Chapter Summaries

Ding Ling mastered tens of thousands of books in under an hour while Zhou Chu tried to make amends with the people of Yangxian. After Zhou Chu unlocked his third Golden Light Lock, Ding Ling sent him to face the White-browed Tiger and the Jiaolong, following at a distance to see whether the danger would awaken him further.

• Ding Ling read and mastered the families’ tens of thousands of books in less than an hour, astonishing Zhou Chu and the other representatives.
• Zhou Chu visited the villagers of Yangxian to apologize, and he continued visiting those who still resented him three times a day.
• After several days of distress over the villagers’ reactions, Zhou Chu unlocked his third Golden Light Lock and reached the peak of the Golden Core realm.
• Ding Ling suppressed Zhou Chu in a spar and advised him to kill the White-browed Tiger and the Jiaolong to earn the villagers’ forgiveness.
• Zhou Chu set off to face the two calamities, and Ding Ling followed from a distance, hoping danger might awaken Zhou Chu further.

Ding Ling watched Zhou Chu confront the White-browed Tiger, hoping to learn how the reincarnated immortal could defeat the jiaolong. Zhou Chu awakened further after slaying the tiger and set off to face the jiaolong, while Ding Ling realized Zhou Chu was destined to become Wu Gang.

• Ding Ling recalled wounding the jiaolong with arrows and concluded that its strength declined when it left Yixing Water.
• Ding Ling found the White-browed Tiger eating people in South Mountain and chose to let Zhou Chu fight it.
• Zhou Chu rode to South Mountain alone, shot the White-browed Tiger in the eye, and fought it despite being badly wounded.
• Zhou Chu shattered the Fourth Level Golden Light Lock, reached Primordial Spirit Peak, healed, and killed the White-browed Tiger.
• Zhou Chu headed for Yixing Water to fight the jiaolong as Ding Ling considered his awakening and destiny as Wu Gang.

Ding Ling watched Zhou Chu battle a Jiaolong in Yixing Water as the fifth Golden Light Lock broke and raised Zhou Chu’s cultivation to the peak of the Martial Dharma Image Realm. After the fighters nearly killed each other and Zhou Chu’s strength continued to fade, Ding Ling finally entered the water to attack the recovering Jiaolong.

• Ding Ling stored the White-browed Tiger’s corpse in his Alchemy Furnace and flew toward Yixing Water while Zhou Chu ran there ahead of him.
• Zhou Chu fought the Jiaolong underwater, broke his fifth Golden Light Lock when he was near death, and reached the peak of the Martial Dharma Image Realm.
• Zhou Chu seized the Jiaolong’s tail and battered it against the riverbed, but the Jiaolong later broke free and began turning the battle against him.
• Zhou Chu and the Jiaolong fought for three days and three nights until both lay gravely wounded on the riverbed.
• Ding Ling waited as the Jiaolong began recovering and Zhou Chu’s aura weakened, then entered Yixing Water and attacked the Jiaolong with his Sword Pill and Heavenly Evasion Swordplay.

Ding Ling killed the dying Jiaolong by striking its Dragon Core with the Divine Whip, then refined the core and learned the Dragon Transformation True Art from its memories. After rescuing Zhou Chu, he found the Jiaolong’s treasure pouch and opened it, discovering several rare treasures.

• Ding Ling pierced the Jiaolong’s head with his sword, then knocked its Dragon Core down with the Divine Whip, scattering the Jiaolong’s soul and killing it.
• Ding Ling refined the Jiaolong’s scattered energy and Dragon Core, gaining twenty-one drops of True Water and advancing his Nascent Soul to the First Grade.
• Ding Ling carried the nearly dead Zhou Chu to shore, where Zhou Chu began breathing again.
• Ding Ling entered the Jiaolong’s cave and learned the max-level Dragon Transformation True Art from its memories.
• Ding Ling found and opened the Jiaolong’s treasure pouch, discovering a Ten Thousand Year Tortoise Shell, Dragon Transformation Grass, Water Dragon Source, and Thousand Year Clam Pearl.

