Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xing fought Yi Ren, a powerful counterfeit who appeared to share his blood, skills, and appearance, while the Year Beast herded them toward Du Yun’s separated body and head. As Yi Ren’s talisman array and Zhao Xing’s plant legions closed around the newly embodied Year Beast, it shrank and spat out a miniature palace.

• Zhao Xing used Du Yun’s Great General Divine Eye to see clearly, realized the Year Beast was driving him toward the Black Sand Domain, and planned to strike once it took physical form.
• Yi Ren buried Du Yun’s head at Ba Yu Ling and created a concealed Spring God Talisman Array with twenty-four linked talismans.
• Zhao Xing recognized that Yi Ren’s body and abilities closely matched his own, suspected he was a body recreated from Zhao Xing’s blood, and attacked him.
• Zhao Xing and Yi Ren fought evenly until Zhao Xing summoned four plant legions, which overwhelmed Yi Ren and poisoned the Earth God Dog.
• The Year Beast descended and became weaker, while Yi Ren activated his talisman array and Zhao Xing deployed the Myriad Dao Mother Tree and Firecracker Bamboo.
• The Year Beast shrank to the size of a puppy and spat out a miniature palace.

After the Year Beast revealed the Nine Nether Dao Palace, Zhao Xing and Yi Ren were drawn toward it, and the Thousand Feather Great World became sealed off as powerful factions converged. Zhao Xing awoke inside the palace with Du Yun and the Year Beast, and Du Yun deduced that it had hidden within a relic of the Nine Nether Dao Master.

• The palace’s appearance mesmerized Zhao Xing and Yi Ren, while their allies struggled to stop them from reaching it.
• The Immeasurable True God, the Desolate Territory Faction, and others rushed to Bayuling, but the black barrier resisted their attacks before collapsing and exposing the world’s origin.
• The Immeasurable True God accused Qing Yuzi of bringing Zhao Xing to the disaster, then left after the Red Star Great Emperor warned that his locations had been exposed.
• Zhao Xing woke at the Nine Nether Dao Palace, where the Year Beast was eating Du Yun, and bargained for Du Yun’s release by promising to regrow his flesh.
• Zhao Xing restored Du Yun’s body in a nearby grassy area, and Du Yun concluded that the Year Beast had escaped its seal by swallowing the palace, a spoil of Emperor Luo’s war against the Nine Nether Dao Master.

Zhao Xing and Du Yun remained trapped in the Nine Nether Dao Palace, where the Year Beast repeatedly ate Du Yun’s regenerating flesh. In their forty-fifth year of captivity, the Year Beast led Zhao Xing to the Sky Swallowing World Sea and gave him a sphere of extreme star origin to protect him while he tried to collect its essence.

• Zhao Xing learned that Yi Ren had been swallowed by the Year Beast after attempting to ambush it, and Du Yun said the beast had seemed afraid of Zhao Xing.
• The Year Beast demanded different cuts of Du Yun’s flesh, and Du Yun reluctantly agreed to provide the part it wanted.
• Over decades, Zhao Xing’s supplies dwindled as he treated Du Yun, until he finally told the Year Beast that he could no longer help Du Yun regenerate.
• The Year Beast took Zhao Xing through the deadly black storms to the Sky Swallowing World Sea and explained its connection to the Nine Nether Dao Master’s conflict with Emperor Luo.
• The Year Beast gave Zhao Xing a sphere of extreme star origin and ordered him to try extracting world sea essence before its protection faded.

Zhao Xing used the Year Beast’s Extreme Star Origin to advance his Great Sun cultivation while he and Du Yun continued studying the Nine Nether Dao Palace gates. After the Year Beast returned badly injured with Lü, a Fengshan minister, Zhao Xing learned about the Nine Nether Dao Master’s past and secretly arranged for Du Yun to help save Lü.

