• The World Opening Divine Stone expanded Zhao Xing's Source Origin Space, while the Primal Chaos Dao Tower controlled the surge and helped shape it into an Inner World.
• Zhao Xing formed a Primordial Sea, World Mountain, continent, and Yin-Yang Nine-Star System, then discovered a Divine-level Original Seed growing in the place corresponding to Earth.
• Zhao Xing found that the Original Seed absorbed Azure Flower Mana and the World Opening Divine Stone only in tiny amounts, and wondered what kind of nourishment it required.

Zhao Xing completed his second breakthrough by forming the Mustard Seed Law Domain, received a piece of the Brow Mountain Earth Vein from Venerable Meishan, and considered how to balance his three cultivation factions. After reuniting with his friends on Southern Yang Star Continent, he faced their challenge to spar.

• Zhao Xing failed to make the Original Seed grow, helped the Thousand Illusion Tree regain its peak, taught the Black Heaven Moon Tree, and left a clone to discipline the Spirit Devouring Grass.
• Zhao Xing shattered his Mustard Seed Mountain and formed the Mustard Seed Law Domain, causing the surrounding star continents to resonate.
• Venerable Meishan praised Zhao Xing and sent him a piece of the Brow Mountain Earth Vein, stabilizing his new realm and raising his True Spirit to the late Lord Level.
• Zhao Xing found that his Celestial Timing cultivation lagged behind his Earthly Advantage and True Self paths, leaving him uncertain how to continue cultivating all three factions.
• Chen Shijie arrived with Long Xiao and Xia Jing after mistaking the breakthrough's effects for a violation of Great Zhou's rules, then joined Zhao Xing's friends in greeting him.
• Xu Youling tried to use her Profound Spirit Seed Borrowing Art on Zhao Xing, and the group gathered to challenge him to a spar as Xia Jing opened bets.

After suppressing his partners in a spar, Zhao Xing revealed the scale of his Inner World, then cultivated Red Lotus Mana and discovered its destructive power. When the War God Hall invited him to explore seven Demigod Caves, he set off for the teleportation array.

• Zhao Xing defeated more than a dozen Ministers of Agriculture by expanding his World Projection and revealed that his Inner World exceeded ten thousand World Yuan Units, then showed them his Emperor-level Seven Realms True Spirit Bamboo.
• Wei Tianchen paid Dark Shadow Temple a divine artifact to arrange a new attempt to capture Zhao Xing alive.
• Zhao Xing advanced his Azure Flower Mana and comprehended Red Lotus Mana, whose destructive power transformed him into a flaming demon ape and nearly devastated the Southern Yang Star Continent.
• Chen Shijie told Zhao Xing that the War God Hall was ready to explore seven Demigod Caves and had reserved twenty of the one hundred exploration slots for Zhao Xing to use or sell.
• Zhao Xing reviewed the exploration agreement and flew toward the teleportation array to join the Demigod Cave expedition.

Zhao Xing joined Feng Chen, Emperor Lord Qianyin, and Emperor Lord Fuzhi to explore a musician’s cave abode, where they crossed regions shaped by the five musical tones and found Spirit Luo Palace. The palace’s artifact spirit barred Zhao Xing from entering but offered him three trials for the right to claim its rare plants; Feng Chen learned that the first tested will.

• Zhao Xing reserved exploration slots for his people, sold ten to the War God Hall, and chose to explore the musician’s cave abode himself.
• At the War God Hall’s safe passage, Zhao Xing met Feng Chen, Emperor Lord Qianyin, and Emperor Lord Fuzhi, whose hidden identity and immense cultivation unsettled him.
• The four entered the cave abode and traveled north through regions shaped by musical tones, where Zhao Xing gathered realm stones and left clones to study the land and ruins.
• They reached Spirit Luo Palace, where its artifact spirit, Xuan Yue, allowed Emperor Lord Qianyin and Emperor Lord Fuzhi to attempt the inheritance trial but initially rejected Zhao Xing’s request to claim the plants outside.
• Feng Chen persuaded Xuan Yue to let Zhao Xing try three trials, and he learned that the first was a test of will: he had to cross the Five Sound Illusion Realm and reach the tree.

Zhao Xing learned the Great Dark Heavens from Feng Chen, passed the first two trials at the Spirit Luo Cave Abode, and acquired the Li Yin Tree and Sun Moon Vine. After waiting for the palace inheritance to conclude, Zhao Xing saw Emperor Lord Fuzhi emerge alone, with Emperor Lord Qianyin missing.