Ding Ling found the Moon Laurel Tree fragment hidden in the Hundred-Treasure Pouch and refined a tiger’s Demon Core, advancing to the Saint-Grade Nascent Soul realm. His breakthrough sent a sacred aura toward the heavens, drawing the attention of people across the world.

• Ding Ling recognized the treasures in the Hundred-Treasure Pouch and discovered that it contained a fragment of the Moon Laurel Tree.
• Ding Ling credited Zhou Chu’s battle with the Jiaolong for giving him the chance to search the riverbed and find the pouch.
• Ding Ling swam upstream, extracted a Demon Core from the tiger’s corpse, and refined it with his upgraded Martial Dao True Understanding.
• Ding Ling reached 642 True Force Value and transformed his First Grade Nascent Soul into a Saint-Grade Nascent Soul.
• Ding Ling’s Nascent Soul shattered the Golden Core’s wall and formed golden armor as the current flowed around him.
• Ding Ling’s sacred aura erupted toward the heavens, and people across the world looked toward Yixing Water.

After reaching the Saint-Grade Nascent Soul realm, Ding Ling concluded that Zhou Chu could not break the sixth Golden Light Lock using the energy of the Lesser Chiliocosm alone. He gave Zhou Chu the Dragon Transformation Grass in hopes of awakening Wu Gang and opening a path forward.

• Ding Ling assessed his new strength and realized that the world's limits made it extremely difficult for Zhou Chu to break the sixth Golden Light Lock.
• Ding Ling carried the gravely injured Zhou Chu to his family home in Yangxian and reassured Zhou Chu's mother, Zhou Shi.
• Zhou Chu began absorbing vast amounts of spiritual energy while unconscious, but Ding Ling saw that the Lesser Chiliocosm could not provide enough energy for his breakthrough.
• Ding Ling gave Zhou Chu the Dragon Transformation Grass, hoping it would help Wu Gang break the sixth Golden Light Lock and awaken.

Zhou Chu broke through the sixth Golden Light Lock with the Dragon Transformation Grass and awakened as Wu Gang, a reincarnated immortal. Wu Gang explained his connection to Ding Ling and created a new body so Zhou Chu could return to Zhou Shi.

• Golden dragons formed around Zhou Chu and gnawed away at his sixth Golden Light Lock as Ding Ling and Zhou Shi watched.
• Zhou Chu awakened and revealed that he was Wu Gang, who had reincarnated for hundreds of thousands of years and been waiting to awaken until he found a seed of hope.
• Wu Gang identified Ding Ling as that seed and learned that the outside world had reached a desperate state.
• Wu Gang told Zhou Shi he would remain filial to her and that Zhou Chu would return, then used a magical wooden figure to make a new body.
• Wu Gang transferred a strand of his soul into the new body, which awoke as Zhou Chu and called Zhou Shi Mother and Ding Ling Great Hero Ding.

Zhou Chu learned that he had been reborn in a body made from the Creation Divine Wood, with the potential to become an Immortal, and chose to keep it after trusting Ding Ling’s judgment. Wu Gang revealed his identity as an Ancient Era Immortal and his reincarnation, then prepared to break the world’s order and take Ding Ling beyond it.

• Ding Ling explained that Zhou Chu’s new body held the potential to become an Immortal, and Zhou Shi confirmed that he was still her son.
• Wu Gang offered to restore Zhou Chu’s old body, but Ding Ling told Zhou Chu he could trust Wu Gang, so Zhou Chu chose to keep the Creation Treasure Body.
• Ding Ling told Zhou Chu that Wu Gang was an Ancient Era Immortal and that Zhou Chu was his reincarnation.
• Wu Gang urged Zhou Chu to continue as a hero of Yangxian and said Ding Ling could help him travel to other worlds after he grew stronger.
• Wu Gang declared that he would shatter the world’s order and take Ding Ling out of the world.

