Chapter Summaries

Meng Zhao defended himself and his companions against the Lesser Heavenly Dao’s Eye, a blood-red pupil wielding the will of a fallen expert fused with the Poisonous Cave Space. He repelled its heavenly punishment and launched a golden dragon counterattack, while Yan Libing and Horse-Face Ghost gained insight from his martial arts.

• Meng Zhao freed Horse-Face Ghost and Yan Libing from the Eye’s influence and explained that a fallen expert’s incomplete Primordial Spirit held less than forty percent of the Lesser Heavenly Dao’s authority.
• Meng Zhao warned that the Eye was about to unleash heavenly punishment, then faced its blood-red Yin Lightning as it struck toward him.
• Meng Zhao used golden divine light, Buddha-Demon Unity, and the Poison Dragon Earth Vein’s power to dissolve the lightning.
• Meng Zhao struck three palms and sent a Golden Giant Dragon soaring toward the blood-red vertical pupil.
• Yan Libing gained insight for his cultivation, while Horse-Face Ghost recognized Meng Zhao’s mastery and considered entering his service.

Meng Zhao used the Lesser Heavenly Dao's power to slaughter the Poisonous Cave Space's creatures and provoke its dragon vein into turning against the Heavenly Dao. As the Poison Dragon Vein rose with Meng Zhao standing on its head, it prepared to fight the Lesser Heavenly Dao's Eye.

• The Lesser Heavenly Dao's Eye unleashed brilliant light that killed the Poisonous Cave Space's living creatures, while Meng Zhao's power protected Horse-Face Ghost and Yan Libing.
• Horse-Face Ghost realized Meng Zhao had likely engineered the slaughter to weaken the Lesser Heavenly Dao and exhaust the space's origin power.
• The earth split open, and the Poison Dragon Vein emerged, with Meng Zhao standing where its head rose.
• Horse-Face Ghost understood that Meng Zhao had used his True Dragon Qi to turn the dragon vein against the Lesser Heavenly Dao.
• The Poison Dragon Vein carried Meng Zhao toward the Lesser Heavenly Dao's Eye for a battle to the death.

Meng Zhao empowered the earth’s dragon vein to battle the Lesser Heavenly Dao’s Eye, but the depleted vein was defeated and fell from the sky. Meng Zhao then transformed into a Purple True Dragon and attacked the Eye with purple lightning, leaving their battle raging across the shattered heavens.

• Meng Zhao used the earth’s dragon vein to fight the Lesser Heavenly Dao’s Eye as the Poisonous Cave Space fractured and revealed another world.
• The dragon vein was overwhelmed by the Eye’s blood-red lightning, and its head was severed as it plunged toward Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost.
• Meng Zhao turned the falling rocks into mud, saving Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost from being crushed.
• Meng Zhao leaped from the dragon’s head and transformed into a Purple True Dragon a hundred li long.
• Meng Zhao wielded purple lightning against the Lesser Heavenly Dao’s Eye’s blood-red thunder, splitting the dark sky as their battle continued.

Meng Zhao destroyed the Lesser Heavenly Dao's Eye and swallowed its blood-colored power, then began transforming as he digested it. Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost fell into a new Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm and worried about Meng Zhao's fate.

• Meng Zhao used his Myriad Heavens Imperial Dragon Ziwei Emperor Scripture to destroy the Blood-red vertical pupil.
• Meng Zhao swallowed the blood-colored mist with the Heaven Swallowing Sun Devouring Great Law and began digesting its dangerous powers.
• The Poison Grotto collapsed, and Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost fell through its fissures into a new space.
• The Horse-Face Ghost concluded that destroying the Lesser Heavenly Dao's Eye had destabilized the Poison Grotto and sent them to the secret realm.
• Yan Libing worried that Meng Zhao might be in trouble because he hoped to learn martial arts from him.

Yan Libing and Horse-Face Ghost explored the island where they had arrived and recognized it as a resource-rich Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm. Yan Libing concluded that Meng Zhao was likely to claim it, a development that could greatly increase his power and destabilize the Northern Lands.

• Horse-Face Ghost reassured Yan Libing that Meng Zhao was likely digesting the power he had absorbed and urged them to survey their surroundings.
• Yan Libing and Horse-Face Ghost explored the island and found abundant wildlife, a peach grove, and minerals, with few dangerous creatures.
• Yan Libing considered how the Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm could benefit him, his family, or the Beitang Imperial Clan, but judged that the Lei Family and Meng Zhao made acting on those plans too dangerous.
• Yan Libing assessed Meng Zhao's forces and ambitions and concluded that the secret realm would make him even harder to restrain and could bring a new storm to the Northern Lands.

Meng Zhao returned from the Poisonous Cave Space with major gains, including the insight to cultivate the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. After hearing Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost’s account of the surrounding sea, he theorized that it marked the entrance to the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven.

