Chapter Summaries

Meng Zhao and four southern Grandmasters traveled through the Bone Forest, where a strange force turned two of the Grandmasters against him. After Meng Zhao destroyed the force’s mutated corpse, he considered whether it had been transformed by the Bone Demon God’s power and whether he should investigate its source instead of continuing toward the Weak Water.

• Meng Zhao and the four Grandmasters found Bone Beasts, an ancient fist technique with a Demon-Drawing Art, and a chipped spirit pearl as they searched the Bone Forest.
• Meng Zhao sensed an unseen presence, but two Grandmasters suddenly attacked him after their eyes turned deathly white; his protective force crushed them.
• Meng Zhao’s punch forced a humanoid creature covered in bone spikes and eyeballs out of hiding, and a surviving Grandmaster recognized it as a Zhou Family Great Grandmaster who had died in the Bone Forest.
• The creature’s cries nearly controlled the remaining Grandmasters, but Meng Zhao restored them and crushed the creature with Universe in Palm.
• Meng Zhao suspected the creature had been transformed by the Bone Forest’s white-bone qi or the Bone Dao Fruit’s power, and he weighed investigating the Bone Demon God’s death site against continuing toward the Weak Water.

Meng Zhao refused to pursue the Bone Demon God's resting place and went alone toward the Weak Water to refine his treasure, leaving Jiang Zixuan and the Female Grandmaster behind. The two Grandmasters discussed how they might survive the Ancient Battlefield and concluded they should rely on Meng Zhao, whom Jiang Zixuan suspected was the Northern Meng Dragon King.

• Meng Zhao decided to reforge the Immeasurable Banner before risking a search for the Bone Demon God’s remains.
• Meng Zhao led the Southern Grandmaster and the Female Grandmaster through the Bone Forest to the edge of the Weak Water, whose frigid aura threatened their foundations.
• Meng Zhao ordered the two Grandmasters to wait while he flew into the Weak Water to refine his treasure.
• The Female Grandmaster considered fleeing, but Jiang Zixuan pointed out that they had nowhere safe to go and urged her to keep living.
• Jiang Zixuan persuaded the Female Grandmaster that they could survive by relying on Meng Zhao and revealed his suspicion that Meng Zhao was the Northern Meng Dragon King.

Jiang Zixuan persuaded the woman to consider secretly aligning their families with Meng Zhao, while they discussed a marriage alliance to secure his trust. Meng Zhao reached the Weak Water and began comprehending its power, successfully evolving its intent.

• Jiang Zixuan argued that Meng Zhao’s interest in the southern rebellion showed he intended to contend for supremacy and that their families could serve as hidden allies.
• The woman proposed that a gifted young woman from her family become Meng Zhao’s concubine to strengthen his trust, and Jiang Zixuan considered seeking a suitable match from his own family.
• Jiang Zixuan contemplated surrendering his family register to Meng Zhao if necessary to prove his sincerity.
• Meng Zhao reached the Weak Water and examined its sinister aura, black waters, and ability to dissolve his powerful true qi.
• Meng Zhao merged his divine sense with the Weak Water and comprehended its Dao, evolving its intent from rushing rivers to a still, cold stream that could dissolve all things.

Meng Zhao comprehended the Weak Water martial path, developed a Weak Water Yin Lightning Technique, and harvested Weak Water Essences from the abyss. He refined eighteen essences into a Weak Water Profound Crystal and began designing a reforging of the Immeasurable Banner into a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon.

• Meng Zhao used the Weak Water Abyss to strengthen his understanding of Weak Water and formed a plan for a Weak Water-based army formation.
• Meng Zhao dissolved a Weak Water crystal with his Thunder Pattern Vertical Pupil and gained the Weak Water Yin Lightning Technique.
• Meng Zhao churned the abyss into a deadly vortex and extracted numerous Weak Water Essences for the Meng Family.
• Meng Zhao tempered eighteen Weak Water Essences with his perfected fire-element martial path and fused them into a Weak Water Profound Crystal.
• Meng Zhao planned to combine the Immeasurable Banner with the beast hide, yin wind spirit pearl, short staff, and Weak Water Profound Crystal to create a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon.
• Meng Zhao released his Primordial Spirit and began carefully examining the banner and materials before undertaking the reforging.