• Zhao Xing absorbed part of the Extreme Star Origin in the Sky Swallowing World Sea, raising his Great Sun cultivation progress from 3465 to 5583, then returned to the Year Beast.
• Zhao Xing told the Year Beast its supply would last a year, and the Year Beast accepted that estimate before eating Du Yun and leaving.
• Zhao Xing and Du Yun continued examining the Nine Nether Dao Palace gates, and Du Yun began sensing that their patterns were connected to the black storms and a cultivation method.
• Zhao Xing took more Extreme Star Origin from the Sky Swallowing World Sea, bringing his cultivation progress to 9143, and later told Du Yun to be careful as the Year Beast increasingly favored his bones.
• In the seventh year, the injured Year Beast returned with Lü, and Zhao Xing identified him as a Peak Divine General and God of Musicians before learning that he was a minister of the Nine Nether Dao Master’s Fengshan Contingent.
• Zhao Xing questioned the Year Beast about the Heaven Reaching Convention and the Nine Nether Dao Court, then persuaded Du Yun to give blood to help save Lü.

Zhao Xing learned that Lu Ming and the other gods were trapped by a taboo that kept them from fighting the invested Year Beast, and that the beast became nearly invincible in its Extreme Star True Form. After identifying a possible way to drain its Time Origin, Zhao Xing used the Time Origin gathered in the Sky Swallowing World Sea to begin breaking through to the divine level.

• Lu Ming revealed that his divine body had heard Zhao Xing and Du Yun’s plan, then explained that Feather Sound Mountain held powerful gods who could not leave without losing their cultivation and lives.
• Lu Ming told Zhao Xing and Du Yun that the Year Beast had received an investiture from Emperor Luo and could become invincible in its Extreme Star True Form.
• Zhao Xing realized he might be able to drain the Year Beast’s origin in an extreme environment, then continued pretending to serve the beast while searching for the object behind its investiture.
• Twenty-one years after Lu Ming’s rescue, the Year Beast took Zhao Xing back to the Sky Swallowing World Sea, where Zhao Xing gathered enough Time Origin to approach a breakthrough.
• Zhao Xing consulted Tree Son, then drove Primal Chaos World, Extreme Land, and Great Sun Sea across the threshold into the divine level.

Zhao Xing completed his breakthrough into a Chaos Origin Divine Body, survived twenty-three True Spirit Tribulations, and gained four Innate Divine Skills. After returning to the Nine Nether Dao Palace, he found the Year Beast fighting Du Yun and stepped in, but the furious Year Beast challenged him to battle.

• Zhao Xing's Internal World entered the Nirvana Realm, transforming its continents, plant soldiers, and seas as it expanded into a vast internal universe.
• The Great Sun Nature Sea and Extreme Continent Cultivation Method both began reforging Zhao Xing's divine body, and the clash among his three origins triggered successive True Spirit Tribulations.
• A mysterious man in the Sky Swallowing World Sea dispelled Zhao Xing's nineteenth through twenty-third True Spirit Tribulations, allowing him to complete his breakthrough.
• Zhao Xing gained the Chaos Origin Divine Body and four Innate Divine Skills, then used Extreme Vein Control to follow the Year Beast back to the Nine Nether Dao Palace.
• The Year Beast attacked Du Yun and Wen after they demanded to know where Zhao Xing was, and Zhao Xing returned to stop him and revealed he was alive.
• The Year Beast accused Zhao Xing of deceiving him and erupted in rage, so Zhao Xing sent Du Yun flying clear and charged into battle.

Zhao Xing defeated the Year Beast, won his agreement to help against the force behind Yi Ren, and secured a future trip to Extreme Star, while Du Yun chose to remain in the Silk Nether Dao. As Zhao Xing prepared to leave for a point at least a hundred years later, Xitian Divine King City's army launched an expedition against Divine Mechanism City.

• Zhao Xing escaped the Year Beast's attacks, endured his divine artifacts, and broke the fate locks by repeatedly splitting his soul before suppressing the Year Beast with Sky Swallowing Realm.
• Zhao Xing won a wager with the Year Beast and arranged for him to help confront the force behind Yi Ren and to take Zhao Xing to Extreme Star when the time was right.
• Zhao Xing freed and healed Yan, but Du Yun chose to stay in the Silk Nether Dao to study the Dao Court and seek revenge on Yi Ren's mastermind.
• In Divine Mechanism City, the Great Time Technique connected the city to the River of Time, and Xitian Divine King City's forces gathered to attack it under Heaven Divine King Xi's decree.
• The Year Beast opened a passage out of the Silk Nether Dao and told Zhao Xing he could not return to his original point in time for at least a hundred years, so Zhao Xing agreed to arrive later.