• Meng Zhao descended onto the island and reassured Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost that he was unharmed and had gained greatly from the Poisonous Cave Space.
• Meng Zhao reflected on his strengthened cultivation, his comprehension of the Heavenly Dao, and the new bloodline divine ability called the Eye of Heavenly Tribulation.
• Meng Zhao considered merging Evil Calamity with the divine ability, but decided to wait until he returned to the Divine Continent before refining it.
• Meng Zhao asked Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost about the sea region, then named the realm the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven and theorized that Thunder Marsh and the Poisonous Cave Space blocked its entrance.

Meng Zhao traced the sea’s veins to a barren island linked to Thunder Marsh and used eighty-one lightning scars to open the passage. A Thunder Marsh space formed in the sky, drawing the attention of Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost.

• Meng Zhao decided to prioritize finding a way into Thunder Marsh over exploring the ocean and its islands.
• Meng Zhao surveyed the sea’s islands and veins, then used the Poisonous Cave Space’s connection as a guide to locate the island linked to Thunder Marsh.
• Meng Zhao found a barren, lifeless island and took eighty-one steps, leaving lightning scars across its ground.
• The lightning scars activated, joining earthly and heavenly lightning and forming a Thunder Marsh space in the void.
• Yan Libing and the Horse-Face Ghost witnessed the distant storms and realized Meng Zhao had found and opened the passage to Thunder Marsh.

Meng Zhao forced his way into Thunder Marsh and discovered that its dangers were targeting him because he carried the lingering aura of its enemy, the Poison Grotto. After suppressing that aura and surveying the region, he spotted traces of Lei Wanche, the Horse-Head God, Liu An, and their group and rushed toward them.

• Meng Zhao found a weak point between the island and Thunder Marsh and punched through the spatial barrier to enter.
• A Horse Lightning Fierce Beast and a powerful lightning strike attacked Meng Zhao, but he destroyed both.
• Meng Zhao reasoned that Thunder Marsh was targeting him because he still carried the Poison Grotto's Celestial Being aura.
• Meng Zhao used the Purple Origin Dragon Body's aura to suppress the lingering Poison Grotto aura, and the attacks stopped.
• Meng Zhao searched Thunder Marsh, found traces of Lei Wanche, the Horse-Head God, Liu An, and their group, and hurried toward them.

Meng Zhao watched Lei Wanche, the Horse-Head God, Liu An, and Shi Jiawen defeat a kirin-like Thunder Beast and claim its Thunder Pills. Liu An worried that Qiao Nian’s death would bring blame upon them, while Shi Jiawen concealed his intent to kill Qiao Nian and considered Lei Wanche’s failure to save him suspicious.

• Meng Zhao observed that Lei Wanche was the only Lei Family member present, while Liu An and Shi Jiawen were missing Qiao Nian and Yan Libing.
• Lei Wanche and the Horse-Head God led the fight that trapped and destroyed the Thunder Beast, with Liu An and Shi Jiawen assisting.
• Lei Wanche and the Ox-Head God leaped into the jade-blue waters as Liu An and Shi Jiawen searched the pit and found Thunder Pills.
• Liu An worried that Qiao Nian’s death would lead their families to suspect them, while Shi Jiawen blamed Qiao Nian’s poor luck and lack of caution.
• Shi Jiawen privately recalled that he had planned to kill Qiao Nian, and he and Liu An suspected Lei Wanche might have let Qiao Nian die.

Meng Zhao watched Lei Wanche and the Ox-Head God fight over a jade tablet left by Thunder Marsh’s ancient powerhouse. When the tablet entered Lei Wanche’s body, Meng Zhao suspected the powerhouse had survived in some form and begun to wonder whether Thunder Marsh also involved Primordial Spirit Dao Integration.

• Liu An and Shi Jiawen waited in Thunder Marsh Space for cultivation resources, while Shi Jiawen hoped Meng Zhao might arrive from the Poisonous Cave Land.
• Meng Zhao observed Lei Wanche and the Ox-Head God fighting underwater around a jade tablet and recognized it as the Thunder Marsh powerhouse’s inheritance.
• Meng Zhao prepared to seize the tablet, but a thunderclap struck him and awakened the tablet.
• The jade tablet flew into Lei Wanche’s hands, softened, and entered his body, unleashing lightning that blasted the Ox-Head God away and flooded the shore.
• Meng Zhao suspected the Thunder Marsh powerhouse had left contingencies behind and considered whether he could use its power to strengthen his cultivation.

After the Jade Tablet Book merged into Lei Wanche, it transformed him into a machine-like thunder god focused on Meng Zhao. Lei Wanche attacked, but Meng Zhao effortlessly erased his thunder blade, leaving them facing each other in midair.

