Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xing received a Time Granule from the Boundless True God and learned the dark history behind Venerable Kuang Chuan’s reincarnation art before refining his Natal World Mountain. At the Meishan Dao Discussion, Zhao Xing broke through the other Peak Masters’ Law Realms to claim Green Ridge’s summit, where Venerable Meishan publicly asked him to discuss the Dao.

• The Boundless True God gave Zhao Xing a Time Granule and advised him to refine a mountain within his Inner World before facing Kuang Chuan.
• Zhao Xing learned from Venerable Meishan that Kuang Chuan’s nether-soil experiments had used disciples as test subjects, leading to his exile and the sealing of the Profound Darkness Transformation Art.
• Zhao Xing used the Time Granule to refine nine corner peaks into his Natal World Mountain, then spent three years studying mountain arts.
• As the Meishan Dao Discussion began, Zhao Xing asked Qiu Zishan to invite his teacher Liu Tianning and learned about the assembly’s three stages.
• Zhao Xing crossed the Law Realms of the Peak Masters, overcame the combined resistance of Pingyou, Taitan, and Chuchuan, and reached Green Ridge’s summit.
• Venerable Meishan stayed beside Zhao Xing and opened the discussion by publicly asking him to share the Dao.

Zhao Xing unveiled his Three Epochs Boundary Theory at the Brow Mountain Assembly, but his further deductions nearly exposed the Master of Cold Food Festival’s hidden Space-Time Territory, forcing Divine General Lanchuan to stop him. Zhao Xing’s lecture became a sensation, drawing overwhelming crowds as he prepared to continue the assembly.

• Wei Zizhan asked Zhao Xing whether the Dao Manifestation Era Earth Change Book had new chapters, and Zhao Xing began presenting a new theory of cosmic eras.
• Zhao Xing’s Dharma realm manifested the Dao Manifestation Era, triggering insights among Ministers of Agriculture and responses from several Divine Generals.
• Zhao Xing’s deduction revealed a Cold Warm Epoch followed by a great extinction, and Divine General Lanchuan interrupted him after sensing the Master of Cold Food Festival’s time origin.
• Divine General Lanchuan explained that Zhao Xing’s Four Epochs Boundary Theory had nearly exposed the God King’s Space-Time Territory and ordered him to conceal the discovery.
• News of Zhao Xing’s Three Epochs Boundary Theory spread, and crowds flooded Brow Mountain for the next session, prompting Venerable Meishan and Wei Zizhan to arrange crowd-control measures.

Zhao Xing won the Divine Domain Trial and became Brow Mountain’s master, then learned of three looming developments: the Chaotic Sea thawing, the Second Era’s history being fixed, and a rumor that Bowei might be released. Preparing for the Mountain Head Competition against Kuang Chuan, he began writing the Ten Directions Mountain Great Theory.

• During Zhao Xing’s Three Epochs Boundary Theory lecture, Gu Luo River visited, shared his method for attaining the Dao through the Eternal Realm, and left Zhao Xing a private teaching.
• Zhao Xing traveled 8,540 li through the earth in the Divine Domain Trial, won first place, and became Brow Mountain’s master.
• All 182 other candidates challenged Zhao Xing in turn, turning the Mountain Master Challenge into a series of exhibitions, while Zhao Xing defeated those who tested him in combat.
• After the Twelve Mountains’ selections ended, Zhao Xing identified Kuang Chuan as his main rival and decided to develop a theory that could help him win the Mountain Head Competition.
• Ji Si told Zhao Xing that the Chaotic Sea’s ice had weakened around three extinguished Yang Stars, that the Second Era’s history would soon be fixed, and that the Reincarnation Temple might release Bowei; Zhao Xing asked her to revive Purple Bone.
• Zhao Xing began writing the Ten Directions Mountain Great Theory, and the Dao Book trembled and emitted white light when he wrote its title.

Zhao Xing entered the Twelve Mountains’ Divine Domain Trial and escaped the Spirit Domain Earth Palace first, demonstrating Earthly Advantage skill beyond his years. During Debate Dao Before the Gods, he watched the other mountain masters present their theories, while Yuan Mountain Master Xin He was stopped and removed for advocating an extreme cosmology.