Zhao Xing rescued Lu Ming from a deadly tribulation and reconnected with Qing Yuzi, only to learn that Xitian Divine King City had besieged Divine Mechanism City. Determined to aid the Immeasurable True God, Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi devised a way to infiltrate the guarded passage using the Year Beast’s Gathering Rice Basin.

• The Year Beast brought Zhao Xing and Lu Ming to a mountain near the Thousand Feather Great World and used its Gathering Rice Basin to produce food.
• Zhao Xing treated Lu Ming’s life-body dual poison tribulation, temporarily stabilizing him and giving him up to fifteen Solar Years to live.
• Zhao Xing contacted Qing Yuzi, learned that the Killing Green Cudgel had repeatedly attacked him, and arranged to meet him without alerting the Moon God Palace Master.
• The Shadow Sanctum offered Zhao Xing a choice between free requests and a shareholder test, then sold him news that Xitian Divine King City had besieged Divine Mechanism City.
• Qing Yuzi arrived with funds, and Zhao Xing learned the siege was underway and resolved to deliver intelligence and fight for the Immeasurable True God.
• The Year Beast’s Gathering Rice Basin produced Pupil Abyss, prompting Qing Yuzi and Zhao Xing to plan an infiltration disguised with the Hou Bian Method.

Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi prepared to infiltrate the campaign against Divine Mechanism City, gathering intelligence, allies, disguise techniques, and powerful Void Divine Items. With Yan Ao and Lu Ya arriving to help and the auspicious hour calculated, the group prepared to launch their operation against Xitian Divine King City.

• Zhao Xing took Pupil Abyss from the Year Beast in exchange for promising it ten more, while Wu gathered echoes from the beast to uncover useful intelligence.
• Wu agreed to help refine the plan, Qing Yuzi began studying Pupil Abyss to create a disguise method, and Zhao Xing sent requests for aid to Yan Ao, Lu Ya, and Bowei.
• Hemp Garb sent Zhao Xing a letter through Ji Si's image and warned him to keep it, while Ji Si hinted that her teacher wanted to set their own house in order.
• Zhao Xing learned that Gu Heng and Wang Yue resented their assignments and added the two academy deans to Qing Yuzi's plan, then developed a convincing Pupil Abyss transformation with Qing Yuzi.
• Lu Ya and Yan Ao arrived to help, while Bowei cleansed Yi Ren's treasures and gave Zhao Xing the Ten Thousand Names Finger, Void Robe, Reverse Dao Carving Knife, and other Void Divine Items.
• After Zhao Xing briefed Yan Ao and Lu Ya, Qing Yuzi declared the auspicious hour and called the group to begin their operation.

Zhao Xing and his allies uncovered Jia Xuan’s betrayal, then staged Pupil Abyss Zi Tong’s return so Zhao Xing could infiltrate the campaign against Divine Mechanism City. After Zhao Xing was outfitted with the Nine Divine Engines and assigned to Jiang Zheng, the staging platform entered a space-time passage toward the front.

• Gu Heng blamed the Beast God Guards for Zi Tong’s disappearance and ordered Jia Xuan to search the Iron Wire River, while Jia Xuan privately suspected someone had taken the beast.
• Lu lured Jia Xuan to Zhao Xing and Qing Yuzi, who used soul arts to expose his work for the Evil God faction and his theft of Zi Tong’s blood; they decided to release him and use him to regain access to the battlefield.
• Zhao Xing returned to his Internal World, where the Year Beast and Lu Ya fought and ate pieces of his body, then checked on the transforming Time Divine Tree.
• Zhao Xing impersonated an injured Zi Tong, and Jia Xuan found him; after their staged rescue and recovery, the Void Robe helped the incident escape notice.
• Fa Ling sent the recovered Zi Tong to the front with nine Divine Engines installed, and Jiang Zheng arrived as his new guardian Divine General.
• The Commander's Platform moved toward the main altar, and Zhao Xing watched it enter the space-time passage.