• The Ox-Head God realized the Jade Tablet Book had merged into Lei Wanche and suppressed his panic while watching for changes.
• Lei Wanche emerged from the transformation with a divine, inhuman aura and ignored the Ox-Head God.
• Meng Zhao recognized that the transformed Lei Wanche acted like a tool whose sole target was him.
• Lei Wanche launched from the pool and attacked Meng Zhao with a massive thunder blade.
• Meng Zhao grasped at the blade and stripped it away until it vanished, leaving Lei Wanche hovering before him.

Meng Zhao battled Lei Wanche in Thunder Marsh, destroying Lei Wanche’s thunder sphere with a roar powered by his Dao body, which he transformed into a world. The aftershock left the Ox-Head God, Liu An, and Shi Jiawen pinned to the ground as the sky split open.

• Meng Zhao shattered Lei Wanche’s lightning-blade attack with a Dragon-Seeking Claw, but the blade’s lightning guided a destructive thunder sphere toward him.
• Meng Zhao returned to human form and manifested his Dao body as a universe, drawing on its power to face the descending thunder sphere.
• Meng Zhao unleashed a soundwave that dissolved the thunder sphere and tore a vast fissure through Thunder Marsh’s sky.
• The Ox-Head God, Liu An, and Shi Jiawen watched the battle and identified Meng Zhao as the likely attacker, with Shi Jiawen certain of his identity.
• The battle’s aftershock crushed all three on the shore, leaving even the Ox-Head God unable to move.

Meng Zhao used his immense power to probe the Thunder Marsh Space and deduced that its ancient powerhouse had become one with the world, while the space's hostility toward him acted on instinct. He traced the recent attacks to his intent to take the Jade Tablet Book and continued investigating the world's secrets.

• Meng Zhao realized that even with his current strength, he had only narrowly survived because of good fortune, while Lei Wanche could easily kill the Ox-Head God.
• Meng Zhao sensed that his roar had slightly weakened the Thunder Marsh Space's suppression of him, allowing him to investigate the world's hidden state.
• Meng Zhao deduced that the Thunder Marsh powerhouse had refined his Primordial Spirit and replaced the Lesser Heavenly Dao, becoming the Thunder Marsh Space itself.
• Meng Zhao concluded that the world's attacks on him stemmed from survival instincts, including hostility toward Poison Grotto aura and threats to the Thunder Marsh Space.
• Meng Zhao connected the lightning bolt and the Jade Tablet Book's merger with Lei Wanche to his intention to seize the book, confirming that the book could expose the world's secrets.

Meng Zhao deduced that Lei Wanche was being controlled by the will of the Thunder Marsh minor world and weighed whether to flee or confront it. After his first strike failed, he transformed into a small dragon and entered the lightning sea to test whether his true body could withstand its power.

• Meng Zhao concluded that Lei Wanche was acting as a controlled puppet and considered escaping with his allies or risking an attack on the Thunder Marsh minor world.
• Meng Zhao struck Lei Wanche, but the lightning armor blocked his world-powered fist and revealed that the Thunder Marsh world's power exceeded his own.
• Lei Wanche howled, summoning dark clouds and a storm of multicolored lightning aimed at Meng Zhao.
• Meng Zhao evaded the lightning barrage and plunged into the storm clouds and lightning sea.
• Meng Zhao transformed into his several-yard-long true dragon body and entered the lightning sea, relying on his bloodline and defenses to endure its destructive power.

Meng Zhao endured the lightning sea in Thunder Marsh until his Purple Origin Dragon Body transformed, but a towering Thunder God Giant then emerged and attacked him. As Meng Zhao evaded its grasp, Liu An and the Ox-Head God watched from below and questioned the giant’s identity.

• Meng Zhao’s dragon body endured the lightning sea, and his scales developed purple patterns as his physique transformed.
• A Thunder God Giant formed from the lightning and reached to seize Meng Zhao.
• Meng Zhao dodged the giant by borrowing the force of the lightning sea and maneuvered to avoid its attacks.
• Liu An mistook the Thunder God Giant for Lei Wanche, while the Ox-Head God suspected a powerful figure was controlling Lei Wanche’s body.
• The Ox-Head God wondered who Meng Zhao was and worried about the Horse-Face Ghost in the dangerous Poisonous Cave Space.

Meng Zhao subdued the Thunder God giant and swallowed the Thunder Marsh Space’s origin power, provoking its immense golden-eyed master. As the Five Decays of Heavenly Beings threatened him, he escaped through a rift in space, taking Lei Wanche, the Ox-Head God, Liu An, and Shi Jiawen with him.