• Zhao Xing woke after nearly five years of cultivating the Desire Dream Method, discovered that Fengshan Land had unsealed by one percent, and followed Wei Zizhan to the Divine Domain Trial.
• Zhao Xing identified the Spirit Domain Earth Palace’s coordinates, used Earth Vein feedback to navigate it, and became the first mountain master to return to Earth Altar Plaza.
• Venerable Kuang Chuan emerged second, followed months later by Yuan Mountain Master Xin He and Taiqiu Mountain Master Pu Guang; the remaining competitors either escaped later or were teleported out.
• The mountain masters presented their Dao books in rank order, and their works produced divine fire and, in Tang Chuhan’s case, a Heaven and Earth Anomaly.
• Venerable Xin He presented Extreme Land Cosmology, claiming the universe was contained within Extreme Land, but divine figures interrupted his lecture and took him away; his Dao books were burned.
• Venerable Kuang Chuan then took the stage to present his Dao.

At the Debate Dao Before the Gods, Kuang Chuan revealed the Nether Ancient Mountain Scripture and displayed the mountain’s immense promise, threatening Zhao Xing’s bid to become Mountain Chief. Zhao Xing then unveiled his Ten Directions Mountain Scripture, and the chapter ended with the Earth God manifesting divinity and the Divine Generals gathering around him.

• Kuang Chuan presented his Nether Ancient Mountain Dharma Realm, recounting his four-era search and revealing three arts in the Nether Ancient Mountain Scripture.
• Zhao Xing used the Nether Ancient Mountain Dharma Aspect to strengthen his Earthly Advantage spells before Divine Generals sealed off the Dharma Realm’s Dao resonance.
• Kuang Chuan’s scripture produced a thirteen-chi divine flame and a vast mountain anomaly, prompting many Mountain Masters to doubt Zhao Xing could still become Mountain Chief.
• Zhao Xing took the platform and discoursed on Ten Directions Mountain, using his Dharma Realm to reconstruct its appearances across past eras.
• Zhao Xing presented the Ten Directions Mountain Scripture, and the Earth God’s divine fire consumed it as a vast phenomenon spread across Earth Altar Plaza.
• The Earth God manifested divinity and all twelve Divine Generals descended beside Zhao Xing, while the footage sent the Ancient Hill of Antiquity into an uproar.

Zhao Xing became Mountain Head after compiling the Ten Directions Mountain Scripture, drawing the attention of Fate Masters and rival gods who recognized his growing importance. After years of cultivation, he chose Bowei as a path-protecting Divine General and confronted Kuang Chuan, who openly admitted pledging himself to a god from the past.

• The Fate Masters and Ministers of Agriculture celebrated the Ten Directions Mountain Scripture, while Boundless True God decided Zhao Xing was more important than Kuang Chuan and increased his support for him.
• Zhao Xing was declared Mountain Head, and the assembled Mountain Masters congratulated him; Boundless True God watched the ceremony and ordered Venerable Fu Ping to investigate three Evil Gods.
• The Undying Nether God responded to Kuang Chuan's failure, while Heavenly Ji Thunder Mother tasked Cloud Heaven Dao with bringing Zhao Xing before her.
• Divine General Lanchuan told Zhao Xing that three Divine Generals would protect him and let him choose whether Bowei could serve as one of them.
• Zhao Xing spent years refining divine artifacts and advancing his cultivation, approved Bowei as a path protector, and warned Divine General Lanchuan that Kuang Chuan might serve an Evil God.
• Zhao Xing confronted Kuang Chuan beneath Dream River Mountain, and Kuang Chuan admitted that he had pledged himself to a god from the past.

Zhao Xing learned that Kuang Chuan had met his Study Abroad Clone in the Black Heaven Desolate Territory, where the clone helped him create the Nether Ancient Mountain Scripture and sent him back to compete for Mountain Chief. After addressing Kuang Chuan’s requests, Zhao Xing became Mountain Chief, resisted harsh punishment for disciples influenced by Evil God beliefs, and visited Guluo He, who warned him about advancing his Inner World and offered to teach him the Eternal World method.

• Kuang Chuan admitted that the Undying Nether God had taken him in, and Zhao Xing realized his Study Abroad Clone had sent Kuang Chuan back and helped him pass the Ancient Hill of Antiquity trials.
• Kuang Chuan showed Zhao Xing memories of meeting the clone in the Black Heaven Desolate Territory, where it wielded Seven-Colored Mana, subdued Kuang Chuan, and later helped him develop the Nether Ancient Mountain Scripture.
• Kuang Chuan explained that Zhao Xing’s clone had climbed Nether Ancient Mountain with help from an unknown powerful god, and Zhao Xing suspected Wu Tian had assisted it.
• Zhao Xing lent Kuang Chuan Primal Epoch Mountain and promised to seek resurrection for people who had died in Kuang Chuan’s experiments.
• As Mountain Chief, Zhao Xing rejected calls to imprison or kill disciples who followed Evil God teachings and ordered more Dharma assemblies to strengthen their Dao hearts.
• Zhao Xing visited Guluo He, who warned that advancing his Inner World would bring repeated Divine Tribulations, gave him a World-Breaking Divine Stone, and offered to teach him the Eternal World.