Ding Ling and Wu Gang left the world, while a heavenly stele recorded Zhou Chu’s redemption and the defeat of the Three Evils. Zhou Chu embraced his new reputation and began cultivating immortal arts, as Wu Gang transformed a fragment of the Moon Laurel Tree into an axe.

• Ding Ling and Wu Gang departed through the sky as Zhou Chu, Zhu Ba’s family, and the people of Yangxian watched and praised Ding Ling as a god.
• A stone stele descended, declaring that Zhou Chu had repented and eliminated the White-browed Tiger and Jiaolong, and the villagers asked Zhou Chu how he had done it.
• Zhou Chu explained that Ding Ling had guided and aided him, and people across Yangxian, Yixing Water, and South Mountain celebrated Zhou Chu as a hero.
• Zhou Chu devoted himself to martial arts and immortal cultivation, studying the Creation Cosmos Immortal Method and the Creation Immortal Axe Thirty-Six Methods from Wu Gang’s memories.
• Wu Gang asked Ding Ling for a fragment of the Moon Laurel Tree, breathed on it, and transformed it into a sharp, white-glowing axe.

Wu Gang revealed his origins as a puppet bound to the Moon Laurel Tree and explained the curse and fate tied to his repeated reincarnations. Before parting, he asked Ding Ling to check on Chang'e in the Upper Realm and taught him an immortal method, which Ding Ling mastered instantly.

• Wu Gang explained that he was made from the Upper Realm's Moon Laurel Tree and shared one soul and two bodies with this realm's tree, which grew stronger whenever he struck it.
• Wu Gang told Ding Ling that the Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, and Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning had sealed him with the Seal of Samsara, and that escaping reincarnation would trigger his destined end.
• Wu Gang said Zhou Chu would have awakened and helped him avoid losing his True Spirit even if Ding Ling had not appeared, then asked Ding Ling to check on Chang'e after ascending and care for her if she needed help.
• Wu Gang offered to teach Ding Ling his Creation Cosmos Immortal Method, and Ding Ling reached Great Perfection as soon as Wu Gang recited its incantation.
• Ding Ling gained nine strands of mana, bringing his Mana Value to 25, while Wu Gang wondered whether he was the reincarnation of a legendary immortal.

Ding Ling mastered Wu Gang’s arts and techniques in a few hours, growing stronger as Wu Gang marveled at his talent. Wu Gang then took Ding Ling out of his world, where they reunited with Jiang Ziya in the Hall of Universal Brightness.

• Ding Ling thanked Wu Gang for teaching him the Creation Cosmos Immortal Method, and Wu Gang warned him to conceal his talent in the Upper Realm.
• Wu Gang passed on his martial arts, techniques, and Dao scriptures, which Ding Ling mastered immediately and used to raise his attributes above 700.
• Wu Gang, overwhelmed by Ding Ling’s ability to learn everything he knew, decided they should leave the world at once.
• Wu Gang unlocked the sixth layer of the Golden Light Lock, cleaved through the void, and brought Ding Ling to the Hall of Universal Brightness.
• Wu Gang and Jiang Ziya met face-to-face and expressed surprise that the other was still alive.

Ding Ling learned that restoring the Ancient Era required him to gather Qiankun Power and Faith Power to erode the deity’s Emotional Power. Wu Gang led Ding Ling and Jiang Ziya to Guanghan Palace, where he prepared to awaken the Moon Laurel Tree.

• Wu Gang explained that he had been returned to the moon by the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning and had been waiting to help Ding Ling after his trial.
• Jiang Ziya gave Ding Ling the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram, whose inner world let time pass far faster than outside.
• Wu Gang and Jiang Ziya told Ding Ling that Wu Gang could not destroy the deity’s Emotional Power or the Iron Coffin, and that doing so required Qiankun Power and Faith Power.
• Wu Gang led Ding Ling and Jiang Ziya to the ruins of Guanghan Palace, where Jiang Ziya recalled the devastation caused by the battle between the gods.
• Wu Gang touched the stump of the Moon Laurel Tree and told it to awaken and bloom.