• Meng Zhao adapted to the sea of thunder, studied its secrets, and prepared hidden contingencies while evading the Thunder God giant.
• Meng Zhao bound the giant with a Thunder Dragon phantom and absorbed the sea of thunder’s origin power, storing it for later use.
• A colossal golden eye appeared and erased the sea of thunder, the Thunder God giant, and the Thunder Dragon phantom while stripping Lei Wanche of his lightning armor.
• Meng Zhao brought unconscious Lei Wanche down to the ground, where the Ox-Head God, Liu An, and Shi Jiawen recognized him as the Lord of the Northern Meng Dragon King.
• Feeling the Five Decays of Heavenly Beings descend, Meng Zhao broke a node in the void and escaped through a spatial rift with Lei Wanche and the others.

Meng Zhao reunited the survivors from the Thunder Marsh and Poisonous Cave spaces in the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven. As Yan Libing, Liu An, and Shi Jiawen considered how to conceal the grotto-heaven, Horse-Face Ghost warned Ox-Head God to submit to Meng Zhao, leaving Ox-Head God silent.

• Meng Zhao brought Ox-Head God, Liu An, Shi Jiawen, and unconscious Lei Wanche out of the Thunder Marsh small world and led them to the island where Horse-Face Ghost and Yan Libing waited.
• Liu An and Shi Jiawen reunited with Yan Libing, who learned that Qiao Nian had died in the Thunder Marsh Space.
• Yan Libing warned Liu An and Shi Jiawen that revealing the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven could provoke powerful factions and families, and Shi Jiawen advised them to follow Meng Zhao's arrangements.
• Ox-Head God told Horse-Face Ghost about Meng Zhao's overwhelming power and asked what they should do.
• Horse-Face Ghost revealed that he and Yan Libing had pledged themselves to Meng Zhao, then urged Ox-Head God not to resist him.
• Ox-Head God fell silent after learning that Horse-Face Ghost had submitted to Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao revived Lei Wanche, who recognized him and questioned him about the fate of Chong Feng and the Lei Family party. Their unexpectedly civil exchange left Liu An's group and the ghosts puzzled, and Lei Wanche learned that Meng Zhao had secretly followed Liu An's group into the grotto-heaven.

• Meng Zhao used invisible force to restore Lei Wanche, who awoke and recognized him as the man who had infiltrated their party under Chong Feng's identity.
• Lei Wanche asked whether Meng Zhao had killed Chong Feng, and Meng Zhao said he had hidden him away instead.
• Meng Zhao told Lei Wanche that the others had died in the Poisonous Cave Land, and Lei Wanche accepted that Meng Zhao had not been responsible for protecting them.
• Liu An, Ox-Head God, and Horse-Face Ghost wondered why the hostile Lei Wanche and powerful Meng Zhao spoke so politely.
• Lei Wanche asked whom Meng Zhao had come with, and Meng Zhao said he had secretly followed Liu An's group of four.

Meng Zhao proposed ending the hostility between himself and the Lei Family, explaining that he blamed Lei Wanche personally for the past assassination attempt rather than holding the entire family irredeemably responsible. Lei Wanche considered Meng Zhao’s offer to make peace and stand together, while Meng Zhao saw him as essential to taking Ji Prefecture without bloodshed.

• Lei Wanche asked Meng Zhao why he treated him so cordially despite their hostile history and the difference in their strength.
• Meng Zhao said the conflict began when Lei Wanche sent people to assassinate him, and Lei Wanche agreed that the Meng Family and Meng Zhao could be considered separately.
• Meng Zhao proposed that he and the Lei Family set aside their enmity and become allies.
• Lei Wanche asked whether Meng Zhao truly held no grudge over the assassination attempt, and Meng Zhao said the Lei Family’s actions had failed to harm him and offered to let the past go if they joined his side.
• Meng Zhao privately considered Lei Wanche a key ally for taking Ji Prefecture peacefully and avoiding trouble with the imperial princes.

Meng Zhao explained his theory that two Heavenly Human experts’ corpses and a Jianmu-related opportunity had given rise to Thunder Marsh and Poisonous Cave Space. He revealed that the expert behind Poisonous Cave Space had tried to merge with its Lesser Heavenly Dao and be reborn through the Bizarre Poison King, leaving the group focused on the unknown opportunity.

• Lei Wanche asked about the Jianmu Grotto-Heaven, and Meng Zhao gathered him and the others to explain its secrets.
• Ox-Head God compared the blood-colored eye in Poisonous Cave Land with the golden eye at the edge of Thunder Marsh Space.
• Meng Zhao speculated that two ancient Heavenly Human experts fought over a Jianmu-related fortune and died, after which their corpses transformed into Thunder Marsh and Poisonous Cave Space.
• The group reacted with shock and excitement at the possibility that the two little worlds held a world-changing opportunity.
• Meng Zhao said the Poisonous Cave Space expert had merged his incomplete Primordial Spirit with the Lesser Heavenly Dao and tried to possess the Bizarre Poison King, but his rebirth plot failed.