• Zhao Xing paid Feng Chen ten thousand Profound Spirit Ancient Coins to transmit the Great Dark Heavens, then absorbed enough of the technique to learn Single Thought Asura.
• Zhao Xing passed the Five Sound Illusion Realm, but its final step triggered his 101st soul split and created a dark split soul that tried to consume the others; Zhao Xing used Reincarnation to absorb it.
• Zhao Xing forcibly subdued the Li Yin Tree, then learned the local language and passed the world trial to obtain the Sun Moon Vine.
• Artifact Spirit Xuan Yue told Zhao Xing that the third stage required playing the Eight Sound Divine Method to awaken the Dong Ming Flower, but Zhao Xing could not attempt the Music Dao trial.
• The Red Eyebrow Emperor Lord and two Mechanism Masters arrived, and after five more years a divine zither manifested above the Spirit Luo Palace before Emperor Lord Fuzhi emerged alone.

Zhao Xing witnessed Emperor Lord Fuzhi kill three War God Hall Emperor Lords after they accused her of killing Emperor Lord Qianyin, then slept for three years while suppressing the dark thoughts in his mind. He testified to what happened and learned that a dangerous Celestial Timing Faction Cave Abode might contain a living demigod.

• Emperor Lord Fuzhi said Emperor Lord Qianyin had died in a True Spirit Tribulation, but Emperor Hai Gong and the other War God Hall members accused her of murder and tried to detain her.
• Zhao Xing was caught between the two sides as Emperor Lord Fuzhi's sword music disrupted his escape; he suppressed his urge to kill for treasure and fell asleep using Great Dream Marsh.
• Zhao Xing woke three years and five months later to find Emperor Lord Fuzhi had killed the three War God Hall Emperor Lords, and she gave him evidence and rewards in exchange for an honest account.
• Zhao Xing showed the Replay Dao Mirror to Emperor Meng Wu, Emperor Mo Shu, and Emperor Xuan Ying, then stood by his testimony despite pressure to change it.
• Emperor Meng Wu warned Zhao Xing not to speak publicly about the incident and directed him to meet Jing Yue and Ji Si about a newly discovered Cave Abode.
• Ji Si told Zhao Xing the Cave Abode had a sixty percent chance of belonging to a Minister of Agriculture and might still contain a living demigod; the group planned to explore it in four months.

Bowei revealed his plan to break the scholars’ restrictions and reach the Ninth Law Realm, while Zhao Xing entered Bai Han Venerable’s inheritance trials and began studying a Life Dao Diagram on the first floating island. The trials drew a growing crowd despite their deadly risks, and Zhao Xing left the chapter focused on improving his Demon Ape Transformation.

• Bowei survived another True Spirit Tribulation, demonstrated that killing life below the Reincarnation Realm no longer affected him, and told Zhi Xin he intended to use the Profound Spirit History Book and Omniscience Mirror to force open the Ninth Law Realm.
• Bamboo Sword Venerable accepted a Dark Shadow Temple mission to capture Zhao Xing alive and arranged to obtain a quota and legal disguise for entering Bai Han Realm.
• Zhao Xing endured Bai Han Venerable’s medicinal green rain, identified Dao Xuan Pill components that caused hallucinations, and passed the first trial after the grass reward tricked him with an empty prize.
• Zhao Xing entered the Extreme Star Floating Island trial, learned that Emperor Tianwu had been transformed into a monster on the fifth level, and warned others that entrants could only survive by passing or die.
• Zhao Xing resisted the first island’s Marquis Transformation array with his Azure Lotus Demon Ape Transformation and began comprehending its Emperor Lord-level human Life Dao Diagram.

Zhao Xing comprehended Life Dao Diagrams across the Extreme Star Floating Island levels, strengthening his Marquis Transformation Arts and gathering allies as he explored. On Sea Star Island, he recognized the newly revealed creature’s bloodline as that of the dragon race from the Profound Yellow World.

• Zhao Xing used ninety-six Primordial Beginning Clones to study the first level’s Life Dao Diagrams, then continued through the higher levels and developed eighteen early Emperor Lord-level transformations.
• On a fourth-level island, Zhao Xing defeated Toothstone Lord after Toothstone attacked him with mountains, then recruited him as a guard and studied the Divine Feather Life Dao Diagram.
• Zhao Xing spent decades cultivating on Toothstone Island before Ji Xia Palace Master directed him toward Sea Star Island, where Lord Black Sea and Hall Master Xuxing received him.
• Lord Black Sea showed Zhao Xing the Life Dao Diagram on Sea Star Island, and Zhao Xing recognized its creature as a dragon descended from the Profound Yellow World.