Zhao Xing and his allies infiltrated the siege of the Nine-Layered City, captured Divine Generals and disguised themselves among the attackers. Zhao Xing turned the array master Qu Nan into a false image of the Immeasurable True God, provoking a massive battle, and the group prepared for the arrival of Moon Butcher.

• Moon Butcher sacrificed the Heart-Ring Clan's divine essence to strengthen the attacking forces, while Zhao Xing received none because of his Void Robe.
• Divine General Qiongyu led a battle platform carrying Pupil Abysses to the Nine-Layered City, where Zhao Xing secretly signaled the Immeasurable True God by disturbing the void as he fed.
• When the Nine-Layered Bell Tower unleashed the Thunder Sword Tribulation Realm, Yan Ao captured Jiang Zheng and six others, and Zhao Xing's allies used their identities to disguise themselves.
• At Qing Yuzi's suggestion, Zhao Xing used the Ten Thousand Names Finger to make Qu Nan appear to be the Immeasurable True God, and Wen silenced Qu Nan as the others rallied the attackers against him.
• Zhao Xing and his allies withdrew to Qiongyu's platform as thousands attacked Qu Nan, then learned that Moon Butcher was approaching and discussed taking Marshal Tianxian's place.

Zhao Xing and his allies killed Moon Butcher, then Zhao Xing used his disguise to provoke a devastating battle among the Divine Court forces. The Nine-Layered Bell Tower brought Zhao Xing and Lu Ya to the Immeasurable True God, where Zhao Xing asked to fight to the death.

• Zhao Xing used Hemp Robe Divine Physiognomy’s divination to learn they had fifteen minutes to kill Moon Butcher, then led his allies into an ambush.
• Lu Ming lured Moon Butcher with a staged injury and attacked him, while Yan Ao struck his true body and Little Yellow Duck stole his Sacrifice Divine Tablet, killing him.
• Zhao Xing transformed into Moon Butcher, deceived Marshal Tianyou, killed Qu Nan, and urged the Divine Generals to join the Immeasurable True God.
• The Fate Master recognized Zhao Xing’s disguise and rallied Divine Generals against him, so Zhao Xing used the Reverse Dao Carving Knife to trigger the Great Destruction of the Wind-Snow Continent.
• The Nine-Layered Bell Tower carried Zhao Xing and Lu Ya to the Immeasurable True God, and Zhao Xing asked leave to fight to the death.

Zhao Xing sold Moon Butcher’s treasures through the Dark Hall and sought powerful Time Law techniques, but Black Robe offered him a chance to become a shareholder by passing Coachman’s trial. The trial required Zhao Xing to capture three peak-general-tier enemies, harness them to a chariot, and ride around a battlefield for fifteen days.

• Immeasurable True God welcomed Zhao Xing and his companions, settled Qing Yuzi’s karmic debt by giving him the Killing Green Cudgel, and promised Zhao Xing a chance to fight after the Destined Divine Weapon was completed.
• Zhao Xing returned to Daoqing Continent, where his companions went to recover and he examined Moon Butcher’s treasures.
• The Year Beast identified the Sacrifice Divine Tablet as a True God Priest’s Dao-attainment artifact and explained that the eight-sided lantern could gather power left behind by Dao Masters.
• With permission from Immeasurable True God, Zhao Xing contacted Black Robe, sold most of Moon Butcher’s treasures, and reviewed the Dark Hall’s available techniques.
• Black Robe told Zhao Xing that passing Coachman’s trial would make him a shareholder and let him buy techniques at cost, so Zhao Xing agreed to begin.
• Coachman tasked Zhao Xing with harnessing three peak-general-tier enemies to a chariot and riding them around a battlefield for fifteen days.