Zhao Xing visited the Primordial Beginning Dao Repository, where Divine General Hua Li became his secret fourth Dao Protector and guided him in choosing the True Self Faction’s Divine Arts. As he traveled to meet Yanwu God, Zhao Xing discovered that he had become a widely worshipped God of Wealth, and the chapter ended with Yanwu God appearing before him.

• Guluo He entered divine seclusion and directed Zhao Xing to the Dao Repository, where Zhao Xing learned that the Primordial Divine Tree’s roots housed hundreds of Free Gods.
• Divine General Hua Li awakened and revealed that she would secretly protect Zhao Xing, then showed him the True Self Faction’s Divine Arts.
• Zhao Xing studied five Divine Arts at once and achieved preliminary mastery in eight World Star Years, despite exhausting himself.
• Hua Li told Zhao Xing about three Free Gods whose beliefs had been distorted by the Master of Cold Food Festival, and Zhao Xing considered using sacrifice to help restore them.
• On the journey to meet Yanwu God, Zhao Xing discovered that many people worshipped him as the Lord Yan Star System’s foremost Civil God of Wealth; accepting Li Chang’s offering increased the Fengshan Land’s progress.
• After Ancient Hill of Antiquity completed its worship at thirty Martial God statues, Yanwu God appeared before Zhao Xing beneath a starry sky.

Zhao Xing secured Yan Ao as his public path protector, then met the Boundless True God, who warned him that Evil Gods were targeting him with sacrificial influence and that Heaven and Earth cultivators faced a devastating Path Breaker Plan. Yan Ao confirmed the danger and left Zhao Xing contemplating the heavy responsibility carried by his chosen Dao.

• Zhao Xing affirmed his commitment to cultivate virtue and help the world, and Yan Ao became the first Divine General to protect his path, taking damage from karmic and fate attacks in his place.
• Zhao Xing visited Meng Wu, learned that Wu Tian had first appeared in the Black Heaven Desolate Territory, and continued toward the Source Origin Heavenly Palace to invite Divine General Lu Ya.
• Lord Zhilo reported Zhao Xing's possible ability to receive true spirit incense offerings to Heavenly Ji Thunder Mother, who ordered an investigation into whether the Evil Gods could use offerings to influence him.
• While traveling through the Purple Profound Ancient Kingdom, Zhao Xing reviewed his cultivation and decided to summon the Boundless True God at the border to settle his undercover mission.
• The Boundless True God warned Zhao Xing that Heavenly Ji Thunder Mother planned to use sacrifices to corrupt him, promised to filter the offerings, and explained the Path Breaker Plan that could destroy a Heaven and Earth cultivator's Dao.
• Yan Ao confirmed that the Boundless True God's warning about the contest of Dao and principles was accurate, and Zhao Xing reflected on the danger his path posed to himself and those who followed him.

Zhao Xing began traveling with four Divine General Dao Protectors, seeking resources and sacred sites to advance his cultivation, while arranging contact with the Chasing Light Society and learning to manage offerings made in his name. After exploring Six-Winged Mountain for decades, he arrived there with Ancient Hill of Antiquity’s ceremonial procession to open the mountain and gather its fortune and essence.

• Zhao Xing accepted Bowei as his third Dao Protector under the restraints of the Great Dao Golden Circlet, then received travel guidance from Yan Ao and Lu Ya.
• Zhao Xing studied the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Map, sought the Chasing Light Society’s knowledge of Extreme Star Origin, and learned from Feng Chen that Poincare might be a historical figure or a god in complete divine seclusion.
• Zhao Xing traveled toward the Desert Sea and Six-Winged Mountain, while Kuang Chuan returned to Nether Ancient Mountain to prepare for Zhao Xing’s future arrival and cultivation there.
• Zhao Xing received a large True Spirit Incense Offering organized by Zhiluo Free God, and the Boundless True God taught him methods to filter and contain the believers’ thoughts.
• After several decades at the Sea Monster Music Hall beneath Six-Winged Mountain, Zhao Xing returned with the ceremonial procession and began the mountain’s auspiciousness ritual.