Meng Zhao refined the Immeasurable Banner with divine beast hide, Yin Wind Spirit Pearl sand, Weak Water Profound Crystal, and a reforged short staff, preparing it to become a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon. When Creation Divine Thunder gathered for the final baptism, he used his Eye of Heavenly Punishment to simulate the thunder and expose the banner to it, leaving its transformation underway.

• Meng Zhao fused divine beast hide and Yin Wind Spirit Pearl sand into a new banner face while the Weak Water Profound Crystal corroded the Immeasurable Banner’s original face.
• Meng Zhao merged the new and old banner faces, reforged the short staff into a spearhead, and joined it to the banner’s pole.
• The finished Immeasurable Banner gathered deep-blue treasure light and drew storm clouds, signaling that it needed Creation Divine Thunder to advance into a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon.
• Meng Zhao sensed that the banner might fail its final transformation and considered using his Purple Origin Dragon Blood and Eye of Heavenly Punishment to help it.
• Meng Zhao fired simulated Creation Divine Thunder from his Eye of Heavenly Punishment into the banner, causing its treasure light to crack into blue mist that entered the banner.

Meng Zhao reforged the Immeasurable Banner through a Creation Divine Thunder tribulation, raising it into a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon. After testing its water-based power, he learned it was only at the weapon’s first level, but saw that it could grow alongside his own Dao.

• The Immeasurable Banner absorbed Creation Divine Thunder and flew into the storm, so Meng Zhao sent a Purple True Dragon formed from his essence blood to swallow it and carry it into the lightning.
• Jiang Zixuan and the Female Grandmaster witnessed the storm and hoped Meng Zhao’s treasure-forging would succeed so they could safely leave the Ancient Battlefield with him.
• After the tribulation faded, Meng Zhao summoned the newly forged Immeasurable Banner and recognized that it had become a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon.
• Meng Zhao assessed the four levels of Heavenly Tier Divine Weapons and determined that the Immeasurable Banner had only reached the first, weakest level, with water origin as its core Dao intent.
• Meng Zhao tested the banner’s ability to unleash and control Weak Water, then reshaped it into a spear and began adapting his staff technique into a spear art.

Meng Zhao named his newly transformed Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner, but its completion awakened a monstrous Seven-Headed Xiangliu in the Weak Water Abyss. Their battle began with Meng Zhao testing the creature’s defenses, and his spear strike tore away scales and drew its poisonous essence blood.

• Meng Zhao renamed the transformed Immeasurable Banner the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner.
• The awakened Weak Water Abyss churned as a colossal Seven-Headed Xiangliu emerged and fixed its killing intent on Meng Zhao.
• Meng Zhao resisted the creature’s mind-contaminating gaze and assessed its formidable body, bloodline, and power.
• The Seven-Headed Xiangliu attacked with seven shrill howls, and Meng Zhao used his banner to raise waves that broke apart the soundwaves.
• Meng Zhao thrust the banner like a spear at the junction of two Xiangliu necks, scraping off scales and drawing several drops of its poisonous essence blood.

Meng Zhao battled Seven-Headed Xiangliu in the Weak Water Abyss, discovering that its Demonic Runes formed a natural defense too powerful to overcome with direct attacks. After studying the beast while concealed in the water, he began to manifest similar runes, but his Purple Origin Dragon Blood dispelled them before they could take hold.

• Meng Zhao pierced Seven-Headed Xiangliu’s scales, but the wound was too slight to matter, and the enraged beast attacked with venom and three snapping heads.
• Meng Zhao used the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner to bind Xiangliu with Weak Water and aimed his spear at its eye, but the beast swallowed the attack and sent phantom serpents after him.
• Meng Zhao burned the phantom serpents with his Three Yuan Divine Fire and knocked one of Xiangliu’s heads aside, but the counterattack blasted him into the Weak Water Abyss.
• Meng Zhao concealed himself in the Weak Water and studied Xiangliu’s Demonic Runes, realizing that their linked formation reinforced the beast’s scales and flesh.
• Similar Demonic Runes appeared on Meng Zhao and began to assault his body and Primordial Spirit, but his Purple Origin Dragon Blood dispersed them.