Xitian Divine King City’s resurrection ritual was disrupted, while Zhao Xing spent decades mastering divine thunder and testing his strength. After Zhao Xing proved he could withstand Immeasurable True God’s attacks, the Divine Venerable granted him permission to fight.

• Marshal Tianyou and the Seven Regions Priests began resurrecting the dead at the Nine-Layered Bell Tower, but a disturbance ended the ritual after only a hundred were restored and Old Man Shu Ji failed to recover the divine artifacts.
• Old Man Shu Ji returned to his cabin and discovered that his Senior Brother was alive and had cut away his fortune.
• Zhao Xing learned Heavy Water, Earthly Fiend, Flowing Abyss, and Hidden Spring Divine Thunder, eventually achieving Four Divine Thunder Fusion through years of practice and sparring with Lü, Yan Ao, and Lu Ya.
• Zhao Xing asked Immeasurable True God for permission to fight, and the Divine Venerable tested him with attacks that Zhao Xing deflected.
• Immeasurable True God judged Zhao Xing strong enough to face marshal true lords and granted him orders to fight.

Zhao Xing reached Bai Fan Continent and challenged Rui Xuan, a Luck Divine General, to test his strength. Rui Xuan lured Zhao Xing into overlapping spacetime traps, but after thirty-three dangerous spaces, Rui Xuan began to lose control of his body.

• Peacock revealed that Immeasurable True God had twenty-eight Dao Followers and brought Zhao Xing to Bai Fan Continent, where Bai Fan introduced him to allied Divine Generals.
• Zhao Xing demonstrated the power of his Three Divine Thunders by injuring Bai Fan, then learned about the enemy commanders Shu He and Rui Xuan.
• Zhao Xing challenged Rui Xuan, whose Luck Divine Law weakened attacks, but Zhao Xing's fused thunder still struck and wounded him.
• Rui Xuan attacked Zhao Xing with a concealed poisoned bone, then lured him into a maze of overlapping spacetime traps.
• Zhao Xing pursued Rui Xuan through thirty-three trapped spaces, outlasting him as Rui Xuan's luck dwindled and his divine body began to crack.

Zhao Xing escaped the collapsing dead Realm Star after capturing Rui Xuan, then learned why orthodox Luck Gods were protected from killing and torture. After claiming Rui Xuan’s techniques and treasures, Zhao Xing discovered that the Immeasurable True God expected the battle to end soon and was about to enter the God King Realm.

• Zhao Xing captured Rui Xuan inside the collapsing dead Realm Star, found the Dead Vein, and escaped to Bai Fan Continent.
• Bai Fan healed Zhao Xing and scolded him for fighting Rui Xuan recklessly, but the other Divine Generals celebrated when Zhao Xing revealed his captive.
• The Cardinal Elder withdrew from the conflict, while Zhao Xing confronted Rui Xuan and learned that Emperor Rui’s Dao protected orthodox Luck Gods from backlash and Divine Tribulation.
• Zhao Xing tortured Rui Xuan until he agreed to cooperate, then took his treasures and made him copy out the Luck Divine Law.
• The Immeasurable True God warned Zhao Xing not to kill Rui Xuan and explained that Heaven Divine King Xi sought the Chaos Domains to pursue the Heaven Reaching Convention.
• The Immeasurable True God revealed that he had no clear patron and was about to enter the God King Realm.

Zhao Xing studied Immeasurable True God's Dao Book and learned about the Five Divine Emperors, the risks of Heaven and Earth Attainment, and the four factors that determined a True God's strength. He began reading detailed examples of different attainment paths, including Immeasurable True God's, General Jieluo's, and the Red Star Great Emperor's.

• Immeasurable True God congratulated Zhao Xing on his stable foundation and lent him a Dao Book recording his Heaven and Earth Attainment insights.
• Zhao Xing read about the Five Divine Emperors and learned how their attainments had shaped the Human Race, cultivation paths, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Zhao Xing learned that Heaven and Earth Attainment could fail and weaken a cultivator, and that True God strength depended on the Dao Attainment Land, Dao Attainment Item, duration, and method.
• Zhao Xing read how Yi Ying accidentally attained power by ending a calamity on Sea Star Land, only to lose it after three solar years and die when a Demon God killed him.
• Zhao Xing turned to Immeasurable True God's detailed accounts of his own attainment, General Jieluo's failure, and the Red Star Great Emperor's greater achievement.