Zhao Xing opened Six-Winged Mountain to receive auspiciousness, raised its ranking, and obtained its rare Six-Winged Mountain Spirit before traveling to the Desert Sea to cultivate the fifth level of Nine Marsh God Marquis Transformation Art. There, he and his companions entered an aurora-illuminated space preserving the former Nine Marsh God Domain, and Yan Ao agreed to investigate it until the aurora returned.

• Zhao Xing guided the mountain-opening ritual at Six-Winged Mountain, boosting the fortune of seven demon youths and raising his own innate fortune to the Twenty-third Level.
• Zhao Xing caught a Six-Winged Mountain Spirit, then sealed the mountain and restored its ranking to fourteenth among the Knowledge Mountains.
• Zhao Xing traveled to the Desert Sea, completed the fifth level of Nine Marsh God Marquis Transformation Art, and gained Myriad Tribulation Golden Marrow.
• Palace Master Lu Ya led Zhao Xing through the Desert Sea for a hundred years until a wave of light swept them into an isolated spacetime inside a grain of sand.
• Bowei identified the space as an aurora-illuminated historical scene of the former Nine Marsh God Domain, and Yan Ao agreed to investigate until the temporal aurora returned.

Zhao Xing studied the Nine Marsh God's divine image, nearly lost himself to its transformative force, and learned Bowei's Golden Cicada True Form: Dual Body to safely continue his cultivation. After decades of advancing the Nine Marsh God Marquis Transformation Art, he completed its final transformation and entered the divine realm, leaving Yan Ao and Lu Ya to discover whether his will remained intact.

• Yan Ao and Lu Ya rejected Bowei's suggestion that Zhao Xing teach him the Heavenly Change Divine Needle, then allowed Zhao Xing one attempt to study the Nine Marsh God's aurora image.
• Zhao Xing's first attempt triggered a dangerous transformation, but he suppressed it and gained progress in the Nine Marsh God Marquis Transformation Art; Bowei then taught him Golden Cicada True Form: Dual Body in exchange for a future trip to Fengshan Land.
• Zhao Xing used the Dual Body technique to contain the divine image's impact, advanced the Nine Marsh God art to its seventh level, and passed his sixteenth True Spirit Tribulation with his soul fragments.
• Over the following years, Zhao Xing advanced the art through its eighth level and completed the Dual Body technique, while He Chengzi and Xuehui Fairy continued making offerings and discussing Zhao Xing's theories.
• After hundreds of years in Aurora Space, Zhao Xing completed the final Hou Transformation and entered the divine realm as the aurora collapsed; he then spoke to Lu Ya, confirming that his will remained.

After nearly five thousand years of travel, Zhao Xing returned to the Empire with greater strength and gave Ji Che a luck-type divine item to help Great Zhou. He then received an unexpected message from Qing Yuzi, who said his Space-Time Incense Technique had reached the wrong version of Zhao Xing and left him fearing he was about to disappear.

• Zhao Xing mastered the Nine Marsh God Marquis Transformation Art, learned how his surroundings affected its power, and traveled with Lu Ya to Tianyu Mountain, where he opened and sealed the mountain.
• Venerable Bomeng told Zhao Xing how a Free God had controlled the Celestial Demon Kingdom for seventy-three years, prompting Zhao Xing to consider the danger such beings posed to Great Zhou.
• Over nearly five thousand years, Zhao Xing sealed the top twenty Spirit Mountains, advanced his cultivation and arts, and increased his innate luck to the thirtieth level.
• Zhao Xing returned to the Empire and gave Ji Che the Xuerui Luck God’s divine bone, warning him to keep a low profile while strengthening Great Zhou.
• Zhao Xing learned that Guluo He had entered seclusion and received a mysterious box from him, then told Divine General Lanchuan that he wished to keep Bovey as his path protector.
• Zhao Xing accepted a stubborn wisp of True Spirit Incense and heard Qing Yuzi explain that he had meant to contact Zhao Xing after he became a god, but his technique had reached the wrong year.

Zhao Xing learned that Qing Yuzi was trapped inside a concealed God King's corpse and used incense power to help him attempt an escape, then discovered that their future meeting was bound up in an unchangeable major event. As Zhao Xing prepared for his eventual ascension and guarded against the Evil God Faction, the Chasers of Light agreed to send him a large supply of Extreme Star Origin, and the first transmission began.