Meng Zhao secretly used the Eclosion Worm to drain the Seven-Headed Xiangliu’s essence and blood, while enduring the Killing Intent it carried. When Xiangliu exposed him and unleashed its Calamity Poison, Meng Zhao escaped after severing its tail, leaving the beast wounded in the Weak Water Abyss.

• Meng Zhao realized the Demonic Runes could nurture Killing Intent and devised a way to exploit a flaw in the runes on Xiangliu’s tail.
• Meng Zhao connected the Eclosion Worm to Xiangliu’s tail and let it absorb essence and blood, while using his treasures and techniques to suppress the resulting Killing Intent.
• The Eclosion Worm transformed toward the Xiangliu bloodline, and Xiangliu sensed its strength draining away but could not find the cause.
• Xiangliu burst from the Weak Water Abyss and discovered Meng Zhao, then released its Calamity Poison and destroyed the silkworm thread.
• Meng Zhao used the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner to open a path through the poison, severed Xiangliu’s tail with Five-Colored Divine Light, and fled toward the Bone Forest.

Meng Zhao escaped the Seven-Headed Xiangliu by exploiting its severed tail as a distraction, then carried Jiang Zixuan and the southern female grandmaster to safety in Bone Forest. He cured their Xiangliu-induced alienation and waited to hear what value they could offer him.

• Meng Zhao severed Xiangliu's weakened tail, used the creature's instinct to recover it as a diversion, and fled toward Bone Forest.
• Xiangliu reattached its tail, chased Meng Zhao to Bone Forest's border, then returned to the Weak Water Abyss after losing his trail and sensing danger within the forest.
• Jiang Zixuan and the southern female grandmaster suffered bodily and spiritual alienation after seeing Xiangliu, and Meng Zhao swept them up as he escaped.
• Meng Zhao recognized the pair's alienation and used the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner to restore them, after Jiang Zixuan begged him for help and claimed they still had value.
• Jiang Zixuan and the female grandmaster recovered and expelled black Killing Intent, while Meng Zhao waited for them to calm down before negotiating.

Meng Zhao accepted Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin’s offer to bring their families under his control, then advised them to use their encounter with Xiangliu to strengthen their future cultivation. When Jiang Zixuan suggested exploring the Bone Forest, Meng Zhao warned that Xiangliu’s refusal to enter it might signal a danger even the beast feared, leaving the group wary of what lay ahead.

• Jiang Zixuan offered the Jiang Family’s allegiance and roster to Meng Zhao, and Hua Xin offered the Hua Family’s allegiance and roster along with a marriage alliance.
• Meng Zhao accepted the two Grandmasters and told them to stay by his side during the Ancient Battlefield expedition.
• Meng Zhao urged Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin to remember their transformation after seeing Xiangliu, saying the experience might help them create divine arts as their cultivation advanced.
• Jiang Zixuan noticed Meng Zhao’s reforged Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner, and Meng Zhao revealed that it had become a Heavenly Tier Divine Weapon named the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner.
• Jiang Zixuan proposed entering the Bone Forest to search for the Bone Demon God, but Meng Zhao pointed out that Xiangliu had stopped pursuing them at its edge.
• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin realized that something in the Bone Forest might be dangerous enough to frighten Xiangliu.

Meng Zhao defended Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin from a white tiger skeleton monster lurking in Bone Forest, then recognized the Life-Death Profound Light within it. He strengthened its deathly aspect to disturb the balance of its power, determined to use the encounter to probe the Bone Demon God's connection to the Life-Death Great Dao.