Wu Gang chopped the Moon Laurel Tree until it connected with the Kunlun Heavenly Tree, reopening the passage between Earth and the moon and awakening the Heavenly Court's spirit vein. Chang'e emerged from the tree in a severely ruined state, and Wu Gang realized the Queen Mother and Jade Emperor had deceived him.

• Wu Gang's chopping awakened the Moon Laurel Tree, which grew stronger with every strike as it absorbed his magic power and the Seal of Samsara restored him.
• Jiang Ziya explained that the Kunlun Heavenly Tree and Moon Laurel Tree had once formed a passage to the Heavenly Court, and Ding Ling saw the Heavenly Tree rise from Earth toward the moon.
• The trees' roots connected and opened the passage between Earth and the moon, while the Heavenly Court's buried spirit vein awakened.
• Wu Gang stopped chopping and entrusted the future to Ding Ling, warning that his Seal of Samsara would eventually disappear and he would die.
• Chang'e emerged from the Moon Laurel Tree blind and gravely mutilated, and Wu Gang wept as he realized the Queen Mother and Jade Emperor had deceived him.

Chang'e mistook Ding Ling for Hou Yi and embraced him before fading away, leaving a final remnant soul in a flower. Wu Gang sacrificed his body to the Moon Laurel Tree, freed his soul from the Ninefold Golden Light Shackles, and entered reincarnation carrying the flower, while Jiang Ziya's remnant soul also vanished.

• Chang'e called Ding Ling Yi, embraced him, and asked him to live well while carrying her unfulfilled wish.
• Chang'e scattered into petals, and Wu Gang caught the flower containing her last wisp of remnant soul.
• Wu Gang merged his body into the Moon Laurel Tree, broke the Ninefold Golden Light Shackles, and entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation with the flower.
• Jiang Ziya explained that Wu Gang's destructive power had summoned a reincarnation phantom from another world, then ascended to a heavenly palace and dispersed.
• Ding Ling remained behind, mourning Wu Gang and Jiang Ziya and wondering why Chang'e had mistaken him for Hou Yi.

Ding Ling examined the awakened Peerless Spirit Vein in the Celestial Palace but found it remained sealed, so he planned to use it and the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram to build the World's Finest Sect. He traveled to Earth and saw the Kunlun Heavenly Tree restored to its ancient grandeur.

• Ding Ling reached the Celestial Palace and found that the awakened Peerless Spirit Vein rapidly strengthened him as he cultivated.
• Ding Ling tried to excavate the Spirit Vein but discovered that the Ancient Era Immortals' restriction still prevented him from touching it.
• Ding Ling decided to use the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram and the Peerless Spirit Vein to complete his mission to build the World's Finest Sect.
• Ding Ling crossed from the moon to Earth and arrived at the Dragon's Spine of the Kunlun Mountain Range.
• Ding Ling saw that the immense Heavenly Tree had grown back and restored the splendor of the Ancient Era.

Ding Ling met Zhi Qiu Yiye in the Kunlun Mountains, where they agreed to a contest to settle who would be the other's elder brother. Ding Ling won their footrace instantly, leaving Zhi Qiu Yiye stunned and wondering who he was.

• Zhi Qiu Yiye emerged from the earth and asked Ding Ling which sect he belonged to.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye introduced himself as a Kunlun Sect disciple and eagerly proposed that he and Ding Ling become sworn brothers.
• Ding Ling challenged Zhi Qiu Yiye to a contest, saying the loser would call the winner either Eldest Brother or Master.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye chose a race to pluck a leaf from a distant tree, and Ding Ling reached it almost instantly.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye stared in disbelief and wondered who Ding Ling was.