• Qing Yuzi told Zhao Xing that they had once fought together, seized a Key of Inheritance, and entered a concealed God King's corpse, where Qing Yuzi had become trapped.
• Zhao Xing sent incense power to Qing Yuzi, who vanished to begin his attempt at self-rescue, and Bowei and the Boundless True God warned Zhao Xing that their connection was difficult to avoid changing.
• Palace Master Lu Ya revealed that the Time Page protected Zhao Xing's friends and family, while Yan Ao cautioned him about the Evil God Faction and Zhao Xing delayed his ascension until he could recover his wandering soul derivative.
• Liu Tianning told Zhao Xing that he had modified the Primordial Beginning Straw Man Technique with Devouring Tribulation and Nirvana, and warned that its creator might still be alive and plotting.
• Zhao Xing received a reply from Venerable Xu Yang and arranged for the Chasers of Light to send at least five thousand strands of Extreme Star Origin within a century in exchange for Five Emperors Coins.
• Zhao Xing arrived at the Chasers of Light headquarters, entered the Aurora Transmission Realm, and witnessed the first transmission of Extreme Star Origin begin.

Zhao Xing spent ninety-seven years working with the Chasing Light Society to receive and absorb more than 5,600 strands of Extreme Star Origin, bringing his Great Sun Sea cultivation close to completion. After leaving, he met the Dark Shadow Temple and learned that he could inherit Wei Tianchen’s high-level privileges there, though he remained wary of accepting them.

• Bowei explained that the Aurora Magic Array relied on a luxurious Mirror Lake Array and that historians could create temporary void-type divine items from historical records.
• Chen Mian activated the array, and Xu Yang, Ji Wen, and Caixi sent Zhao Xing successive batches of Extreme Star Origin, which he absorbed as his cultivation advanced.
• Over the following decades, Chen Mian persuaded Zhao Xing to provide Twin Lotus samples for the Chasing Light Society, and Zhao Xing later left after the final transmission brought the total to more than 5,600 strands.
• Zhao Xing went to the Mind God Palace and used a mental artifact from Wu Emperor Ji Che to enter the Dark Shadow Temple’s mission center.
• Black Robe told Zhao Xing that he had inherited Wei Tianchen’s estate and six-star client privileges, then offered to send him away if he declined the inheritance.

Zhao Xing inherited Wei Tianchen’s six-star Dark Shadow Temple status and learned that the temple could not resurrect Wei because he had died in a Death Trap. After buying a costly crisis warning, Zhao Xing escaped the Master of Cold Food Festival’s assault on the Mind God Palace and witnessed the Mind General’s Dao being broken; the chapter ended with the empire reeling from the fallout and Zhao Xing’s divine Original Seed sprouting.

• Zhao Xing accepted Wei Tianchen’s estate and learned from Black Robe that the Dark Shadow Temple had been founded by Free God Kings for entertainment and that Wei’s wealth could not overcome the Death Trap where he died.
• Black Robe explained the temple’s resurrection methods, divine power towers, cross-time services, and Zhao Xing’s six-star privileges, while refusing to reveal how Zhao Xing’s inheritance had been verified.
• Zhao Xing spent one level of the God King Tower to learn that Myriad Stars City would collapse and the Mind General would fall, then woke and tried to warn Yan Ao and Lu Ya.
• The Master of Cold Food Festival invaded the Mind God Palace, exposed the Mind General’s use of his disciples and City of Mind, and broke his Dao; Yan Ao and Lu Ya carried Zhao Xing to safety.
• The Profound Spirit History Book announced that Cold Food had broken the Mind General’s Dao and that the Mind Realm was a false method of attainment, while the Master of Cold Food Festival’s shrines spread through the empire.
• The Tianzze Star Region war ended, Ji Si advanced to a sixteenth-rank Life Master, and Zhao Xing’s divine Original Seed sprouted in the sixth Solar Year of the Third Era of the Desolate Territory.

Zhao Xing’s Original Seed sprouted into the divine-grade Ke Yang Divine Tree, a Sun Treasure Tree with time abilities, while he learned the dangers and rules of time travel. As the God Selection Department prepared to depart aboard its Ark of Space-Time, Yan Ao summoned Zhao Xing and Ji Si, who had been discussing which historical era to visit.