• Meng Zhao sensed a threat approaching and formed a defensive barrier of bone-infused water around Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin.
• Meng Zhao exposed the white tiger-shaped skeleton monster with a fire blade, then tracked it through Bone Forest using the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner.
• The monster ambushed Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin, but Meng Zhao trapped it in a sphere of Weak Water and attacked it with Weak Water Yin Lightning.
• The skeleton monster broke free of the water cage with black-and-white light, which Meng Zhao recognized as the Life-Death Profound Light.
• Meng Zhao reinforced the deathly light within the monster's power, seeking to upset its balance and investigate the Life-Death Great Dao.

Meng Zhao subdued the White Tiger-shaped bone monster by disrupting its Life-Death Profound Light and sealing it with a Five Elements Sword Array. He then studied its bones and ancient essence blood, risking contamination of his Primordial Spirit to enter the Life-Death Great Dao, which he believed his World Supremacy Way could encompass.

• Meng Zhao used Netherworld Undead Light to disrupt the White Tiger-shaped bones' Life-Death Profound Light, weakening their defenses.
• Meng Zhao pinned the monster down with five Five Elements Light Swords and sealed it with the Five Elements Sword Array.
• Meng Zhao told Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin to stay nearby, concealed their auras with the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner, and began examining the monster.
• Meng Zhao discovered a drop of ancient essence blood in the monster's breastbone, containing immense vitality and life force.
• Meng Zhao used his Primordial Spirit to enter the Life-Death Great Dao in a dangerous Man-Made Enlightenment State, trusting that his World Supremacy Way could contain it.

Meng Zhao comprehended the Life-Death Great Dao in the Bone Forest, then used its power to destroy the skeletal creatures attacking him. Confident that his new technique gave him an advantage in the forest, he asked Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin what they thought of exploring deeper.

• Meng Zhao studied the Life-Death Great Dao through the White Tiger-shaped skeleton while Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin stayed close by for protection.
• Skeletal beasts and monsters attacked Meng Zhao, but his Life-Death Profound Light blocked them and left his companions unharmed.
• Meng Zhao opened his eyes and used the Life-Death Great Dao to weaken and destroy the attacking creatures, including three with Celestial-level combat power.
• Jiang Zixuan praised Meng Zhao's divine art, while Hua Xin silently agreed, and both considered whether it could reveal the Bone Forest's secrets.
• Meng Zhao retrieved the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner and asked Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin what they thought about exploring the Bone Forest further.

Meng Zhao asked Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin whether they would follow him deeper into the Bone Forest to investigate the power that had frightened Seven-Headed Xiangliu. They chose to accompany him, accepting the danger in hopes of gaining an opportunity to grow stronger.

• Meng Zhao asked Jiang Zixuan for advice to assess his loyalty and judgment, while treating Hua Xin as less capable.
• Jiang Zixuan recommended that Meng Zhao use his new power to explore the Bone Forest’s depths and seek its hidden resources.
• Meng Zhao agreed to investigate and let Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin choose whether to wait somewhere or accompany him despite the danger.
• Jiang Zixuan chose to accompany Meng Zhao, and Hua Xin agreed, saying that risking their lives was part of why they had entered the Ancient Battlefield.
• Hua Xin’s reasoning impressed Meng Zhao, and Jiang Zixuan reconsidered their hopes of gaining an opportunity to advance beyond the Great Grandmaster realm.

Meng Zhao, Jiang Zixuan, and Hua Xin followed a likely route toward Bone Forest’s hidden heart while Meng Zhao considered the possibility that the Bone Demon God might revive. They discovered a vast deposit of White Spirit Fine Sand, used it to improve their foundations, and continued with confirmation that Bone Forest held further treasures.

• Meng Zhao worried that the Bone Demon God might have survived through the Life-Death Great Dao and warned himself to flee if he sensed danger.
• Meng Zhao led Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin deeper into Bone Forest, probing their surroundings and absorbing Deathly Qi as bone monsters and ferocious beasts attacked more often.
• Meng Zhao found white grains beneath their feet and identified them as White Spirit Fine Sand, astounding Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin.
• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin used the White Spirit Fine Sand to improve their physiques and innate foundations, while Meng Zhao absorbed some and collected the rest with the Buddha Heart Bead.
• Meng Zhao noticed a slight change in his Purple Origin Dragon Blood and concluded that the discovery confirmed Bone Forest contained valuable natural treasures.