Zhao Xing studied the Immeasurable True God's Dao, learned Rui Xuan's Luck Divine Laws, and began practicing Hard Fishing and Forceful Pull. After his luck techniques drew Divine General Shu He's mechanical heart and three Divine Generals into a fight, Zhao Xing captured them and made them pull his chariot.

• The Immeasurable True God described the Red Star Great Emperor's attainments and General Jieluo's failed attempts to imitate other Dao paths, then explained his own methods of attaining Dao.
• Zhao Xing studied Rui Xuan's Five Luck Talismans and One Line Fishing techniques, mastered the talismans, and began practicing Hard Fishing.
• Zhao Xing's first Hard Fishing attempt retrieved the Year Beast's food bowl, and he later moved his training outside White Mortal City to avoid disrupting his allies.
• Zhao Xing's repeated fishing attempts drew Divine General Shu He's mechanical heart toward him, and Shu He pursued it into enemy territory with Arrow God Gu Heng and Talisman Master Wang Yue.
• Zhao Xing resisted Gu Heng and Wang Yue's attacks, used a Misfortune Talisman and Nine Origin Divine Thunder to defeat them, and captured all three Divine Generals.
• Zhao Xing put Great Dao Golden Circlets on Shu He, Gu Heng, and Wang Yue, then forced them to pull his manifested chariot through the trap space.

Zhao Xing captured Shu He, Gu Heng, and Wang Yue, completed the Coachman’s mission, and became a Dark Hall shareholder. Decades later, Qing Yuzi returned from seclusion and found You Xing fishing up a startling sign of the Ten Directions Battle Order around Divine Mechanism City.

• Bai Fan and Jia Yue’s forces cleared battlefield traps, exposing Zhao Xing as he dragged Shu He, Gu Heng, and Wang Yue in a chariot.
• Zhao Xing completed the Coachman’s fifteen-day mission, returned the captives to Bai Fan, and questioned Rui Xuan about Luck Divine Law and the Yang Hong Heart.
• The Coachman rewarded Zhao Xing with shareholder status in the Dark Hall, and Black Robe explained the Coachman’s history and the Hall’s purpose.
• Zhao Xing exchanged for the Heavenly Tribulation Art and Azure Transformation, sent treasures to the Third Era of the Desolate Territory, and cultivated while the war quieted.
• After fifty-eight years, Qing Yuzi emerged from seclusion with the Killing Green Cudgel and tested his strength against Lü, Yan Ao, and Lu Ya.
• Qing Yuzi found You Xing fishing on Spring Star, where the Void River surged and revealed a point of starlight identified as the Ten Directions Battle Order surrounding Divine Mechanism City.

Zhao Xing used One Line Fishing to pull the Ten Directions Battle Order away from Heaven Divine King Xi’s forces, forcing them to retreat and enabling the Immeasurable True God to attain the Dao as the Boundless Divine King. The Immeasurable True God rewarded his followers, then remained alone with Zhao Xing in the hall.

• Zhao Xing drew Qing Yuzi, Rui Xuan, Yin Zai, the Year Beast, and many others into lending their luck until he pulled the Ten Directions Battle Order into his hand.
• Heaven Divine King Xi’s Priests and marshal true lords retreated as the battle order’s protection failed, and Qing Yuzi killed two Priests who were left behind.
• Divine Mechanism City and its allies pursued Heaven Divine King Xi’s fleeing forces, while the Red Star Great Emperor and Moon God Palace Master discussed the Immeasurable True God’s breakthrough and Bowei’s possible rise.
• The Immeasurable True God attained the Divine King Realm as Boundless, taught his Dao Followers, and granted Rui Xuan training, Lü a Three Epoch Clock, and Qing Yuzi a genuine Chaos Era · Dark Source Realm token.
• The Immeasurable True God dismissed the others and remained alone with Zhao Xing.