• Zhao Xing watched his Original Seed finish gestating and discovered it had become the Ke Yang Divine Tree, a divine-grade Sun Treasure Tree and Time Seed.
• Zhao Xing fed the Ke Yang Divine Tree seven divine items, then used the Primal Chaos Dao Tower and Divine Arts to accelerate its growth, accidentally killing many seedlings in Bowei’s garden and angering him.
• Little Yellow Duck explained how Contribution Points determined the quality of godhood opportunities, and Zhao Xing read the time-travel rules before Bowei explained the dangers of karmic backlash and time barriers.
• Ji Si arrived at the Northern Hai Divine Palace, and she and Zhao Xing discussed historical eras and possible destinations for their time-travel expedition.
• Yan Ao arrived and told Zhao Xing and Ji Si that the God Selection Department’s Ark of Space-Time was about to depart.

Zhao Xing and the other demigods traveled aboard the Ark of Space-Time through the River of Time, watching fellow candidates descend to seek godhood. Several succeeded, including Wan Ying, while Du Yun departed for a dangerous mission in the Spirit Domain Era; the chapter ended as Zhao Xing and Ji Si reached their own departure point.

• Zhao Xing reunited with Du Yun at the God Selection Department and heard how the Devouring Tribulation Art had forced Du Yun to endure countless tribulations.
• General Jieluo brought the demigods aboard the concealed Ark of Space-Time, which carried them upstream through the River of Time and past the Sky-Veil Behemoth.
• Feng Bu failed to return from his attempt to inherit the Three-Blade Divine General's legacy, while Xiong Yue returned injured after failing to obtain the Five Immortals Palace's divine power origin.
• Wan Ying became a mind-type Free God and began divine concealment, choosing to preserve his bonds with Zhao Xing, Fu Ping, Sheng Yi, and Hao Yu.
• Du Yun descended to the 342nd era before the Wildlands to hunt Ancient Gods, asking Zhao Xing to watch over Fairy Nuoya, and did not return to the ark.
• The Ark of Space-Time reached a turbulent stretch near the divide between eras, and the squares beneath Zhao Xing and Ji Si lit up.

Zhao Xing and Ji Si traveled from the Desolate Territory Era to Era 341 before it, where they registered their presence with the Origin Heavenly Palace and arranged their time-travel protections. Zhao Xing then committed all his contribution points to enter the Cosmic Ark Fall Incident, hoping to find a path to godhood and recover Ancient Hill of Antiquity treasures.

• Zhao Xing and Ji Si left the Third Era of the Desolate Territory, prompting the Zhiluo Free God to end Zhao Xing's sacrifices and Heavenly Ji Thunder Mother to seek his destination.
• Kuang Chuan reported Zhao Xing's disappearance to the Undying Nether God, while the Tianshan Beast God warned his child not to interfere in the contest over Zhao Xing.
• Zhao Xing and Ji Si arrived in Era 341 before the Desolate Territory, landing in the Illusory God Star System forty-one years later than intended.
• Zhao Xing and Ji Si reported to Lu Ya at the Origin Heavenly Palace and signed the Mysterious Spirit History's Time Concealment Table; Lu Ya granted Zhao Xing ten safe Solar Years and Ji Si one.
• Zhao Xing spent all 150 million contribution points to enter the Cosmic Ark Fall Incident in the Zhoushan Domain, aiming to pursue godhood and recover treasures from the fallen ark.

Zhao Xing entered the Cosmic Ark as the Earth Sea Divine Mountain patrol envoy Han Bing and chose to pursue Earth God Crystals from an imminent geological-change opportunity. He discovered many rival descenders, then ambushed Lei Hong for the crystals and persuaded him to help shoulder the karma; Zhao Xing continued seeking opportunities with Lei Hong cooperating.

• Lu Ya devoured tens of thousands of evil-god demigods and Divine Soldiers before Zhao Xing entered the Cosmic Ark, while Shen Ge warned Xu Zhun to stay cautious and gave him a Karma Token.
• Zhao Xing chose the alias Han Bing and became a chief patrol envoy, selecting the Earth God Crystal opportunity over the other available identities.
• Zhao Xing surveyed the Yas Sea Domain and found numerous descenders hiding among its officials and residents, then summoned the deputy envoys shortly before the geological change.
• When the Divine Mountain Geological Change began, Zhao Xing followed the history rubbing to excavate Earth God Crystals and confronted Lei Hong, who had found three crystals.
• Zhao Xing defeated Lei Hong, claimed two crystals, and offered him the remaining one; Lei Hong accepted and agreed to bear some of the karma for taking them.