Jiang Zixuan, Hua Xin, and Meng Zhao reached a bone-filled basin where Meng Zhao discovered a vast reserve of Life Essence. After absorbing it and the power of the White Spirit Fine Sand, Meng Zhao gained a possible ability to foresee danger, though he could not yet tell how reliable it was.

• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin benefited greatly from the White Spirit Fine Sand, and the three continued through Bone Forest while collecting treasures.
• The three arrived at a basin filled with bones arranged like an array, surrounded by white bone spears and covered in luminous mist.
• Meng Zhao determined that the mist was concentrated Life Essence and warned Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin to retreat before he investigated the basin.
• Meng Zhao used his Life-Death Profound Light to draw in the Life Essence, which greatly enhanced his life origin and seemed to transform his Purple Origin Dragon Body.
• Meng Zhao saw a vision of a strange white bone spear piercing his abdomen and suspected that his new power granted him an uncertain ability to foresee the future.

Meng Zhao used the warning from his precognition to avoid venturing deeper into the basin, but his attempt to plunder its life essence awakened a Bone Throne and the power beneath it. After destroying the throne’s bone assault, he faced a humanoid monster assembled from countless corpses.

• Meng Zhao concluded that the vision of a bone spear piercing him was a possible future, and decided to investigate the basin without going deeper.
• Meng Zhao transformed into a Purple True Dragon and began absorbing the basin’s life essence, awakening a Bone Throne made from piled bones.
• Meng Zhao’s lightning sphere failed to damage the Bone Throne, but his Life-Death Profound Light shrank it and revealed its connection to the Life-Death Great Dao.
• The Bone Throne broke apart and launched its bones at Meng Zhao, who used the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner infused with the Life-Death Great Dao to defeat them.
• The ground opened, and a towering humanoid monster assembled from countless corpses emerged before Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao fought a corpse-stitched monster whose brow held an intelligent eyeball and whose Demise Qi threatened even his divine weapons. He used the Heavenly Dao Spear to restrain its attack and began probing the seams in its assembled body for weaknesses, while suspecting the basin concealed a treasure or Dao resonance tied to Bone Demon God.

• The corpse-stitched monster spoke and attacked Meng Zhao with a powerful shockwave, revealing that it was alive and intelligent.
• Meng Zhao noticed the eyeball embedded in the monster’s brow and reasoned that the Life-Death Great Dao had animated the corpses while the eyeball supplied its intelligence.
• The monster struck Meng Zhao with gray Demise Qi, which drained the spiritual energy from the nine water dragons conjured by the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner.
• Meng Zhao transformed the banner into the Purple Thunder Divine Spear and used the Heavenly Dao Spear to restrain and disperse the Demise Qi.
• Meng Zhao sent thunder and lightning through the monster’s arm, seeking the seams between the stitched corpses as its weaknesses.

Meng Zhao destroyed the Sewn-Corpse Monster with his Immovable Wisdom King Subduing Demon Great Hand Seal, but the eyeball that had controlled it survived. When he tried to capture the eyeball, its Life-Death Profound Light withered his arm and revealed power beyond the Celestial Human realm.

• Meng Zhao enlarged himself to a hundred zhang and overwhelmed the Sewn-Corpse Monster with his Purple Thunder Divine Spear, but its body regenerated from bones and keratin.
• Meng Zhao used the Immovable Wisdom King Subduing Demon Great Hand Seal to dissolve the Sewn-Corpse Monster into ashes.
• Meng Zhao saw the monster's surviving eyeball suspended above the devastated basin and tried to seize it with Universe in Palm.
• The eyeball's Life-Death Profound Light broke through Meng Zhao's divine ability and withered his arm before he restored it at the cost of some vital energy.
• Meng Zhao recognized the eyeball's power as belonging to Gods and Devils, above the Celestial Human realm.