Ding Ling defeated Zhi Qiu Yiye in a speed contest and then overwhelmed him with powerful Thunder Magic. Zhi Qiu Yiye wondered if Ding Ling truly came from the Heavenly Court and was an Immortal.

• Ding Ling reminded Zhi Qiu Yiye that he had lost the speed contest and should call him Master, but Zhi Qiu Yiye proposed a best-of-three competition instead.
• Ding Ling recognized Zhi Qiu Yiye as a righteous Dragon Seed-level genius and offered to teach him if he accepted him as Master.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye challenged Ding Ling to a Thunder Magic contest and summoned heavenly thunder to fell a tree.
• Ding Ling summoned Jade Clarity Immortal Lightning, shaped it into a ball in his palm, and left Zhi Qiu Yiye astonished.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye asked whether Ding Ling had truly come from the Heavenly Court, whether he was an Immortal, and whether the Heavenly Court had created the Kunlun heavenly tree.

Ding Ling accompanied Zhi Qiu Yiye to the secluded Kunlun Sect after agreeing to seek permission to join it. They entered the sect’s hidden world, where Chang Luo confronted Zhi Qiu Yiye for bringing an outsider inside without approval.

• Ding Ling told Zhi Qiu Yiye that he was not an immortal, but that he knew the Kunlun Heavenly Tree had been created by the Heavenly Court, and named his Thunder Magic Jade Clarity Immortal Lightning.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye promised to call Ding Ling Master if his own Master agreed to let him join Ding Ling’s sect, then led him toward the Kunlun Sect.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye described the Kunlun Sect and accidentally revealed many of its secrets while Ding Ling questioned him.
• Zhi Qiu Yiye activated a portal with his sect token, and Ding Ling used the Divine Meditation Technique to discover that the Kunlun Sect occupied a small world.
• Ding Ling and Zhi Qiu Yiye entered the Kunlun Sect and met Chang Luo, who reprimanded Zhi Qiu Yiye for bringing an outsider inside without permission.

Chang Luo tried to stop Zhi Qiu Yiye from bringing Ding Ling through the Kunlun Sect’s mountain gate, but Ding Ling easily resisted his spells and defeated him. Wu Mian arrived to find Chang Luo injured and Ding Ling standing at the gate.

• Chang Luo immobilized Zhi Qiu Yiye and threatened to knock Ding Ling unconscious and abandon him outside the gate.
• Ding Ling resisted Chang Luo’s Immobilization Spell and sent him flying when Chang Luo reached for him.
• Chang Luo attacked Ding Ling with Heavenly Gang Five Departing Fire, but Ding Ling emerged unharmed.
• Ding Ling seized Chang Luo, slapped him, and broke his leg, warning him to stay quiet.
• Wu Mian arrived and saw Chang Luo on the ground, then glanced at Ding Ling.

Ding Ling accompanied Zhi Qiu Yiye to the Jade Clarity Palace, where a hidden Divine Whip responded to the whip he carried. He resolved to obtain the sealed treasure and learn whether it was genuine.

• Wu Mian learned from Zhi Qiu Yiye that Chang Luo had tried to immobilize Ding Ling and throw him out of the Kunlun Sect, then escorted Ding Ling toward the Jade Clarity Palace.
• Wu Mian stopped Ding Ling from wandering into the palace’s restricted area and went to report to their Master, leaving Zhi Qiu Yiye with him.
• Ding Ling used the Divine Meditation Technique to discover a whip sealed deep inside the Jade Clarity Palace.
• Ding Ling took out his own Divine Whip, causing the palace and the sealed whip to tremble and the hidden whip to struggle against its restrictions.
• Ding Ling put his whip away and decided to obtain the sealed one, while Zhi Qiu Yiye marveled at the palace’s reaction.